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- Bill Kerr
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Caturday felid trifecta: Cat breeds that can’t be rehomed; cat taste testers; Pasadena’s CatCon; and lagniappe - We have three items today. The first, from AnimalsAroundTheGlobe, describes 19 cat breeds that, so the author claims, bond so much with their staff that th...12 hours ago
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Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling - There is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed).13 hours ago
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Before the Chicxulub Meteor Impact - New research shows that squid lived all around the globe even before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. As usual, you can also use this squi...1 day ago
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Prefer Evolved To Folk Morality - Individuals often have good reasons to indulge in delusions, such as re superstition, astrology, religion, or their own personal destiny.2 days ago
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Norwegian Book Shopping - To me the variety of languages in Europe is highly valuable, something to cherish. Even if in practice it also provides many hurdles, in order to bridge la...2 days ago
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Big insight for the AI will take all the jobs gang: Work Hours are NOT fixed - from Dean Baker Having followed economic policy debate closely for four decades, I’ve learned that common sense often has no place. It is a standard practi...2 days ago
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Truth Be Told - *The ultimate truth is revealing the truth of the situation and our feelings about it are a relief, and the starting point to moving forward in a positive ...2 days ago
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Nobel Travesty – Again - I stopped calling myself an economist in the 1970s. Debt, the balance of payments and monetary imperialism were central to what I studied, but increasing...3 days ago
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AI – for whom? - Artificial intelligence is commonly presented as either a technological miracle or an existential threat. Yet the most immediate question is political: who...4 days ago
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Podcasts about the Topic - “The Topic” being, of course, the Mathocalypse, except sometimes with AI alignment and even quantum computing and complexity theory and other stuff thrown ...4 days ago
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After 46 years of failed attempts, America finally has the opportunity to fix permitting - Our government is on the verge of passing freedom-to-build legislation that will make everything more affordable. Help make it happen by demanding that you...5 days ago
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Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes - Ryan Serhant is a real estate broker, founder of SERHANT., and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and Netflix’s Owning Manhattan. Public Rel...1 week ago
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A Proposed Reclassification of the Ancestral Column-Capital Orders - Aeolic column capitals should be recognized as an ancestral architectural order in its own right, while the traditional Ionic order is more coherently clas...2 weeks ago
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Theory of Climate Resilience – Plank 1, Summary with Hector - It is a very arrogant thing perhaps: laying out a whole new theory of climate change as I intend to do. I will continue to the end. There are nine plank...2 weeks ago
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CS 2881 Fall 26: Lecture 1: Introduction - Lecture Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WSktB5Ni0 Authors’ Intro Hanjing: I’m a Junior studying Applied Mathematics & CS. I’ve worked on research...3 weeks ago
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Guest post: The “Yeah But” Brigade: Moving on from education’s uncomfortable relationship with data. - *This is a guest blog post by James Benson*, a South Australian secondary teacher with nearly 20 years classroom and leadership experience across a range...3 weeks ago
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How deep is Tulainyo Lake? - Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket list a few years ago. Last week I did it. Impossibly remote, otherworldly beaut...3 weeks ago
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Flawed premises in AI doomerism - [image: A stack of wavy lines, some more angular waves, a vertical barrier, lots of pastel ellipses, and a brown ground, with a mechanical flower in the mi...4 weeks ago
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Minsky’s Society of Mind & The OpenAI — Hugging Face Hack - Anthropomorphizing aside, should we be legitimately concerned over the “emergence” of unforeseen capabilities in groups of interacting agents?1 month ago
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Trump Is Definitely Considering Nuking Iran - Source: Hotpot.aiTrump is in a tight spot with the Iran war and needs to find a way out before the midterms. A tactical nuclear strike on Iran's nuclear ...1 month ago
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Adding support for remote jar fetching in Flink session clusters - I’ve submitted a Flink Improvement Proposal (FLIP) about adding support for Flink to be able to fetch remote jars for applications submitted to a session c...1 month ago
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Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment - I have come to understand four very different time scales for development of technologies and their deployments. And I think people often jump between the...2 months 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...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...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...9 months ago
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