What If the Work We're Busy Automating Is Needless?
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*The problem with durable, low-maintenance, low-operating cost technologies
is self-evident: they're not as profitable as planned obsolescence or
extractin...
Readers’ wildlife photos
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For many of you it’s been a three-day weekend; have you considered sending
me photos? This is the last batch I have. And today’s batch comes from
reader Ja...
Anthropic’s Fable and the State of AI
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On June 9th, Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model. Three days
later, the US government classified it as a dangerous munition, and used
its ex...
Do Polymath LLMs Love Big Brother?
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In Orwell’s novel 1984, protagonist Winston is beaten down by his
totalitarian state, eventually so far into submission that he honestly
embraces state cla...
Four Gun Salute Going To The Office
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The Open State Foundation has its office on the old naval yard in the heart
of Amsterdam. Right next to the national maritime museum, in the 17th
century w...
Call for workshop proposals: FOCS 2026
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[Guest post by Sam Hopkins] We invite groups of interested researchers to
submit workshop proposals for FOCS 2026 by July 31, 2026. The FOCS 2026
workshops...
Krugman on Trump’s 80th birthday party
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from Paul Krugman’s blog On Sunday Donald Trump celebrated his 80th
birthday with a cage match on the White House lawn. The match and the
events that surro...
An academic year aburst
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[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...
Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare
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Fable and Mythos are currently unavailable, but likely will return within a
few weeks. I will continue to cover that fiasco, but in the meantime I will
als...
Octonions and the Standard Model
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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...
The Limits of Empire
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Nima Alkhorshid: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, June 11th, 2026, and our
dear friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome
bac...
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,...
iTunes extension for Scratch
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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 ...
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...
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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