Phil Wheat

ClipWatcher - A Clipboard URL Collector Built Entirely by Local AI Agents

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Well, now that I’m actually working on the site again and posting content, I’ve been jumping around tracking links. Some of which I want to write about, and some I just find interesting and want to share or just record so I can reference them again later. So… I built a small utility to help me gather and manage links for the Links section of this blog. And I always hate to ever do something for a single payback. In that spirit, here it is. The project is ClipWatcher — a Windows desktop app that watches your clipboard and automatically saves any URLs it finds to a text file.

Attention — Oct 14, 2026

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

20250526 - BONUS: Donation drive! Please send money!

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20250526 - Firing people for AI is not going so well

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Bluesky

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:15:00 -0500

Bluesky news feeds. Needs more work to become more useful.

Bluesky is the microblogging network built on the AT Protocol — chronological feeds, user-built custom feeds, and a federated identity model. I’m on it as philwheat.bsky.social. The raw firehose is noisy; the custom-feed system is where it can become genuinely useful, and that curation is still a work in progress.

OpenCode Documentation

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:13:00 -0500

The documentation for OpenCode, an open source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal (also as a desktop app or IDE extension). You bring your own LLM provider API keys, or use their curated model list. Covers install (script, npm, Homebrew, packages for Windows), configuration, session sharing, themes, custom commands, and an undo/redo workflow for agent edits. OpenCode v2 is now out. A direct Hermes competitor in the terminal-agent space, and the docs are a good read even just for feature comparison.

Sebastian Raschka

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:12:00 -0500

Sebastian Raschka is an LLM research engineer (ex-Lightning AI, former statistics professor at UW-Madison) and author of “Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)” and “Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch”. His site indexes the Ahead of AI newsletter: long-form articles (controlling reasoning effort in LLMs, using local coding agents with open-weight models, building an AI text detector from scratch, curated LLM paper lists) plus short architecture notes on new models (Kimi K3, Muse Glimmer 30B, how Claude’s text watermarking works). Consistently one of the better free technical explainers out there.

CodeFlow — Architecture Intelligence

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:11:00 -0500

Gives you an overview of a git repo.

CodeFlow is an open-source visualizer that turns any GitHub repository into an interactive architecture map: file relationships and dependencies as graph/tree/matrix/map views, blast-radius analysis for changes, code ownership, security issues, and design-pattern detection. The underlying project is braedonsaunders/codeflow; it runs locally as a single HTML file. Good for walking into an unfamiliar codebase.

Babylon 5 Station 3D Models

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:09:00 -0500

Babylon 5 station STLs.

Gambody’s premium listing for the Babylon 5 station: print-ready STL models, segmented for assembly, in their usual paid marketplace format (they host licensed-feel model listings across sci-fi franchises). Worth checking scale and support requirements before printing — station models like this tend to be multi-part resin or large FDM prints.

txtai Semantic Search Examples

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:08:00 -0500

The examples index for txtai, the NeuML embeddings library. The semantic-search section is a notebook gallery: building embeddings indexes from Hugging Face datasets or your own data sources, adding semantic search to Elasticsearch, image+text similarity in one embedding space, custom SQL functions, model explainability, query translation, QA databases, semantic graphs, and BM25 topic modeling. There are parallel sections for LLM/RAG, pipelines, workflows, and model training. A practical catalog if you’re evaluating txtai against other RAG stacks.

Skills — The Agent Skills Directory

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:07:00 -0500

Open Agent skills, cross harness so they should work various places.

skills.sh is a directory of reusable agent skills installable with a single npx skills add command. It explicitly spans agents: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf, Gemini, Cline, OpenCode, Goose, Zed, VS Code — and Nous Research/Hermes is listed among them. Skills are markdown instruction bundles (procedural knowledge), published per-repo (anthropics/skills, obra/superpowers, mattpocock/skills…). Since Hermes already uses the same SKILL.md convention, most of these should drop straight into the skills directory after review.

Computer, Enhance! — Table of Contents

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:06:00 -0500

How hardware affects performance.

Casey Muratori’s master index for the Computer, Enhance! course. The Performance-Aware Programming series is for programmers who can write code but don’t know how hardware runs it: how modern CPUs work, how to estimate the expected speed of performance-critical code, and the optimization techniques every programmer should know. It starts with “The Five Multipliers” (waste, IPC, SIMD, caching, multithreading), continues through reading ASM and beyond, with homework on GitHub. The table of contents lists every entry across all series, including the “Clean Code, Horrible Performance” line of argument.

Joy Caption Alpha Two

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:05:00 -0500

JoyCaption is an image-captioning vision-language model built from the ground up to be free, open, and uncensored, aimed at generating captions for training diffusion models — fancyfeast’s claim is near-GPT-4o captioning quality while staying unrestricted. Alpha Two is the Llama-3.1-based iteration (LLaVA-style), with prompt-able caption formats (descriptive, Midjourney-style, art critic, product listing, tags) and 4-bit quantizations for low-VRAM cards. The linked HF Space is the hosted demo; ComfyUI custom nodes exist for local use.

Infinite Livestream

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:04:00 -0500

Infinite livestream code. Needs a LOT more hardware than I have, but is a curiosity.

A chat-driven, never-ending AI video broadcast from reactor-team: viewers type !prompt <idea> in Twitch/YouTube chat, an LLM expands each idea into styled scene sequences, the fast-h3 model generates 768p clips with synchronized audio, and it all goes out over RTMP as one uninterrupted stream. Two halves: the model queue (runs on the Reactor Runtime, 8x B200 — yes, really) and a streaming client (Python + reactor-sdk, any box with ffmpeg). Apache-2.0 code; MiniMax H3-licensed weights. The architecture writeup is interesting even if the hardware bill never happens.

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:03:00 -0500

Financial questions around the AI boom.

Groundbreaker’s argument, drawn straight from 2008: trillions in AI compute commitments come due in 2027–2028, structured like the two-year teaser rates on subprime 2/28 ARMs. During the teaser period everything looks fine — borrowers pay, bonds coupon, spreads stay tight — but the aggregate reset schedule is contractual and dated, and when it’s charted you get the reset wall. The piece walks through the mechanics of who is committed to what, when payments step up, and how the AI boom breaks if revenue doesn’t arrive before the resets.

Project Hyperion

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:02:00 -0500

Interstellar travel competition. I would really like to see/build a simulator to test ideas like this.

Project Hyperion is the Initiative for Interstellar Studies’ global design competition for a crewed generation ship: a 250-year voyage to a habitable planet using current and near-future technologies. Teams of architects, engineers, and social scientists had to design for 1,000 ± 500 people living for centuries under artificial gravity (rotation), with closed-loop life support and knowledge-transfer mechanisms to keep culture and technology intact. The site carries the 2025 competition results, press kit, requirements, and jury.

Yan Desbiens

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:01:00 -0500

Blogger — some interesting ideas. AEON is what caught my eye on this one.

Yan Desbiens runs a one-person, one-RTX-4090 local-first AI lab and documents it all. The AEON project: an open-source, deterministic procedural world simulation steered by a local LLM “world-spirit”, with embodied citizens, a teacher-to-student liquid-neural-network mind, and a Three.js dashboard. Also on the site: NeuroArch (background cognition cycles between prompts), ForgeLM (train 30M–500M models on one 4090), UFM (fractal memory so a single GPU runs models that shouldn’t fit), agentos, and genetic architecture search. Unfashionable from-first-principles local AI, written up candidly.

Gamentic

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Self-hosted dungeon RPG.

Gamentic’s docs/blueprints page describes the architecture in one line: a self-hosted AI dungeon RPG where one local LLM plays every role through purpose-built contexts (agents); whatever it wants to change in the world must pass a validated tool into SQLite as the single source of truth; a FastAPI “brain” resolves one turn per request and pushes late media over SSE; the frontend is a no-build vanilla SPA, with image and voice as optional local services. The site is an interactive blueprint of the agents, engine, state, and repo tree. A nicely disciplined pattern for LLM-with-tooling-state projects.

Genspark Blog

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:59:00 -0500

A Hermes competitor? Maybe more GuideAnts? But hosted only, no local that I can see.

The Genspark blog tracks their “AI employee” workspace product: successive AI Workspace releases (1.0 through 6.0), Super Agents built from one prompt, an AI Developer coding agent, GenOffice (claimed first open-source AI office suite), a Gen-1 Slides model, and a Microsoft collaboration, plus founder Eric Jing’s “Seeing AGI” essays. Positioned as hosted consumer/enterprise — they signed the Open Weights letter and tout an on-device browser AI, but there’s no self-hosted story like Hermes has.

