In December, last year at Polly Farmer we had a visit from Jono (check out his awesome site) to show us how to do Claymation. Here are some of the results. I did the nerdy maths one and the kids did the more creative ones.
“Wild Rose” with Jessie Buckley
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One of the finest new movies I’ve seen in the last decade or so was
“Hamnet” (2025), about Shakespeare’s relationship with his family and his
writing and p...
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...
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 ...
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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 ...
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...
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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