Stories by dxs

Seriously Off-Topic, But: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Starfish Prime, a nuclear detonation 250 miles above the Pacific in 1962

Konrad Zuse and the Z3, the first programmable computer, May 1941

The Art of Money Getting

I'm writing again (Cringely)

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet

The clean-up cost of AI code is what the velocity narrative leaves out

How to Kill: A 6-Part Guide for Urban Assassins 1973-1984

The Rise of the Bullshittery

AI Won't Save Us from the Talent Crisis We Created (Sep 25, 2025)

A structural change – only 13% of emails are written by people

Chinese Electrotech Is the Big Winner in the Iran War

Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie

Percussive maintenance, planned obsolescence, and other PC myths

Why Isn't Everything Different Yet? (AI, where are you?)

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Priced Out by AI: The Memory Chip Crisis Hitting Every Consumer

The Nation of a Birth

What is consulting? (The Batman trap.)

And no more Copyleft, either

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