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- Bill Kerr
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The "Good News" Is Always the Same: the Stock Market Is Up--Until It Isn't - *Cloaking a fake "market" with artifice to maintain its asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income also cloaks its detachment from the real world. * ...15 hours ago
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Alan Lightman in The Atlantic: Dualism or not? - Alan Lightman a physicist best known for his writing about science, most famously his 1992 novel Einstein’s Dreams. At present he’s a “professor of the pra...19 hours ago
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The state of AI safety in four fake graphs - Here is a quick overview of my intuitions on where we are with AI safety in early 2026: `21 hours ago
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Apple’s Camera Indicator Lights - A thoughtful review of Apple’s system to alert users that the camera is on. It’s really well-designed, and important in a world where malware could surre...23 hours ago
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Maybe you should have bought an electric car - The Iran War is illustrating the cost of anti-EV nonsense.1 day ago
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Inflation First, Deflation Next - Michael Hudson and Steve Keen explain how war, energy shocks and debt overload could trigger inflation in essentials, deflation across the wider economy ...1 day ago
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Movie Review: “The AI Doc” - Yesterday Dana, the kids, and I went to the theater to watch The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, the well-reviewed new documentary about whether...1 day ago
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Vector Meson Dominance - I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector...2 days ago
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Extending Flink SQL - In this post, I’ll share examples of how writing user-defined functions (UDFs) extends what is possible using built-in Flink SQL functions alone. I’ll shar...2 days ago
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On Harvesting for the Royal Library Or How A Blog Breaks The Archive - My website is now part of the web archive in the Dutch Royal Library. It took some experimenting to get it in there. Blogs will be blogs and the amount of ...3 days ago
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China, Acceleration, and Nick Land - with Matt Southey – Manifold #108 - Matt Southey is an editor for an AI safety organization.4 days ago
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Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education - Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, ma...5 days ago
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Inversion — ECDO Theory: The Hidden Mechanism Driving Cataclysm, Cultural Tradition, and Climate - Inversion — ECDO Theory - The Hidden Mechanism Driving Cataclysm, Cultural Tradition, and Climate. Coming April 2026 - A New Knowledge.5 days ago
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Authenticity as Grace - Last week I realized that today’s rapid cultural evolution, mediated greatly by youth movements, seems encouraged by the common modern norm favoring “authe...5 days ago
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A day at the University of Minnesota - [image: Brick buildings on the left and right, a handful of students walking down a pathway, and blue skies.]A sunny Monday at UMN. Last Fall, I was once a...6 days ago
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Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...1 week 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...1 week ago
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Politicians Who Cut Solar and Wind Subsidies Saved Our Grid - Politicians who cut solar/wind subsidies saved our grid by incentivizing reliable generation, which was having its operating revenue looted by subsidized, ...1 week ago
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Garmin watch faces - I have recently been using Claude Code (Opus 4.6) to do a variety of software projects. One was the completion of an ill-fated attempt to create a custom w...2 weeks ago
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Eating The Rich Won’t Fix Climate Change - The world’s richest 1% have more purchasing power, and hence more command over what the economy produces than ordinary people. They can afford a more ext...2 weeks ago
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Rethinking climate change - 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...3 weeks ago
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Finally answering the question, “What are students really learning in school?” - The first video below is from 2021. It helps answer a question I’ve had for a long time re. what I’ve seen go on in schools and universities for the past 1...3 weeks ago
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A New Explanation for Tariffs and Bombings - Because of energy-related shortages that are already being encountered, national economies are beginning to act like the players in a game of musical chair...4 weeks ago
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ANALYSIS OF THE UKRAINE WAR, 2026 - Bill Kerr Q&A format: What is the situation on the battlefield? The situation changes everyday. To keep up to date follow some of the links here to regular...5 weeks ago
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Restorative Conferencing: The good, the challenging and the not necessarily ugly. - Image source: MS PPT Recently, while watering my very thirsty Bendigo garden during what has been a particularly harsh summer, I tuned into Ollie Love...1 month 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...2 months ago
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Market – what market? The catch 22 at the heart of innovation in government - The first of what may be quite a few articles I reproduce here which I wrote for The Mandarin from around 2016 to 2020 or thereabouts (The Mandarin has put...3 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...5 months ago
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Complicating the IPCC Planck Feedback, Plank #4 of Climate Resilience Theory - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an idea about how the Earth cools itself: when the planet’s surface warms up, it sends more heat...9 months ago
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