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Sailing the Stormy Seas of AI - *Forecasts of AI's future impacts must be viewed with skepticism, as AI and its promoters are adept at saying what we want to hear rather than telling us t...19 hours ago
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More misguided critique of the modern theory of evolution—in Skeptic magazine - A recent Skeptic magazine features George Levine’s review of a new book by Jessica Riskin: The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionar...20 hours ago
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No, China did not manage to avoid a crash - But there are still things we can learn from how they manage their macroeconomy.1 day ago
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Why So Lucky In Weights? - The website InTheWeights.Com rates people on a 0-1000 scale re how well they are known by LLMs.1 day 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,...1 day ago
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How Slave States Blocked America’s Industrial Credit System - Michael Hudson explains how the slave states’ defence of states’ rights reached far beyond slavery itself, shaping U.S. monetary and banking policy for m...1 day ago
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What is Agency? - The Age of Artificial Intelligence compels a redefinition of agency from the traditional notion of capacity for independent action to the modern reality of...1 day 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 day ago
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Why I enjoy my commute - My commute to work is one of the favourite parts of my day. I’ve mentioned it before, more often than I probably should, but in this post I try and explain...2 days ago
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Happy 250th! - I’m at the New Jersey shore with family and friends, where we’ve spent this Fourth of July eating hot dogs, playing miniature golf, and wading into the oce...2 days ago
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CO₂ Is Not a Single Global Number — And the Lindzen-Happer Chart Pretends It Is - Reducing atmospheric CO₂ to a single number makes as much sense as a mean global temperature, and it is a pity they are both remodelled by the political ...3 days ago
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Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates - This is from a 2024 company presentation: Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporar...3 days ago
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Beff Jezos and Effective Accelerationism: Machine God of Loving Grace - Manifold #115 - Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) is a Canadian physicist, quantum computing researcher, and tech entrepreneur.4 days 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...6 days ago
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The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante - Steve Cohen and Rory McIlroy share the same performance coach. For the next 90 minutes, he’s yours too. Dr. Gio Valiante is the world’s leading performan...6 days ago
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Celebrating 100 Years: Avi 70 + CSDM 30 (June 14-18, 2027) - [Guest post by Amir Shpilka and Irit Dinur] https://www.ias.edu/math/events/celebrating-100-years-avi-70-csdm-30 The Institute for Advanced Study’s School ...1 week ago
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Beyond Straw Men and False Choices: Guest Post by G. Reid Lyon, PhD - Image source *Dr Reid Lyon is a neuroscientist who completed his pre-and postdoctoral training in learning disorders, developmental neurophysiology an...1 week ago
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Why Oil Shortages May Bring Lower Prices–and Recession - Rather than high prices, my major concerns are recession and the disappearing availability of goods and services that we rely on. This might be similar to ...1 week ago
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Quick Thoughts on Wealth - from Dean Baker Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar payday from the IPO of SpaceX has hugely amplified the public’s focus on extreme wealth inequality. Musk’s econ...2 weeks 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...2 weeks ago
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An academic year aburst - [image: An orange and blue sunset against the Puget Sound.]The sunset in Edmonds, WA, late summer 2025. It’s the first Monday after the end of my 2025–26 a...2 weeks ago
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Octonions and the Standard Model - Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional Jordan alge...2 weeks ago
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Why America can’t build the natural gas pipelines it needs — my interview with Senator Alan Armstrong - Natural gas pipelines don’t emit anything that can contaminate water. Yet the Clean Water Act lets states that dislike interstate pipelines block them for ...4 weeks ago
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New book review of The Story of Capital by Matt McManus for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books - For many of us, David Harvey was our introduction to Marxism. Whether it was the seminal course on Capital that went viral after the recession, his famous ...4 weeks ago
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The revolution next time: Wiser and on firmer ground – David McMullen - (Thanks to David McMullen for permission to share this. I recommend his substack ‘David’s Political Substack‘) Platypus Review 187 | June 2026 WHEN A RADIC...5 weeks 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...3 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...3 months ago
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Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 - 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...6 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...6 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...8 months ago
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