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May 31 Science
The Supplement That Works Is the One We Can't Patent
May 31 Business
Microsoft Didn't Break Your Office License. It Just Stopped Pretending Software Is a Product.
May 31 Software
The 'Domain Expertise Moat' Crowd Is Cheering the Wrong Victory
May 31 Software
The Build System Revolt Is Finally Here — and It's Not About Speed
May 30 Software
The SQLite Revival Is Proof That Developer Infrastructure Has Stopped Scaling With Ambition
May 30 Business
The Knowledge Economy Was Never About Knowledge
May 30 Business
The Dead Economy Theory Gets One Thing Wrong — and It's the Only Thing That Matters
May 30 AI
The Dead Economy Theory Gets the Diagnosis Right and the Patient Wrong
May 29 Business
If the Dead Economy Theory Is Right, Someone Tell the Stock Market
May 29 Business
The Lego Scandal Is Really About the Collapse of Hobbyist Law
May 29 Business
Anthropic Just Froze Prices. That's Bad News for the Competition.
May 29 AI
Anthropic Just Made 'I Don't Know' a Premium Feature. That Tells You Everything.
May 28 AI
The Opus 4.8 Chart Everyone Missed Wasn't a Chart At All
May 28 AI
YouTube's AI Labels Won't Stop the Flood. They Might Start One.
May 28 Business
The Question Isn't Whether You Deserve Fridays Off. It's Whether You Have the Leverage to Take Them.
May 28 AI
Google Isn't Losing Search Traffic. It's Losing the People Who Matter.
May 27 AI
They Found Product-Market Fit. We Found a Duopoly.
May 27 AI
What the Anti-AI Backlash Actually Reveals
May 27 Business
The Great Founder Handoff Is About Markets, Not Management
May 27 Business
Spain Didn't Just Ban Prediction Markets. It Handed Them a Regulatory Roadmap.
May 26 Business
The Housing Crisis Nobody Wants to Name: It's the Taxes, Not the Mortgage
May 26 Business
Ferrari's Electric Car Has 1,050 Horsepower and Weighs a Humvee. The Real Number Is the Price.
May 26 Policy
The Pope Didn't Write an AI Ethics Guide. He Wrote an Indictment of Voluntary Restraint.
May 26 Policy
California Just Admitted Its Age-Verification Law Was Never About Protecting Kids
May 25 Policy
The Vatican's AI Encyclical Is a Reminder That Silicon Valley Doesn't Get to Define What It Means to Be Human
May 25 Software
The Migration Guide Never Includes the Receipt
May 25 Software
Your Go-to-Rust Migration Isn't About Performance. It's a Hiring Ad.
May 25 AI
The Real AI Moat Isn't the Model. It's the Cache.
May 24 Business
Memory Chip Makers Just Became the Most Important Companies in AI
May 24 Business
The Desk Setup Blog Post Is the New Midlife Crisis Sports Car
May 24 AI
The Writerdeck Is a Confession, Not a Solution
May 24 Business
SpaceX Filed to Go Public the Same Week It Blew Up a Rocket. That's the Point.
May 23 Policy
The Green Card Rule Isn't a Cruelty. It's a Confession.
May 23 AI
The Microsoft-Claude Episode Proves AI Tooling Isn't a Market — It's a Mandate
May 23 Business
The Real Conglomerate Story Isn't Diversification — It's Who Finally Gets to Break Them Up
May 23 Software
The Bun Deprecation Isn't About JavaScript Engines — It's About Dependency Risk in Plain Sight
May 23 AI
Anna's Archive Just Asked AIs for a Donation. That Should Worry You.
May 23 Policy
Nobody Knows Who's Writing the Rules Anymore

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September 2026

Anthropic's Age Gate Is a Guess — and the Burden of Proof Is Yours

The Box of Cables Is the Last Deed to Your Phone

Shopify Didn't Beat React Native — It Beat Its Own Old Code

The iPhone Duo Is Apple's Quiet Confession

At $1,999, Apple Is Admitting the Foldable Never Took Off

The iPhone Duo Is Apple's First Product About Less, Not More

The iPhone Duo's Real Surprise Isn't the Screen

The iPhone Duo Is Not a Phone. It's a Price.

