Jack Rusher
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Jack Rusher
@jackrusher.com
· Apr 15
Intro. I’m a multifaceted weirdo, so in three parts:
① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups.
Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups.
Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
I’ve never seen more pronounced Gell-Mannesia than in people using LLMs to learn about the world.
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I’ve never seen more pronounced Gell-Mannesia than in people using LLMs to learn about the world.
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Always great to be able to share a perspective on newly described fossil hominins, especially when they may illuminate a critical time in our evolutionary story.
www.johnhawks.net/p/fossils-fr...
www.johnhawks.net/p/fossils-fr...
Fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés, Morocco, and crossroads of human evolution
Jaws, teeth, and a hyena-chewed femur may be close to the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern people.
www.johnhawks.net
January 9, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Always great to be able to share a perspective on newly described fossil hominins, especially when they may illuminate a critical time in our evolutionary story.
www.johnhawks.net/p/fossils-fr...
www.johnhawks.net/p/fossils-fr...
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The RSS Revolution Is Beginning. Now Is The Age Of The Quiet Personal Website. The Indie Bloggers Shall Inherit The Earth.
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The RSS Revolution Is Beginning. Now Is The Age Of The Quiet Personal Website. The Indie Bloggers Shall Inherit The Earth.
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This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose speakers un-bricked
buff.ly
January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.
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The “rules-based international order” Trump is so rapidly dismantling made America both the richest and the indisputably most powerful nation on earth.
Usually systems are dismantled by those losing out under them, not by the winners.
Usually systems are dismantled by those losing out under them, not by the winners.
We’re withdrawing from the International Law Commission??? This whole list is absolutely insane.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 8:11 AM
The “rules-based international order” Trump is so rapidly dismantling made America both the richest and the indisputably most powerful nation on earth.
Usually systems are dismantled by those losing out under them, not by the winners.
Usually systems are dismantled by those losing out under them, not by the winners.
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1. My new preprint has its own bluesky account. Why? The problems facing social media & scientific publishing are similar: both are dominated by powerful oligopolies. The @atproto.com tech underlying bluesky that aims to solve the social media prob might also help solve the scientific pub prob 🧪 🧵
1. Preprint: Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study. zenodo.org/records/1814...
Menopause is rare, known to occur only in humans and toothed whales: 🧵
Menopause is rare, known to occur only in humans and toothed whales: 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 PM
1. My new preprint has its own bluesky account. Why? The problems facing social media & scientific publishing are similar: both are dominated by powerful oligopolies. The @atproto.com tech underlying bluesky that aims to solve the social media prob might also help solve the scientific pub prob 🧪 🧵
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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
Absolutely amazing find!
‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Absolutely amazing find!
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Tiled.art: “Discover great tessellation art, understand how it works, and create your own.” [tiled.art]
Tessellations, Escher-style
Discover great tessellation art, understand how it works, and create your own.
tiled.art
January 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Tiled.art: “Discover great tessellation art, understand how it works, and create your own.” [tiled.art]
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What tech conferences should propose a talk to in 2026? I want to talk about KCL, code-driven parametric CAD, and a new open-source constraint solver. It's all written in Rust, but it's not very Rust-specific, I think it's got a lot to offer audiences from other programming languages.
January 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
What tech conferences should propose a talk to in 2026? I want to talk about KCL, code-driven parametric CAD, and a new open-source constraint solver. It's all written in Rust, but it's not very Rust-specific, I think it's got a lot to offer audiences from other programming languages.
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all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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🎥 Alan Kay: 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces
🎥 FoC Virtual Meetup December 2025
📝 Stop Digging and Start Building: Why We Need LEGO Parts, Not Deeper Type Systems
🔗 newsletter.futureofcoding.org/posts/future...
🎥 FoC Virtual Meetup December 2025
📝 Stop Digging and Start Building: Why We Need LEGO Parts, Not Deeper Type Systems
🔗 newsletter.futureofcoding.org/posts/future...
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM
🎥 Alan Kay: 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces
🎥 FoC Virtual Meetup December 2025
📝 Stop Digging and Start Building: Why We Need LEGO Parts, Not Deeper Type Systems
🔗 newsletter.futureofcoding.org/posts/future...
🎥 FoC Virtual Meetup December 2025
📝 Stop Digging and Start Building: Why We Need LEGO Parts, Not Deeper Type Systems
🔗 newsletter.futureofcoding.org/posts/future...
Hey you!
CAN - Vitamin C (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Mute
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Hey you!
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“That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”
January 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”
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Starting just after Christmas the amount and range of GPS jamming around Kaliningrad has exploded. It hasn't been this bad in months.
January 4, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Starting just after Christmas the amount and range of GPS jamming around Kaliningrad has exploded. It hasn't been this bad in months.
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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i would like to see a pds in common lisp
January 3, 2026 at 1:27 AM
i would like to see a pds in common lisp
Lest anyone think the US invading a Latin American country and “arresting” the leader to be tried in US courts is a new level of lawlessness under Trump, I remind you:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_...
Manuel Noriega - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Lest anyone think the US invading a Latin American country and “arresting” the leader to be tried in US courts is a new level of lawlessness under Trump, I remind you:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_...
Wow, this recipe looks delicious… 🤦🏻♂️
January 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Wow, this recipe looks delicious… 🤦🏻♂️
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I’ve never gone! Up until now I wasn’t considering for this year, but it might be worth it for the RISC-V track alone. This talk is of particular interest:
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
FOSDEM 2026 - Can’t fork a semiconductor? Hold my beer… Introducing the Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform
fosdem.org
January 2, 2026 at 10:36 AM
I’ve never gone! Up until now I wasn’t considering for this year, but it might be worth it for the RISC-V track alone. This talk is of particular interest:
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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this is the main body of the current (incomplete) script that generates the image above
January 2, 2026 at 9:37 AM
this is the main body of the current (incomplete) script that generates the image above
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HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 AM
HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆
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Happy New Year! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access, making computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusable worldwide.
Explore ACM’s open access journey:
👉 www.acm.org/publications...
#OpenAccess #ACM
Explore ACM’s open access journey:
👉 www.acm.org/publications...
#OpenAccess #ACM
January 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Happy New Year! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access, making computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusable worldwide.
Explore ACM’s open access journey:
👉 www.acm.org/publications...
#OpenAccess #ACM
Explore ACM’s open access journey:
👉 www.acm.org/publications...
#OpenAccess #ACM
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As for the power frameworks, everyone thinks we are living in a dystopian sci-fi novel. Truth is we haven’t even got there yet. We are still living in a Don DeLillo novel, where the structures of power, influence, and corruption are rooted in the 1980s. That will change, abruptly.
We’re living through a truly 21st-century technological revolution, but we’re still relying on legal frameworks rooted in the 18th century and repeatedly stretched to fit 19th- and 20th-century media.
December 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
As for the power frameworks, everyone thinks we are living in a dystopian sci-fi novel. Truth is we haven’t even got there yet. We are still living in a Don DeLillo novel, where the structures of power, influence, and corruption are rooted in the 1980s. That will change, abruptly.