Dan Groshev

If you missed the previous one: labourlist.org/2026/05/labo...

>we have a radical new system to replace capitalism >is it a new system or is it feudalism? >it’s a good system sir *looks inside* >it’s feudalism

TIL ML-DSA includes its own way to produce message digests, including as a separate step ("external mu") www.conor.computer/blog/ml-dsa-... very very neat

No LLM in sight, only finger-chopping machines, hazardous dust and vapours, and moisturising coolant My happy place

Digger is kino, I don't care how it's doing in the theatrical run The multi-level self-consciousness alone (pic related) is rare and laudable AND THERE'S MORE TO IT

Just hung a huge banner outside my house saying "HURRAH FOR THE GREEN PARTY MOTION", after seeing the news that the party no longer opposes nuclear energy! Now to take a big gulp of organic kombucha and check what else the conference has been voting on. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How my last day at Conference started / how it ended (Solidarity has many facets)

we have passed a threshold where i am comfortable saying that the left *must* be using and leveraging AI it can be done responsibly there’s no going back, and to avoid or reject this technology at this point would be a massive generational mistake that lets the far right take further control

I wrote a(nother) thing! This time it is about how no amount of military technical excellence can salvage a situation where political leadership has, in their abject strategic incompetence, demanded the military accomplish an impossible mission. Gift link: foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/21/i...

I like this post: "why i'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes" dank.systems/posts/2026-0...

> Aella specifically is effectively the cultural leader of rationalism right now What a day to be able to understanding sentences

The US Civil War (1861-65) ran concurrently within the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864). USCR: 600-700k deaths/4 yrs... ~ 175,000 killed/yr TPHK: 20-30M deaths/14 yrs... ~1.4-2.1M killed/yr There were single battles & city slaughters that eclipsed over a few days the entire yearly KIA of the US war.

This really should be bigger news. Most important driver on long-term changes in living standards is productivity and recent revision to how it is measured suggests output per hour actually grew almost twice as fast from 2009 to 2019 (up from 0.7% a year to 1.3% a year)

The story of salesman DHH, who wakes to find himself inexplicably transformed into D88

Make Britain a hostile environment for fascists

Channel 4 News have produced this news report where Reform UK is offered illegal funding by undercover reporters posing as wealthy US donors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...

insane how much good will, longstanding trust, and real business 1Password is willing to destroy just so they can donate some money to a racist project — this is such a catastrophically dumb move that should’ve been a no brainer to walk back within the first 12 hours

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Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.

Striking-yet-difficult-to-parse Cold War report graphic of the day — "Time History of Biological Response to Ionizing Radiation" (US Naval Radiological Laboratory, 1965)

Hey @1password.bsky.social, longtime customer here: stop giving your money to fascists.

Great things are possible when seen as necessary.

When Cambodia and Thailand had their border dispute last year, Thai forces bombed scam centers that were operating inside Cambodia

I can finally talk about this, 3 years later... github.com/tailscale/ta... It's a library + CLI tool that's like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane without any control plane (no accounts, no dependence on Tailscale the company, all open source) WireGuard + NAT traversal without IP addresses.

The usual phrase I use when putting things like the Avdiivka Offensive into perspective during my talks is "the Russians deployed the entire USMC on a 25 KM front. After four months of fighting, they attempted to use the entire French mechanized force to exploit the breach they created."

New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.

Even more depressingly, we can just get rid of drivers and not have hundreds of reported but unprosecuted rapes and sexual offences every year (from content.tfl.gov.uk/tph-sexual-o... ) Unfortunately because vibes we'd rather talk about imagined harms than the actual, observed harms

They are doing the usual framing of "DoD can't get an audit with a clean opinion therefore no one has any idea where literally any of the money is going or being spent," when the reality is we know how every dollar is spent and say so publicly

the issue with the audit is traceability everyone knows where all the money is going (if we didn't the appropriators would raise holy hell), the problem is being able to account for every dollar throughout the entire life cycle of that dollar, through depreciation and ultimate disposal

Love those insights from our intelligentsia/media/political class' ticks and circumstances Another example: a large chunk of the housing discourse can be explained by how almost no one writing publicly from an office in London could afford their own home on their income alone

TIL that DHH is a Robinson stan world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-rem... What's with the techbros obsession with far right grifters

I really like this take (from lobste.rs/s/caubyr/bun... )