Hacker NewsEssential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025
https://steipete.me/posts/2025/essential-reading-august-2025
#HackerNews #EssentialReading #AgenticEngineers #August2025 #TechInsights #EngineeringCommunity
Court Cantrell does not complyThis is such a a good article.
#AgustinFuentes
#EssentialReading
"To say that we’re binary is philosophy. It’s not biology. It’s declaring oneself essentialist: there are [men and women], two types of humans. But our biology doesn’t validate that position. Yes, there are binary things in our biology, but to say that human beings come in two different types is false. And we can prove it."
Agustín Fuentes, bioanthropologist: ‘Saying that human beings are binary is a failure; it’s not biology, it’s philosophy’
The Princeton professor, author of ‘Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,’ reflects on human diversity and the ideological impositions that simplify the variety of genes, gonads and genitals
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David WeinbergerDisciplines are an unhealthy form of essentialism — as if the world divides naturally into them. We need a pragmatic view of fields instead. So argues @timhwang persuasively. After all, Everything Is Miscellaneous :) #EssentialReading https://www.macroscience.org/p/field-essentialism-field-realism
Queen of Teacupshttps://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/04/25/all-the-kings-horses/
This is a real cri de cœur - from the heart and the soul. #EssentialReading whatever your country - because the same kind of thing is happening all over the world.
#ReadThis #EssentialReading #FutureNow
Seriously, read this. Every paragraph resonates in so many ways with what's happening now and not just in the #UK
Francisca SinnThe week’s wrap up.
If you’re not yet a subscriber of Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter, I highly recommend it. #MustRead #EssentialReading #ThisMomentInTime #ThisMomentInHistory
October 20, 2023
Last night, President Joe Biden spoke to the nation from the Oval Office to shore up U.S. support for Ukraine and Israel. “[H]istory has taught us that when terrorists don’t pay a price for their terror, when dictators don’t pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. They keep going, and the cost and the threats to America and to the world keep rising,” he said.
f*cking b*tch club
Jos Schuurmans (EN)https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/
"(...) people who have been targets for harrassment by fascist trolls for most of their lives built in protections against unwanted attention
(...) more agency to users that pundits claim make #Mastodon "too complicated".
(...) No consideration is given to why the norms and affordances of Mastodon and the broader #fediverse exist, and whether the actor they are designed to protect against might be you. (...)”
Molly Timmins“We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves.”
Timothy Snyder on what it means that an FBI New York agent allegedly betrayed his mission. #essentialreading #McGonigal #FBI #Trump #Russia
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-specter-of-2016?r=tla0&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
