Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

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

Public universities have no right to treat protected satire as misconduct. 😬 #firstamendment #freespeech #unc #northcarolina #student #university

russellromney/honker (https://github.com/russellromney/honker) "Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics" for SQLite, implemented as a Rust SQLite extension and various language bindings to help make use of

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem) It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality

Serving the For You feed (https://atproto.com/blog/serving-the-for-you-feed) One of Bluesky's most interesting features is that anyone can run their own custom "feed" implementation (bluesky custom

Paul Miller built a framework that turns Nostr events into tiny interactive web pages. Guestbooks, a chess game, a slideshow. It wants to be 1998 again. I think that is more interesting than it sounds.

During Amazon’s annual review season now under ‌way, hundreds of employees will see their job titles stripped.

Just released: Kubo 0.41.0!

They had the right genes for it The post Could Neanderthals Speak Like Us? (https://nautil.us/could-neanderthals-speak-like-us-1280207/) appeared first on Nautilus (https://nautil.us).

The silent handoff from your bank, your carrier, and your ISP to the federal government would finally stop happening behind your back. The post The Surveillance Accountability Act Demands Warrants

LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse (https://github.com/run-llama/liteparse), which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of

It helps their seeds sprout The post Plants Can Hear the Sound of Falling Rain (https://nautil.us/plants-can-hear-the-sound-of-falling-rain-1280186/) appeared first on Nautilus (https://nautil.us).

The robotic space probe is 15 billion miles away and is nearing the end of its life in the distant cosmos The post (Almost) A Eulogy for Voyager

Interview with Cathy Lanier, NFL Chief Security Officer on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post Cathy Lanier, NFL Chief Security Officer — From Food Stamps to the Super Bowl War Room (#862)

A market structure that expands leverage faster than it expands risk comprehension becomes fragile by design.

'Bitcoin is the first truly neutral global monetary base layer, much like the internet is for information. It’s a protocol for unbiased value transfer, free from central manipulation. In a world of fiat noise, Bitcoin is the signal. Choose your foundation wisely.' - Jeff Booth

The Treasury Department said Cambodian senator Kok An was being sanctioned alongside 28 others involved in his scam center operation.

When we see consent as the sole constraint on OK sex, we are pushed towards a naturalisation of sexual preference in...

What is our right to be desired? How are our sexual desires shaped by the society around us? Is consent sufficient for a sexual relationship? In the wake of the #MeToo movement, public debates about sex work, and the rise in popularity of “incel culture”, philosopher Amia Srinivasan explores these questions and more in her new book of essays, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374721039). Amia’s interests lay in how our internal perspective

Does anyone have a right to sex?

Recent US military interest in Softwar and decentralized command-and-control has surfaced nine distinct utilities for operation in contested environments. BitSov does not compete with them as another overlay. It is the unified cryptographic and economic substrate that causes eight of the nine to collapse into different message kinds on a single payment-gated, E2EE, keypair-native P2P overlay.

GPT-5.5 is out (https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/). It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast,

Never underestimate the power of an old pile of rocks The post The Australian Rocks That House the Oldest Life-Forms on Earth

Министр финансов Синиша Мали и министр энергетики Дубравка Джедович-Ханданович сообщили о переговорах с венгерской группой MOL о продаже контрольного пакета акций НИС. Делегация MOL прибудет в Белград для завершения сделки.

It’s named for a Chinese philosopher The post The New Pitviper Species Hidden in China’s Panda Park (https://nautil.us/the-new-pitviper-species-hidden-in-chinas-panda-park-1280171/) appeared

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How the quality of water in our bodies influence our health

The campaigns exploited a weakness in telecom infrastructure to allow the unnamed vendors to secretly pose as real cellular providers and pinpoint victims’ locations.

CISA said the unnamed department was infected with malware called “FIRESTARTER” that allowed the hackers to return to the Cisco device in March without re-exploiting the original vulnerabilities.