Rand Arete

just before dawn is my favorite time. it's always so beautiful, with so many little joys to experience, with light and color just teasing the horizon, rabbits running about before they'll be seen, a not quite quiet that hints at the day's potential.

this all reads like an excerpt from VURT, by Jeff Noon

If you're a Mac person who uses Windows (by choice or by fiat) and WSL, take a look at this github.com/shanselman/M... and let me know what you think. It takes your WSL (or a new one) and makes it as "Mac Comfortable" as possible with things like HomeBrew, zsh, starship, etc. File Issues with ideas.

absolutely in love with the snow right now. thanks, Denver. we needed this.

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

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The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

From Problem to Taxonomy An introduction to content-defined chunking: why fixed-size splitting fails, how content-aware boundaries solve the deduplication problem, and a taxonomy of three CDC algorithm families.

Sharing a 5-part series on content-defined chunking (CDC) algorithms as background research for my master's thesis on source code deduplication. It's a tour of the algorithms, a deep dive into FastCDC, and explores costs for building deduplication pipelines at scale.

rickwinfrey.com/writings/con...

and yet

the two terms Anthropic is holding the line on, that the orange stain demands to have:

1. use of their AI for domestic surveillance
2. use of their AI for fully-autonomous weapons

ASTRAL Research Preprint A research preprint on ASTRAL, an architecture for code generation that frames program synthesis as energy minimization over a constraint-shaped landscape.

i couldn't sleep last night (thanks, cats!), so i used the time to finish editing the research preprint on ASTRAL, an architecture for code generation that frames program synthesis as energy minimization over a constraint-shaped landscape: nulldivide.com/blog/astral-...

thanks! i'd love any feedback you have, if you end up trying it.

Graph Salience + Agentic Context Behavioral analysis finds code that changes. Structural analysis finds code that matters. Combining them gives agents something neither provides alone.

understanding a code base is crucial for an agent to operate on it appropriately, but most systems struggle to provide that understanding. homer combines structural graph analysis with behavioral signals into a code insights graph optimized for both agents and humans.

nulldivide.com/blog/homer

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

surely you....

On Joy and Resistance | dansinker.com

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

can't sleep? just work on more Lean formalisms of your constraint algebra. can always find more holes in those holes.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Energy-Based Models for AI Reasoning: Beyond LLM Limitations Why LLMs hit a wall for scalable reasoning. Explore how Energy-Based Models (EBMs) provide continuous, optimizable feedback for reliable AI in critical systems.

Logical Intelligence's recent work: logicalintelligence.com/blog/energy-...

Energy, Structure, and Shaped Generation On ASTRAL, energy-based models, and what code generation looks like when you stop predicting and start satisfying constraints.

I've been working on shaped generation for quite a while, and seeing Logical Intelligence's recent updates about their progress with energy-based models has me super excited about the future of this space, so I wrote up more thoughts about it all: nulldivide.com/blog/energy-...

we eagerly await our doom

nulldivide.com/blog/agentic...

way more visual than mine github.com/rand/homer.

and good riddance

My Heroku values My Heroku values. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

this will remain near and dear to my heart: gist.github.com/adamwiggins/...

Putting on my suit and tie and going on America Erwache to describe a 234 year old basic requirement of the constitution for lawful searches and seizures as a “nonstarter.”

Local-First Conf 2026 Join us for the third edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 12-14th July 2026.

Save the date (July 12-14 in Berlin) and sign up for the mailing list or join the Discord to find out when tickets go on sale.

www.localfirstconf.com/

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

This is the beginning not the end of how surveillance will change America. We could stop it. We should. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...