13 January 2026

30 links · Tuesday

Iran Internet Shutdown Report | Whisper

Forensic analysis of Iran's coordinated internet shutdown with real-time BGP and censorship data.

AI Generated Music on Bandcamp

Happy New Year, r/bandcamp! Hope you all enjoyed the Holiday Guide ([bandcamp.com/2025](http://bandcamp.com/2025)) and your 2025 Bandcamp...

Episode 3071 CWSA - The Scott Adams School 01/13/26

Transitioning to The Scott Adams School . Owen Gregorian, Shelly Adams, and Erica will start us off this morning then open it up for others who would like to join. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you would like to enjoy this same content plus bon…

Clipboard Images in Claude Code CLI

Anyone using Claude Code CLI in a terminal has probably hit the friction of sharing an image with it to see a problem. I would have to take a screenshot, save it somewhere, get the file path, and tell Claude in the prompt to look at it.

LLMs Are Tools, Not Replacements – Roberto Selbach

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a bit, but never found the right time. I guess this is it. Until sometime last year, I was more or less an AI-skeptic. I say more or less because I was always very interested in the technology. I built my own LLM to lea…

How to Build a Habit

I’m doing my DPhil on digital habits and have therefore spent a whole bunch of time reading as much habit research as I can get my hands on. I’m also a legit real boy who lives in the real world. With those two things in mind, let me tell you what I know about…

How I Designed a Custom Protocol for My App

Rast is my new experimental project—it is a web app for detecting orthographical errors in texts written in the Central Kurdish language. Here’s how I designed a binary protocol for it.

What if ASI Leads to Stasis?

I recently read and reviewed Nick Harkaway’s Titanium Noir, a noir detective novel set in a world ruled by Titans, humans made immortal and superhuman through a drug called T7. Harkaway sets …

The worst fucking app idea ever – Hi, I'm Heather Burns

The tricky thing about my MPhil project is that I am researching a moving target. I am attempting to take current political affairs, which are unfolding very very fast, and translate them into normative legal shapes. This requires keeping an eye on many issues…