The Third Bit Archive 2026

2026-01-05Next Steps for Simulation
2026-01-10Introducing asimpy
2026-01-11Trying to Understand asimpy
2026-01-14First-of in asimpy
2026-01-18If Not Lessons, Then What?
2026-01-23Updating Snailz
2026-01-28Four Traditions Revisited
2026-02-08104 Days
2026-03-08Cognitive Pollution
2026-03-15Distributed Systems Design by Example
2026-03-24Accessibility Improvements
2026-03-25A Modest Proposal
2026-03-26Penguin Geography
2026-03-26Feasible
2026-03-26Classifying Research Software
2026-03-27Another Modest Proposal
2026-03-28An E-Bike for the Mind
2026-03-30Project Status
2026-04-01Current Projects
2026-04-08Lessons from MAID
2026-04-08Lessons from Disaster Management
2026-04-08Lessons from Crisis
2026-04-08Lessons from Business
2026-04-13A Bibliography
2026-04-18asimpy Performance Benchmarking
2026-04-18Changing Minds
2026-04-19asimpy Improvements
2026-04-19Big Tech is Like the Cocaine Cartels
2026-04-20Big Tech is Like a Long Firm Fraud
2026-04-21Big Tech is Soviet
2026-04-22Big Tech as the Medieval Church
2026-04-23Big Tech as Payola
2026-04-24Big Tech is Like the Stasi
2026-04-25Software Taboos
2026-04-25Big Tech is Like a Fast Food Franchise
2026-04-25Why Discrimination Persists
2026-04-25Big Tech is Like the Beauty Industry
2026-04-25Cognitive Pollution Revisited
2026-04-26Big Tech is Like the Enclosure Movement
2026-04-27Big Tech is Like the Sharecropping System
2026-04-27Big Tech is Like Standard Oil
2026-04-28The Geography of Industrial Harm
2026-04-28Big Tech is Like the Penny Press
2026-04-28The Differential Legalization of Pleasure
2026-04-29Big Tech is Like a Department Store
2026-04-29The Myth of Meritocracy
2026-04-29Guns in America
2026-04-29Pornography, Obscenity, and the Limits of Regulation
2026-05-01Labor and Passion
2026-05-01Big Tech is Like a Danwei
2026-05-01A Short History of Fads
2026-05-02The Evolution of Morality
2026-05-02The Invention of Intellectual Property
2026-05-03Other Kinds of Firms
2026-05-04Free Speech and Hate Speech
2026-05-05Philanthrocapitalism
2026-05-05The Psychology of Building Harmful Things
2026-05-05Moral Panics and the Video Game Debate
2026-05-06Public Subsidy, Private Profit
2026-05-06Algorithmic Criminal Justice
2026-05-06International Tax Avoidance
2026-05-07Eight Hours and After
2026-05-08Unsafe at Any Algorithm
2026-05-08Lessons from Ozone
2026-05-08Taming Tobacco
2026-05-09Big Tech is Like Pro Wrestling
2026-05-09Cooperatives
2026-05-09Cleaning up the Rivers
2026-05-09Land to the Landless
2026-05-10Big Tech is Like Scientology
2026-05-10Big Tech is Like Multi-Level Marketing
2026-05-10Big Tech is Like the Yakuza
2026-05-11A Note on LLMs
2026-05-11Ransom as a Business Model
2026-05-12Keeping Up With Everybody
2026-05-12We're All Family Here
2026-05-12Behavioral Economics
2026-05-13The Corporation as Psychopath
2026-05-14Manufacturing Preferences
2026-05-14Manufacturing Obedience
2026-05-14Regulatory Capture
2026-05-15Technofascism
2026-05-15Fascism Plain and Simple
2026-05-17In a Crisis
2026-05-17The Creation of Money
2026-05-17The Expanding Circle
2026-05-17Bullshit Jobs and Parkinson's Law
2026-05-17Not So Selfish After All
2026-05-18The Representation Feedback Loop
2026-05-18The Construction of Race
2026-05-19Who Are You?
2026-05-20Why Don't You Just…
2026-05-20SDGC Glossary
2026-05-20Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding
2026-05-20Setting the Standard
2026-05-20Women's Work
2026-05-21Enshittification
2026-05-26Summer Projects
2026-05-27Building a City, Not a Car
2026-05-28Basic Ideas in Queueing Theory
2026-05-29Queue Formation
2026-05-30How to Not Be Wrong About AI
2026-05-30Little's Law
2026-05-31Three Research Questions About AI
2026-05-31Sojourn Time
2026-06-01Queue Nonlinearity
2026-06-02Pooled vs. Separate Queues
2026-06-03Late Merge
2026-06-04The Inspector's Paradox
2026-06-05Tandem Queue Blocking
2026-06-05The Convoy Effect
2026-06-05Rush Hour Displacement
2026-06-05Braess's Paradox
2026-06-05Priority Starvation
2026-06-08Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code Restart
2026-06-09A Little Psychology
2026-06-09How We Got Here
2026-06-10More Psychology
2026-06-11When the Model Is the Harm
2026-06-12Privacy, Power, and the Self
2026-06-13Who Gets What and Why
2026-06-14More Analogies
2026-06-15What We Owe the Future