iTunes extension for Scratch
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In this post, I want to share a new Scratch extension I made today. It uses
the iTunes Search API to let you search for songs, and play 30 second
previews ...
Geopathology and the Econopathology Behind it
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Michael Hudson argues that America’s oil war reflects a deeper pathology in
US foreign policy: the rejection of sovereignty, reciprocity and
internationa...
Readers’ wildlife photos
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I forgot to post part 2 of Abby Thompson‘s latest batch of California
intertidal photos, so here they are (the first batch is here). Abby’s
captions and ID...
Why Excess Regulation?
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Our world consists of many coupled evolving systems, including systems of
competing species, nations, political parties, firms, cultures, charities,
and ev...
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,...
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update
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In April, Anthropic initated Project Glasswing. The idea was to let
companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own
software. ...
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Favorited The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book by Wouter
Groeneveld On occasion I’ve mentioned here that one way of ensuring
longevity of this ...
On hope
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The comments on my previous post, on recent AI breakthroughs in solving
Erdös problems and beyond, must’ve set some sort of record for the number
of separa...
Interview with Micah Zarin
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I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was
nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot
of energy...
AI is a Meteor. Don’t be a Dinosaur.
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This is a linkpost for my Harvard Crimson op-ed for its commencement issue.
I will not reproduce the whole text here, but my advice to the class of
2026 is...
CHI 2026 trip report: ay ay AI
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[image: wood latices hanging from the ceiling of a beige foyer.]The foyer
lattice of the International Barcelona Convention Center
There is never a good ti...
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...
Rethinking climate change
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by Nicola Scafetta My new book is now published: The Frontier of Climate
Science: Solar Variability, Natural Cycles and Model Uncertainty For more
than t...
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...