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Sadly, Christopher Simpkins (@csimpkins) died on June 20th 2025. He was kind, patient deeply curious and knowledgeable. I miss his humble, enlightening, and cheerful ways.

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In late 2024, something quite astonishing happened on Wikipedia that went by largely unnoticed. For the first time, the Wikipedia article with the greatest number of languages was not a country like the United States, nor even Wikipedia itself. This article…

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Chain-of-thought AI “degrades significantly” when asked to generalize beyond training.

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Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack.

The privacy-focused blockchain, launched in 2014 and long targeted by governments and 3-letters agencies, is already banned from most major centralized exchanges.

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