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Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
theguardian.com · Dec 26
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
wired.com · Dec 26
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
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(@dcdeejay) ·
Dec 26
🔁 @crispius:
I was about to comment on how this sounds an awful lot like what @pluralistic has been advocating for.
Then I read who authored the article. 🤣
“In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers.”
https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/
These are the cybersecurity stories we were jealous of in 2025 | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com · Dec 26
The very best reporting and investigative journalism from our friends at other publications.
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Flipboard Tech Desk
(@TechDesk) ·
Dec 26
A hacker-turned-source turns up dead. A secret order to allow U.K. officials to spy on users. And who could forget the Trump administration accidentally texting its war plans to a reporter. These are just a few of @Techcrunch’s best cybersecurity stories from 2025 that were originally reported on by other organizations. Quite an informative and gripping batch.
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Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High
raptitude.com · Dec 25
I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first part. It’s not because I’m not enjoying it. It’s one of the most ...
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The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
joanwestenberg.com · Dec 26
Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entr...
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Cbridge_Chief
(@CastlebridgeChief) ·
Dec 27
🔁 @rationaldoge:
"The forty-year-old COBOL system running bank transactions has survived countless technological upheavals, it has survived the internet, and it has survived DOGE. It works. The sexy new microservices architecture might work, or it might introduce seventeen novel failure modes that nobody anticipated because nobody had encountered them before.
"But maintainers of legacy systems are treated as janitors rather than guardians."
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/
These are the things I’ve learnt you can’t ask about Israel
johnmenadue.com · Dec 26
In recent years, I have been asked to comment on the Middle East “impasse”, though I am no foreign policy expert. I am merely one of many humanists who mourn this tragic history and rail against the failure of the international community to exert the great influence it has to bring peace and ...
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Heather Evans
(@feather1952) ·
Dec 26
🔁 @seasiders2:
Peace and justice will only come to the region when Palestinians are recognised as a people with the right to self-determination, sovereignty and their own state. As true yesterday as it will be tomorrow.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2024/09/these-are-the-things-ive-learnt-you-cant-ask-about-israel/
When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
miod.online.fr · Dec 25
Unix-based systems have been around for more than 50 years now. Although the best design ideas still prevail to this day, the evolution of the computing industry has forced operating system designers to rethink the way they work, multiple times over time.
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glog.glennf.com · Dec 26
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Glenn Fleishman
(@glennf) ·
Dec 26
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5 things to know about Daphne Oram, the visionary pioneer in electronic music
theconversation.com · Dec 26
This December marks Daphne Oram’s centenary. She was a visionary and a key influence in the history of electronic music.
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aprilfollies
(@aprilfollies) ·
Dec 26
🔁 @stefan:
"In 1958 [Daphne Oram, "visionary pioneer in electronic music"] co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a studio set up to create sound effects and electronic scores for radio and TV. On the wall she pinned a passage from Francis Bacon’s 17th-century utopia New Atlantis about imaginary sound-houses where scientists manipulate echoes, invent new instruments and transmit sound “in strange lines and distances”."
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