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For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.

Adam Aron: I want to start with your views on the climate struggle then and now. A few years ago, you were in Germany’s lignite pits trying to stop the

The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate.

In today’s digitally interwoven economy, cybersecurity is no longer an IT function — it is an existential business issue. The rapid escalation of cyber threats, regulatory scrutiny, and reputational risk has forced a redefinition of executive accountability.

On June 13, 2026, the US government blocked Fable 5, firing the first shot in the AI War. At Tech Fest Nancy the day before, François Zaninotto's talk on AI-assisted development sparked the sovereignty debate. If you're still using cloud LLMs without self-hosting, you're already on the losing side.

Nobody’s going to call you shocking or subversive if you point out that we’re experiencing an AI bubble. And as with all financial and cultural phenomena, the temptation is to map the shape of the current boom (and its predictable end) against boom and bust cycles we’ve seen before: the dot-com bubble, the subprime mortgage […]

Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

How do you win a trade war? Let’s find out

US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema concluded that divestiture was "neither realistic nor needed," even after finding last year that Google had violated antitrust law in its...

"They didn't get swept up in the live-service trend, or into these mega-blockbusters with 500-person teams"

"These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet, and yet they are working, and they are working a lot."

The Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) in RFC 8342 defines several configuration datastores holding configuration. The contents of these configuration datastores are controlled by clients. This document introduces the concept of a system configuration datastore holding configuration controlled by the system on which a server is running. The system configuration can be referenced (e.g., leafref) by configuration explicitly created by clients. This document updates RFC 8342.

The Right is freaking out because we could be on the brink of proving that egalitarian, pluralistic democracy is possible. A glass-half-full interpretation of our moment.

This is the collection of all of my podcast episodes related to the deceptions and unethical actions of the behavior/influence "expert" Chase Hughes: First episode + main summary of lies: this page includes the first episode I did on Chase (a walk-through of my findings) and features an attempt to summarize Chase's many lies and

Facebook is hosting huge numbers of horrifying AI-generated videos of violent child abuse, and Meta is barely taking them down.

In 1095, the Catholic Church launched the Crusades, wars that left millions dead and whose legacy still shapes political and ideological conflicts.