How Washington Uses Energy as a Weapon
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This essay argues that control of the global oil trade is a core instrument
of U.S. power, underpinning dollar-based finance and coercive diplomacy. It
f...
Why Is Everything Such a Hot Mess?
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*Nobody believes that "doing more of what's failed" will actually fail,
because to date it's only made insiders rich. *
*Why Is Everything Such a Hot Mess...
Flink SQL examples with click tracking events
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In this post, I introduce a few core Flink SQL functions using worked
examples of processing a stream of click tracking events from a retail
website. I fin...
Should there be even more curbs on free speech?
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Reader Gingerbaker called my attention to a Substack post by Elder of Ziyon
(henceforth “EoZ”), who also has an extensive and useful pro-Israel
website I’v...
Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations
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Fascinating research:
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs.
*Abstract*LLMs are useful because they generalize so well. ...
Koppermaandag and Artisanal Knowledge Work
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Het is Koppermaandag! Vanuit mijn perspectief op kenniswerk sluit ik me
vandaag eens aan bij die lange traditie. Shout-out naar @roy@yoroy.eu voor
de onbew...
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,...
FREEDOM (while hoping my friends stay safe)
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This deserves to become one of the iconic images of human history,
alongside the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square and so forth. Here’s Sharifi
Zarchi, a comput...
Some quick thoughts on Venezuela from a comrade
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Some quick thoughts on Venezuela from a comrade: 1. Reuters confirms
agreement to divert Venezuela oil to US will not affect China much even
short term. On...
Update on Australian NetZero efforts
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by Chris Morris People have queried what is happening in Australia with
their push for a decarbonised all renewables/ Net Zero grid since the last
update...
High and higher. US credit card rates.
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Increasingly, we have to pay to pay. Directly, but also indirectly. For
instance, credit card payments entail borrowing, and debts entail interest
payments...
Sylvester and Clifford on Curved Space
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Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but
let’s go back earlier: On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent
mathematician Sylve...
Its Your Job To Keep Your Secrets
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In the last month, many who want to kill Polymarket have agreed on a common
strategy: claim that Polymarket allows illegal “insider trading”.
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...
2026: Expect a very uneven world economic downturn
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The Maximum Power Principle strongly suggests that even as limits are hit,
the world economy cannot be expected to collapse all at once. Instead, the
most ...
A good summation of the VPRI STEPS project
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I learned about STEPS from the ViewPoints Research Institute (VPRI) in
about 2008. It’s goal was to create a usable office system, from the ground
up (incl...
Energy Predictions 2025
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Printable pdf. It’s been a few years since I wrote a broad post on energy,
so I’m providing an update in one easy to read place. More detailed
specific pos...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
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From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth
birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled
contr...
Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
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Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years
ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite
nothing. T...
The Final Step of the Scientific Method
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An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive
logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by
their habit: ...
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