Stories by samizdis

AI and Amateurism

Elon Musk Is Dropping a Boulder in a Kiddie Pool

London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

The rise and fall of snake oil

Jonathan Swift's Last Joke

18th-century mechanical volcano roars to life 250 years later

Roll your own local AI coding agents to save money

The Illuminati in the United States

AI vendor lock-in bites back

Allbirds abandons clothes, pivots to "AI compute infrastructure"

US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks

Dark matter could be black holes from a different universe

Hungary's Magyar Myth Makers

The power of headwear and 'hatiquette' in early modern England

You Can't Escape the AI Tax

Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

Android keyboard ditches keys predicts what you mean

The US and Israel are making the Islamic republic stronger

Rock Star: Reading the Rosetta Stone

Cannabis Through the Ages

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