I recently heard a story about a young student who was asked on a test the meaning of PTO. In the end he wrote Postal Transport Officer. This reminded me of one of my favourite YouTubes from years ago where a monk encounters a new technology, the book, and calls the medieval Help Desk:
24 Things I'm Grateful For
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*Things large and small worthy of recognition and gratitude.*
*Of the many things I'm grateful for, let's start with 1) a garden and 2) a
library.* (*"Tho...
Readers’ wildlife photos
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Today’s photos come from reader Jim Blilie. Jim’s captions and IDs are
indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them. I haven’t
been getting...
Summer Research at Topos
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You can now apply for the 2026 Summer Research Associate program at the
Topos Institute! This is a great opportunity. Details and instructions on
how to ap...
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...
Antimatter Development Program
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Printable PDF of this post. “Space is big. You just won’t believe how
vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a
long way dow...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Podcasts!
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A 9-year-old named Kai (“The Quantum Kid”) and his mother interviewed me
about closed timelike curves, wormholes, Deutsch’s resolution of the
Grandfather P...
Back to the future!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CLlNfjoew Times Radio’ Apr 17, 2025
Interview with General Ben Hodges Trump’s ‘failure’ in Ukraine risks war
with Russia ...
Forth: A beginning?
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I’ve searched for a few years for something that felt like a baseline, that
I could present as a basis for learning and exploration re. system
programming,...
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...
Cowboy Capitalism in Central Asia
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Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff unpack Trump’s 35b dollar Central Asia
push, Chevron’s ecocide, BRICS vs G7 and AI fake videos stealing their work.
The p...
Maverick Dark Castle
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On Saturday, I ran the Maverick Dark Castle: an 11km night time trail run
around Corfe Castle. I’d not done a night run before, and had never run a
trail r...
Koli Calling 2025: Alliances of the Artificial
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[image: The rear view of the conference room, with 80 heads, partially
obscured by the edge of a large wooden stump sculpture.]The back of the
room, where ...
Some musings on reality motivated by the age of AI
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Is there anyone at home? Is the chess program on your phone conscious? Is
ChatGPT5 a conscious agent? Will ChatGPT9 be conscious? Most people would
answer ...
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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