On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras
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A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and
arrested using data from Flock cameras has gone viral.
The New Jersey plates that ...
Berghütte / Galel by Fanny Desarzens
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A lovely novella and the 2022 debut by francophone Swiss author Fanny
Desarzens (1993). I read the German translation, titled Berghütte (mountain
cabin), G...
The K-Shaped Collapse of the US Economy
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Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai explain how Trump’s MAGA economy rests on
war, debt, asset bubbles and a shrinking real economy.
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Galilean Limits of Electromagnetism
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Maxwell’s equations are invariant under Lorentz transformations. The usual
equations of fluid flow are not! Like the rest of Newtonian mechanics,
they’re i...
The dispensable nation – updated
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As I observed last year, the statement that “The cemeteries are full of
indispensable people.” is just as true of nations, and in particular the
US. That w...
AI Is the Apex of Ultra-Processed Life
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*We are Superman strapped to a carefully machined chunk of Kryptonite we
can no longer detach.*
*I wrote Ultra-Processed Life to describe a peculiarly per...
All Watched Over
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I’ve recently been rereading Steven Levy’s “Hackers” with my daughter. Levy
describes how Brautigan’s 1967 poem “All watched over by machines of loving
gra...
CSTA 2026: CS teaching 2.0
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[image: Rows of teachers interlined by arms, standing, facing stage, .]We
all hold hands at the Tuesday plenary.
Over my many years of traveling to confere...
The Ghosts of Antonio Gramsci
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Andy Merrifield’s Roses for Gramsci, a highly personal history of the
Italian thinker and his work, examines his influence across generations.
Book Review ...
23 Responses to Economics’ Biggest-ever Question
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Economicsandthe Biophysical Limits to Economic Growth Edited by Edward
Fullbrook and Jamie Morgan For over a century economics has loosely guided
the glob...
CHINA AND THE LEFT – forum transcript
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On September 25, 2025, the Platypus Affiliated Society chapter at the
Australian National University hosted a public forum on China and The Left.
The speak...
Stratospheric Radiative Cooling from CO₂
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The stratosphere has been cooling over recent decades as atmospheric CO₂
has risen. This occurs because CO₂ in the cold, thin air of the
stratosphere bec...
Generative AI with tool calling in Scratch
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In this post, I want to share a new feature in the generative AI support in
Machine Learning for Kids: tool calling. I wrote last year about how I
introduc...
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...
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...
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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