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In search of Banksy
Detailed investigation into the artist's identity. It's a good yarn.
2026-03-15 banksy • identity • anonymity • art • massiveattack • graffiti • streetart
"Mark Lawrence" AI slop
Example of the kind of content Facebook spams me with. These videos are real weird, uncanny AI stuff but also it's not clear what the endgame intent is
2026-03-14 ai • facebook • spam • slop • gay • lgbt • older
Google DNS cache flush
Popular DNS service lets you flush the cache for specific domain names
2026-03-13 dns • cache • google
MALUS license washing
A satire project claiming to use AI to reproduce open source projects without any copyright or license
2026-03-12 funny • via:hackernews • parody • satire • opensource • license • ai • programming
ZyncPDF
Open source no crap PDF processing tools. Work is done locally, no upload needed.
2026-03-12 pdf • document • conversion • acrobat
Landscape khipu
A theory that thousands of holes dug into a hill in Peru are a sort of storage and accounting system similar to the knot tying accounting technology
2026-03-11 peru • archaeology • via:hackernews • khipu • quipu
Perma.cc
A link archiving service that's serious about being permanent and has support from libraries. A simple financial model
2026-03-11 archive • via:metafilter • wayback • articles • storage
Modular robots
Moving robots made with various generic leg components bolted together. Reminds me of Karl Sims' old evolution experiments
2026-03-11 via:metafilter • robotics • ai • motion • machines • evolution
AI ethics and market
Excellent overview of the major AI companies and the increasing concern that these systems are getting out of control. You don't need a sci-fi superintelligence to have a computer system that is dangerous.
2026-03-10 uspol • politics • ai • openai • anthropic • singularity • ethics
Parseword
New word puzzle from the Wordle creator
2026-03-10 games • wordle • crosswords • puzzles
Attensity!
Marketing site for a new book about attention management in the Internet era
2026-03-08 books • attention • advertising • ads
Trump pardon industry
Details of how criminals buy pardons by spreading about $1M around to various Trump hangers-on
2026-03-08 uspol • politics • corruption • pardon • trump • clemency
Superpowers
Agent programming prompts and framework
2026-03-05 ai • coding • llm • claudecode • obra
GitHub status
A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly
2026-03-04 github • software • status • monitoring • microsoft • azure
Japanese Glory Hole
Funny Onion gag
2026-03-02 funny • bidet • japan • gloryhole