“The $2 trillion private credit market is a black box, grown in the regulatory shadows to facilitate high-risk corporate loans that traditional banks were forced to abandon after the passage of Dodd-Frank.”
newrepublic.com/article/2091...
I’m not sure. I’ve seen so much written about this, but haven’t seen an answer to this question that seems fundamental to me. Thanks as ever!
Question: Is there no signal that Anthropic could detect in the use of Mythos between malicious hacking and cybersecurity work? Are these uses indistinguishable?
Happy 413 Day! There’s no place like Western Massachusetts, and I am grateful to partner with the people and institutions that make it special.
Is it too early to call today's Hungarian elections a disappointing failure for the left?
The Source Code Exhibition is at the Sorbonne until April 25. The collection includes the RSA T-shirt, ELIZA & more in celebration of the first decade of Software Heritage.
Details: https://shorturl.at/aocnu
Visit the exhibit online: https://shorturl.at/keffF
#SWH10
Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget for 2027 calls for the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries.
Send a postcard today to stop this attack!
bit.ly/48xmMZ3 via @everylibrary.bsky.social #fundlibraries #saveimls
I'm delighted to let you know that the Computer History Museum now has a travel grants program.
computerhistory.org/access-and-r...
A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
We should talk
Boulder is a hub for the neutral atom approach to quantum computing, which is really having a moment with a lot of companies, research, and investment. Atom Computing there is partnering with Microsoft, which has a large program in a different tech. Sounds like Google is placing a bet too.
I get a fight-or-flight reaction when someone says to me “I’ll have adjust my priors.”
Large panel of text with robot mannequin looking on.
The Source Code Exhibition in Paris closes March 26. It’s a rare chance to see code as a cultural relic rather than just a digital product. https://tinyurl.com/y7nwb3ex
My wonderful colleague Hansen Hsu organized this walking tour of the first Apple facilities with some of Apple's first employees.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbCV...
A short documentary by the Computer History Museum on my colleague Al Kossow's incredible work to recover an essential version of Unix from a tape found at the University of Utah.
youtu.be/-xlq_MPWNKk
An absolutely incredible event on the history of Apple at the Computer History Museum. The launch of David Pogue's new book, "Apple: The First Fify Years."
www.youtube.com/live/w8wt0LB...
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My guess is they will try before the general election
This is how he gets the public bailout.
2 Days Left! Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due F. 28th '26 The ACM History Committee plans to support up to five research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Graduate students through senior researchers eligible. #histsci
history.acm.org/wp-content/u...
I've transcribed dozens of interviews. With rare exceptions, everyone speaks with those um/uh tics, little restarts, hesitations, and most of us speak in sentence fragments with emphases, tones, pauses that create coherence not replicable in print. Spoken and written are distinct. Translate fairly.
man I can't wait until all this is over and we can just hang around in the library and goof off, read about Cecil Beaton or whatever without a care in the world
Why wouldn’t you just say “new valuation.” It’s entirely redundant and confusing.
What does “post-money” mean?!
I will look into what's going on!
The new episode of the Computer History Museum's "Decoding Tech" podcast features my conversation with W. Patrick McCray about his new book from MIT Press, README.
open.spotify.com/episode/4h49...
Time for a look back at the code that built our world. At the Software Heritage Symposium in Paris, we're visiting the Source Code Exhibition. See it online: https://www.sourcecode-exhibition.softwareheritage.org
#SWH10 #OpenSource
They do have a process for doing this, but it’s lengthy!
Unicode
This is so enraging.