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The Enlightenment brought to life a fervor to remake the systems that had been around for hundreds of years. That philosophy included a hope for some humility in seeking to build new systems to guard against our own flaws. Sounds … Continue reading →
We needed the insight and confidentiality to protect our users, but now that anyone can get the same results from LLM?
To turn around Britain’s looming educational crisis. bold ideas are necessary – not tinkering around the edges.
Ice fairs on the River Thames - plus earthquakes. volcanic eruptions. and mass starvation due to famine: could the world be heading for a repeat of the dreaded Maunder Minimum which caused temperatures to plummet in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Economic stratification. social atomization. and moral drift are breaking families on both sides of the culture war
Picture it. October 7th. 1571. The Mediterranean is a cauldron of fury. A rag-tag Christian fleet. outnumbered. outgunned. and probably terrified. faces down the might of the Islamic Ottoman Empire at Lepanto. The Pope. St. Pius V. not only prayed... Continue Reading →
Trillions in hidden distress and deferred losses are emerging as borrowers run out of time and options. America’s debt reckoning has begun.
It looks like the 2026 Juneteenth/Father’s Day Weekend Extravaganza ended with a nice. even 10 mass shootings. None were very noteworthy other than the 13…
Might as well: I could also cite Alanis at this point. I guess. because “the truth” is that I was only thinking about kayfabe when I linked to that clip — WordPress thinks this is a music [and pop culture] blog. after all. But then I started thinking about that clip as Art [in the … Continue reading 'Handling the Truth.'
The idea that growth can come from a focus on limits. rather than limitless expansion. David Epstein explains [in Inside the Box]. is at the core of a simple but profound idea: In the 1970s. Israeli physicist Eli Goldratt was working on algorithms to predict the behavior of atoms in heated crystals. when a friend (…)
1.623 words Americans are routinely called upon to reckon with the darkest chapters of their history. The institution of slavery. Jim Crow laws. and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two: these are subjects of documentaries. school curricula. museum exhibitions. and public apology. That reckoning. however uncomfortable. is broadly accepted as necessary. Yet (…)
I am on the road and am way behind on posts—I have a 3.500 word article on deriving Oughts from Is’s in the works—so in the spirit of summer. where I am assured temperatures will at last crack 70. maybe even this weekend. in Michigan [though I usually don’t give weight to such rumors]. here is a classic post on marbles which originally ran
I am on the road and am way behind on posts—I have a 3.500 word article on deriving Oughts from Is’s in the works—so in the spirit of summer. where…
5.806 words “Eugenics strengthens the sense of social duty… It promotes a far-sighted philanthropy. the acceptance of parentage as a serious responsibility. and a higher conception of patriotism.” —Francis Galton Part 3 available here. Endgames’ vitriol against eugenics is not entirely homegrown of course. To give but one pertinent example. one of the three main (…)
With the world's oil and gas market changing. energy security is now at the forefront of most countries' priorities.
With more in-state refinery closures eminent. California Ports are incapable of importing the large volumes of transportation fuels demanded by the 4th largest economy in the world.
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I'm extremely fed up with Safelite. the windshield replacement people. at present.I called them last week to replace my vehicle's windshield after a large crack developed.  They handled the initial appointment. insurance issues. etc. without difficulty.  However. when the technician arrived at our home to do the installation. we noticed immediately that the replacement windshield was much. much thinner glass than the factory original.  I qu....
People say 'Andy' Burnham Great Britain's next PM will be another Starmer but this is not true. Nobody resembles anyone else.Nobody thought Mrs Thatcher would be any good when she became Conservative leader or PM but she was.Mr Burnham is a human being and makes jokes and read English at Cambridge.It's incredibly important that he has read good books. You don't need to read English or go to Cambridge to do that but I bet KS hasn't. Corbyn c..
ADMX Viewer - www.dsebastien.net - 3 months ago - eng
ADMX Viewer is a small web app I built to browse, search, and configure Windows Group Policy templates without fighting the built-in tooling. You point it at a folder of ADMX files, pick a language, navigate the policies, flip the settings you care about, and export them as `.reg` files, PowerShell
GLM-5.2 - www.dsebastien.net - 3 months ago - eng
GLM-5.2 is Z.ai's) flagship open-weight LLM), released as full open weights on June 16, 2026 (coding subscribers got access on June 13). It is the successor to GLM-5.1 and, at release, the leading open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The headline change is a jump from a 2
Vercel Eve - www.dsebastien.net - 3 months ago - eng
Vercel Eve is an open-source TypeScript framework for building, running, and scaling durable agents, launched in public preview on June 17, 2026. The premise: every team kept rebuilding the same plumbing (sessions, sandboxing, channels, approvals) before their agent could do anything useful. Eve pro
Odysseus (AI) - www.dsebastien.net - 3 months ago - eng
Odysseus is a self-hosted AI workspace that puts chat, autonomous agents, research, documents, email, notes, calendar, and local model serving behind one local-first interface, with no telemetry. Python + JavaScript, AGPL-3.0-or-later.
Vercel Open Agents is an open-source, fork-able reference app for running coding agents that live in the cloud and keep working after you close the tab. Built on Vercel's own stack. MIT.
Ponytail (AI) - www.dsebastien.net - 3 months ago - eng
Ponytail is an open-source (MIT License) AI-agent plugin/skill that enforces minimalist code generation, "He says nothing. He writes one line. It works." It counters the tendency of coding agents to over-engineer (extra dependencies, boilerplate, building when something already exists) by injecting
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is an open, draft specification (Apache 2.0 License) for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web. It's a collaborative effort, not one vendor's project: contributors come from Google, Microsoft, Hugging Face, GoDaddy and others. It answe
Code Mode is a pattern for using MCP) tools where, instead of exposing each tool directly to the model as a callable function, you give the model a typed API (TypeScript or Python) and ask it to write code that calls those tools. The code runs in a sandbox, and only the final result comes back to th
A coding agent harness designed to avoid provider lock-in has become the platform that providers and tools organize around.
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