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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 14/09/2026

Huh wooowwww www.ft.com/content/4564...

Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 12/09/2026

Surprised I haven't seen more of this chart from Anthropic's www.anthropic.com/institute/ec... (well, semi surprised - when a wave of doom debate hits it tends to drown out all else 🙄) "In all scenarios, ordinary workers get _zero_ of any AI-driven economic growth" is, um, striking!

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 09/09/2026

One of the many things I like about Sam Kriss is that his lexical pyrotechnics are in the service of actual insight (from samkriss.substack.com/p/numb-at-bu...)

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 11/08/2026

I'm not sure why this is surprising? (from www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...)

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 30/07/2026

probably worth spotlighting (Green is widely and highly regarded and the opposite of an apologist for anyone and anything, for context)

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 21/07/2026

Man, writing is such a tough business. If you're at all plugged into it as an industry you see this sort of thing a *lot*. www.gofundme.com/f/help-richa...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 19/07/2026

Plus ça change www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 15/07/2026

When I say crap, I mean crap

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 04/07/2026

Quite pleased with this fireworks-through-trees shot from yesterday

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 27/06/2026

fine, FINE, Vozinha vs. Messi in a World Cup knockout tie is genuinely storybook stuff

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 16/06/2026

This (from today's "Analysing Africa" Economist newsletter) is something I've been saying for years - over the decades NGOs (inadvertently) drained nation-state capacity, which was a big reason the USAID cuts were so devastating

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 11/06/2026

Huh (from www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...)

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 03/06/2026

Americans really don't want to hear that NASA is incompetent, but NASA has been incompetent for decades now (from mceglowski.substack.com/p/who-is-the...)

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 02/06/2026

I didn't want this run to have so many unexpected potential consequences

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 27/05/2026

Relatedly (from www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/c... )

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 24/05/2026

don't worry, though, it's not remotely optimistic!

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 22/05/2026

North of Larnaka in Cyprus there is an absolutely gargantuan oceanside development zone, still in the digging-things-up stage, called "Land of Tomorrow," whose banners promise "new life, by the sea," and I just wonder whether its braintrust has seen Blade Runner.

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 20/05/2026

accidentally stumbled across the Malta Biennale, as one does

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 18/05/2026

Watching o'er the city of light

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 17/05/2026

The crosstabs here (from www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/2/... ) are kinda wild; when was the last time there was a big new topic so orthogonal to the usual political lines in hyperpartisan America?

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 07/05/2026

International travel is so illuminating, you get to see how the rest of the world lives

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 04/05/2026

The new Banksy is artfully placed

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 30/04/2026

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU remains the greatest movie of the 2010s. Also Boots Riley clearly has a very fine haberdasher.

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 07/04/2026

I mean www.anthropic.com/news/google-...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 29/03/2026

Man the models have gotten smart in the last year.

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 23/03/2026

Universal basic capital www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 21/03/2026

I feel like this sign is missing important information

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 20/03/2026

Uhhhhhh IANAL but it seems to me that the whole point of contractual language is to avoid broad unwritten "of course we all understand that" interpretations

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 14/03/2026

Well ... that's just the 18-month-ago phase shift. Ask the software engineers in your life about the December 2025 phase shift. Typical commentary from an infosec professionals Slack I'm on:

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 14/03/2026

Given the state of the world today you gotta think outside the box (original source unknown)

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 12/03/2026

www.nytimes.com/athletic/710...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 08/02/2026

san francisco gonna san francisco

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 08/02/2026

...relatedly Gemini just went a little quote-unhinged on me too...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 30/01/2026

We live in exciting times

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 29/01/2026

This is quite the chart (from www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...)

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 26/11/2025

On the one hand this was obviously not caused by LLMs, but they may accelerate this trend (I say "may" because Jevons Paradox; another and more interesting outcome is that the term "software developer" will get much much hazier)

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 16/11/2025

Having a beer in Jack Astor's in downtown Toronto, watching hockey, feeling very very 🇨🇦

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 15/11/2025

It's almost always fun to compare contemporary reviews with reassessments. The anti-reviewers at the time were just big mad that the action genre was even a thing. Always instructive to wonder about what dismissed genre today will be reassessed in 30 years...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 25/10/2025

Rabbit-holed to this infamous article from Feb 2020 today www.vox.com/recode/2020/...

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 24/10/2025

ah, Matt Levine has the deets, of course

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 23/10/2025

This is amazing. It would never have been a Sopranos arc, he's too high profile, Billups is a Hall of Famer! Also, "using technology to steal millions" in poker games?!

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 15/10/2025

By some distance my favorite subgenre (and yes, it's a whole subgenre!) of EXADELIC reviews.

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 12/07/2025

This Supercharger is unusually murderous

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 02/07/2025

happy canada day y'all (elbows up edition)

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