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Self-Hosting Excalidraw Is Not Really Fully Self-Hosted Without Forking - For a while now I’ve been running an Excalidraw instance on my VPS (with Yunohost). Excalidraw is a virtual whiteboard, and a useful tool to me. Excalidraw...8 hours ago
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Democracy with a Wealth Veto - In this discussion with Radhika Desai, I return to a question running through my work on economic history: how have oligarchies protected their wealth ag...20 hours ago
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Why I’m becoming a China bear - The country was perfectly positioned to win in a world that no longer exists.1 day ago
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Project Follow-Through: A lesson in cultivating orchids, not dandelions. - Image: ChatGPT Regardless of what people have to say about the methodological imperfections of Project Follow-Through (PFT; see also here and here), ...1 day ago
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Jurassic Squid Predecessors - News story: “Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic ‘squid’ unlike anything ever seen.” Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovere...1 day ago
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GPT-6 Astra Covertly Underperforms on Safety Research Tasks - For a while, UK AISI, Redwood Research and others have been concerned specifically with the possibility that AIs would sabotage safety research, and have i...2 days ago
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"Angry Voters": What Are We Angry About? - *Maybe voters are frustrated that no matter who they elect, nothing in the economic machinery of soaring inequality, debt and servitude changes. * *Here's...2 days ago
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Thoughts on a historic week - As everyone knows, this week was a (an?) historic one for the State of Texas and for the United States as a whole—because this is the week when my wife Dan...3 days ago
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Machine God at the University of Chicago – Manifold Episode #124 - The student AI club sponsored a private screening of Machine God on Oct 24, 2026.3 days ago
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The Fermi Paradox is a Religious Stage Trick - The Fermi Paradox is less an instrument of inquiry than it is a salesman’s tool, exploiting the credulity of an unsuspecting audience.The ethical skeptic e...4 days ago
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Class Bound? - from Peter Radford First, let me re-iterate my core message: Modern democracy emerged only because society was generally prosperous enough to support the s...4 days ago
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Mass Value Report for October 2026 - The switch over to Starship accelerates as the Artemis program takes shape6 days ago
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CS 2881 Fall 26: Lecture 3: Modern LLM Training and Inference - September 17, 2026 · Boaz Barak · Scribe notes by Daniel Schwartz, Dev Desai, and Ed Gerrard Lecture Video: https://youtu.be/Lp_e8Ts5-nE Slides: Presenta...1 week ago
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How Flink’s Kafka connector commits offsets to Kafka - An unnecessarily deep dive into how Flink commits Kafka consumer offsets. A pull request of mine was merged into this week. A ridiculous number of sketches...2 weeks ago
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It took me seven months to get my baby an Australian passport - I’m an Australian father of four, living in the US. Something of a corner case. Nevertheless, getting my kids Australian citizenship by descent, and then A...2 weeks ago
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Write letters! - There is an opening to express leftwing views through writing letters to the editors of newspapers. I’ve had some recent success. I urge my comrades to do ...2 weeks ago
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Dr. Aadarsh Padiyath finishes his PhD: GenAI contracts, adversarial thinking, and ethics without whistleblowing - Aadarsh Padiyath defended his dissertation in March, 2026. Aadarsh is well-known to readers of this blog. Aadarsh had a guest post in 2024 exploring the te...2 weeks ago
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Australia’s Historical Temperatures, Update Following Tom Berger Forensic Audit - When journalist Graham Lloyd rang me a few months ago about the Sydney Observatory temperatures, I already had a guess. The Australian Bureau of Meteorol...3 weeks ago
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After 46 years of failed attempts, America finally has the opportunity to fix permitting - Our government is on the verge of passing freedom-to-build legislation that will make everything more affordable. Help make it happen by demanding that you...3 weeks ago
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Minsky’s Society of Mind & The OpenAI — Hugging Face Hack - Anthropomorphizing aside, should we be legitimately concerned over the “emergence” of unforeseen capabilities in groups of interacting agents?2 months ago
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Trump Is Definitely Considering Nuking Iran - Source: Hotpot.aiTrump is in a tight spot with the Iran war and needs to find a way out before the midterms. A tactical nuclear strike on Iran's nuclear ...2 months ago
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Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment - I have come to understand four very different time scales for development of technologies and their deployments. And I think people often jump between the...3 months ago
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Some thoughts about Bondi - 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...10 months ago
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