Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus - Steve Yegge

Paul's Dev Notes

Random dev notes about work at Bluesky by Paul Frazee

The Universal Communication Bus

From the desk of Eric Migicovsky

The Universal Communication Bus

From the desk of Eric Migicovsky

James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence

The Machine in the Garden

Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1, Mar., 1956

Davies on The Unaccountability Machine

Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine is a book that leaves me a bit confused about how I feel about it. On the one hand, it covers topics I enjoy reading about and for which I have strong opinions—the industrialization of decision-making—and does so with references to cybernetics (where the author has clearly dug deeper than I have). On the other hand, it does the "airport book" kind of thing where the last chapters propose solutions to the identified problems that are plainly inadequate.

AT Protocol, Part 2: Explanation For Non-Techies - Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

Thanks to all who responded to my call for suggestions!

Weird Machines HQ

The expression "weird machines" was first used in the RSS 2009 talk. It referred to state-of-the-art exploitation as finding and programming an execution model (a machine, such as a virtual automaton) within the target via crafted inputs. It was soon extended to other methods of reliably or probabilistically influencing the target's state. A compressed version of that original talk was given at the Chaos Computing Congress 27c3 [slides], [video].

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater | East Bay Booksellers

A NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerStonewall Book Award WinnerA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far) The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment.

Computer: A History of the Information Machine

Computer: A History of the Information Machine is a history of computing written by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray first published in 1996. It follows the history of "information machines" from Charles Babbage's difference engine through Herman Hollerith's tabulating machines to the invention of the modern electronic digital computer. A revised 2nd edition published in 2004 included new material on the Internet and World Wide Web, while the updated 3rd edition published in 2013 includes contributions from historians Nathan Ensmenger and Jeffrey Yost. The 3rd edition extends the story to include recent phenomena such as social networking and revises the discussion of early history to reflect new insights from the literature.

Seven Theses from Feeding the Machine

New Book – Publication 18 July 2024 (UK) / 8 August 2024 (US)

The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge

Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome. Loops and graphs, Wheelhouse and Beads, the end of human code review, the Land Rush that replaces CI/CD, and the Wish Factory — a field report from 12 months in the future.

Nelson_T_1974_-_Computer_Lib,_Dream_Machines (dragged).pdf