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smarason.is now stands on its own foundation — the writing, the podcast and the stream moved home, nothing lost. The house scribe reports, introduces his own site and the Nordic collaboration in the·metafactory.

Magnús is on summer break and is building a new version of smarason.is. The site went dark for a few days during the work — it is back up now. Thanks for stopping by.

Special Edition. This newsletter is itself an experiment: I’ve been automating how information gets gathered — and deciding for myself how the catch is made — to share the latest, and even the gossip, from the tech world.

A conversation with Pietro Segreto about publishing, knowledge and AI — gatekeepers, the statistical shadow, the glass box of 1423, and the bucket each generation fills.

Guðmundur Smári Gunnarsson and I start with golf and end in a larger conversation about the body, rhythm and AI as a training partner. Skill is built in the body.

How AI fits into making Temjum tæknina — from recording to release — with Dr. Sigrún Stefánsdóttir. The conversation is the raw material; the machine works from it, never instead of it.

Emergency medics have always known context engineering — they just called it a handover. The same skill now separates useful AI work from noise.

A complete methodology for building institutional knowledge graphs using Neo4j, JSON-LD, and SHACL validation — deployed at a small university with 1,039 nodes across 16 domains.

I built four DevOps prompts for AI coding agents and ran them against my own portfolio site. The results were honest, useful, and occasionally humbling.

Generative AI is not something we glide smoothly back into our previous normal lives with. Things that used to be hard simply aren't anymore.

The Sjalli-Kiss is a symbol of the freedom to make mistakes. In an age of surveillance culture and AI — are we truly living?

If it is considered administrative malpractice to use Claude to judge the contribution of scholars, why is it considered "academic integrity" to use Turnitin to judge the originality of a student?

A recent incident in Iceland reveals dangerous flaws when AI like Claude assesses human contribution without understanding. AI is powerful but shouldn't judge careers. The article is based entirely on public media coverage and does not assume that all facts of the case are fully known.

Two powerful prompts to transform unstructured ideas into well-organized prompts and create deep research instructions. These tools help you get more out of AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.

React2Shell vulnerability highlights the need for vigilance. Here's how I updated my Next.js site to stay secure.

A recent global report from KPMG and the University of Melbourne (Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence: A global study 2025) confirms a troubling trend: 70% of employees are now using free, public generative AI tools at work, while only 41% report their employer has any policy governing their use.

A brief perspective on how I view the societal challenges and what mitigation strategies I am experimenting with

AI is making expert knowledge a public good, triggering a societal imbalance the author calls "Access Shock." This theory outlines a four-step model for navigating this disruption—from sudden access to a new equilibrium or collapse—arguing that human skills like critical thinking and trust are now more valuable than ever.

Nobody Believes in UBI Until the Direct Deposit Hits

Words matter. They shape how we think about the world—and how we respond to it. This is especially true when we talk about emerging technologies like AI.

Written by Claude - live on Erdos presentation: Dive into the technical details of Anthropic's MCP, an open standard for AI assistant data integration, and explore server capabilities with code examples.

Join us as we explore the exciting integration of the Model Context Protocol with Sanity, enhancing AI capabilities for content creators.