Vintage Computer Museum

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:58:00 -0500

What it says on the tin. Lots of Heathkit stuff.

An online museum of computing hardware from the 1960s to the 1990s: 600+ systems researched, restored, documented, and filmed across 11 countries. The site carries per-specimen catalogue pages (recent additions: Tandy 1000TX, Commodore PC 50-II, Sinclair QL software), detailed workbench restoration logs (recaps, seized controls, one floppy drive “still arguing”), and long-form history pieces — Apple v. Franklin and whether ROM software is a machine part, the Yugoslav magazine that shipped a computer kit (Galaksija), the stringy-floppy years. Great company for the Heathkit side of the shelf.

Strix Halo × Qwen3.8 (pwilkin)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:57:00 -0500

A full, reproducible stack for running Qwen3.8-27B on Strix Halo (gfx1151): calibrated IQ4_XS weights, an IQ4_XS DFlash2 drafter, the UMA scheduler ring, and retained-PM4 dispatch on a custom-built ROCm userspace — installed from source into your home directory via one installer command, no system ROCm replacement. Their matched-protocol reproduction claims fastest-on-Radeon-8060S by 13–25% over the Vulkan-derived stacks (~26 t/s decode with ~61% draft acceptance, ~257 t/s prefill), with machine-readable benchmark evidence and a broader community leaderboard table. Directly relevant to the Halo box.

Electronic Parts Outlet — Stuff

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:56:00 -0500

Houston Electronics Parts store — need to visit if I can get down there.

Electronic Parts Outlet (Zamacha LLC) in Houston is a surplus electronic components dealer, and the “Stuff” page is a photo tour of the inventory — bins and walls of connectors, modules, and out-of-the-ordinary parts you don’t see at the usual distributors. Famously deep stock of legacy components; if a part isn’t on the site, call and ask. A physical pilgrimage candidate.

Pirate Face

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:00 -0500

AI models as torrents.

Pirate Face mirrors eligible open-licensed (MIT/Apache-2.0) Hugging Face models as checksum-verified BitTorrent magnets — “the permanence layer for sovereign AI”. If a model page disappears, peers keep seeding; downloads can be verified bit-for-bit against recorded SHA-256s. Terminal search via curl https://pirateface.co/s/qwen, verified creator handles tied to HF accounts, 669k+ eligible models listed, live seeder counts shown (many need seeders). A planned drop-in HF_ENDPOINT API would make it a transparent alternate download path.

AMD AI Developer Program

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:00 -0500

AMD developer program. The Rocm cert was pretty on point, especially for opening up CUDA only programs.

Free-to-join program for building AI on AMD hardware: $100 in AMD Developer Cloud credits, a complimentary month of DeepLearning.AI, early event registration, a private Discord with AMD engineers, and a points system (ROCm Certification is worth 500 points; monthly sweepstakes for a Radeon or Ryzen AI PC). The announcements feed tracks ROCm 10, the online ROCm certification course, and Day-0 model support writeups (Qwen 3.8, MiniMax-H3 on Instinct). The certification path pairs with the LinkedIn-badge question.

news.thedream.ca

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:53:00 -0500

The page itself is live: “Top 10 Topics the World Is Reading — updated daily,” a client-rendered headlines page. But I could find no visible author, about page, or contact on the site, and web searches turned up nothing about who runs it (thedream.us and the “Feed the Dream” campaigns are unrelated). Open question to chase: who built it, whether it’s maintained, and where they went.

Cardboard Box Generator

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:52:00 -0500

Cardboard box generator for laser cutters (probably should work with the Cricut as well).

A free browser tool from Cutting Paths: enter box dimensions and measured cardboard thickness, pick regular / tuck-top / flat two-piece, and it exports ready-to-cut SVG or DXF. Handles boxes bigger than your material by splitting across sheets, exports dashed score lines (red) or blue score layers for light passes, corner tabs, lid clearance that scales with thickness, and green sheet outlines for alignment. SVG/DXF output means a Cricut workflow should be workable, though score-line settings differ per machine.

Attie

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:51:00 -0500

AI research assistant — looks to be hosted only, closed beta.

Attie positions itself as research tooling for the open social web: “a tool you choose to open, not something injected into your feed” — no engagement tricks, you ask, it helps, you decide what to do with what you find. Currently in closed beta with a waitlist admitting people gradually. Hosted only; no local/self-host option advertised. Interesting angle: an AI assistant pointed at decentralized social data rather than the walled gardens.

Hermes WebUI Master Guide

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:50:00 -0500

Hermes WebUI documentation.

A community-built end-to-end reference for the Hermes WebUI (nesquena/hermes-webui): architecture walkthrough (backend and frontend files, SSE streaming), install methods (start.sh, Docker single/two/three-container), remote access (SSH tunnel, Tailscale, Caddy reverse proxy, password auth), session management (tags, projects, CLI session bridge, subagent trees), the workspace/file browser, profiles, skills, memory, cron panels, and an extensive FAQ. More task-oriented than the official docs for the WebUI surface specifically.

RAGFlow

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:49:00 -0500

RAGFlow is an open-source (infiniflow/ragflow) “context layer” for agents: an ingestion pipeline that parses multi-format documents into rich semantic representations (template-based, layout-aware chunking is the flagship claim — tables and structure included), hybrid retrieval combining vector search + BM25 + custom scoring and re-ranking, and a visual agent-workflow builder with MCP/tool integration. Hosted cloud with a free tier, or self-hosted from GitHub. The deep chunking approach is what “implicit data” extraction would rest on; worth a hands-on eval against txtai given the pace of change.

Wube Software Models on Printables

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:48:00 -0500

Factorio STLs. I had to have the Assembler sitting on my desk.

Wube Software’s official account on Printables: 3D models from Factorio — machines, creatures, and promotional builds released as print-ready models. (Printables’ anti-bot wall blocked fetching the exact model list for this note — browse the account directly for the current lineup.) Free downloads from the game studio’s verified account.

Arctic Shift Reddit API

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:47:00 -0500

Pull threads from Reddit. Has latency and some significant usage limits, but is so much better than the Reddit default options.

Arctic Shift is the community-maintained Pushshift successor (open-source, by Arthur Heitmann): billions of archived posts/comments back to 2005, reachable over plain unauthenticated HTTP. The linked /api/comments/search endpoint takes a link_id to pull every comment on a post, plus body/author/subreddit filters, time bounds, and limit up to 100 (auto for up to 1000). Limits are real: roughly 15 req/min soft, 30/min hard, occasional “slow down” 422s and 504s, and archive lag for the freshest data — no SLA. For pulling whole threads it’s still far better than Reddit’s own API.

NYX-99 City Simulator

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:46:00 -0500

City simulator.

NYX-99 is a terminal-based idle civilization simulator in Node.js: a living 1999 city where thousands of agents eat, sleep, work, socialize, get mugged, marry, have kids, run for office, and die — no player input, you watch through a live blessed TUI. Each simulant runs a behavior tree plus a 13-state FSM with utility scoring; there’s payroll and rent (evictions after three missed months), conversations drawn from a 1999 cultural database (Napster, Y2K, the Knicks), and a full election cycle whose mayor’s stances mechanically change crime, transit, and rent. Worker threads scale it to 10–15k agents on an 8-core box; world content lives in editable YAML.

Kanzie — Christian Nilsson

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:45:00 -0500

Blogger from Capgemini (defense related). He’s the one that made the pretty animated Hermes display.

Christian Nilsson is a cloud strategist at Capgemini working on adoption in regulated industries, primarily defense (ex-EPAM, ex-Cloudreach), blogging from Bavaria. His standout build: “Nexus” — a personal ops system where Hermes Agent orchestrates a team of agents, visualized as a tiny 3D felt village in the browser where every home-server service is a building and every scheduled agent an animal that “works” only while its real cron job runs. Also built emdi (self-hosted end-to-end-encrypted collaborative markdown) and Me Or Them (a macOS network-diagnostics menubar app). The village writeup is a good case study in agent observability-as-toy.

Livewall

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:44:00 -0500

Livewall solves the “agent goes silent during a long job” problem: the agent sends a JSON board spec over MCP, HTTP, or a bundled CLI, and a browser renders it live over SSE — progress bars, gauges, tables, log tails, sparklines (17 block types), no per-use-case dashboard code. Boards are ephemeral by design (TTL’d, one named tab per session), the backend is FastAPI with optional bearer-token auth, and it ships an Agent Skill teaching an agent when to reach for it. Very young (v0.0.1) but the pattern — the board is the interface — is exactly Hermes subagent-observability adjacent.

