Boarding an Emirates flight from Dubai, UAE to Amman, Jordan I was surprised to hear Gordon Lightfoot playing on the plane’s overhead system. I’m glad to learn Gordon Lightfoot is this timeless and universal.
Pope Leo XIV wrote the best document on AI this year — and it reads as systems engineering, not moralizing. Concentrating AI in a few labs is systemic brittleness, not strength. The fix: subsidiarity + data sovereignty. "He's not asking us to slow down. He's asking us to grow
Apple made "trust me" obsolete. Private Cloud Compute shipped verifiable privacy — stateless compute, no privileged access, independent verification — across billions of iPhones. Faith is not a security model. Credit to @radian and the Apple security team.
📍 Tsankawi, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico 7/5 🥑 Standing on the same mesa where Ancestral Puebloans carved homes into volcanic tuff 1000+ years ago, you can see Los Alamos on the next ridge over. The place where one civilization built something sacred is within line