As life gets better. “As life gets better, people think it’s getting worse!” The thread calls this the Tocqueville Effect, or “prevalence-induced concept change”: when a problem gets rarer, we often expand the definition so we keep “finding” it anyway. […]
Buying a bankrupt software company. “What did we actually receive? A list of passwords where nothing worked.” Buying the assets in bankruptcy meant buying customer contracts and code, and then dealing with locked accounts, deleted AWS access, and even the […]
Those poor bunnies. “We had to put the patch on the bunny; they had to stay on the bunny for a period of time, and then every day, every few hours, someone would have to look at it.” Morari’s “taint […]
A community collection of OpenClaw use cases. Is an AI bot really useful? In many ways, it can be! It’s nice to see how others apply it. PLEASE be super careful and paranoid about this whole category of product as […]
WiFi pose detection is now open source. “Output: real-time pose, breathing rate, heart rate, presence, room fingerprint. No cameras. No wearables. No Bluetooth beacons. Just WiFi signals you’re already swimming in. It sounds like magic. It’s not. It’s physics that’s […]
Naked swim class. “What seemed perfectly normal to one generation often becomes head-shaking at the very least and scarcely believable to later generations.” A writer remembers mandatory nude swimming in mid-1960s high school gym class, and the odd logistics that […]
Banned in California. “If I wanted to build a new car factory, I literally couldn’t paint the cars.” An interactive visualization of the industrial processes effectively banned by California ~ learn more
Saudi Arabia’s ordeal. This is an education on Arabian history that I needed. “He has to transition the biggest conservative petrostate in the world into a modern, diversified economy. The odds are stacked impossibly against him. To understand why, and […]
End the winter cold. “A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus” by keeping lung macrophages on “amber alert” for about three months in animal tests. The idea is a “radical departure” from how vaccines […]
AI customer service on United. “haha no ma’am but I get that a lot” Grace called United after a snowstorm cancellation and got rebooked in about 20 minutes by a voice that sounded very AI, down to doing a quick […]