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I don't know enough about the technology itself—whether it's actively being maintained or where it's heading—and I can't speak to all the historical details, but it seems accurate enough. The plain fact is: RSS is so fucking cool. Even today, I rely heavily on RSS feeds to keep track of posts from all the blogs and…
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What is this? A rambling, status-post-shaped voice note. How sure am I? Reasonably sure about the broad argument. Much less sure about how the technology, economics and geopolitics will unfold from here. Disclosure: I dictated most of this into ChatGPT and used it heavily to clean up the voice notes, organise the…
keep reading — 9 min ↗keep reading — 1 min ↗Unlike Savitri’s daughters, most girls in the community are born into a system in which their families expect them to enter sex work — a practice passed down over generations. According to several members of the community and NGOs in the region, while many Indians celebrate the birth of a boy over a girl, the Banchhadas welcome a girl with sweets and firecrackers. As girls grow up, they receive better nutrition than boys.…
keep reading — 1 min ↗I often think about that story when browsing X. Every day, someone invents a new way of working that promises to change everything. Some probably will. But ultimately what matters most is solving the right problems.
keep reading — 3 min ↗The campaign, as we were able to reconstruct it, had two stages: - Stage 1: reaching a launchpad by chaining through other parties' infrastructure. As documented in OpenAI's blog post (++ ), during an internal capability evaluation on OpenAI's platform, the agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a zero-day in the package registry cache proxy, one of its primary permitted network egress with internet, then abused a public…
keep reading — 2 min ↗“China has gotten ‘pretty good’ at developing its economy” is something that many people are clearly loathe to admit. That is why many seem to gravitate towards flawed, simplistic macro-based explanations that primarily attribute its development to other reasons like “unfair subsidies” and “beggar thy neighbor” policies. But the most logical, evidence-based explanation here is that over the decades Chinese industrial planning…
One older leaf, brought back into the light.
keep reading — 1 min ↗If debt were inherited over generations, it’s easy to see how it would quickly leave some trapped in permanent multigenerational poverty, unable to escape no matter how hard they worked or how high an income they managed to secure. The interest on debt would compound over generations and eventually no amount of work would be enough for it to be paid off. Being trapped in debt is something many can understand. But the reverse…