analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

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  • digital personhood 1 Jul 2025 [marginalium] On the possibilities for secure digital personhood. I am fairly obsessed with this, but my first project on it isn’t very user-friendly. Nor...
  • graduates have multiplied faster than the room at the top 12 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Graduates have multiplied faster than the room at the top: The result is a stock of nearly-men and women whose relationship with their own...
  • pitfalls of ai for information gathering 28 May 2025 [marginalium] Pitfalls of AI for information gathering. Nominally about openai’s Deep Research, but applicable to all: it excels at straightforward quest...
  • the era of the business idiot 23 May 2025 [marginalium] The Era Of The Business Idiot. Intro through some of the sillier uses of AI into a critique of the Rot Economy: a useful description for ho...
  • cheating with ai 8 May 2025 [marginalium] Cheating with AI. It’s mostly narrative, but I liked it. I went to a conference recently where the guy who co-wrote the 2024 paper demonstra...
  • o3 is a lying liar 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] o3 Is a Lying Liar. Zvi on the faults between all the excitement.
  • newsfeed vulnerabilities 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Newsfeed vulnerabilities: Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, blocked news from its apps in Canada in 2023 after a new law required th...
  • welcome to the chaoscene 18 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Welcome to the Chaoscene: The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient c...
  • shortage predictions from tariffs 18 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Shortage predictions from tariffs. I don’t actually care much about this, because I can never predict the likelihood of this stuff. But I wa...
  • foreshadowing ai scams 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Foreshadowing AI scams: All week I’d been getting texts and calls from a family member – let’s call him Bob – about how his sentient AI was...
  • the economics of despair 28 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Article on the health cost of the current economic malaise. US-centric, so you’d have to modify by satisfaction when doing the hypothetical...
  • business metrics broke universities 21 Mar 2025 [marginalium] How business metrics broke universities. I hate the layout of this article, but suffer through. Interesting skim: Small departments were el...
  • we are running out of eggs 21 Mar 2025 [marginalium] We are running out of eggs. It’s bird flu. I was a bit worried about the evidence it might spread to us, but now I’m mostly worried about my...
  • everything will be written by ai 5 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Everything will be written by AI: By. September 2024, 18% of financial consumer complaints, 24% of press releases, 15% of job postings &amp...
  • everyone knows your location 1 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Everyone knows your location—an informal exploration of how much data is harvested from your phone. Interesting and fun, on top of the usual...
  • bird flu spread between cats and people 14 Feb 2025 [marginalium] C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People. A concern about the handling about COVID, or an error?
  • rationalist 'death cult' 7 Feb 2025 [marginalium] A string of killings has been linked to a group of self-proclaimed Rationlists. People will also get very animated by the heavy trans-identi...
  • the magnetic poles might flip 30 Jan 2025 [marginalium] The magnetic poles might flip. Another thing to worry about, alongside supervolcanoes, solar flares, and meteor strikes. Make a good apocaly...
  • is democracy strong enough for trump? 27 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Fukuyama asks ‘is democracy strong enough for Trump’? Honestly, you could just skip to the last paragraph: I don’t think his policies will...
  • news suffering under advertising boycotts 8 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites. WSJ, so use a un-paywaller like archive.ph: Forty percent of the Washington Post’s material is deemed...

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