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Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/

Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer

Trip Venturella released Mr. Chatterbox, a language model trained entirely on out-of-copyright text from the British Library. Here’s how he describes it in the model card: Mr. Chatterbox is a …

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How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post

The billionaire newspaper owner, dissatisfied by years of losses, wants the newsroom to double productivity with half its budget.

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XML is a Cheap DSL

Lessons about XML from the open source IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.

Unplanned Obsolescence