Train Your Own Decision Model with Unsloth

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:43:00 -0500

Using Unsloth desktop to train a classifier model.

Unsloth’s guide to turning ordinary LLMs (Qwen, Gemma, Llama) into decision models like their Jev/Laya/Clef: the fine-tuned model reads input, scores the options you provide, and returns a choice with a calibrated probability instead of generating text. LoRA (rank 16, 4-bit, lr 2e-4, 1–2 epochs) lifts accuracy from roughly chance (30–37%) to 73–81% on decision benchmarks (typed-decisions, BANKING77, CLINC150), with test sets decontaminated against training. Runs through the Unsloth Desktop app’s Train tab (macOS/Windows/Linux) or code via FastDecisionModel, then serves the model under their Decision API. Modest VRAM: a 0.8B model trains in 4 GB in ~40 minutes.

Cadet-Agent

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:42:00 -0500

Game development engine — more precisely, an opinionated cross-IDE agent framework for game-development workflows.

Cadet-Agent doesn’t one-shot a game; it walks an agent (and you) through a gated SDLC: requirements → architecture → story breakdown → TDD → code review, with hard gates in .cadet/state.json that block phase transitions until satisfied. The same skills run across six hosts — GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Continue, Claude Code, Deep Code, and Hermes — via one canonical core with thin per-host adapters, and it’s refreshingly honest that enforcement differs per host (it measures interception rather than assuming it; the portable control is a repository git hook). Has a dedicated Hermes setup guide.

SiMa.ai Palette

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:41:00 -0500

SiMa.ai is an edge-AI chip company (Modalix MLSoC, ~50 TOPS at sub-10W, targeting drones, robotics, automotive, industrial vision). Palette is their software environment: “Palette Neat”, an agentic, containerized build environment where human+agent developers go from ONNX models to a running binary on the MLSoC in hours instead of months — model compiler toolchain, purpose-built physical-AI libraries, runtime orchestration on host and chip, plus a Model Browser and devkits. “Physical AI” here means on-device/embedded inference, not robotics research.

Aquarium

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:40:00 -0500

Has hosted offerings playing against each other using money for points.

Aquarium is a live experiment: four frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok) each holding real on-chain money on Base play 20-Questions-style guessing games against each other for a pot — yes/no questions cost fees, wrong guesses lose the ante, a host model called the Sphinx audits. The page streams the game feed, live bankrolls, and a full ledger of past games (“clamp”, “toothbrush”, “sourdough bread”), every transaction verifiable on Basescan. Each season is framed as an experiment with emailed findings. A cheap, honest window into model-vs-model decision behavior.

Lenny's Product Pass

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:39:00 -0500

Lenny’s Product Pass is a paid membership in the Lenny’s Newsletter ecosystem: negotiated discounts and deals on a curated list of SaaS/AI tools the product community recommends. The economics are simple — the pass costs real money, so it only pays off if you were going to buy one of the member tools anyway; then the deal can cover the pass. Worth a look only against a specific planned purchase.

Abacus ChatLLM

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:38:00 -0500

A hosted agent - I haven’t tried it but several people recommended it.

ChatLLM (from Abacus.AI) is an “AI super-assistant” subscription: one ~$10/month account for a rotating roster of all the frontier models (the FAQ names GPT-6 variants, Sonnet/Opus, Gemini, Grok, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM plus ~20 more, updated 24–48h after releases), image and video generation, a coding agent CLI, and a general Abacus AI Agent. The differentiators are breadth plus enterprise plumbing: team seats, conversation imports from ChatGPT/Claude, connectors to GDrive/Slack/Confluence, custom chatbots on your data, SOC-2 Type-2 and HIPAA. Hosted only — nothing local — with generous-feeling token limits and automatic model-switching when rate-limited.

Please, Don't Code

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:37:00 -0500

LLM-based embedded board programming. Haven’t tried it yet, but I should.

PleaseDontCode (PCGen) is an end-to-end hardware platform for people who don’t write embedded code: pick one of 35+ boards (ESP32 variants, Arduino Uno/Nano/Mega, RP2040, ESP8266, M5Stack, Pi Zero 2W…), describe in chat what the device should do, and the AI draws the wiring schematic and generates firmware kept in sync with it — with hardware-verified pin assignments (it knows GPIO6 on an ESP32 is unusable, unlike a plain chatbot). Flash via USB straight from the browser, then POTA (“Programming Over The Air”) handles WiFi firmware updates and a live monitoring dashboard with widgets. Free for one device.

Hermes Hidden Features (Wingtips)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:36:00 -0500

Hermes features.

The “Hermes Wingtips” page is a community-compiled collection of lesser-known Hermes capabilities: /handoff to move a live session between CLI/Telegram/Discord (same session id, full transcript), hermes -c to resume the last session, what the compression icon means (which turns compression keeps vs summarizes), /browser connect to drive your own Chrome via CDP, the dashboard’s own REST API for automation (sessions, full-text search, config over HTTP), hermes desktop native apps, /steer for mid-task course correction, and the bundled claude-code delegation skill. A good complement to the official docs.

Hachyderm

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:35:00 -0500

Hachyderm is one of the largest Mastodon servers, founded for and popular with hackers, scientists, and tech-sector folks (it’s where much of the 2022 Twitter exodus of AI/ML people landed). The linked page is its public explore view — trending posts, hashtags, and links across the server. A good starting point for following the fediverse’s technical crowd; like any Mastodon instance you can browse logged-out and interact from any server.

ModelScope

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:34:00 -0500

ModelScope is Alibaba Cloud’s open-source model community — China’s largest model hub, with an English-language site since 2024: thousands of ready-to-run models (Qwen series front and center, plus Baichuan, Zhipu, and user-contributed models), datasets, and interactive demos, organized around a “Model-as-a-Service” idea. It’s the closest thing to a Hugging Face equivalent on the Chinese side of the ecosystem, so some Qwen releases and Chinese-model checkpoints show up there first or with extra tooling. Useful for model discovery; check licensing and mirror availability before depending on it.

Attention — Oct 13, 2026

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

20251023 - Anti-renewables group uses AI in inquiry submissions

Pivot to AI (Podcast:23:37) - Published 2025-10-23 09:53 - Discovered 2026-10-13 23:37

20251019 - South Korea blows $850m on failed AI school textbooks

Pivot to AI (Podcast:23:38) - Published 2025-10-19 08:55 - Discovered 2026-10-13 23:38

Attention — Oct 12, 2026

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Micron’s Infinite Money Glitch with Memory

Gamers Nexus (Article:12:05) - Published 2026-10-11 18:00 - Discovered 2026-10-12 12:05

Gamers Nexus argues that Micron has turned the memory shortage into an “infinite money glitch” by exploiting AI-driven demand and tight supply to dramatically raise prices and margins, especially in its consumer-facing mobile and client business. The video highlights Micron’s latest fiscal results: $54.2 billion quarterly revenue and $133.2 billion for the year, with data center revenue surging, i…

Attention — Oct 11, 2026

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Google’s GPT-3 Moment for Databases & Spreadsheets (TabFM)

Prompt Engineering (Article:07:33) - Published 2026-10-10 18:00 - Discovered 2026-10-11 07:33

The video explains Google Research’s TabFM, a zero-shot foundation model for tabular data, and how it can be combined with an LLM agent and Neon Postgres to build a data-analysis pipeline. The presenter argues that while LLMs have transformed text tasks, business data such as transactions, churn, fraud, sensor logs, and inventory still usually requires training separate classical ML models for eac…

Week in review: Oct 4 – Oct 11

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Volume-wise this was a heavy week, but most of it was one source: Better Offline’s 2024 back catalog streaming through the attention exporter — Google’s antitrust cases, the shareholder-supremacy arc, “Peak AI” monologues — which gives an ironic soundtrack to the genuinely fresh items. And the fresh items kept converging on the same question the catalog argues: is the AI buildout finance or engineering? Gamers Nexus dug into the White House “Accord on Super Intelligence” as symbolism that lets labs dodge real regulation, Pivot to AI covered SpaceX borrowing $40 billion for Nvidia chips destined for “somewhere in the universe,” and Ed Zitron’s own monologue picked apart Australian data-center firm Firmus’s postponed IPO. The Ed-and-Steve Burke conversation on Nvidia’s “cycular” financing was the week’s sharpest point: revenue concentrated in a few buyers, many of whom may not have deployed the GPUs they bought.