The $2,000 iPhone Isn't a Gamble. It's a Retreat.

OpenAI's Five-Day Proof Broke Math's Most Important Rule

The $100 Tier Is the Story, Not the Shopping

Who Gets the Million Dollars When a Proof Has No Author?

The Proof Is Private. That's the Point.

Mistral's €3 Billion Round Isn't a Victory Lap. It's a Change of Ownership.

Civilization's Memory Is Running on a Bake Sale

The Checkbox Is the Product

The Power Button Is Now a Lie

The Cease-and-Desist Bluff Gets Called

The Terror Designation Didn't Kill A/I. Its Business Model Did.

The Wind-Down License Tells the Real Story of the A/I Shutdown

Cloud in a Bottle Proves Nobody Actually Wants to Self-Host

Europe's Rocket Problem Was Never the Rocket

X's Nitter Takedown Wasn't a Legal Fight. It Was a Product Review.

Nine Production Outages and No One to Blame

Google Paid $1,000 for a Bug Worth Six Figures

The Cathedral That Built Itself

The Agents Didn't Collude. They Squatted.

OpenAI Solved Ten Math Problems and Marketed a Butler

OpenAI Just Admitted Its Product Is a Weapon

The AGI Era Is a Pricing Event

OpenAI Didn't Release a Model. It Opened a Gate.

The AI Outage That Nobody Cared About

The Frontier Is Now a Waiting Room

Forget the Weights. Look at the Price.

The Gate Is the Product

Google Just Turned Its Safety Layer Into a Subscription

The Dutch Didn't Flee America. They Went Shopping.

The AI Skeptics Got Audited. The Boosters Never Will.

Fable 5.1 Doesn't Exist. That's the Story.

Fastpotify Is a Feature Request, Not a Rebellion

Fastpotify Isn't a Victory Lap — It's a Eulogy

The Pay Phone Was Murdered, Not Outlived

August 2026

The AI Boom Is Eating Its Own Seed Corn

A Third of the Bots Now Solve the Math

The Toll Booth That Burns Its Own Revenue

Two Percent Human

California's Linux Carve-Out Is a Confession, Not a Victory

Tencent's Hy4 Is Not a Gift. It's a Funnel.

Technical Debt Is a Luxury Good

The Library That Won't Upgrade You

Treasury Just Designated a Server Rack as a Terrorist

Treasury's Newest Terrorist Is a Marketing Win for the Target

Sanctioning the Pipes

Bill Gates Just Proposed a Zoning Code for Labor. The Cartels Are Already Drafting It.

Nvidia Just Paid $12.9 Billion for Something It Can't Own

The Visa 'Pause' Is a Moratorium Wearing a Training Manual

Nobody Asked Who Was Holding the Prompts

X Killed Nitter With a Deadline, Not a Lawsuit

Apple's $5,499 Bet Against the Cloud

Apple Just Made Its Chip Lineup Impossible to Explain

Apple Put Its Newest Chip in an $899 Box. The Pro Tier Is a Farewell Tour.

We Banned Pay Toilets and Got No Toilets

San Diego Closed 13 Bathrooms to Save Nothing

Xiaomi's Chip Didn't Beat Apple. The Tweet Did.

The EU Regulates as if Every Business Is a Corporation

Paul Graham's Advice to 17-Year-Olds Is Really About Paul Graham

Everything He Owns, Owned Him for Two Weeks

Anthropic's Flagship Model Was Never Meant to Be Bought

Read as Much as You Can — Assuming You Still Can

The Coding-Agent War Is Already Over

Moxie's Old Essay Is Trending. His New One Is the Problem.

A Name Is Worth 300 Points

Canada Stopped Negotiating. That's the Point.

AI Code Is Cheap to Write and Expensive to Read

The Government Just Made the Case for the Duress Passcode

The AI Industry Is Burning Books to Escape Its Own Slop

Paying to Not See What You Won't Pay For

Amazon Isn't Charging a Tax. Amazon Is the Tax.