AWS is the Achilles Heal of Silicon Valley surveillance tech.

So many salad hands. So early.

UnHerd

The fall of the crypto-oligarchs

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From The School of Life.

Is the Primal cache down?

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My four year old son rolled up on a birthday karaoke stage tonight, not once, but twice, and sang like he owned the joint. The kids are gonna be alright.

AIs can crank out code at a remarkable pace and quality. Visual design is another matter, but Claude is getting good at it.

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euronews

Polish president signs zero income tax law for parents with two kids

The bill, presented by Karol Nawrocki in August, removes the income tax obligation on families earning up to 140,000 zloty (€32,973) a year.

Misleading title, and yet…

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I'm going to enjoy watching this battle. "If you’re going to cross an ocean to tell Americans what speech they can and can't allow, the least you can do is not trip over your own jurisdictional nonsense on the way in."

Reclaim The Net

UK Speech Regulator Ofcom Claims First Amendment Doesn't Protect Americans From Its Censorship Law

The UK's Ofcom now seems to believe its power supersedes the US Constitution when it comes to foreign censorship demands.

> Microsoft is killing off Windows 10, which in turn cuts off a whole slew of perfectly fine computers made prior to around 2017–2018. They also seem intent on shoving AI into everything, and wavering on whether that might be optional or not. Oh, and Windows is still Windows: decades of patching cracks in a foundation that just never was all that solid to begin with. > Apple too has turned a ton of people off with macOS 26 Tahoe, liquid glass, and faltering software quality. They're also cutting off all Intel-based Macs from future updates. A Mac Mini sold as recently as 2023 is now end-of-life! This is before we even talk about how poorly the company has been treating developers depending on the App Store bureaucracy. > Meanwhile, Linux has never looked better. Yes.

A petabyte worth of Omarchy in a month

Omarchy didn't even exist before this summer. I did much of the pre-release work during the downtime between sessions at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in...