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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsunder Trump, the U.S. has switched our alliance from Europe to Russia
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsThe world would be much better if Russia were cut off from all internet access, forever.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsEverything bad in American society, culture, and politics is partly a Russian op
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsPersonal software that removes reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and lets you create a malleable, user-controlled computing environment
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Technology writer of Spyglass
Their wordsearly indications indicate that these machines should be better at local AI but likely worse at "regular" computing tasks versus the MacBook Pro.
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Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March…
Their wordsthe risk of the plague reaching the U.S. from Russia is essentially nil
↗Top 8 questions about the “plague” situationyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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- KJ
Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Their wordsIt’s concerning, as any lab accident/leak is, but the risk of this becoming a Covid-19 pandemic is very, very low for a few reasons
- 6 days earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsWe've never had this much competition at the leading edge of computing.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingIt is shortsighted to think agentic AI will stop before it reaches the lowest layers of computing.
Their wordsMyopic to think we're going to stop the agentic drill bit until it reaches computing bedrock.
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Tim Harford quoted
Economist and journalist
Their wordsNo supercomputing was required: Shannon's machine had just 16 bits of memory. We humans are not hard to read.
↗Random is as random doestimharford.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsmy bet would be that there is no truly native 'AI PC' and that instead, people will run AI on the current computing paradigms as long as they're in the cloud.
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Paul Krugman quoted
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work…
Their wordsIt’s at least arguable that Ukraine’s air campaign, which has done much more damage to Russia’s refining than to its crude production, has therefore played a disproportionate role in driving up diesel prices.
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsTokens are the new computing paradigm. Everything will be re-made on top of it. We’ve had deterministic computers for 80 years, so we confuse “how computers have worked” with “how computers must work.” We’re entering the post-binary era.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 7th of 15 in this piece
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Scott Sumner quoted
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting
Their wordsSmith would probably be able to explain to our foreign policy establishment why Russia's economy continued to do well after "draconian" sanctions were imposed in early 2022, and why economic sanctions almost never achieve their policy goals.
↗Adam Smith’s greatest insight?scottsumner.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Richard Stallman quoted
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project
Their wordsHistorically, whenever companies get power over what people's computing facilities can do, they use it against us, building malicious functionalities, designed to benefit them, into the software they invite us to use.
↗Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org 7th of 10 in this piece
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Our readingMore software is likely to be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.
Their wordsIt's likely that more software will be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.
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Ketan Joshi quoted
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo
Their wordswe produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025's use of NVIDIA'S AI products is on par with the state-owned Russian Coal company.
↗NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – reportketanjoshi.co 1st of 2 in this piece
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsThis matters I think because we we we we discard great lessons and have to rediscover them over and over and over again.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 1st of 26 in this recording
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
Their wordsServerless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google.
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
Their wordsMore and more of our personal and professional computing experiences will come from agents that orchestrate work in the cloud, using sandboxes. Those sandboxes will be Linux.
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Phillips P. OBrien quoted
Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St…
Their wordsThe US military is being run by a group that apes the Russians and not the Ukrainians—when we have in front of us one of the best statements of command principles I have ever seen from the latter.
↗Weekend Update #201: It Will Be A Brutal Fall and Winterphillipspobrien.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Anish Acharya quoted
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Their wordsLenny, in many ways we spent 40 years building a technology that enables better spreadsheets, right? We built this like technology that extends our intellect, but nothing to extend our soul.
↗Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)youtube.com 11th of 20 in this recording
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Daniel W. Drezner quoted
Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations
Their wordsthe Trump administration's deferential posture towards Russia and China has alienated allies. But on the other hand, it has gained the United States nothing in the way of strategic stability.
↗So How Is The Concert of Trump Going?danieldrezner.substack.com
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Russ Allbery quoted
Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl
Their wordsThis is not how institutional trust generally works; even with vast multinational high-capital near-monopolies such as cloud computing, there are three major players and innumerable smaller ones.
↗Review: Too Like the Lightningeyrie.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Xe Iaso quoted
Technical educator, conference speaker and developer…
Their wordsUsing time for this sounds boring, but time synchronization is unironically one of the most complicated things in computing.
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
Our readingThe future of computing is one global, unified compute platform whose only limit is known physics.
Their wordsThe future is one global and unified compute platform, with only known physics as the limiting factor
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Phillips P. OBrien quoted
Their wordsWhat we are seeing is a summer offensive of failure.
↗Weekend Update #200: Summer Is Ending, The Russian Offensive Is A Failure So Farphillipspobrien.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Timothy Snyder quoted
Historian of Central and Eastern Europe
Their wordsHowever senseless it is, American rhetoric of the non-existence of Canada is concerning, because it resembles the way the Kremlin spoke about Ukraine, and rightly reminds Canada that their sovereignty is indeed the issue.
↗Our Trade War Against Ourselvessnyder.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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Branko Milanovic quoted
Economist specialising in global income inequality
Their wordsIt is also hypocritical because it is based on the assumption that somebody else (in this case, the United States) will fight for them.
↗On European hypocrisy and warmongeringbranko2f7.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Branko Milanovic quoted
Their wordsSuch, indeed fragile, peace not only puts an end to today’s carnage, but leaves open a possibility of eventual long-term solution between Russia and Ukraine.
↗On European hypocrisy and warmongeringbranko2f7.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece