If you haven’t read Da Roolz, please do so
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Over the years I’ve developed a set of posting guidelines, affectionately
known as “Da Roolz” in Chicagospeak. You can find them on the left sidebar,
or by...
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update
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In April, Anthropic initated Project Glasswing. The idea was to let
companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own
software. ...
Roundup #83: I told you so!
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Piketty gets wacky; Tokenmaxxing fails; Trump, drones, and Ukraine; Tariffs
on China, again; India's growth; Borjas again
How Weak Is Cultural Evolution?
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World fertility decline seems the clearest example of a maladaptive
cultural trend, as healthy biological species just don’t decline in times
of plenty, pe...
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Favorited The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book by Wouter
Groeneveld On occasion I’ve mentioned here that one way of ensuring
longevity of this ...
The Last Colonial Wars
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Wolff and Hudson on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and why no deal with the US
is possible — as Western colonialism enters its final, most dangerous phase.
T...
On hope
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The comments on my previous post, on recent AI breakthroughs in solving
Erdös problems and beyond, must’ve set some sort of record for the number
of separa...
Interview with Micah Zarin
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I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was
nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot
of energy...
AI is a Meteor. Don’t be a Dinosaur.
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This is a linkpost for my Harvard Crimson op-ed for its commencement issue.
I will not reproduce the whole text here, but my advice to the class of
2026 is...
Presenting at Current / Kafka Summit
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A few of us at Current this week were talking about how Current (formerly
“Kafka Summit”) has changed over the years, and it got me remembering the
bits I’...
Pet Haidt
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One my betes noires has been in the news lately. Jonathan Haidt has been
annoying me since at least 2012, when I was critical of his bothsidesism on
the cu...
How to build a lunar mass driver
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Casey Handmer May 2026 What? Elon has recently (late 2025, early 2026) been
talking about building many terawatts of orbital AI compute and launching
some ...
CHI 2026 trip report: ay ay AI
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[image: wood latices hanging from the ceiling of a beige foyer.]The foyer
lattice of the International Barcelona Convention Center
There is never a good ti...
Retracing steps
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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...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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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...
Rethinking climate change
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by Nicola Scafetta My new book is now published: The Frontier of Climate
Science: Solar Variability, Natural Cycles and Model Uncertainty For more
than t...
Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01
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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...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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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...
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