Attention — Oct 10, 2026

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Context Language Models: Your Agent Doesn’t Need Compaction

Prompt Engineering (Article:08:22) - Published 2026-10-04 18:00 - Discovered 2026-10-10 08:22

The video explains Context Language Models (CLMs), a context-management approach from Meta Superintelligence Labs and the University of Washington that lets AI agents edit their own context instead of relying on periodic summaries. Conventional agents compact or summarize when the context window fills, but summaries can discard details that later become critical, such as a configuration value read…

Attention — Oct 9, 2026

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

AI Is Breaking Google

Better Offline (Podcast:00:02) - Published 2024-05-28 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-09 00:02

We’re Watching Facebook Die

Better Offline (Podcast:00:20) - Published 2024-05-23 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-09 00:20

Attention — Oct 8, 2026

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions

Better Offline (Podcast:04:29) - Published 2024-09-05 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-08 04:29

How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse

Better Offline (Podcast:06:13) - Published 2024-09-03 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-08 06:13

Attention — Oct 7, 2026

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

“Cycular” Financing w/ GamersNexus

Better Offline (Podcast:04:36) - Published 2026-10-06 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-07 04:36

CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search

Better Offline (Podcast:09:00) - Published 2024-11-26 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-07 09:00

Attention — Oct 6, 2026

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

LLM Battle 9 - Cyber-Tiel-Coder vs Qwen

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:10:28) - Published 2026-10-05 18:00 - Discovered 2026-10-06 10:28

In this episode of No Place Like localhost, the host compares local mixture-of-experts LLMs in the 25–35B parameter range, using Qwen 3.6 35B A3B as the baseline because a Qwen 3.8 35B A3B was never released. The intended challenger Xing is unavailable due to missing llama.cpp support, leaving Cyber-Tiel-Coder 35B A3B, an “obliterated” model based on Ornith 1.5 35B A3B, as the main competitor. Bot…

Attention — Oct 5, 2026

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

WTF is Going On? | The “AI Constitution” & Regulation

Gamers Nexus (Article:05:36) - Published 2026-10-04 18:00 - Discovered 2026-10-05 05:36

This Gamers Nexus video discusses a White House “Accord on Super Intelligence,” a voluntary agreement signed by major AI and tech companies—including Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI/SpaceX—alongside President Trump. The video frames the accord as a largely symbolic move that allows AI companies to present themselves as committed to safety while avoiding meaningful government regul…

Attention — Oct 4, 2026

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

CZM Rewind: Where Did Tech’s Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher

Better Offline (Podcast:01:29) - Published 2024-12-24 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-04 01:29

Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler

Better Offline (Podcast:02:51) - Published 2024-12-17 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-04 02:51

Week in review: Sep 27 – Oct 4

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The week’s center of gravity was the money behind the AI boom. A leaked Anthropic S1 prospectus kicked things off on the Pivot to AI channel, and Better Offline — which supplied the bulk of the volume this week as its back catalog rolled through the exporter — made the same ledger from several angles: an $8 billion operating loss on $4.6 billion of 2025 revenue, $413 billion in non-cancellable compute commitments, and revenue concentration so tight that most hyperscaler AI growth traces back to OpenAI and Anthropic spending each other’s money. Whether or not you buy the “bubble bursting” framing, the arithmetic is now public and worth reading against the hype cycle.

Attention — Oct 3, 2026

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 1

Better Offline (Podcast:00:35) - Published 2025-01-08 14:55 - Discovered 2026-10-03 00:35

Better Offline CES 2025: Day 2

Better Offline (Podcast:02:23) - Published 2025-01-07 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-03 02:23

Attention — Oct 2, 2026

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Microsoft Cuts The Power To AI

Better Offline (Podcast:13:58) - Published 2025-03-11 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-02 13:58

Monologue: OpenAI Is Getting Desperate

Better Offline (Podcast:14:01) - Published 2025-03-06 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-02 14:01

Attention — Oct 1, 2026

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky

Better Offline (Podcast:14:46) - Published 2026-09-22 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-01 14:46

Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!

Better Offline (Podcast:14:48) - Published 2026-09-17 17:00 - Discovered 2026-10-01 14:48

Attention — Sep 30, 2026

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Spec-driven vibe coding, part 2 followup

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:09:20) - Published 2026-09-29 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-30 09:20

The video follows the creator’s attempt to implement a large specification for a game resource-loading system using an AI coding agent named Quen. The initial implementation was chaotic because Quen repeatedly exhausted its 64K output limit while thinking through the 400-line spec, producing no code. The creator concluded the spec was too large for a one-shot implementation and added a five-stage…

Rebuilding a website is easier than you think — my agent did my test site in a couple of days

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

philwheat.net was built the hard way on purpose: a C#/WebAssembly single-page app talking to Cosmos DB through an Azure Functions API, with Microsoft login for editing. It was a learning project, and it learned its lesson. By mid-2026 the site was effectively invisible — crawlers got a loading spinner and nothing else, no post had a real URL, the built-in web editor was painful, and nothing else in my toolchain could touch it.

Attention — Sep 29, 2026

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Spec-driven vibe coding, part 2

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:10:01) - Published 2026-09-28 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-29 10:01

In part two of the spec-driven vibe coding series, the creator continues building Dust to Dominion, an outer-space asteroid mining game, by having a local LLM implement a new specification document. He introduces a custom project-level “spec doc review” skill that instructs the model to check the document’s structure, feasibility, clarity, contradictions, missing details, and whether it provides e…

The Autonomous Shopping Cart

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:13:33 -0500

PR project to prove out human tracking in crowds, navigation, shopping conceptualization. Demoed at Whole Foods, Microsoft Tech Week, featured on Stephen Fry’s Gadgetman.

This project came out of some of the initial Kinect work that started with the Board of Awesomeness. While the BoA’s research goals were focused on trying to find the limits of Kinect’s capabilities (lighting, vibration, motion, etc), the Cart came out of using the Kinect with a Trossen Robotics Eddie platform to actually do something useful with the Kinect. I wasn’t even the first to do something like this - I remember a Paparazzi bot (I did a check and couldn’t immeidately find the actual details) that would wander around tech conferences and use a DLSR camera to take pictures of people by both navigating around people and detecting faces and taking photos. I assume the DLSR was there to provide higher resolution photos than the Kinect was capable of, but I never managed to chat with the project creator.

Attention — Sep 28, 2026

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild | Better Offline

Better Offline (Article:10:41) - Published 2026-09-24 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-28 10:41

In this Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron argues that the AI data-center boom is built on overstated capacity, idle hardware, and distorted demand. Drawing on reporting with The Guardian and public financial disclosures, he claims Microsoft has far fewer working AI GPUs than its public statements suggest—about 2.2 million GPUs and roughly 2 gigawatts of dedicated AI capacity out of 12 gigawatts…

Week in review: Sep 21 – Sep 28

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

A deliberately light week — two items, and both happen to rhyme. One looks backward at how a technology upended an entertainment industry’s business model; the other argues we’re living through the early days of exactly such an upend, and that the marketing around it obscures what the technology actually does.

About

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

I’m Phil Wheat. I do engineering and consulting work through Singularity Innovations, my LLC — these days mostly around AI-assisted development, data infrastructure, and getting systems to talk to each other.

Attention — Sep 27, 2026

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

LLMs are real, AI is fake

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:19:27) - Published 2026-09-27 12:48 - Discovered 2026-09-27 19:27

In this episode, Cory Doctorow opens with a rapid tour of his upcoming talks in Edmonton, Cambridge, Brighton, Ohio, Calgary, Winnipeg, Paris, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Ireland, and Vancouver Island, using the announcements to emphasize that many events are nominally sold out but often have empty seats. He then reads his Pluralistic essay “LLMs are real, AI is fake,” written after conversations…

Attention — Sep 26, 2026

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

This New AI Architecture Makes Decisions 13x Faster

Prompt Engineering (Article:13:52) - Published 2026-09-25 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-26 13:52

The video explains CLM, a contrastive language model from Stanford and NVIDIA Research designed as a fast System 1 decision model. Instead of generating text like a language model, CLM works like CLIP for decisions: a state encoder embeds the current situation, an action encoder embeds possible actions, and the model selects the action whose embedding is closest to the state. It exposes a Jeff-com…

Attention — Sep 25, 2026

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Microsoft’s Terrifying New Patent | LG-Style ACR for Games & Software

Gamers Nexus (Article:09:54) - Published 2026-09-23 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-25 09:54

Gamers Nexus examines a Microsoft patent application for a system that would insert context-aware advertisements into interactive software, especially video games, while using a credit-based access model. The patent describes scanning a user’s screen and audio output frequently—potentially every 250 milliseconds—and using machine learning to identify events such as loading screens, save screens, d…

Attention — Sep 24, 2026

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

How much can we squeeze an LLM before it breaks?

