A Note to Readers: What's Changing in 2026
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Memory Research Group: Six Months of Reading Backward Through Time
Issue #83: Sometimes What is Remembered Most is What is Most Dynamically Changing
Little rooms
The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue
You must leave now, take what you need you think will last.
More scraps from my notes file
I’m away with family this week so here are some more scraps from my notes (previously). Disney is considering a reboot of the Indiana Jones franchise. Goodness knows how many Jurassic Park movies ther
NVIDIA-Groq: The Occam's Razor Explanation
Maybe its not the 4D chess everyone thinks it is ...
Convoy Steamroller
The unexpected connection between advertising, a 1975 novelty song, CB radio, and some of your favorite modern Christmas tunes. Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck, who decided to offer
Two takes on AI and the future of America
Speculation is meeting reality
The Predation Circuit
Issue #82: A Zoothesia Horror
2025: The Year in Review
Newsletter growth stats, locking in your current subscription rates, and personal reflections from writing a publication for 2 years.
Beyond The Last Minute
Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide presumes you’re going to give your loved ones gifts on the 26th … or let’s be honest, the middle of January. Today in Tedium: If you’re reading this and just ge
The Shape of Artificial Intelligence
What AI really looks like
Import AI 438: Cyber capability overhang; robot hands for human use; and the plumbing required for AI chip design
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Import A-IdeaAn occasional essay
The Guardian on Trump pardons criminals
Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year...for white-collar criminals One by one, white-collar criminals have marched to the White House, bleating their fealty to Trump – and watching their p
AI in 2026 and beyond ⊗ Bioregionalism’s tech-driven revival
No.384 —America’s post-apocalyptic maps ⊗ Trying to end the power suck ⊗ Africa’s largest off-grid solar-plus-storage project ⊗ Nerdy joy in 2025
Interview: Indium Phosphide Lasers and Photonic Integration with Prof. Martijn Heck, TU Eindhoven
InP lasers, heterogeneous integration, wafer sizes and yield, supply chain and ecosystem, quantum dot lasers, and balancing utility of technology with fundamental research.
Six (or seven) predictions for AI 2026 from a Generative AI realist
2025 turned out pretty much as I anticipated. What comes next?
Planetary Tech Support
Issue #81: Earth files its own ticket
Presenting the Case That the Future Will Be Unrecognizable
We should prepare for the possibility of profound change
Collecting The Carts
On bottle deposits, cheap local commercials, projectile-style turkeys, union-busting grocery stores, and the friend of mine who showed me the ropes. The best place to start this story is with Al Kess
How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America
Teaching (Very) Early Math: Part 1 of.... yikes
Filtered for conspiracy theories
1. Why Were All the Bells in the World Removed? The Forgotten Power of Sound and Frequency (Jamie Freeman). Church bells: "something strange happened in the 19th and 20th centuries: nearly all of the
Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025)
Today's links A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance: A final thought for the yule. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Droidflake; Spy Skymall; Malthus is
Séb Krier’s Top 8 AI Reads of the Year
Holiday fun
Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! (17 Dec 2025)
Today's links Happy Public Domain Day 2026! The best way to cut through the hellishly complex thicket and bring our culture back to life. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: We
"Classy" is the one adjective that has never been used to describe Donald Trump
That's his strength and his weakness
Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)
Today's links America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity: America's loss is the post-American internet's gain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object perm
I Liked the Essay. Then I Found Out It Was AI
C.S. Lewis on AI writing
What do YOU think?
We have questions. You have answers.
“A case for AI models that understand, not just predict, the way the world works”
Terrific interview at Marketplace Tech
Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025)
Today's links Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses: Labor should be fixed, capital should be vanquished. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Star Island"; "Mediact
Why Industry Leaders Are Betting on Mutually Exclusive Futures
No one has a clue what comes next for AI
CPO Fears, Credo, and Role of AEC in 1.6T Networking
A rational, engineering-centric approach to understanding the future of active electrical cables in the era of CPO and 1.6T datacenter networking.
Curate Your Own Pipeline
Issue #80: How to use LLMs and write like a centaur
“New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”
The wacky things statistical-correlation machine like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge
No.383 —The future of rules-based international order ⊗ The Agentic AI Foundation ⊗ Protecting the Ecuadorian Amazon ⊗ Iceland’s flowing textures
The core misconception that is driving American AI policy
Why is President Trump, a man who barely knows how to use a laptop, taking such a big risk ramming through an AI policy that almost nobody, even in his own party, wants?
Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025)
Today's links Federal Wallet Inspectors: Does tech *really* move too fast to regulate? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Soda can Van de Graff; Amazon rents a copy of the web