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- https://doug.pub/2026/09/22/introducing-claude-opus-anthropic-because.html
Sep 23, 2026 · original
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 \ Anthropic Because Opus 5.5 is comparable to Claude Mythos 5.1 in biology and cybersecurity, we’re deploying it with safeguards similar to those on Claude Fable 5.1. Vetted organizations can apply today to our Life Sciences Verification Program to use Opus 5.5 for biology research. In the coming weeks we will also be expanding access to our Cyber Verification Program, and verified cybersecurity practitioners will be able to use Opus 5.5 for their work. If it s so good at biology, cure cancer. I dare you. - https://doug.pub/2026/09/15/hearing-the-news-of-the.html
Sep 15, 2026 · original
Hearing the news of the OpenAI Hugging Face hack didn t alarm me in the sense of this is clearly the end of humanity. But I couldn t put my finger on why. Cory Doctorow provided the words I couldn t come up with. Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Which is not to say that the OpenAI/Hugging Face hack is nothing. It s something, all right: but it s a specific something, with an explicable, even foreseeable trajectory. Once you understand that these are chatbots that were designed to complete challenges like this, using tactics like this, you can understand that the chatbots didn t go rogue. They did what they were designed to do, and because OpenAI ran them with inadequate supervision (without a human in the loop that checked each iteration through the Python loop to ensure it hadn t gone off the rails), they trashed a compet - https://doug.pub/2026/08/30/finished-reading-jurassic-park-by.html
Aug 30, 2026 · original
Finished reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚 This book could easily be interpreted as a commentary on AI, especially some of the quotes from the character Malcolm, who is very critical of science and scientific progress. Just take a look: “Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something. They conveniently define such considerations as pointless. If they don’t do it, someone else will. Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That’s the game in science." “What advances?” Malcolm said irritably. “The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics … Why does it still take as long to clean the - https://doug.pub/2026/08/30/finished-reading-the-grid-by.html
Aug 30, 2026 · original
Finished reading: The Grid by Gretchen Bakke 📚 - https://doug.pub/2026/08/12/currently-reading-count-zero-by.html
Aug 12, 2026 · original
Currently reading: Count Zero by William Gibson 📚 - https://doug.pub/2026/08/05/finished-reading-enshittification-why-everything.html
Aug 5, 2026 · original
Finished reading: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚 Good book, it’s really eye opening to see all the ways things have been enshittified. Going to have to think some about what part I can help to play in fighting back against this. - Norway
Jul 31, 2026 · original
After Iceland, we traveled to Oslo, Norway. Summers can be hot in Atlanta, so we wanted to visit another country with cooler temps. Norway is amazing! So much natural beauty and quiet. We took a tour of the islands in Oslofjord (and learned it s not technically a fjord because it was created via tectonic plate separation rather than glaciers). Here we learned about cabin culture in Norway: I think it s around 80% of people either own or have access to a cabin. July is the main month for folks to retreat to their cabins where they enjoy nature and the nice weather. One thing I found cool is that Olso s public transportation (including the island hopping ferry boats) has been completely converted over to battery electric. Our guide told us that Oslo wants to be the quietest city in Europe. I think their work has paid off, Oslo was very quiet! From Oslo, we headed to Bergen on the west coas - https://doug.pub/2026/07/29/currently-reading-enshittification-why-everything.html
Jul 29, 2026 · original
Currently reading: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚 - https://doug.pub/2026/07/24/the-lunar-landscape-of-iceland.html
Jul 24, 2026 · original
The lunar landscape of Iceland - Iceland
Jul 24, 2026 · original
We traveled to Iceland for my sister-in-law’s wedding, congrats Ginny & McKenzie! I wanted to share a few photos from our time on the island. Our rental car was a Chinese EV, a Hongqi compact suv. First time driving a Chinese built car! The landscapes around our hotel were amazing: We rode in buggies out to a glacier: A nearby waterfall: We spent our last night in Reykjavik, there was an interesting boat in the harbor. I looked it up and it s powered entirely by renewable energy, turning seawater into hydrogen and using solar panels to charge its batteries: Spur of the moment, we decided to take a whale-watching cruise at 9pm (it stays light until after midnight) and it was amazing! We saw puffins: And humpback whales bubble feeding : We felt incredibly lucky that we were able to see this! Iceland is an amazing place and we had a great time. From here, we traveled to Norway to visit Oslo - https://doug.pub/2026/07/24/just-turned-on-cross-posting.html
Jul 24, 2026 · original
Just turned on cross posting to Grain.social for images posted here! - https://doug.pub/2026/07/14/currently-reading-jurassic-park-by.html
Jul 15, 2026 · original
Currently reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚 Re-reading Jurassic Park, last time I read it was maybe 20 years ago. Realizing now how much of a metaphor for the AI age it is. - https://doug.pub/2026/06/02/life-finds-a-way.html
Jun 2, 2026 · original
Life finds a way. - https://doug.pub/2026/05/28/finished-reading-palaver-by-bryan.html
May 29, 2026 · original
Finished reading: Palaver by Bryan Washington 📚 - https://doug.pub/2026/05/27/ghost-pipe-flower-not-a.html
May 27, 2026 · original
Ghost Pipe flower (not a fungus!) spotted while hiking near Asheville, NC. Thanks Beth and Jonathan for teaching me about this plant! - https://doug.pub/2026/05/22/how-to-hate-ai-steve.html
May 22, 2026 · original
How to Hate AI • Steve Simkins I read a blog post recently saying that it was ok to hate AI. While I agree to some extent, I think it was missing some key points about how to hate AI. It’s easy to just hate something you don’t like. We as humans have a natural propensity to hate or dislike things we are not familiar with. The problem is that this approach is akin to putting your head in the sand or screaming at the clouds; it doesn’t actually help anyone. - https://doug.pub/2026/05/22/nobody-pushed-back-why-engineers.html
May 22, 2026 · original
Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It s Too Late | How to Center a Div Someone walks through an architectural decision and nobody in that room actually agrees — they just act like they do, because saying what you really think is socially expensive. Meeting ends, decision gets made. Six months later production blows up and everyone says we knew this would happen. I wonder how AI is going to change this situation? Will it become harder to push back against something AI has built even if it s bad? How long until engineers don t even know what the AI is producing and the automated decisions being made are not even reviewed? - https://doug.pub/2026/05/22/ad-infinitum-matthias-ott-for.html
May 22, 2026 · original
Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott For 25 years, Google Search was built on a contract. The web provided the content – billions of pages, freely linked, freely crawled. In return, Google sent people back. The link was the unit of exchange. It’s what made the Web thrive as an information system: you publish, Google indexes, users click through, and value flows back to the source. Win-win. That contract is now broken. - https://doug.pub/2026/05/18/free-stuff-unintentional-still-life.html
May 18, 2026 · original
Free stuff unintentional (?) still life. - https://doug.pub/2026/05/16/some-photos-taken-outside-taos.html
May 16, 2026 · original
Some photos taken outside Taos, NM from last year that I don’t think ever made it to the blog.
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