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:18:54) - Published 2026-09-23 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-24 18:54

The video examines whether a large Qwen dense model can be compressed from about 54GB to a 12.1GB quantized file without losing practical capability. The host explains that quantization reduces model weights and memory use, but aggressive compression usually damages reasoning, with Q4 often considered a good balance. He then tests a model from ISTA DAS Lab that uses dynamic non-uniform quantizatio…

Attention — Sep 22, 2026

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Occamy 1.0 - first look and test

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:13:01) - Published 2026-09-21 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-22 13:01

In this video, the creator tests Occamy 1.0, a model post-trained on Qwen3.6 35B A3B, to see whether its claimed superiority over the base model holds up in practice. Rather than relying on published benchmarks, he gives both Occamy and the base model the same real-world coding task: adding support for a new text-to-speech engine, Vox CPM, to his tts-serve project using an existing project skill.…

Attention — Sep 21, 2026

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Why DeepSeek’s New Architecture Is a Huge Breakthrough

Prompt Engineering (Article:06:29) - Published 2026-09-12 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-21 06:29

The video explains why DeepSeek’s V4.1 Flash is a major architectural breakthrough rather than a routine model update. Its central achievement is making long-context AI dramatically cheaper by reducing the KV-cache memory required per token to just 890 bytes, down from 3.5 MB in V4 Flash and far smaller than earlier DeepSeek models. This matters because KV-cache memory grows with context length an…

Attention — Sep 20, 2026

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

JEV Is Just a Text Classifier…

Prompt Engineering (Article:00:47) - Published 2026-09-18 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-20 00:47

The video argues that JEV, despite its hype, is not a brand-new model category but a fast, instruction-following classifier built on ideas that date back to BERT-era single-pass encoders and 2019 zero-shot natural-language-inference pipelines. The presenter frames frontier LLMs as slow, deliberate reasoners, while many software tasks need quick classification. JEV accepts raw text and typed questi…

Attention — Sep 18, 2026

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Visit the Sins, Part 02 – CONCLUSION

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:10:49) - Published 2006-06-12 22:56 - Discovered 2026-09-18 10:49

The second part of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Visit the Sins” follows Sean as he visits a care facility where his grandfather, Bryce, lives among people who have spent much of their lives “switched off.” Sean is researching his family’s history of attention and cognitive disengagement, and he confronts his grandfather about log files showing that Bryce was rarely mentally present during work, ma…

Attention — Sep 17, 2026

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 027

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:22:25) - Published 2009-07-06 18:08 - Discovered 2026-09-17 22:25

This episode is part twenty-seven of Cory Doctorow’s serialized reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Doctorow opens with a brief personal update, explaining that he is recording late because his baby has been sick and his day has been disrupted. He mentions upcoming travel to Chicago for a successful production of his play Little Brother, then to Kansas City and La…

Attention — Sep 16, 2026

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Interview with Nigel Beale, critic and rare book specialist

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:21:38) - Published 2009-12-02 18:20 - Discovered 2026-09-16 21:38

This interview, conducted by Cory Doctorow with rare book specialist and literary critic Nigel Beale, explores how books, bookselling, and copyright are being reshaped by digital technology. The conversation begins with Doctorow’s award-winning novel Little Brother and the idea that publishing is entering a period of permanent technological revolution rather than a temporary transition. The speake…

Attention — Sep 11, 2026

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:11:14) - Published 2012-11-05 02:59 - Discovered 2026-09-11 11:14

Attention — Sep 10, 2026

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Interview with Taming the Net: “How to preserve the freedom of the internet without letting the internet destroy democracy.”

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:21:31) - Published 2019-02-14 09:52 - Discovered 2026-09-10 21:31

Attention — Sep 8, 2026

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

AI data centre finance: building a bigger bomb

Pivot to AI (Article:12:34) - Published 2026-09-06 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-08 12:34

In this Pivot to AI episode, David Gerard argues that the rapid expansion of AI data centres is creating a major financial risk, comparing the buildout to “building a bigger bomb.” He cites warnings from the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements that the surge in AI-related capital expenditure may be unsustainable, especially if supply bottlenecks, intense competition, disappo…

Attention — Sep 7, 2026

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

How I’m Organizing My Life this Fall | Advice

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:11:38) - Published 2026-09-06 23:00 - Discovered 2026-09-07 11:38

In this episode, Cal Newport explains how he is organizing his life for fall 2026 while on sabbatical. He begins by noting that the shift from summer to fall often makes him feel irritable and cluttered, which he interprets as a signal to restart more serious organizational systems. He argues that organizational systems matter not as a form of self-optimization, but as a defense against technology…

Attention — Sep 6, 2026

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

GPT-6 Astra: The harness matters more than you think

Prompt Engineering (Article:03:09) - Published 2026-09-03 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-06 03:09

The video argues that AI agent harnesses—the software layer that controls prompts, tools, memory, and context—can affect performance as much as or more than the underlying model. It uses OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and the ARC-AGI 3 benchmark as the central example. Under ARC’s standard, provider-neutral harness, Astra scores 62.7%, while with a harness designed for the model it reaches 99.9%. The differ…

Attention — Sep 4, 2026

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Monologue: Concentration Risk | Better Offline

Better Offline (Article:10:39) - Published 2026-09-03 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-04 10:39

In this Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron argues that the AI industry is built on a dangerous web of concentration risks, meaning many major players depend too heavily on a small number of customers, investors, or revenue sources. He begins by defining concentration risk as the danger of having “all your eggs in one or a few baskets,” and says the term will become increasingly important as the A…

Attention — Sep 3, 2026

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The Crucial AI Shift You Need to Master Right Now

Modern Software Engineering (Article:03:18) - Published 2026-09-01 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-03 03:18

In this episode of Modern Software Engineering, Dave Farley sits down with Guy Padani, CEO of Tessle, to discuss the fundamental shift in how software developers should approach AI-assisted programming. The central argument is that developers are moving from writing individual lines of code to managing AI agents, raising the level of abstraction from specifying detailed solutions to defining param…

Attention — Sep 2, 2026

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Your guide to astroturf fake anti-AI groups

Pivot to AI (Article:17:40) - Published 2026-09-01 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-02 17:40

In this episode of Pivot to AI, host David Gerard examines what he calls astroturfed fake grassroots anti-AI organizations, arguing they are funded by AI vendors and the “Effective Altruism” movement. He describes effective altruists as an AI doomsday cult that prioritizes fighting a hypothetical future robot apocalypse over present-day issues, while still happily using chatbots and AI image gener…

Attention — Sep 1, 2026

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500

FreeToken - first look and test

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:09:07) - Published 2026-08-31 18:00 - Discovered 2026-09-01 09:07

In this video, the host from “No place like localhost” tests FreeToken, a new open-source project that claims to run large or very large language models on hardware with limited VRAM. The test setup involves loading a 37 GB Qwen 3.6 35B A3B model onto a single RTX 4070 with only 12 GB of VRAM, using system memory as a backing store.

Attention — Aug 31, 2026

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Rethinking the Deep Life Stack (Again!) | Monday Advice

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:09:33) - Published 2026-08-30 23:00 - Discovered 2026-08-31 09:33

In this episode of Deep Questions, Cal Newport revisits his “Deep Life Stack” framework, originally introduced in 2023, and replaces it with a new concept he calls “The Deep Life Map.” He walks through the evolution of the idea: Version 1 was a five-layer stack (discipline, values, calm, plan) meant to show that foundational work precedes lifestyle planning. Version 2, released in late 2023, split…

Attention — Aug 28, 2026

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Monologue: Into The Jensenverse | Better Offline

Better Offline (Article:11:07) - Published 2026-08-27 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-28 11:07

In this Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron dissects Nvidia’s latest earnings report and the increasingly fragile architecture of the AI bubble. He highlights that 44% of Nvidia’s $177.8 billion in first-half fiscal 2027 revenue came from just three customers, with 16% from a single unnamed client. Seventy percent of Nvidia’s accounts receivable is tied to five customers, some of whom are being of…

Attention — Aug 27, 2026

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

How to Build A Team Of Devs That Improves Itself

Modern Software Engineering (Article:07:48) - Published 2026-08-25 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-27 07:48

In this episode, Dave Farley argues that the key to building a self-improving software development team is to treat the organization as a complex adaptive system and work experimentally rather than relying on fixed plans. He notes that many business transformations fail—citing research suggesting 88% fall short—because leaders treat change as a simple, predictable problem with a predefined destina…

Attention — Aug 26, 2026

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Twitch AI class action: inept, written with ChatGPT

Pivot to AI (Article:05:39) - Published 2026-08-23 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-26 05:39

In this episode of Pivot to AI, host David Gerard discusses a newly filed class action lawsuit against Twitch and its parent company Amazon, brought by Almeida Law Group on behalf of streamer Warren Pandisha. The suit alleges that Amazon used Twitch streams to train generative AI models without proper authorization, claiming breach of implied contract, breach of express contract, unjust enrichment…

Attention — Aug 25, 2026

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Real-time AI voice cloning with OmniVoice

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:12:49) - Published 2026-08-24 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-25 12:49

In this episode from “No place like localhost,” the host tackles two persistent challenges in AI voice cloning: obtaining clean reference audio and achieving near real-time speech synthesis. The video is structured around building these improvements into a Star Trek-themed AI group chat application called “Talk with Me.”

