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- Bill Kerr
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- creative teaching or pandering to the philistines?
- Negroponte art far more fair than Vota
- squeak on the OLPC in Brazil
- Kedama: a GUI-tile scriptable massively-parallel p...
- labour white ants black responsibility
- joel stanley meets albert einstein
- how to display etoy projects live on the web
- get yourself an imaginary friend
- kusasa ("tomorrow"): a solution to the maths/scien...
- Kusasa, a Zulu word for tomorrow
- the law of probability in my "year of the hospital"
- the decline of IT in education
- our human condition "from space"
- OLPCNews update
- the problem of living in the present
- philosophical principles
- stop the band-aid
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China and the Left – panel discussion/debate at the Australian National University - I was one of three panelists. I argue that China’s regime is both fascist and imperialist and that this happened after the coup in the years 1977-1980. Tha...9 hours ago
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The Revolution Trilogy - *It would serve our interests to plot out what we can do from where we are right now should the status quo succumb to gravity.* *The research I've done ov...10 hours ago
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An Experimental Program for AI-Powered Feedback at STOC: Guest Post from David Woodruff - This year for STOC, we decided to run an experiment to explore the use of Large Language Models in the theoretical computer science community, and we’re in...13 hours ago
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Why the rich don’t pay taxes - from Lars Syll Beneath the civic ideal of taxation as a collective, equitable endeavour lies an entrenched hypocrisy: the architecture of modern tax codes ...14 hours ago
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The erosion of medical journals - Of all the papers in the special issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas on censorship in science, the one below is perhaps the most important, as the ...18 hours ago
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From Safe Haven to Seizure Risk - If Washington and Brussels can seize sovereign reserves, what wealth is safe in Western custody? Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff unpack the gold surge, ...1 day ago
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Social Engineering People’s Credit Card Details - Good *Wall Street Journal* article on criminal gangs that scam people out of their credit card information: Your highway toll payment is now past due, on...1 day ago
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Talking points roundup: cold vs. heat deaths, pro-fossil-fuel policies in developing countries, solar/wind buildout in the Netherlands, and more - Also: the prevalence of climate-related disasters, the consequences of forced electrification, the death rate from typhoons, and the UK backing off from ne...2 days ago
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Philip Gibbs – Black Holes and White Holes - A white hole is a purely hypothetical time-reversed black hole. What does general relativity say about them? Would they repel you? Could you fall into a wh...2 days ago
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Labor as the party of resistance: A historical role reversal - As I said last time, Anthony Albanese has succeeded in making Labor the natural party of government in Australia, relegating the rightwing opposition to th...2 days ago
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Building a Cosmic Mind - The explosion of artificial intelligence is set to move out into space.2 days ago
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Australian male violence against female partners: the 2024-25 drop - The latest figures on intimate partner femicide show much of a recent rise in men killing women has now been reversed, at least temporarily. Prologue: Viol...3 days ago
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AIs Win Math Olympiad Gold: Prof. Lin Yang (UCLA) – Manifold #97 - Lin Yang is a professor of computer science at UCLA.5 days ago
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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About - Anthony Scilipoti is one of the sharpest minds in investing. He’s the President and CEO of Veritas Group of Companies. He called the collapses of both Va...6 days ago
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Neither Dominance nor Prestige: Rank - Recent social-science work distinguishes two classic forms of status: dominance (or “power”) and prestige (or “honor”).1 week ago
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Introducing LLM benchmarks using Scratch - In this post, I want to share a recent worksheet I wrote for Machine Learning for Kids. It is perhaps a little on the technical side, but I think there is ...1 week 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...1 week ago
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Dagstuhl trip report: creativity, code, and generative AI - [image: A slide projected, reading Creativity, GenAI, and Software Development: A Future Together.]The workshop begins. Sometimes I go to a castle and talk...2 weeks ago
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If Climate Change Is As Bad As Activists Say, Their Demand Should Be 'Geoengineering Now'! - Some climate activists claim to believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, if not the entire biosphere. This is the justification ...2 weeks ago
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What has gone wrong with the economy? Can it be fixed? - I don't believe that the situation is hopeless. At the end, I discuss where we are now, relative to historical patterns, and some reasons to be optimistic ...3 weeks ago
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Career Development Guide for Job Seekers - Context October 2025: With the government shut down and NASA JPL business in apparent terminal decline, I have received numerous inbounds from former colle...3 weeks ago
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Green lights at Blue Haven: A primary principal’s story of school transformation - Image source: MS PPT *Much has been written and debated about evidence-based practice in education in the last decade or so, particularly as this perta...4 weeks ago
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Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity - 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...4 weeks ago
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Natural Selection of Bad Science. Part II - by John Ridgway In an earlier essay [1] I explained how positive feedbacks can lead to potentially problematic scientific mono-cultures. I also acknowled...5 weeks ago
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New book: The Story of Capital - My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by Verso.5 weeks ago
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The Final Step of the Scientific Method - 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: ...1 month ago
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CS 2881: AI Safety - 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...1 month ago
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What really happened to object-oriented programming? - I saw a question on Quora asking something like, “Why did Alan Kay’s OOP always fail, and the OOP that was implemented as C++, Java, Delphi, etc. always su...2 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...4 months ago
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Seeking K-12 Computing Teachers With Emerging Bilingual students in their classes - Emma Dodoo is a PhD student working with me. Emma works with K-12 computing teachers who have emerging bilingual (EB) students in their classes, e.g., stud...5 months ago
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Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society) - For years, I thought that there were two “sides” to the discussion around climate change. There were the people who believed in the science and the people ...6 months ago
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Good News Ukraine. - Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry Occupies” and drones are...6 months ago
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Marble Maze Modules - 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...1 year ago
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Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction - 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 ...2 years ago
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