The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level
Richard Audoly, Miles Guerin, Srinidhi Narayanan, and Rachel Schuh The labor share of income in the U.S. is currently at its lowest-ever level in the post-war period. The labor share measures the fraction of economic output paid to workers as wages and salaries. As such, it is a useful benchmark for wage growth: when the […]
We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky
At a time when major tech platforms are concentrating ever more power, it is vital to take as many steps as possible towards digital autonomy. Our presence in the ATmosphere – Bluesky’s protocol – is no longer dependent on the platform’s standard infrastructure. Instead, our data now runs on Eurosky’s Personal Data Server (PDS). This […]
Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It’s Backwards
Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from? When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it? I think we all do. The […]
Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
Postgres also adds UPDATE and DELETE FOR PORTION OF, continuing work around temporal use cases. Time is one of the most common dimensions in real applications, and better temporal syntax in core SQL is a welcome direction. Expanded RANDOM() temporal functions. (Thanks to our own Paul Ramsey and Greg Sabino Mullane for work on this […]
Knoppix
What is KNOPPIX®? KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD, DVD or USB flash drives, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational […]
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
”Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by Charles Mackay is an early study of crowd psychology first published in 1841. This journalistic work examines humanity’s susceptibility to collective manias through three volumes exploring financial bubbles, religious crusades, witch trials, alchemy, and countless other follies. Mackay debunks popular delusions with colorful anecdotes […]
Sony erases digital content from libraries; reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal. As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 titles from the PlayStation Store. In a legal notice first spotted […]
Parse, Don’t Validate – In a Language That Doesn’t Want You To
Update: If you liked this post, the follow-up — Effect Without Effect-TS: Algebraic Thinking in Plain TypeScript — picks up where we left off and takes the ideas further. I’ve been thinking about Alexis King’s Parse, don’t validate again. I do this quite regularly, actually, usually after staring at a TypeScript codebase that’s been quietly […]
European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple
European governments are rolling out digital identity wallets, which are to be used by citizens to access services, and to verify their age online. As reported by Follow the Money and Android Authority, there is a serious problem with this: these wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple. These are known as Google […]
Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)
ZLUDA update Q1&Q2 2026 – back to the roots 2026-06-29 Hi, and welcome to the latest ZLUDA update! Since I skipped the last update, this special issue covers all the developments made in ZLUDA since the start of the year. We now have two new major workloads: PhysX (PhysX pre-alpha) and Blender (Textures support). Much […]