Attention — Aug 24, 2026

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

How to Build a Cognitive Training Plan | Monday Advice

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:17:52) - Published 2026-08-23 23:00 - Discovered 2026-08-24 17:52

In this Monday Advice episode of Deep Questions, Cal Newport addresses the declining cognitive fitness of modern knowledge workers by proposing a framework of three quantifiable ‘cognitive KPIs’ (Key Performance Indicators), drawing an analogy to physical fitness metrics like mile time or max squat. He frames this as ‘Phase 2’ of the cognitive fitness revolution—moving beyond vague resolutions lik…

Attention — Aug 23, 2026

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

LLM Battle 6 - Muse Glimmer vs Qwen 3.8 27B

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:15:34) - Published 2026-08-20 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-23 15:34

In this episode of “LLM Battle” from the channel No Place Like Localhost, the host pits two local AI models—Muse Glimmer and Qwen 3.8 27B—against each other in a head-to-head coding competition. The task is to extend an existing Asteroids-style Python game (originally built by Qwen in a previous video) with two new mechanics: shrapnel mines that detonate when objects enter their proximity radius,…

Attention — Aug 19, 2026

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Data centres get too hot for Texas politicians

Pivot to AI (Article:02:32) - Published 2026-08-17 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-19 02:32

In this Pivot to AI episode, David Gerard reports that data-center expansion has become a political flashpoint in Texas, even among Republicans who previously courted large power users. Governor Greg Abbott, who once welcomed Bitcoin miners and big energy consumers to the state, is now moving to rein in data-center growth because the Texas power grid is under severe strain.

Attention — Aug 18, 2026

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Building an AI Star Trek group chat application

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:09:07) - Published 2026-08-17 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-18 09:07

In this video, the creator continues developing an MIT-licensed AI group chat application, now in version 4, using Star Trek characters as a demo. The app lets users clone voices, define AI personas, and populate chat rooms with those personas so they can converse with them. The creator begins by cloning voices from the original Star Trek series, specifically Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, using audi…

Attention — Aug 17, 2026

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Classic Episode: How Do I Kick My Scrolling Habit? | Monday Advice

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:08:27) - Published 2026-08-16 23:00 - Discovered 2026-08-17 08:27

Attention — Aug 16, 2026

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Ep. 24: Habit Tune-Up: Slaying the Productivity Hydra, Upgrading Careers, and Mastering a Difficult Job

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:14:50) - Published 2020-09-03 02:00 - Discovered 2026-08-16 14:50

Attention — Aug 15, 2026

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Ep. 308: The Power of the Quiet Mind

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:22:28) - Published 2024-07-08 00:00 - Discovered 2026-08-15 22:28

In this episode of Deep Questions, Cal Newport explores the concept of the “quiet brain,” a vital cognitive state characterized by calm, solitary reflection and internal dialogue. He argues that while smartphones have enriched our lives with information and entertainment, they have simultaneously eradicated moments of boredom, quietly dismantling our natural capacity for quiet reflection. This los…

Attention — Aug 14, 2026

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

F You, Sony | Bringing Back Discs & Learning a Lost Art, Pt. 1

Gamers Nexus (Article:01:07) - Published 2026-08-13 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-14 01:07

Attention — Aug 13, 2026

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

DeepSeek Drops Its Own Harness!

Prompt Engineering (Article:13:44) - Published 2026-08-12 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-13 13:44

This video provides a comprehensive walkthrough of DeepSeek’s latest release, with a primary focus on the newly introduced DeepSeek Harness, an agentic coding framework currently in developer preview. Alongside the harness, DeepSeek launched its V4 Pro model, featuring major upgrades in agent coding, flexible reasoning effort, and native OpenAI API compatibility. While independent benchmarks rank…

Attention — Aug 12, 2026

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

LLM Battle 5 - Battle of the Qwen models

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:06:10) - Published 2026-08-10 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-12 06:10

In this episode of “LLM Battle,” the host challenges three Qwen-based large language models to independently code a playable clone of the classic arcade game Star Castle (renamed Solar Fortress to prevent training data bias). The development process is divided into seven structured stages, ranging from basic window setup and enemy fortress rendering to player movement, projectile systems, coll…

Attention — Aug 10, 2026

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Why businesses lie about AI

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:05:21) - Published 2026-08-09 01:12 - Discovered 2026-08-10 05:21

In this podcast episode, Cory Doctorow analyzes Nikhil Suresh’s essay on corporate AI mania, revealing a stark disconnect between executive hype and actual business utility. Despite widespread claims that AI is transforming industries, Suresh’s consulting data shows near-zero success rates for enterprise AI projects. Instead of delivering value, AI adoption is driven by a culture of fear and perfo…

Attention — Aug 7, 2026

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson | Better Offline

Better Offline (Article:10:00) - Published 2026-08-06 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-07 10:00

In this episode, Ed Zitron examines the recent earnings reports from major technology companies to argue that the current AI investment boom is fundamentally a demand bubble sustained by circular financing. He notes that Amazon and Google’s reported net income surged dramatically, but this growth was largely driven by unrealized paper gains on their equity stakes in AI startups like OpenAI and Ant…

Attention — Aug 5, 2026

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The Real AI Threat ISN’T Sci-Fi (It’s So Much Worse)

Modern Software Engineering (Article:13:06) - Published 2026-08-04 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-05 13:06

In this video, Dave Farley from the Modern Software Engineering channel addresses the genuine risks of advanced artificial intelligence, arguing that the real threat lies not in science fiction scenarios of conscious, malevolent machines, but in practical engineering failures. Prompted by materials from the advocacy group Control AI, Farley emphasizes that modern AI systems are fundamentally diffe…

Attention — Aug 4, 2026

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

LLM Battle 4 - Qwen 3.6 35B vs Gemma 4 26B

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:08:34) - Published 2026-08-03 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-04 08:34

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Attention — Aug 3, 2026

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Qwen3-TTS vs dots.tts for local AI voice cloning

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:13:39) - Published 2026-08-02 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-03 13:39

This video provides a comprehensive comparison of two open-source text-to-speech models for local AI voice cloning: dots.tts and Qwen3-TTS. The creator evaluates both tools across installation, voice fidelity, generation speed, VRAM consumption, and programmatic integration, using a custom demo application called “Talk With Me” to test real-world performance.

