how diffie hellman key exchange works

(with as little math as possible)

Emojis typos are strictly worse. And infinitely funnier.

yeah, i’ve been through my own burnout, so i’ve got processes for dealing with it, but i think we may pack out the psych wards soon with younger people

This kind of continuous partial attention seems self-destructive: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continu...

Hope our fellow biological intelligences are working on ways to regulate & nourish their own nervous systems. I’m trying to, it’s not easy, and I’m nowhere near this degree of obsessive interest yet.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

Beacons are also warnings, to be fair. I’m glad your drink stayed safely unspat on this occasion.

Is "Testing in Production" Actually the Safest Way to Ship? YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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It’s the soil & the seed. So good, on so many levels.

A VP of Engineering wrote in to say my latest essay, "is fantastic and terrifying and absolutely necessary for us to be having conversations about." And that most people still, "have no idea what we're actually on the precipice of." justin.searls.co/…

I’m a philosopher who tries to see the best in others – but I know there are limits Seeing someone charitably requires a balancing act between taking them seriously and trying to see the good in them.

Trying to see the best in people? Us too.

But even philosophers admit: there are limits. Being generous in how you interpret others’ actions can help us learn from each other, but you can’t ignore the facts, either.

You can’t store time.

Skills and the (quite well made) “Keep Thinking” campaign might just turn out to be AI’s answer to Betty Crocker’s mythical cake mix egg.

It’s going to be tight, but we’ll get you both in there

Real conversation on the streets of San Francisco: “Even though we have so many people, AI is solving a real labor shortage. All the really good programmers are either really old or dead, so we need to put them in a bottle.”

Learning prompt engineering is like being reverse potty trained by your new puppy. Or something like that.

Stateful Agents: It's About The State, Not The LLM

New post about why Moltbook freaks me out. tl;dr it's that you can't conflate a stateful agent with the LLM. Too much changes when you add state.

this one should be easier to read, more diagrams and easy to navigate text

timkellogg.me/blog/2026/01...

Why Everything Evolves Into Crabs YouTube video by IFLScience

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The year is 2028. The horizon is dotted with little red kites. Moltbook is the #1 social network. Carcinization has replaced heart disease as the number one killer.

😱 “ClawdBody: Let's Build Ourselves Some Legs”

www.moltbook.com/post/574269f...

How about. No.

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code

maggieappleton.com/gastown

😱

no i’m not “detail oriented” that’s where the devil is

I think Firestone’s two questions might help:
- Is it necessary?
- Can it be simplified?

And additionally, remembering what I’m hoping to accomplish in the first place.

Seriously though, this year I’m determined to make the mental space to think clearly, especially in how I engage with LLMs.

How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic

www.anthropic.com/research/how...

“When producing output is so easy and fast, it gets harder and harder to actually take the time to learn something.”

I think this might be what it really means to say using LLMs makes everyone a manager 😭 (kidding, but not really)

My first ride to Alice’s on Skyline Boulevard had an especially ethereal feel after the rains of the past weeks. They were still draining through rivulets running across the road and emergency crews were hard at work clearing debris and keeping the rest of us safe these holidays.

Bad day to be a Waymo (and even worse to be inside or stuck behind one). A widespread blackout left robotaxis stalled across the city, causing traffic chaos Saturday night.

Read more: sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...

The power’s been out for a third of San Francisco for the past few hours. That includes traffic lights and chaotic traffic. Amidst all this, confused Waymos haphazardly parked in the middle of streets with their hazards on.

We see what you did there

I don’t like the term “tech debt”. I don’t think it works as a metaphor to incentivize the right behavior. There, I said it.

Here’s what works better for me–pit stops tailored to the conditions of each race: hiremaga.com/posts/art-of...

*em-dashes are my own

🎧 How to Use Claude Code as a Second Brain Serial founder Noah Brier on using Claude Code for more than just coding: to take notes, organize ideas—and come up with new ones

I’ve also been inspired by Noah Brier’s research & writing workflow with Claude Code every.to/podcast/how-...