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How an AI Just Scanned 20 Years of Firefox Code in a Month

13 May 2026 5 minute read 7 comments Learn With Hatty

If you’ve spent any time in the tech world lately, you know the vibe. We’re currently living in a perpetual state of AI hype fatigue. Every day there’s a new model that’s supposedly going to write our emails, cook our dinner, and solve world peace. B...

Has the Dream Future of My Past Passed?

13 May 2026 5 minute read 0 comments rah

When I was a child I was inspired by The Usborne Book of the Future: A Trip in Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond.   It is a futurist book, that made all kinds of predictions about how our future would look including how our homes might look in the fut...

Why Hantavirus Is Trending (And Why Your Toilet Paper Stash Is Safe)

11 May 2026 7 minute read 4 comments Learn With Hatty

So, I was scrolling through the news the other day, when I saw Hantavirus trending. My brain immediately did that thing where it flashes back to 2020. You know the feeling. That oh great, what now? sensation that makes you want to drive to the neares...

The Messy Ethics of Scrubbing Our Brains

6 May 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty

We’ve all had those moments we’d pay good money to delete. Maybe it’s the cringey thing you said on a first date in 2014, or something far heavier, like a traumatic accident that replays on a loop every time you close your eyes. For decades, the idea...

Propaganda Techniques: How manipulation works

25 Apr 2026 7 minute read 3 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/adQZHd7G7TAESx5z The ability to recognize manipulation is your defense against any propaganda. Basic psychological mechanisms.Propaganda exploits the vulnerabilities built into the psyche: Cognitive biases: -...

Why are America's Top Scientists Disappearing?

23 Apr 2026 5 minute read 5 comments Learn With Hatty

Imagine you’re one of the brightest minds in the country. You spend your days untangling the mysteries of nuclear fusion at MIT or overseeing classified aerospace projects for NASA. Then, one Tuesday afternoon, you leave your phone and wallet on the...

Don't Do Scientism

19 Apr 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Yttrandefrihet

Scientism is the view that science or the methods of the natural sciences represent the only or best reliable source of knowledge about all of reality. There are several problems with this view. The most blatant issue is that it is a self-refuting. T...

The Fortune Teller’s Paradox (and Why Quantum Mechanics Makes It Worse)

17 Apr 2026 3 minute read 1 comment scamtester94

There is a version of the future that feels clean. Linear. Stable. Predictable. A → B → C. In that world, a perfect fortune teller should be possible. If the future is fixed, then prediction is just reading it. No ambiguity. No escape. No paradox. Bu...

Your Thoughts Are Not Private Anymore

15 Apr 2026 1 minute read 2 comments CineLonga

What if your thoughts weren’t private anymore? You never said them out loud.You never wrote them down. And still… they exist somewhere outside your head. Sounds like science fiction! It did to me too, at first. But this is already starting to become...

For 40 Years It Drifted. Now It’s Gone!

13 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments CineLonga

For almost 40 years, a massive piece of ice drifted across the ocean. No one really paid attention to it most of the time. It just moved slowly, carried by currents, surviving year after year. That iceberg was A-23A. When it first broke away from Ant...