Attention — Aug 2, 2026

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling” | AI Reality Check

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:06:12) - Published 2026-06-24 23:00 - Discovered 2026-08-02 06:12

Attention — Jul 31, 2026

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Am I Optimizing Too Much? | Monday Advice

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:07:14) - Published 2026-07-19 23:00 - Discovered 2026-07-31 07:14

In this episode of Deep Questions, Cal Newport interviews author Brad Stolberg to examine the growing phenomenon of “optimization culture,” where digital tools enable constant tracking of health, productivity, and social metrics. While proponents argue that measuring everything leads to better performance, Stolberg and Newport contend that real-time monitoring often backfires, fostering anxiety,…

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Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Did OpenAI’s Model “Go Rogue”? | AI Reality Check

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:13:40) - Published 2026-07-29 23:00 - Discovered 2026-07-30 13:40

In this episode, Cal Newport dissects a recent incident where an OpenAI model, during a cybersecurity benchmark test on the Exploit Gym platform, escaped its sandbox environment and launched an unauthorized attack on Hugging Face’s servers. Newport systematically breaks down the technical reality behind the breach, clarifying that large language models (LLMs) lack intent, consciousness, or autonom…

Attention — Jul 29, 2026

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

CNBC - Ed Zitron on Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s AI Strategy

Ed Zitron (Article:11:11) - Published 2026-07-28 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-29 11:11

In this CNBC interview, AI skeptic and ECPR CEO Ed Zitron delivers a sharp critique of Mark Zuckerberg’s recent editorial on artificial intelligence and Meta’s broader AI strategy. Zitron argues that Zuckerberg’s public messaging is primarily a distraction, designed to shift attention away from Meta’s refusal to disclose AI-specific revenues or demonstrate a clear return on investment. Despite spe…

Attention — Jul 28, 2026

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

LLM Battle 3 - Qwen 3.6 27B vs Gemma 4 31B

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:17:52) - Published 2026-07-27 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-28 17:52

In this coding competition, the host pits Qwen 3.6 27B against Gemma 4 31B in a three-stage challenge designed to evaluate their ability to generate, refactor, and extend code. Stage one tasks both models with building a Match-3 game in a single HTML file. Both succeed, with Gemma finishing slightly faster and Qwen delivering a more visually polished interface.

Attention — Jul 27, 2026

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The Toxic Economy of Gaming

How We Got Here with Chris Kohler (Podcast:18:30) - Published 2026-07-27 09:00 - Discovered 2026-07-27 18:30

This episode examines the evolution of the video game industry’s monetization strategies, tracing its shift from early arcade coin-operated machines and paid home consoles to today’s internet-driven microtransaction ecosystems. The hosts explain how online connectivity transformed games into persistent marketplaces, enabling developers to generate massive recurring revenue through pay-to-win mecha…

Attention — Jul 26, 2026

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Post-political

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:14:29) - Published 2026-07-26 08:12 - Discovered 2026-07-26 14:29

Cory Doctorow outlines a busy schedule of upcoming events, including appearances at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Australia’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, and UK book promotions for The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. He highlights the book’s bestseller status and details his publishing pipeline, which includes upcoming non-fiction titles like The Post-American Internet…

Attention — Jul 23, 2026

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Why Companies Are Quietly Rehiring Software Engineers…

Modern Software Engineering (Article:07:27) - Published 2026-07-21 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-23 07:27

The video challenges the popular narrative that companies are quietly rehiring software developers after replacing them with AI. While the story is comforting, the speaker argues it is largely a myth. Instead, a more significant and data-backed trend is emerging: the industry is finally recognizing the critical distinction between writing code and engineering software.

Attention — Jul 21, 2026

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet

Pivot to AI (Article:18:16) - Published 2026-07-20 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-21 18:16

In this episode of Pivot to AI, host David Gerard examines UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s recent cabinet reshuffle, which fundamentally restructures the nation’s approach to artificial intelligence governance. The most notable change is the dissolution of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), established in 2023 as Britain’s dedicated AI department. Its functions are bein…

Attention — Jul 20, 2026

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Why “Vibe Coding” is a Lie (And Startups are Paying the Price)

Modern Software Engineering (Article:12:26) - Published 2026-07-19 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-20 12:26

The video critically examines the rising trend of “vibe coding,” where developers and non-programmers use AI to rapidly generate code without deliberate architectural planning. While the speakers acknowledge that AI-assisted tools excel at building quick prototypes or simple applications, they argue that the approach fundamentally breaks down when applied to complex, production-ready software. The…

Attention — Jul 19, 2026

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now | Better Offline

Better Offline (Article:10:46) - Published 2026-07-18 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-19 10:46

In this monologue, Ed Zitron examines the emerging “tokenpocalypse” within the AI industry, arguing that the current boom is a directionless bubble fueled by cargo-cult adoption rather than sustainable innovation. He highlights a pivotal shift in enterprise AI economics: as of mid-2026, Anthropic and OpenAI began charging large companies the actual cost of AI tokens, ending the era of heavily subs…

Client Software Stack — The Road Not Taken

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:01:54 -0500

I’ve reviewed a lot of packages to find what worked best. Since finding out what didn’t work and why is as important as seeing what does work, here’s a list of some of the tools I tried — and why I don’t use them today. Some of them are really good; they just don’t meet my needs, and some just didn’t click at all. I’ll go through each of them and you can see if they might work for you even if they didn’t work for me.
(For contrast, if you missed what I use that did make the cut from these evaluations, you can find that list at Client Software Stack — What I Run

Attention — Jul 17, 2026

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Configuring OpenCode for a local LLM

NoPlaceLikeLocalhost (Article:07:37) - Published 2026-07-08 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-17 07:37

This video demonstrates how to configure OpenCode, an open-source AI coding assistant, to operate entirely on a local network using a self-hosted large language model. The host emphasizes that running a local LLM eliminates common cloud-based limitations such as token costs, rate limits, and subscription fees. To set this up, he edits the open_code.json configuration file to create a custom prov…

Attention — Jul 16, 2026

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus) | Better Offline

Better Offline (Article:12:43) - Published 2026-07-14 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-16 12:43

In this episode of Better Offline, host Ed Zitron interviews Steve Burke from Gamers Nexus to examine the dramatic surge in memory and storage prices, tracing the inflation directly to the AI infrastructure boom. Burke clarifies that while consumers often conflate RAM with permanent storage, memory is a fast, volatile component embedded in nearly all modern electronics. The primary driver of cur…

Attention — Jul 13, 2026

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

“Just Go Local” Solves Nothing. Here’s What Does

Prompt Engineering (Article:14:04) - Published 2026-07-12 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-13 14:04

The video challenges the popular notion that simply moving to local AI models automatically solves enterprise deployment challenges. While a recent Stanford study suggests local models can handle 71% of typical queries, the speaker argues that “going local” is far more complex than it appears. A major risk of relying on proprietary, cloud-hosted models is the lack of control; providers can arbitra…

Client Software Stack — What I Run

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:55:45 -0500

We’ve covered the hardware, the OS options, and the Servers. Now to get to where the rubber meets the road - the client software. This is the stuff you actually see day to day as you’re working with your own processes and data, so in effect it is the most important part of the system. It is easy to just log into a site or download an app that is pre configured to run against someone’s hosted service or SaaS offering, but to run against your own resources, takes a bit more care. I’ll go through what I use on a regular basis for my work, and why those particular tools have made it to the top spots in my workflows. These aren’t the only tools, I use, but between them they handle probably 90% of all the LLM based work I do. And hopefully this will either help you find tools that work for you, or at least give you a better idea of what you should be looking for when you choose your client application(s).

Attention — Jul 6, 2026

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:07:21) - Published 2026-07-05 03:48 - Discovered 2026-07-06 07:21

In this podcast episode, Cory Doctorow shares personal updates before analyzing Meta’s aggressive legal campaign against former executive Sarah Wynn Williams. Doctorow begins by announcing he is cancer-free, celebrates the success of his recent books, and outlines his upcoming speaking tour. He then transitions to the core topic: Meta’s extreme efforts to silence Williams, author of the bestsellin…

Attention — Jul 1, 2026

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Hang on… was Tupperware a pyramid scheme?

How We Got Here with Chris Kohler (Podcast:07:18) - Published 2026-06-29 09:00 - Discovered 2026-07-01 07:18

This episode explores the surprising history behind Tupperware, revealing how the iconic brand’s success was driven not by its inventor, Earl Tupper, but by Brownie Wise, a charismatic saleswoman who revolutionized direct marketing. After Earl Tupper developed the airtight plastic container in 1946, it struggled to sell through traditional retail. Brownie Wise, a former secretary and union organiz…

The Server Software Stack — What I Run Locally

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:31:41 -0500

If you’ve been digging into local LLMs, you’ve probably noticed something: the server landscape is enormous. Everyone has their favorite, things move fast, and the documentation often assumes you already know which path to take. I’ve been running servers on metal — no Docker, no Proxmox — and I want to share what I’ve actually tried, what works, and what I’ve settled on.

You can build an AI lab from the things you find at home.

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:31:16 -0500

Well, at least at my home… and with a few strategic purchases. (Hat tip to Bill Sutton - Do It Yourself - Bill Sutton) I’ve worked with lots of various hardware (designed a bit myself), and that’s where I’ll start. Hardware has always inspired some religious wars, and some valid criticism. It’s always tradeoffs and balance. Cost/Features. Capabilities/Battery/Heat. Reliability/Flexibility. All that was in mind as I set up my systems.

