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Largest DDoS Attack to Date - It was a recently unimaginable 7.3 Tbps: The vast majority of the attack was delivered in the form of User Datagram Protocol packets. Legitimate UDP-base...4 hours ago
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Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...21 hours ago
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Sexism Promoted Farmer Monogamy? - Compared to farmers, foragers were more egalitarian and had more communal property, food-sharing, and child-rearing.21 hours ago
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Trump and Iran, by popular request - I posted this on my Facebook, but several friends asked me to share more widely, so here goes: I voted against Trump three times, and donated thousands to ...1 day ago
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Perspective on a Failure - Another Starship lost - is the program in trouble, or can SpaceX bounce back?3 days ago
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Polarities (Part 6) - I’ve been working with Adittya Chaudhuri on some ideas related to this series of blog articles, and now our paper is done! • John Baez and Adittya Chaudhur...3 days ago
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HIRING: High-impact writers to join the Energy Talking Points team - Apply to join our content team by submitting an "Energy Talking Points"-style article about an energy or climate issue!3 days ago
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Indra Nooyi: Leading Without Losing Who You Are [The Knowledge Project Ep. #234] - On her first day as CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi fired her general counsel. Then rehired him before dinner. It wasn’t a stunt. It was a signal. She ran a ...4 days ago
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Patrick McGee: Apple In China — Manifold #88 - Patrick McGee is a longtime FT business reporter with extensive experience reporting on China.4 days ago
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How Housing Bubble #2 Bursts - *Corporate / private equity / STVR investors are all fair-weather owners of housing.* *Let's indulge in some basic logic:* 1. All credit-asset bubbles b...4 days ago
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How the Draft Dilemma has Shaped Modern Warfare - Explore how oil drives U.S. foreign policy and underpins military strategy—from covert interventions to proxy wars. Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff expl...4 days ago
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What should individuals do in a world filled with conflict? - Regardless of how things play out, it is the physics of the self-organizing system that determines what happens next. No matter how offended we as individu...5 days ago
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A Decade Hence, Self Driving Cars Still Same Blind Spot - My longtime blogging friend Roland Tanglao recently posted something about the horizon for Tesla to reach full self driving, and how it keeps being a decad...1 week ago
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How to use kafka-console-consumer.sh to view the contents of Apache Avro-encoded events - kafka-console-consumer.sh is one of the most useful tools in the Kafka user’s toolkit. But if your topic has Avro-encoded events, the output can be a bit h...1 week ago
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NASA Is Worth Saving - Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government suppor...1 week ago
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Trevisan prize (guest post by Alon Rosen) - The Trevisan Prize for outstanding work in the Theory of Computing is sponsored by the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University and the Itali...1 week ago
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Tiny Countries Should Not Exist - There is no good reason for tiny countries to exist, and we should stop making more of them. The World Bank classifies 40 countries as 'small states' on t...2 weeks ago
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The Magical Mystery of The Beatles - Ian Leslie has released what looks to be a fascinating book about the Beatles and more specifically the relationship between Lennon and McCartney. I though...2 weeks 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...3 weeks ago
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Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets - by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) Part 3 of this series examines power markets, promoted by policymakers (FERC) and industry advocates to lower costs...3 weeks 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...3 weeks ago
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How is fascism going for you? Here’s how it’s going for me. - [image: Fuzzy speckles of red, black, and yellow, with a circular cutout in the center, and stick figure Amy pushing against its edits, with an angry, resi...1 month ago
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Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots - Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big things in AI at the moment. They are Generative AI and Humanoid Robots. There i...1 month ago
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Piero and Me - I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest New Left Review.1 month ago
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European Far Right are Russian Quislings - We need to strongly oppose pacifist opposition to European re-armament. The latter is urgent and essential to defeating Russian fascist aggression in Ukrai...2 months ago
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Re. software engineering: Seeing the wheel - Many years ago, I heard Alan Kay talk about software that’s commonly used as being “a broken wheel.” I had trouble understanding what he meant by that, but...2 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 ...2 months ago
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“Cold calling is psychologically damaging to students”. Discuss. - Image source: MS PowerPoint *Please note - there are extensive comments below this post, including from me. Readers are encouraged to review these an...2 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...2 months ago
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Blame: The Original Cryptocurrency - They tie up heavy bundles of blame and place them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to help, siphoning off from the g...3 months ago
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Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation) - Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo idėjos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idėja – mokytis darant. Visada išmokstama ger...10 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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