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The Third Bit Archive 2026
2026-01-05
Next Steps for Simulation
2026-01-10
Introducing asimpy
2026-01-11
Trying to Understand asimpy
2026-01-14
First-of in asimpy
2026-01-18
If Not Lessons, Then What?
2026-01-23
Updating Snailz
2026-01-28
Four Traditions Revisited
2026-02-08
104 Days
2026-03-08
Cognitive Pollution
2026-03-15
Distributed Systems Design by Example
2026-03-24
Accessibility Improvements
2026-03-25
A Modest Proposal
2026-03-26
Penguin Geography
2026-03-26
Feasible
2026-03-26
Classifying Research Software
2026-03-27
Another Modest Proposal
2026-03-28
An E-Bike for the Mind
2026-03-30
Project Status
2026-04-01
Current Projects
2026-04-08
Lessons from MAID
2026-04-08
Lessons from Disaster Management
2026-04-08
Lessons from Crisis
2026-04-08
Lessons from Business
2026-04-13
A Bibliography
2026-04-18
asimpy Performance Benchmarking
2026-04-18
Changing Minds
2026-04-19
asimpy Improvements
2026-04-19
Big Tech is Like the Cocaine Cartels
2026-04-20
Big Tech is Like a Long Firm Fraud
2026-04-21
Big Tech is Soviet
2026-04-22
Big Tech as the Medieval Church
2026-04-23
Big Tech as Payola
2026-04-24
Big Tech is Like the Stasi
2026-04-25
Software Taboos
2026-04-25
Big Tech is Like a Fast Food Franchise
2026-04-25
Why Discrimination Persists
2026-04-25
Big Tech is Like the Beauty Industry
2026-04-25
Cognitive Pollution Revisited
2026-04-26
Big Tech is Like the Enclosure Movement
2026-04-27
Big Tech is Like the Sharecropping System
2026-04-27
Big Tech is Like Standard Oil
2026-04-28
The Geography of Industrial Harm
2026-04-28
Big Tech is Like the Penny Press
2026-04-28
The Differential Legalization of Pleasure
2026-04-29
Big Tech is Like a Department Store
2026-04-29
The Myth of Meritocracy
2026-04-29
Guns in America
2026-04-29
Pornography, Obscenity, and the Limits of Regulation
2026-05-01
Labor and Passion
2026-05-01
Big Tech is Like a Danwei
2026-05-01
A Short History of Fads
2026-05-02
The Evolution of Morality
2026-05-02
The Invention of Intellectual Property
2026-05-03
Other Kinds of Firms
2026-05-04
Free Speech and Hate Speech
2026-05-05
Philanthrocapitalism
2026-05-05
The Psychology of Building Harmful Things
2026-05-05
Moral Panics and the Video Game Debate
2026-05-06
Public Subsidy, Private Profit
2026-05-06
Algorithmic Criminal Justice
2026-05-06
International Tax Avoidance
2026-05-07
Eight Hours and After
2026-05-08
Unsafe at Any Algorithm
2026-05-08
Lessons from Ozone
2026-05-08
Taming Tobacco
2026-05-09
Big Tech is Like Pro Wrestling
2026-05-09
Cooperatives
2026-05-09
Cleaning up the Rivers
2026-05-09
Land to the Landless
2026-05-10
Big Tech is Like Scientology
2026-05-10
Big Tech is Like Multi-Level Marketing
2026-05-10
Big Tech is Like the Yakuza
2026-05-11
A Note on LLMs
2026-05-11
Ransom as a Business Model
2026-05-12
Keeping Up With Everybody
2026-05-12
We're All Family Here
2026-05-12
Behavioral Economics
2026-05-13
The Corporation as Psychopath
2026-05-14
Manufacturing Preferences
2026-05-14
Manufacturing Obedience
2026-05-14
Regulatory Capture
2026-05-15
Technofascism
2026-05-15
Fascism Plain and Simple
2026-05-16
SDGC Bibliography
2026-05-17
In a Crisis
2026-05-17
The Creation of Money
2026-05-17
The Expanding Circle
2026-05-17
Bullshit Jobs and Parkinson's Law
2026-05-17
Not So Selfish After All
2026-05-18
The Representation Feedback Loop
2026-05-18
The Construction of Race
2026-05-19
Who Are You?
2026-05-20
Why Don't You Just…
2026-05-20
SDGC Glossary
2026-05-20
Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding
2026-05-20
Setting the Standard
2026-05-20
Women's Work
2026-05-21
Enshittification
2026-05-26
Summer Projects