Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
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This is good:
Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python
ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency, we impl...
Why we can’t have nice things
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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...
Global Shakedown
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The conflict with Iran is not about nuclear weapons. It is a struggle over
oil, dollar dominance and whether nations can control their own trade and
reso...
Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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The past few days I read two titles by Kurt Vonnegut, because they were
mentioned in Among Others by Jo Walton that I read last month. The
protagonist in W...
Enough with all the world-historic milestones
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Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of: yeah, I’m aware
of it. In particular: Anyway, about the AI stuff. I don’t know whether this
is l...
I'm Asking You to Support My Work This Month
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*Of Two Minds serves this purpose: taking control of and improving our own
quality of life and security.*
*Once a year I ask you to support my work.* In t...
Rethinking the growth imperative
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from Lars Syll The concept of a ‘growth imperative’ — the idea that
capitalist economies must continually expand — can be fruitfully examined
through the l...
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,...
ECDO Theory Interactive Globe
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An interactive globe showing the basic key features involved in the
Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander (IITPW) proposed by ECDO Theory.
A Pentridge memoir: a political prisoner’s story
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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...
Jordan Triples and the Standard Model
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I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of
articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m
kind o...
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...
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...
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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