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- tragically, I was right
- OLPC: what is going on?
- chess: Kerr - Colin Cloudsdale (plausible idiocy)
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- teaching fractions through instructional design
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- slipping into the darkness of non creative safety
- maths education crisis in Australia - the long tai...
- thoughts on reading "we earth neurons"
- maths should evolve, with computers
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- how the left became conservative
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The Bubble Beneath the Empire - Michael Hudson and Steve Keen explain how financialisation, oil shocks and rising debt could turn inflation into a global debt-deflation crisis. The post ...16 hours ago
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Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026 - I am grateful that Anthropic is producing periodic Risk Reports.19 hours ago
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Edu-sociology: a sad but important time of reckoning - This is in part, a blog-post I have been meaning to prepare for a few weeks but have been delayed by the commencement of some long-service leave and over...19 hours ago
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Michael Rabin Memorial Conference - As part of Mind-IL.- Israel’s Science and Academia Week (which also is around the Israeli election) there would be a special conference in honor of Michael...20 hours ago
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Barack Obama, Larry David, and the tan suit - This comedy video, starring Barack Obama and Larry David, shows that the ex-President is a natural actor and comedian. (I’ve added a Facebook post below th...1 day ago
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The Economics of Swifties - Yesterday, on my Substack Newsletter, I ran my first gimmick promotion for the Brisbane to Gold Coast Ride against Cancer [1]. I invited anyone who donated...1 day ago
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In Our "Everything is Disposable" Economy, We're Disposable, Too - *Authentic community takes time and effort and a set of values and priorities that can't be commoditized into a profit-maximizing venture or government pro...1 day ago
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Last Flickr Embeds Finally Removed - I today replaced the last handful of embedded Flickr images with self hosted copies, that merely link back to the source at Flickr. This way I am certain t...1 day ago
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How Unstable Power Corrupts Australia’s Temperature Record - Since 1996 the Bureau of Meteorology has been replacing liquid-in-glass thermometers with electronic probes connected to automatic weather stations. The ...2 days ago
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Michael Rabin memorial conference - Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) Adi Akavia has asked me to publicize that she’s helping to organize an exciting CS conference called Mind-IL ...2 days ago
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No-New-Physics Consciousness - There is a vast literature near the topic of this post, much of which has developed specialized vocabularies and concepts.4 days ago
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At the Edge of the Possible: An Intellectual Biography of Stephen Hsu - Note: This intellectual history was produced by GPT, with additional fact-checking and corrections by Qwen and Gemini.4 days ago
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A week of fika: ACM ICER 2026 - A peaceful Wednesday night by the water. By the end of this academic year, I needed a vacation. It was a year of major disruptions to my federal research f...4 days ago
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The New Berlin Wall - One of the key debates of the 21st century strangely echoes the 20th century.5 days ago
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Cherry-picking economic models - from Lars Syll How would you react if a renowned physicist, say, Richard Feynman, were telling you that sometimes force is proportional to acceleration and...5 days ago
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Roblox CEO: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First - David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. Publi...6 days ago
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Three Generations in E7 - It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with...1 week ago
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Why we can’t have nice things - Looking at the server request logs for Machine Learning for Kids is a depressing reminder of what it means to run something on the Internet nowadays. I was...1 week ago
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Affordability, Not Scarcity, Is the Real Energy Crisis - With the recent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, many expect oil prices to spike and stay high. . . . Looking at energy data going back to 1820, low demand...1 week 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...2 weeks ago
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ECDO Theory Interactive Globe - An interactive globe showing the basic key features involved in the Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander (IITPW) proposed by ECDO Theory.2 weeks ago
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A Pentridge memoir: a political prisoner’s story - Please indulge me in this promotion of my new book ‘A Pentridge memoir: a political prisoner’s story’. A few readers might be interested and, as the book i...2 weeks ago
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Interview: David Harvey on Marx and Capitalism - Doomscroll Podcast with Joshua CitarellaWhitney Museum of American ArtJuly 28, 2026 The Story of Capital is available now from Verso Books.3 weeks ago
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Why both Republicans and Democrats should support aggressive permitting reform - Bipartisan deals are often impossible, but on permitting it’s totally possible—because permitting delays kill projects that members of both parties deeply ...4 weeks ago
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Climate Etc. is now an archive - 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...1 month ago
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Everyone hates Neoliberalism – But We’ll Still Miss It When It’s Gone - *Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.* H. L. Mencken Neoliberalism is doomed because...1 month ago
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In Defense of the Marginal Baby - 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...1 month ago
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Retracing steps - 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...4 months ago
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Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer - 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...4 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...7 months 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...10 months ago
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