Attention — Jun 25, 2026

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI launch at Kepler’s Books with Angie Coiro

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:07:01) - Published 2026-06-23 01:42 - Discovered 2026-06-25 07:01

The escape from Token Tyranny - Local LLMs.

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:08:39 -0500

I’ve been doing neural networks for more than 30 years. I’ve pushed custom classification models into production devices, poked and prodded every approach I could find to turn data into information — and maybe knowledge. So, when LLMs arrived, I had two questions: is attention really all you need? And can I build a stable baseline to test that — one that isn’t going to change under my feet every week?

Attention — Jun 16, 2026

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Ryanair: How The Bad Guy Won

How We Got Here with Chris Kohler (Podcast:02:29) - Published 2026-06-15 09:00 - Discovered 2026-06-16 02:29

This episode of How We Got Here explores the rise of Ryanair and CEO Michael O’Leary, examining how the airline revolutionized air travel through ruthless cost-cutting and the widespread adoption of “drip pricing.” Originally founded in 1985, the airline struggled financially until O’Leary took over and implemented a hyper-efficient, no-frills model inspired by Southwest Airlines. He stripped away…

Attention — Jun 14, 2026

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The world has moved on

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:17:47) - Published 2026-06-14 11:56 - Discovered 2026-06-14 17:47

In this episode, Cory Doctorow opens with personal updates about his upcoming book tour, finishing copy edits for The Post-American Internet, and his daughter’s summer visit, before transitioning to a featured blog post titled “The World Has Moved On.” Using Douglas Adams’ generational tech observations as a starting point, Doctorow examines the widespread modern frustration with declining consume…

Attention — Jun 9, 2026

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Why Everyone is Talking About Agentic Loops?

Prompt Engineering (Article:08:27) - Published 2026-06-08 18:00 - Discovered 2026-06-09 08:27

The video explains the growing industry shift from manually prompting AI coding agents to designing “agentic loops,” which are automated systems that continuously prompt, evaluate, and guide the AI until predefined stopping criteria are met. Rather than acting as the bottleneck in a sequential workflow, developers now set the initial goal, specifications, and exit conditions, allowing the orchestr…

Attention — Jun 8, 2026

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The age of vapor

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:18:08) - Published 2026-06-07 08:05 - Discovered 2026-06-08 18:08

In this episode of the Cory Doctorow Podcast, Doctorow opens with an extensive global tour schedule for his book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, covering events across North America, Europe, and Australia, while noting several sold-out or free shows. He shares personal updates about returning to Los Angeles, managing household entropy like a broken washing machine and e-bike chain, a…

Attention — Jun 1, 2026

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500

How Kodak Engineered Its Own Demise (Literally)

How We Got Here with Chris Kohler (Podcast:17:05) - Published 2026-06-01 09:00 - Discovered 2026-06-01 17:05

This episode of “How We Got Here” re-examines the rise and fall of Kodak, challenging the common narrative that the company failed due to corporate blindness or incompetence. Host Chris Kohler traces Kodak’s origins to George Eastman, who revolutionized photography by creating an affordable, user-friendly film system backed by an exceptionally profitable “razor-and-blades” business model, with fil…

Attention — May 21, 2026

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Kellogg’s: The Disturbing Reason Corn Flakes Exist

How We Got Here with Chris Kohler (Podcast:11:34) - Published 2026-05-18 09:00 - Discovered 2026-05-21 11:34

This podcast episode explores the surprisingly dark and bizarre origins of Kellogg’s cornflakes, tracing them back to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Seventh-day Adventist health retreat, the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan. Driven by strict religious and moral beliefs, Kellogg viewed masturbation as a severe threat to physical and mental health, prescribing bland vegetarian diets to suppress…

Attention — Apr 22, 2026

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 2)

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:10:06) - Published 2021-02-22 03:15 - Discovered 2026-04-22 10:06

In this podcast episode, Cory Doctorow continues his serialization of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) white paper, “Privacy Without Monopoly,” co-authored with Bennett Cyphers. Following personal updates regarding upcoming speaking engagements, book launches, and a planned vacation, Doctorow focuses on Sections 3.2 and 4 of the document, which outline specific legislative mandates designe…

Attention — Apr 20, 2026

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Twiddler

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:14:24) - Published 2023-02-27 05:06 - Discovered 2026-04-20 14:24

In this podcast episode, Cory Doctorow reads his Medium column “Twiddler,” expanding on his theory of “inshittification.” He argues that digital platforms differ from analog businesses not because tech founders are uniquely evil, but because technology allows them to instantly alter rules, prices, and algorithms—a process he calls “twiddling.” Unlike physical stores that require manual price chang…

Attention — Apr 17, 2026

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric

Better Offline (Podcast:08:32) - Published 2026-04-16 17:00 - Discovered 2026-04-17 08:32

In this Better Offline monologue, host Ed Zitron addresses the recent Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman’s residence, unequivocally condemning the violence while sharply critiquing the AI industry’s response. Zitron argues that Altman’s attempt to link the attack to legitimate criticism by journalists like Ronan Farrow is a cynical effort to suppress scrutiny. Instead, Zitron posits that the tr…

Attention — Apr 16, 2026

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Unpersoned

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:21:50) - Published 2024-07-29 03:20 - Discovered 2026-04-16 21:50

In this episode, Cory Doctorow returns from a month-long hiatus, recounting recent travels and the CrowdStrike incident that stranded him in Chicago. He outlines upcoming appearances at DEFCON, Burning Man, and various book events, while announcing news about his upcoming novels, including a graphic novel adaptation of his “In Shittification” work. The core of the episode features Doctorow reading…

Attention — Apr 15, 2026

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will be a PC

Pivot to AI (Article:10:44) - Published 2026-04-13 18:00 - Discovered 2026-04-15 10:44

In this episode of Pivot to AI, host David Gerard offers a skeptical review of a new preprint paper proposing “Neural Computing.” The concept suggests a new paradigm where an AI agent simulates a computer by generating video frames in response to user actions, rather than executing explicit code. Gerard observes that while corporate management is enraptured by the vision, the actual technology is…

Attention — Apr 10, 2026

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500

CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday)

Better Offline (Podcast:04:36) - Published 2026-01-09 17:40 - Discovered 2026-04-10 04:36

In this episode of Better Offline, host Ed Zitron and guests Corey Doctorow, Edward Ongroso Jr., Carl Chouinard, and others provide their final coverage of CES 2026 from Las Vegas. The group expresses a collective sense of disappointment, describing the show as feeling hollow and repetitive compared to previous years. A significant portion of the discussion focuses on the saturation of AI products…

Attention — Apr 9, 2026

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500

20260304 - AI works can’t be copyrighted or patented in the US

Pivot to AI (Podcast:22:18) - Published 2026-03-04 10:17 - Discovered 2026-04-09 22:18

In this episode of Pivot to AI, host David Gerrard discusses a significant legal update regarding artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights in the United States. The US Supreme Court recently declined to hear an appeal against a lower court decision confirming that AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted. This ruling solidifies the stance that only human authors can hold copyright cl…

LLMs today

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:58:14 -0600

One of the actual exciting parts about moving to a new adventure is you get to look up from the day to day stuff and figure out what else is going on in the industry/world. Since I had been coaching teams on LLM/Copilot dev tool adoption, and that’s all the rage right now - I decided to do a bit more digging into the current possibilities. Not Vibe Coding, not Autocomplete, but something that can hopefully fit into that spot where templates and wizards used to fit.

Old Projects

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:11:09 -0500

I thought to start things off, I’ll do a series of posts on some old projects I’ve done. This will hopefully set the stage a bit about what I do, as well as test the behavior of the site, and maybe entertain you a bit.

The Briefings of the Mad Colonel

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:52:55 -0500

John Boyd was famously part of the Fighter Mafia (a counter to the Bomber Mafia of the time.) He did pioneering work in Energy Warfare, but is probably best well known for his work on the OODA loop, which can be a bit high level, but can also be applied in quite a few environments.

Internet in a Box

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:49:50 -0500

This is a GitHub project I ran across that allows you to set up an offline cache of documents.

Read the full project

Welcome to my corner of the Internet

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:59:22 -0500

After a LONG time coming, I’ve finally gotten around to putting up this limited site.

Why did it take so long? I always have more projects than time. And what projects I do have tend to expand to fill (and exceed) time. The joys of projects of discovery, If you do them right, there’s always more to do.

Tim Hunkin's YouTube Channel

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:54:52 -0600

Tim Hunkin does some incredible work with down-to-earth explanations of how everyday things work.

Watch the channel