Notes · 2026 — Page 13 · Joshua Morris · notebook and workbench

JULY 18
The Problem Wasn't the AI
Linus Torvalds pushes back on treating the Linux kernel as an anti-AI project, calling AI a useful tool. Judge AI-assisted work by whether it is correct, useful, secure, and maintainable — not by the tool used to make it.
Inspired by lore.kernel.org · Linus Torvalds
JULY 17
Walking a Fine Line
Apple’s legal letters to former employees at OpenAI sit beside an ongoing product partnership. Companies sometimes have to defend their interests and preserve a business relationship at the same time.
Inspired by apple.slashdot.org · Slashdot
896 Experts, 16 at a Time
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 scales mixture-of-experts sparsity to 16 of 896 experts. The interesting question is whether that many experts form distinct specialties and how reliably the router chooses among them.
Inspired by kimi.com · Moonshot AI
JULY 16
AI Agents Need Their Own Keys
Letting an AI sign in through a full user account is the wrong direction. Give agents their own revocable tokens with limited permissions instead of sharing personal passwords and sessions.
Inspired by yro.slashdot.org · Slashdot
A Solid Underdog for the Open Web
rss.chat does not need to dominate the web—it needs enough people willing to use it, test it, and show there is still another way to create social software.
Inspired by scripting.com · Dave Winer