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What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
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New article in Jacobin: In Volume 1 of Capital, Karl Marx ventures the
opinion that “classical political economy stumbles approximately onto the
true state...
The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak
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Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a
slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from
textbooks to...
Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable
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*Let's pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on
massively subsidizing users' costs. *
*What's already abundantly clear but verboten to ...
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ feminism
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There’s a new Jesus and Mo strip today called “submit”. It came with a
caption: “No, Jesus. We don’t.” The Divine Duo argues about which faith is
more woma...
How the Federal Reserve Learned to Love Bubbles
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Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai examine Alan Greenspan’s legacy at the
Federal Reserve, the rise of central bank independence, the repeal of
Glass-Steag...
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Favorited Ikigai Collective by David Orban Yes, this type of exploration is
important. Without a set purpose as goal, but certainly not without purpose
as ...
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,...
What is Agency?
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The Age of Artificial Intelligence compels a redefinition of agency from
the traditional notion of capacity for independent action to the modern
reality of...
Climate Etc. is now an archive
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Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only
archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to
find...
Why I enjoy my commute
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My commute to work is one of the favourite parts of my day. I’ve mentioned
it before, more often than I probably should, but in this post I try and
explain...
Happy 250th!
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I’m at the New Jersey shore with family and friends, where we’ve spent this
Fourth of July eating hot dogs, playing miniature golf, and wading into the
oce...
Quick Thoughts on Wealth
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from Dean Baker Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar payday from the IPO of SpaceX
has hugely amplified the public’s focus on extreme wealth inequality.
Musk’s econ...
In Defense of the Marginal Baby
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This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together
here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to
increment thei...
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...
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...
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...
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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