Readers’ wildlife photos
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We’re down to one more contribution, and then the tank runs dry. Please
send in your GOOD photos, preferably a related group instead of singletons.
Today’s...
On Hacking Back
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Former DoJ attorney John Carlin writes about hackback, which he defines
thus: “A hack back is a type of cyber response that incorporates a
counterattack ...
Digital Omnibus Leaked Proposals
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Over at Netzpolitik two leaked draft texts for new EC proposals w.r.t. data
and digital legislation have been published. I’ve been reading them the
past da...
Armistice Day
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114 years ago, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking a
temporary and partial end to the Great War which began in 1914, and has
continued, in o...
Municipal Socialism Meets Donor Politics
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Wolff and Hudson argue Mamdani’s New York win exposes a donor-driven party
system, heightens US Zionism fault lines, and collides with Trump’s debt
squee...
The Standard Model – Part 3
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Physics is really bizarre and wonderful. Here I start explaining why the
Standard Model has U(1) × SU(2) × SU(3) as its symmetry group. But I don't
assume ...
UT Austin’s Statement on Academic Integrity
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A month ago William Inboden, the provost of UT Austin (where I work),
invited me to join a university-wide “Faculty Working Group on Academic
Integrity.” T...
Ron Shaich: Lessons from Building Panera
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My guest today is Ron Shaich, founder of Panera and chairman of CAVA. At
71, he tracks his glucose continuously and works out every morning at 8am.
He ru...
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...
Flink SQL aggregate functions
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In this post, I want to share a couple of very quick and simple examples
for how to use LISTAGG and ARRAY_AGG in Flink SQL. This started as an
answer I gav...
Natural Selection of Bad Science. Part II
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by John Ridgway In an earlier essay [1] I explained how positive feedbacks
can lead to potentially problematic scientific mono-cultures. I also
acknowled...
New book: The Story of Capital
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My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How
Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by Verso.
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: ...
Good News Ukraine.
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Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war
https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry
Occupies” and drones are...
Supersonic electric flight
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This post is inspired by the recent press release about the Rolls Royce
Accel, an experimental electric aircraft being built to attempt the
electric speed ...
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