Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

In fact, we made it inevitable. Palantir dropped a manifesto last weekend. 22 bullet points distilled from Alex Karp’s book The Technological Republic, posted to X with the casual framing of

This week’s newsletter describes Hornet Node’s work on a declarative executable specification of consensus rules and summarizes a discussion about onion message jamming in the Lightning Network.

The multipolar world isn't an escape from globalist control. It's a renovation. Here's why Bitcoin is the only monetary system that opts out of all of it.

I want to optimize for hackability and customization.

I've been ignoring my monthly reminder to write a blog article about the Nostr stuff that's keeping me busy for too long now.

Why humility alone isn’t enough — and what Bitcoin and the Gospel share

A glimpse into life in SEC and Madeira.

A conversation with a psychedelics researcher about a fundamental flaw in how we test these mind-bending drugs The post The Problem with Psychedelic Research

Ein absurdes Land lechzt nach absurden Nachrichten

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Much Sturm und Drang in the world of Open Source with the announcement that the "Mythos" AI is now the ultimate hacker and is poised to unleash havoc on every code base. So should you close all your

The Self is not the body or the story. It is the way reality becomes experience.

Pour ce dernier article sur les marchés, je vous invite à reconstituer leur Histoire, depuis l'inception jusqu'à la maturité... Et après le tiramisu, nous allons introduire un exemple fascinant : Bitcoin.

does obvious changes to detect model loading

Genesis 1:2 Formlessness isn’t failure—it’s the starting point. The darkness and the deep don’t mean you’re lost; they represent untapped potential before creation takes shape. The Spirit doesn’t panic, force, or rush—it hovers, steady and present. This is the pattern: when life feels unstructured or uncertain, don’t grasp for control or fear the unknown. Stay present. The same presence that hovered over the deep is still at work. Light doesn’t come from panic. It comes from presence. You’re...

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**Tone:** 1 | **Fast:** Wine and Oil Permitted

Mit der Aufforderung, dass der eloquent-akzentuiert daherredende deutsche Bundeskanzler das Telefon in die Hand nimmt und endlich mit dem Präsidenten der russischen Föderation redet, denn sprechenden Menschen kann geholfen werden

Avances y próximos pasos en la ruta Bucéfalo: activación financiera en Lote 20, pausa estratégica en Lote 04 y consolidación de los pilares de gobernanza descentralizada.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December (https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/1/deepseek-v32/). They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4

This week's edition (https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-55-chatgpt-images-20-qwen36-27b) of my email newsletter (aka content from this blog (https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/4/substack-observable/)

When algorithmic governance becomes the market and your attention, behavior, and identity become the commodity.