Firm Inside Info Auctions
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In the process of seeing and doing things, firm principals acquire “inside”
info on the future value of their firm, and on the wisdom of particular
firm de...
Saturday: Hili dialogue
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Welcome to CaturSaturday, July 11, 2026. It’s shabbos for Jewish cats and
National Blueberry Muffin Day. I love them but, oy, do they have calories!
Muffin...
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...
The Dollar Trap Is Breaking
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Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff argue that the Iran crisis reveals a
deeper shift: US military power, dollar dominance and Western control are
all weake...
Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability
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In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid
proxy bug can leak HTTP requests.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to...
The dangers of using ungrounded idealisations
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from Lars Syll Using simplifying tractability or heuristic assumptions —
rational expectations, common knowledge, representative agents, linearity,
additiv...
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...
What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
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New article in Jacobin: In Volume 1 of Capital, Karl Marx ventures the
opinion that “classical political economy stumbles approximately onto the
true state...
The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged
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A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to
learn how capitalist countries become socialist, this book will help you.
Let’s ...
Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable
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*Let's pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on
massively subsidizing users' costs. *
*What's already abundantly clear but verboten to ...
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Favorited Ikigai Collective by David Orban Yes, this type of exploration is
important. Without a set purpose as goal, but certainly not without purpose
as ...
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,...
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...
An academic year aburst
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[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...
Octonions and the Standard Model
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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...
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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