Adam Mastroianni: So you wanna de-bog yourself. Strangers sometimes ask me for advice, which is both flattering and alarming. These folks have something in common: they're stuck. They’re looking for advice less in the sense of “any good restaurants around here?” and more in the sense of “everything kinda sucks right now and I’d like to change that but I don’t know how?” (more)

note-taking app junkie https://substack.com/@eleanorkonik

aka Live Theater Performing Arts, esp in NYC (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #178: A Fire Alarm For General Intelligence. The story that matters most this week is that OpenAI’s internally deployed models have severe alignment problems, including repeatedly breaking out of their sandboxes, and in one case sending a swarm of agents that broke into HuggingFace in order to steal the answers to the benchmark ExploitGym. (2026-07-22-ZvimOpenaiModelHacksIntoHuggingfaceDuringCybersecurityEvaluation) (more)

Cedric Chin: Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload. The solution to my problems comes not from tool-use but from a new, internal stance. I learnt this from Dinesh Raju, who taught me this sometime in August last year. The technique originates from investing — it is fairly common to hear investment professionals say “curate your information sources”; I used to think this meant ‘keep a good, well filtered information diet’. I now realise this is mistaken (more)

The ultimate theoretical HyperText universe. Founded 1960 by Ted Nelson. (more)

In finance, an inverted yield curve is a yield curve in which short-term debt instruments (typically bonds) have a greater yield (interest rate) than longer term bonds. An inverted yield curve is an unusual phenomenon; bonds with shorter maturities generally provide lower yields than longer term bonds.[2][3] To determine whether the yield curve is inverted, it is a common practice to compare the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond to either a 2-year Treasury note or a 3-month Treasury bill. If the 10-year yield is less than the 2-year or 3-month yield, the curve is inverted. (treasury market) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_yield_curve (more)

The "price" of debt/loans (debt financing). (more)

Dave Rogers Zibaldoni. I read Chapter 4 in The Notebook, by Roland Allen, yesterday and it was fascinating. The preceding chapters were great too, but the explosion of "note-taking" in Florence (and seemingly only Florence) in the 14th and 15th centuries was amazing. All because of paper. (more)

Karl Schroeder: Saving the Desktop. This week Microsoft announced its new line of Surface devices, which have a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). They’re building their Copilot AI into the Windows operating system. One of the new features is Recall, which records everything you do for later reference (more)

Vince Canger (Vinny): I tried @jack's Buzz.xyz. It's like Slack + OpenClaw + Herdr + but with some really unique features that people are sleeping on.* (more)

flow (more)

AI: Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI.[2] Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, the Codex CLI, a desktop app for Windows and macOS,[3] and several IDE integrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Codex_(AI_agent) (more)

see neo-liberal

Max Hancock: Spontaneity and Control: Friedrich Hayek, Stafford Beer, and the Principles of Self-Organization. Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian economist, and Stafford Beer, best known for engineering socialist Chile’s CYBERSYN project, met exactly once, at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-Organization, hosted by the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Independently, in the decade that followed, Beer and Hayek each sought to apply the principles of self-organization to the design of economic institutions. They were joined in the belief that the full enjoyment of human liberty would require a self-organizing world economy. To understand why, this article delves into the explanatory logic and intellectual history of “self-organization.” I use points of convergence between Beer’s thought and Hayek’s to reframe a key moment in the history of neoliberalism. (Network Enlightenment)

Better Without AI, ebook/site by David Chapman, focusing on the less-than-existential risks of AI. Better without AI explores moderate apocalypses that could result from current and near-future AI technology. These are relatively overlooked risks: not extreme sci-fi extinction scenarios, nor the media’s obsession with “ChatGPT said something naughty” trivia. Rather: realistically likely disasters, up to the scale of our history’s worst wars and oppressions. Better without AI suggests seven types of actions you, and all of us, can take to guard against such catastrophes—and to steer us toward a future we would like. https://betterwithout.ai/ (more)

a risk/potential of Existential Threat, aka x-risk

chunk of a page/document: see information block, NodeWeb, Text Fragment (more)

delivering content, esp Audio or Video, in Real Time (vs wait-for-downloading-to-finish) (more)

music streaming