To Build A Better Ballot
an interactive guide to alternative voting systems
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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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The Evolution of Trust
a game about the game theory of social trust & cooperation
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Inference Cooperative, user-governed AI
A member-governed cooperative for AI inference. Direct the models, the values, and the direction — together.
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Social Security Retirement Benefits, Explained Visually
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Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
The working class undergirds everything in this cartoon of capitalist society.
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Family candy, niche switch
This story wouldn’t normally fit my range of interest but it mentions two of my favorite topics. Niche switches and the exceptional survival of family-run companies. John Carpenter, producer of many horror movies, recognized that movies are no longer mass media. Instead of trying to produce another…
From Kagi Small Web
Global Smartphone Shipments Down 20% in 3Q26, regressing to 2013 level
Samsung and Apple capture 50% Global smartphone shipments fell 20% year-on-year (YoY) to 254.7 million units in 3Q26, according to Omdia, marking the lowest third-quarter shipment volume since 2013. Rising smartphone prices continued to weigh on consumer demand, particularly in emerging markets.…
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Checking In
Before leaving for China, I looked at the numbers from both of my apps and decided to stop trying to sell them. RollScrub is going open source. Pura Letra stays, but I’m done trying to make money from it.
From Kagi Small Web
Convoy – Easiest way to get paid for sharing your knowledge
Run your sessions, bookings, payments and follow-ups from one link, and keep everyone who comes.
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Uruguay Residency Is Zero Tax for One Kind of Person
A friend from Brazil told me Uruguay residency is very interesting, especially for nomads. Zero tax, he said, plus access to South America’s EU-style free-movement agreements. I checked both claims against the law as it stands in October 2026. Uruguay is a good option for one profile: someone living…
From Kagi Small Web
Jarema
This site is the personal playground and digital garden for Jarema. I write some blog posts, sometimes content about economics, coding, and occasionally I post some cats too.
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Viorel Mocanu
Ce face un consultant digital / growth hacker? Dacă ai un business cu prezență online, te ajută să îl crești. Dacă nu ai, te ajută să-l faci. Vezi cum »
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Chuck Reynolds
Chuck Reynolds works with founders, engineering leads, and go-to-market teams on products end to end: how they're built, how teams ship them, and how real people use them. Systems and process, AI enablement for teams, growth and go-to-market. Fractional and project work.
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Sick of AI ads, a roofer hand-drew his own and was accused of being AI
How Anton from Southland Roof Repairs went viral for a terrible AI ad... that was never AI.
From Waxy.org links
Jim Jeffers
Writing by Jim Jeffers on leadership, coding, business, software, and practical outcomes in the age of AI.
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I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
S&P 500 companies as bubbles sized by market cap, filled with one stick figure per 10,000 employees.
From Show HN
Samuel East writes about getting laid off from Plex, only 60 days in
I've just been laid off from Plex, roughly 60 days after starting, having already been made redundant from 3SS earlier this year. Some honest thoughts on AI-driven workflows, hire fast fire fast, and how we're treating the people who build the software.
From Waxy.org links
How Government Expenditures Finance Themselves ?
A macroeconomic model from Wynne Godley and Marc Lavoie.
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TidyTuesday 2026/43
This week’s data joins starting salaries for 285 college majors with the AI Occupational Exposure index of Felten, Raj and Seamans. The index scores how much the abilities an occupation needs overlap with what AI can do. Each major gets the average score of the occupations its graduates tend to…
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Is Car Brand Loyalty Still a Thing?
We used to know what our favourite car brands stood for. But when familiar showrooms stop offering the cars we love, what gives us a reason to stay? I examine the research, the changing industry and my own disappointment as a long-time Honda fan.
From Kagi Small Web
Persistence Is a Numbers Game: 150 Startups, One Collapse, and the One That Worked
In The Founder, Ray Kroc lives by a famous line: nothing can take the place of persistence. I co-founded a startup studio that built more than 150 startups, and watched it collapse under its own weight. The research says persistence alone barely moves your odds. My experience says it is the only…
From Kagi Small Web
The Fourcast: The System is Failing
This came out from Channel 4 this afternoon: The interview happened on Thursday afternoon, and publication was delayed as a result of technical problems with Read the full article...
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That's this stretch.
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