Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

thoughts on words versus feelings and why LLMs are doomed to remain facsimile of the world of words yet ne'er may touch upon the world of ra

This is the slogan of so many industrial behemoths and existing bureaucracies. It’s in quotation marks for a reason: it’s not true. Not in the long run, not even in the medium run. One way to

Every government agency requesting information on our data should be required to get judicial authorization.

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Bitcoin meetups for the UK and Ireland for 23rd - 29th March 2026. Plus new merchants now accepting bitcoin.

Hive turned six this week. That alone is worth pausing on — most blockchains don't make it to six. But the birthday story is almost secondary to what shipped alongside it: a Hive-native implementation of x402, the emerging HTTP payment protocol that the broader web3 and AI-agent

A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.

Audio recordings provide an unprecedented record of the steps the LDS Church normally takes behind closed doors to keep allegations of child sex abuse secret – steps that can leave predators free and children at risk.

At a number of companies, employees compete on leaderboards to show how much A.I. they’re using. They’re racking up big bills along the way.

Writing shaped by platforms drifts toward performance. This article explores a different approach—writing as a process of clarification, built through notes, refined over time, and aligned with durability rather than engagement.

Sehr viele Menschen streben – gewollt oder gedrängt – dazu, einen möglichst hohen Schulabschluss zu erlangen. Begonnen wird meist mit dem Bachelor um dann später den Master zu machen. Ganz ehrgeizige Menschen streben den PhD an oder wollen weiter mit einem Lehrstuhl an einer Universität zum Professor zu mehr sozialem Status und Anerkennung gelangen.

A step-by-step guide to running a Namecoin DNS seed using gombadi/dnsseeder on Debian, covering DNS delegation, building from source, systemd service setup, SOA/NS fixes for modern resolvers, and getting your seed added to Namecoin Core.

In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world.

Here's a mildly dystopian prompt I've been experimenting with recently: "Profile this user", accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comments on Hacker News. Obtaining those comments is easy. The

A review of the betting market’s social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.

See also: [SKILLS.md](SKILLS.md) · [TOOLS.md](TOOLS.md)

Of course you're going to "age gracefully." You're 27.

Agentic Engineering Patterns (https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/) > Git is a key tool for working with coding agents. Keeping code in version control lets us record

How the financial system was designed to keep you poor and why most "educated people" still cannot see it

Most systems tightly couple the act of creating content with the act of publishing it. This creates dependency on networks, platforms, and infrastructure at the moment of creation. Local-first systems must separate these concerns. This chapter defines the distinction between authoring and distribution and explains how decoupling them enables durability, flexibility, and true sovereignty.

Most systems treat identity as an afterthought — something layered on top of functionality through accounts and authentication. Local-first systems cannot. Identity must be foundational, shaping how data is created, signed, verified, and distributed. This chapter defines identity as a first-class primitive and outlines the design implications of building systems around it.

Local-first systems prioritize determinism — predictable, reproducible behavior — over dynamic, server-driven state. This chapter explains why determinism is essential for trust, recoverability, and durability, and how it shapes system design choices around state, execution, and synchronization.

A podcast about value. We talk about music and vinyl records. Broadcasting from the Hot Wax Social Club.

Dilution, Spreads, and the Modern Bitcoin Investor’s Dilemma via Kane McGukin at the Mesh Point This paper is the final in a three-part series examining Bitcoin Treasury Companies (BTC-TC). This