Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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I´ll keep it personal. But for the ribbons, all items of the wreath,
including the willow twigs underneath and the oyster shells, are gathered,
not bought....
2025 in podcasts (Overcast)
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I’ve long used podcasts as a way to distract me while travelling for
business trips, doing housework at the weekends, shopping, and much more…
This year, I...
Frozen Russian Assets, Real European Fallout
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Europe’s economic crisis is increasingly driven by political decisions
rather than market forces. This analysis examines EU energy policy, frozen
Russian...
My Christmas Letter
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*As I said, having a sense of humor will get you in trouble nowadays, and
this whole thing would be funny if I wasn't in leg-irons.*
*Dear friends and fam...
Shadow Fleet farce ending!
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Russia is now claiming their ships and playing a game of chicken! A direct
confrontation with Russia and the west is now looming and could happen
anywhere!
The 2025 Tadaa List
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2025 was not a good year, like the one that came before. I spent it burnt
out. My colleague J during my team’s Christmas dinner last week described
it as a...
Formal Scientific Modeling
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In January I’m going to a workshop on category theory for modeling, with a
focus on epidemiology. • Formal scientific modeling: a case study in global
heal...
Left And Right As Abstract Non-Conformist Hypocrisy
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A small but real part of the variation in the policy positions taken by
individuals and organizations is explained by two key factors: an econ and
a (socia...
The Reading Instruction Policy Rope: A One-Pager
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*The Reading Instruction Policy Rope (Pamela Snow; 2025) *
As 2025 draws to a close, I thought it might be helpful to put into one
place, a compilation ...
Why I support the SPEED Act
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Today Congress decides whether it’ll be easy or hard to build in the US.
Tell your Representative Vote YES on SPEED Act + Amendments 34/35/36!
A good summation of the VPRI STEPS project
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I learned about STEPS from the ViewPoints Research Institute (VPRI) in
about 2008. It’s goal was to create a usable office system, from the ground
up (incl...
Adventures with Deep Research
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How my AI report on housework started well, then went off the rails I’ve
long been interested in the topic of housework, as you can see from this
Crooked T...
Energy Predictions 2025
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Printable pdf. It’s been a few years since I wrote a broad post on energy,
so I’m providing an update in one easy to read place. More detailed
specific pos...
Pride and posting
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[image: The university district in Seattle, with a post rain shower rainbow
amidst a cloudy sky.]A view from the UW Tower, on a sunny Autumn day.
Like most...
Too many promises; too few future physical goods
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The world is filled with financial promises, including loans, pensions, and
even the market value of stocks. So far, the system seems to be working,
but in...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
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From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth
birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled
contr...
Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic tragedy
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by Mila Zinkova Reassessing The Coldest March by Susan Solomon On Thursday,
29 March 1912, Captain Scott (1914) made the final entry in his Journal. He
w...
Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
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Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years
ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite
nothing. T...
The Final Step of the Scientific Method
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An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive
logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by
their habit: ...
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