September 2025
(Editor’s note - this was the month I moved to New York, thus proving that there’s a midwit-curve of link accumulation, whereby if I am idle I read them all, if I’m very very busy I don’t have time even to accumulate them, whereas if I’m medium busy I’ll end up with a ton of half-read internet writing at the end of month.)
- https://andymasley.substack.com/p/mapping-the-ai-and-environment-debate really good, principled coverage of LLM energy usage
- https://simonw.substack.com/p/prompt-injections-as-far-as-the-eye Willison newsletter
- https://www.asimov.press/p/insect-diapause on seasonal dormancy in insects
- https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-ollantay a review of a three-act Quechua play
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/deepseek-v31-is-not-having-a-moment Zvi on deepseek’s lack of buzz this time around
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-131-part-2-various-misaligned Zvi AI roundup
- https://american-innocence.com/p/private-kingdoms Anna Gat’s new essays
- https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-cuisine-and-empire-by-rachel a review of a global food history
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/arguments-about-ai-consciousness Zvi on AI consciousness (I simply can’t keep up with his output)
- https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-beauty-of-batteries battery explainer
- https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/p/attaching-requirements-to-model-releases ML alignment
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/are-they-starting-to-take-our-jobs looking for evidence of automation
- https://www.construction-physics.com/p/ford-and-the-birth-of-the-model-t excerpt from the new Potter book
- https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-core-simple-reason-i-think-ai more excellent chatbot coverage
- https://taylor.town/diggit-000 a claude code case study
- https://ctrlcreep.substack.com/p/the-dream-in-yellow short fiction
- https://ctrlcreep.substack.com/p/throughout-all-generations more short fiction