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- Bill Kerr
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The two-state delusion - As I reported recently, UK foreign secretary Ed Miliband (under Labour) announced that a new government’s policy would (if passed) include imposing sanctio...5 hours ago
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Malicious npm Packages That Evade Defenses - This is an impressive piece of malware. Its sophistication says nation-state to me, but there is no direct evidence and certainly no attribution.9 hours ago
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What's the Point of AI, Anyway? - *The point of AI is profit, dependence and dominance cloaked with Happy Story Hoopla about super-abundance. We have a super-abundance already--of malicious...3 days ago
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The Word Economics Erased - Michael Hudson on why economic rent, the concept classical economists spent a century arguing over, disappeared from the textbooks, and what recovering i...4 days 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...4 days ago
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Theory Beyond Theorems and Proofs: A Guest Post - Scott’s foreword: I’m extremely grateful to my brilliant colleagues, Pravesh Kothari, Raghu Meka, and Prasad Raghavendra, for sharing the guest post below ...4 days ago
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The Arc of Moral Authority: From Tradition To Interiors To Prices - We are now in the modern era, a brief but consequential few centuries in the history of Earth civilization, between the long ages of a pre-modern era, and ...6 days ago
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Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work - Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an A...2 weeks ago
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Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) and Machine God AI Documentary - RSI section from our AI documentary Machine God — Enjoy!2 weeks ago
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Dealing with the AI productivity boom: We do know how to share the wealth - from Dean Baker Regular readers know that I am skeptical that AI will lead to a massive uptick in productivity growth, and therefore large-scale job loss (...2 weeks ago
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Exploring the Cosmos Together - Narratives pitting public and private space enterprises against each other miss the point.2 weeks ago
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Saturday Is For Chores - Walking in the city center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch this afternoon, I saw this person fixing their bike. In the midst of shoppers, tools were spread out and foc...2 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?2 weeks 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 ...2 weeks ago
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SOME FORGOTTEN MARXISM – Bazza’s podcast, featuring David McMullen, September 2026 - In this episode, I speak with Marxist writer and economist David McMullen about his political development, from the radical student movement at Monash Univ...3 weeks ago
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If our politicians care about affordability, they will pass permitting reform - The #1 election issue in America this year is affordability. The #1 thing this Congress can do for affordability is pass permitting reform.3 weeks ago
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Stonehenge I Moon Circle and ECDO Theory - Our speculation in this article, particularly as it pertains to Structure 5 of the earliest rendition of Stonehenge — a moon circle, rather than a sun circ...3 weeks ago
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Net Zero as Ponzi Scheme Twice Over, A Meta Example - In eastern Oregon, Meta runs a large data centre at Prineville. It uses ordinary utility power, that could be coal-fired. But no one uses plain English ...3 weeks ago
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Guest post: The Unfinished Work of Professionalizing Reading Education - I* am pleased to publish this guest post* by G. Reid Lyon PhD and Doug Carnine, PhD:* *Why a Common Knowledge Foundation and Professional Language Are Es...4 weeks ago
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Math after AI - For a very long time, my favorite activity was to sit and think about mathematical questions. Staring at a blank sheet of paper, trying to grasp in my mind...4 weeks 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...4 weeks ago
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A week of fika: ACM ICER 2026 - A peaceful Wednesday night by the water. By the end of this academic year, I needed a vacation. It was a year of major disruptions to my federal research f...5 weeks 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...1 month 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...2 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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