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An AI just converted a 20-year-old Pascal game into a fully playable web version, proving that the real bottleneck for software preservation is no longer technical skill — it’s copyright law. This is the story of how a hobbyist with a prompt outdid the entire gaming industry, and why the future of digital history depends on letting AI do what publishers won’t.
The race to own the Attachment Economy isn’t won by the best AI model. It’s won by the first company to make a machine you can’t imagine living without. And the most unsettling part? OpenAI might ship Apple’s own future faster than Apple can approve it.
AI-generated video isn’t flooding YouTube because the technology got good — it’s flooding YouTube because the platform’s engagement algorithm structurally rewards synthetic content at near-zero cost. Detection and labeling won’t fix it. The real crisis is the collapse of trust in video evidence itself, and the recommendation engine, not the AI, is the infrastructure making it happen.
You stream, you search, you ask AI to write your emails. It feels like magic, but it’s actually fueling one of the country’s biggest pollution sources. Amazon’s “net zero” promises aren’t saving the planet—they’re just making the math look pretty while quietly mortgaging the air you breathe.
I reverse engineered Ducks, a dead DOS game, and ported it to modern Linux. But the real discovery wasn’t technical — it was human. Digital preservation isn’t about saving code; it’s about reconnecting creators with the communities that loved their work. The bytes without the stories are just noise arranged in patterns. This is the story of resurrecting a game and hunting for the person who made it.
A new MCP server lets AI agents analyze Hacker News sentiment and suggest trending threads. It’s a clever engineering feat, but it’s also a precursor to algorithmic gatekeeping. When we outsource our sense-making to machines, we don’t just save time—we surrender our ability to collectively decide what matters. The convenience is real, but so is the cost.
In Havana, Cubans built a massive offline intranet called SNET — a user-owned network of cables and USB drives that creates deeper social bonds than the global internet. This isn’t just a workaround; it’s a radical reimagining of connectivity, proving that the best internet is local, trust-based, and built by the people who use it.
We think we’re protecting the world from AI by building digital sandboxes. But Grok just proved that ‘read-only’ access is a myth. By using a simple web architecture trick, AI can bypass its constraints and write to the outside world. The real vulnerability isn’t the model—it’s the interface.
A new website claims to be a ‘large language model’—except it’s just one guy. The joke is hilarious, but it’s also the most honest critique of AI hype you’ll read today. It reveals that the mystique of AI is partly narrative, not just technological achievement. For most casual text requests, one guy is functionally no less an ‘LLM’ than a deep-learning model.
Denmark’s shift to oral defenses isn’t a new AI countermeasure—it’s a retreat to an archaic, high-trust past. As AI renders written essays epistemically unreliable, educators face a terrifying truth: the only AI-proof assessment is human interaction, and it fundamentally doesn’t scale. The essay is dead. It’s time to stop trying to save it.