Articles by jamesgill
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A Year On: The DOGE Disaster (donmoynihan.substack.com)

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Trump restrictions on private AI models turns attention to open source (thehill.com)

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OpenAI Courts Trump administration as Its Latest Investor (axios.com)

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You Can't Fight Enshittification (But We Can) (doctorow.medium.com)

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Sam Bankman-Fried Asks Trump for a Pardon (cnn.com)

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Derek Sivers' Minimal .vimrc Is Only 4 Lines Long (tilde.club)

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Musk Loses Case Against OpenAI (cnn.com)

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TI Calculator Monopoly Offers Lessons for Educators in the Age of Generative AI (promarket.org)

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation Is an Engineering Problem, Not a Model Problem (forbes.com)

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After daughter's diagnosis, this dad built an app to help others manage diabetes (cnn.com)

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Black Cube: Israeli spy firm crashes Slovenia's election (politico.eu)

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Not so diplomatic: Witkoff, Kushner, and Trump's march to war in Iran (responsiblestatecraft.org)

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The State Policy Network (sourcewatch.org)

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The United States of Eugenics (conversationalist.org)

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Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload (gizmodo.com)

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The Tao of Kung Fu: The Undiscerning Mind [video] (youtube.com)

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Generation Jones (wikipedia.org)

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Kung Fu: The Way of Violence Has No Mind [video] (youtube.com)

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Alan Watts – Life and Music [video] (youtube.com)

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Exploiting Iran: A Political Timeline (github.com/thinkhuman)

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Dashing Dog, Searching for Purpose (Derek Sivers) (sive.rs)

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Plug-In Solar Power Could Be Coming to a Balcony Near You (sierraclub.org)

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A Collection of Old Trump Tweets on Iran (reddit.com)

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War Is a Racket (Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC) (archive.org)

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There Are No Psychopaths (aeon.co)

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Joe Bonamassa Plays Hendrix's "Band of Gypsys" Rig: For Real and for Less [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: An approachable book on programming concepts/computer basics for a teen?

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We're on the Voyage of the Damned (nytimes.com)

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Who We Are When Everything Goes Wrong [video] (youtube.com)

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Why Light Speed Is the Limit (Richard Feynman) [video] (youtube.com)

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Productivity Paradox (wikipedia.org)

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Give it Up, Turn it Loose (thinkhuman.com)

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Wasted (Charles Bukowski) (thinkhuman.com)

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Bookfinder: Find any book at the best price (bookfinder.com)

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Take One Small Step (thinkhuman.com)

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You Are Not an Average (thinkhuman.com)

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The Path Is No Path (thinkhuman.com)

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Trust, or Rust (thinkhuman.com)

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The Source of Water (thinkhuman.com)

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How Woodworking Taught Me to Be a Programmer (thinkhuman.com)

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Global Village People (thinkhuman.com)

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Estates of Being (thinkhuman.com)

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Re-Cursive: Gen Z Never Learned to Write in Cursive (thinkhuman.com)

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Trust the Process (thinkhuman.com)

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Don't Worry About College Majors (thinkhuman.com)

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AI, AI Oh (thinkhuman.com)

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Gil Gerard, Star of 'Buck Rogers,' Dies at 82 (nytimes.com)

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The Roots (thinkhuman.com)

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Git in 30 Minutes: A Beginner's Guide for Technical Writers (git30minutes.com)

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Yellow Dog Linux (archiveos.org)

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Knowledge Basing (thinkhuman.com)

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The Line Between Good and Evil (thinkhuman.com)

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Time After Time (thinkhuman.com)

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The Dutch-American Friendship Treaty-Get Dutch Residency for Starting a Business (inls.nl)

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Replican't (thinkhuman.com)

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Leaving Twitter (thinkhuman.com)

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Christmas Tree Exec (wikipedia.org)

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The Leader-Ship: What Is a 'Leader', Anyway? (thinkhuman.com)

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Chrome Bumpers: We ban cell phones in schools, but maybe they're not the problem (thinkhuman.com)

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Americans Are Holding onto Devices Longer (cnbc.com)

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Judgment Calls (thinkhuman.com)

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I'm a Millionaire. No One Needs More Than $30M (time.com)

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Show HN: MarkdowntoCV (github.com/thinkhuman)

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How cops can get your private online data (eff.org)

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International Criminal Court Drops Microsoft for Open Source (computing.co.uk)

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You Don't Need a New Laptop (thinkhuman.com)

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Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux (tomshardware.com)

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In Tech, What Is Right to Do? (thinkhuman.com)

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Trying to Leave Corporate (Tech) Life (thinkhuman.com)

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Amazon's Ring Plans to Scan Everyone's Face at the Door (washingtonpost.com)

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Fireworks Injury and Death Statistics in US, 2024 (cpsc.gov)

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Trump is no Caesar, But the Republic is Collapsing (unimelb.edu.au)

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An Open Letter to Hobbyists (1976) (wikipedia.org)

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Why is your open source project still hosted on GitHub? (unixdigest.com)

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Western Oil: the US/UK-Backed Iranian Coup D'état of 1953 (wikipedia.org)

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How to Find a Good Available .COM Domain (sive.rs)

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The Coolest Radio You've Probably Never Heard of [video] (youtube.com)

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Lo-Fi Sci-Fi (jamesgill.substack.com)

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Writing with Emacs: Tips, Examples, and Resources for Writing with Emacs (github.com/thinkhuman)

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Tesla Is Changing How Men Are Jerks Behind the Wheel (melmagazine.com)

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The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain (wired.com)

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Algebra Too Soon? (mathnasium.com)

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How Photos Were Transmitted by Wire (1937) (youtube.com)

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Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (douglasadams.com)

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Derek Sivers: What I Use (sive.rs)

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How I Lost 76 Pounds at Age 59 and Changed My Life (twitter.com/iamjamesgill)

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Thomas Pynchon: Is It O.K. To Be a Luddite? (nytimes.com)

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How to Keep a Commonplace Book (youtube.com)

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Bjork Teardown of a Sony Trinitron TV & PCB (1988) (youtube.com)

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How to use a watch as a compass (citizenwatch-global.com)

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The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job (adamwathan.me)