Doomsday scoreboard(doomsday.march1studios.com)

200 points by diymaker 1 year ago | 97 comments

How Close to Black Mirror Are We?(howclosetoblackmirror.com)

38 points by beatthatflight 1 year ago | 24 comments

Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy(techwontsave.us)

36 points by shrubby 1 month ago | 6 comments

AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence(geohot.github.io)

167 points by rvz 3 months ago | 192 comments

A Vulnerability in Libsodium(00f.net)

323 points by raggi 10 months ago | 47 comments

Blog post by Frank Denis, libsodium's author, describing a vulnerability found in the libsodium cryptographic library.

You did no fact checking, and I must scream(shkspr.mobi)

260 points by blenderob 1 year ago | 154 comments

We must pace the frontier(darioamodei.com)

697 points by apsec112 1 month ago | 958 comments

Essay by Dario Amodei arguing that frontier AI development must be paced, weighing AI's potential benefits like curing diseases against its risks.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

Infosec 101 for Activists(infosecforactivists.org)

440 points by greenie_beans 1 year ago | 174 comments

Infosec 101 for Activists is a guide by Drew Bjorn, Mark Sherman, and Blake Skinner on digital security practices for US activists attending protests.

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong(derekthompson.org)

474 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 717 comments

Derek Thompson Substack essay arguing that antitrust critics blaming homebuilder monopolies for America's housing problems are wrong.

Killing Community(marginalia.nu)

495 points by dasil003 3 years ago | 350 comments

A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.