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,...
Bringing Claude Code to the Local Machine
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Favorited Ollama Claude Code integration by Ollama Favorited LM Studio
Claude Code integration by LM Studio blog Last Friday I participated in a
workshop b...
Guest Post from an Iranian
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The following guest post was written by a Shtetl-Optimized fan in Iran,
who’s choosing to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. I’m in awe of the
courage o...
Direct Current Data Centers
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Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert Originally posted at the Terraform Blog. This
post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev
Level 1 s...
Doing well by doing good: Dump your American stocks
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from Dean Baker Before I go further here, let me qualify everything I’m
saying here with a warning: I have no crystal ball from which to give
people invest...
Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships
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Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA and helped reshape Hollywood, then took the
same playbook into tech investing and advising founders. Public Release:
Februar...
How to explain Generative AI in the classroom
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Generative AI is fast becoming an everyday tool across almost every field
and industry. Teaching children about it should include an understanding of
how i...
Europe’s Cold War Trap
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Richard D. Wolff and Michael Hudson argue that Europe has entered a
structural crisis with no clean exit. They examine the failed attempt to
seize Russia...
Tiny Musical Intervals
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Music theorists have studied many fractions of the form 2i 3j 5k that are
close to 1. They’re called 5-limit commas. Especially cherished are those
that ha...
Thoughts on Claude’s Constitution
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[I work on the alignment team at OpenAI. However, these are my personal
thoughts, and do not reflect those of OpenAI. Crossposted on LessWrong] I
have read...
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...
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...
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...
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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