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Stability for Whom?
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Two London-based Master’s students in Development Economics speak with
Professor Michael Hudson about rentier capitalism, financialisation, and
why Brita...
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Working from Berlin this week. Spending the week in this office of DIN, the
German standards institute. The creation of European (harmonised) standards
for...
Flok License Plate Surveillance
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The company Flok is surveilling us as we drive:
A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk,
Virginia’s 176 Flock Safety automat...
What Do Humans Want?
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If futarchy ends up as successful as I hope, the world will have to choose
explicit ex-post-measurable goals to assign to their governments, and
political ...
Sad and happy day
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Today, of course, is the second anniversary of the genocidal Oct. 7
invasion of Israel—the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, and the
event that l...
Look Out Below
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*As I often note, making Plans B and C is free. *
*The stock market is always looking past "bad news" to front-run "good
news."* Once it became clear that...
Israel’s Crimes Get Too Much Attention
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A great many people around the world believe that Israel’s government and
military have committed and continue to commit crimes against humanity, the
eth...
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,...
Negative Mass (Part 2)
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I’m trying to lose weight. I was so happy when I saw my local pastry shop
sold negative-mass doughnuts! But what happened next really freaked me out.
Hear ...
Career Development Guide for Job Seekers
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Context October 2025: With the government shut down and NASA JPL business
in apparent terminal decline, I have received numerous inbounds from former
colle...
[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
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Hetty Green was the richest woman you’ve never heard of. In the late 1800s,
she built a fortune worth billions today in a world designed to stop her.
Wom...
Event-driven sessions at IBM TechXchange 2025
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Next week, I’ll be at IBM TechXchange: our annual technical learning
conference. Our other big annual event Think had a business focus, but
TechXchange is ...
Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity
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In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be
dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of
dollar...
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...
Seeing and not seeing: building and forgetting
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You might have seen the picture above. It’s the Tacoma Narrows bridge which
collapsed a few weeks after being built. Why? Well what you can see here is
the...
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: ...
CS 2881: AI Safety
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The webpage for my AI safety course is on
https://boazbk.github.io/mltheoryseminar/ including homework zero, video of
first lecture and slides. Future blog...
What have I done?? No doubt a terrible thing!
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I never forgot this cartoon strip that I first encountered in my first year
at La Trobe University, Melbourne, in 1969. I was pleased to recently
rediscove...
Fractured bones, fractured mind
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[image: Two x-rays, one showing lungs, the other showing a displaced and
fractured right clavicle.]Pretty pictures of my broken torso.
Five weeks ago my bi...
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...
Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation)
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Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo
idÄ—jos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idÄ—ja – mokytis darant. Visada
išmokstama ger...
Marble Maze Modules
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Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building
a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring
a w...
Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction
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Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand,
we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy
years ...
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Building An Inexpensive Robot With micro:bit
I just released the source code and a tutorial on building a remote
controlled robot using the micro:bit.
T...
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