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Catuday felid trifecta: Semyon the Russian cat walks 2000 km over six years to get home; American woman shelters 600 cats in the UAE; cat steals the show in a ballet version of Romeo and Juliet; and lagniappe - From Murmansk.travel (and other places) we hear about a Russian cat named Semyon (a Siamese) who got lost on a trip to Moscow and eventually traveled on hi...1 day ago
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CO₂ Is Not a Single Global Number — And the Lindzen-Happer Chart Pretends It Is - Reducing atmospheric CO₂ to a single number makes as much sense as a mean global temperature, and it is a pity they are both remodelled by the political ...2 days ago
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Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates - This is from a 2024 company presentation: Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporar...2 days ago
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Class not cohort:why “intergenerational inequity” is the wrong frame for thinking about access to housing and home ownership in Australia - Some brief notes written in response to a request from the Parliamentary Select Committee on Intergenerational Housing Inequity) Class not cohort The curre...3 days ago
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Beff Jezos and Effective Accelerationism: Machine God of Loving Grace - Manifold #115 - Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) is a Canadian physicist, quantum computing researcher, and tech entrepreneur.3 days ago
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My Politics - Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift, namely let’s try to save cherished parts of our culture from...4 days ago
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Risk and AI: It's Tricky - *The possibility that AI will end up unleashing waves of 'Anti-Progress'--malicious uses, untrustworthy output and uncontrollable floods of slop--also does...4 days ago
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Everyone hates Neoliberalism – But We’ll Still Miss It When It’s Gone - *Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.* H. L. Mencken Neoliberalism is doomed because...4 days ago
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US Supreme Court Ends The Pretence of The EU – US Data Privacy Framework - European Data Protection makes it illegal to transfer person identifiable data to outside the EU. Unless there is equivalence in data protection, or an agr...5 days ago
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The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante - Steve Cohen and Rory McIlroy share the same performance coach. For the next 90 minutes, he’s yours too. Dr. Gio Valiante is the world’s leading performan...5 days ago
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Celebrating 100 Years: Avi 70 + CSDM 30 (June 14-18, 2027) - [Guest post by Amir Shpilka and Irit Dinur] https://www.ias.edu/math/events/celebrating-100-years-avi-70-csdm-30 The Institute for Advanced Study’s School ...5 days ago
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Beyond Straw Men and False Choices: Guest Post by G. Reid Lyon, PhD - Image source *Dr Reid Lyon is a neuroscientist who completed his pre-and postdoctoral training in learning disorders, developmental neurophysiology an...5 days ago
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Why Oil Shortages May Bring Lower Prices–and Recession - Rather than high prices, my major concerns are recession and the disappearing availability of goods and services that we rely on. This might be similar to ...6 days ago
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The War America Cannot Admit It Lost - Michael Hudson joins Professor Lau Kin Chi for the South South Dialogue on Sustainability to discuss the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz, de-dollarisation...1 week ago
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RIP Climate Etc. - by Judith Curry It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on. Well, the definition of victory here is about as fuzzy as that for th...1 week ago
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Quick Thoughts on Wealth - from Dean Baker Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar payday from the IPO of SpaceX has hugely amplified the public’s focus on extreme wealth inequality. Musk’s econ...1 week ago
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In Defense of the Marginal Baby - This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to increment thei...1 week ago
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The Hypostasis of The Archons - Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work which I ...2 weeks ago
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An academic year aburst - [image: An orange and blue sunset against the Puget Sound.]The sunset in Edmonds, WA, late summer 2025. It’s the first Monday after the end of my 2025–26 a...2 weeks ago
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Octonions and the Standard Model - Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional Jordan alge...2 weeks ago
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iTunes extension for Scratch - In this post, I want to share a new Scratch extension I made today. It uses the iTunes Search API to let you search for songs, and play 30 second previews ...3 weeks ago
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Why America can’t build the natural gas pipelines it needs — my interview with Senator Alan Armstrong - Natural gas pipelines don’t emit anything that can contaminate water. Yet the Clean Water Act lets states that dislike interstate pipelines block them for ...4 weeks ago
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New book review of The Story of Capital by Matt McManus for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books - For many of us, David Harvey was our introduction to Marxism. Whether it was the seminal course on Capital that went viral after the recession, his famous ...4 weeks ago
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The revolution next time: Wiser and on firmer ground – David McMullen - (Thanks to David McMullen for permission to share this. I recommend his substack ‘David’s Political Substack‘) Platypus Review 187 | June 2026 WHEN A RADIC...4 weeks ago
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Retracing steps - This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much more power...3 months ago
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Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer - My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some upd...3 months ago
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Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 - Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice Admiral Jo...6 months ago
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Some thoughts about Bondi - Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a terrorist att...6 months ago
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ACAMIS 2025 Resources by Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager - New 2025 Materials & Programming Environment Links The Eight Big Ideas Behind Constructionism by Seymour Papert (in multiple languages) Logo books, artic...8 months ago
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