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- Bill Kerr
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On hope - 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...1 day ago
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BRICS Doesn’t Need a New Bancor - Michael Hudson and Kathleen Tyson discuss why the post-dollar world is not likely to be built around a single BRICS currency, but through local currency ...1 day ago
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Is the U.S. Trade Deficit a Loss or a Gain? - from Xiaoping Gu Is the U.S. Trade Deficit a Loss or a Gain? The U.S. government initiated the trade war based on the “Deficit-as-Loss” narrative. But is t...1 day ago
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Tuesday: Hili dialogue - Welcome to the cruelest day: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 and National I Love My Dentist Day. Although I don’t love my dentist, he is honest, cautious, won’t do ...1 day ago
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The Intersection of Encryption and AI - *As part of their 20th Anniversary celebration, Dark Reading asked five cybersecurity industry leaders who wrote blogs or columns for them over the years...1 day ago
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Interview with Micah Zarin - 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...1 day ago
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The revolution next time: Wiser and on firmer ground – David McMullen - (Thanks to David McMullen for permission to share this. I recommend his substack ‘David’s Political Substack‘) Platypus Review 187 | June 2026 WHEN A RADIC...1 day ago
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AI Data Centers Are Not the Railroads of Today - *The AI boom shares all the risk profiles of previous speculative manias but lacks society-wide benefits while generating fast-metastasizing negative conse...2 days ago
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The way we treat pigs is a sin - The practice of "crating" is torture, plain and simple. Voters want to end it, but Congress might not let them.3 days ago
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AI is a Meteor. Don’t be a Dinosaur. - 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...4 days ago
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Book Review: “Capital’s Media, Digital Command, and the Fate of Public Communication: Reflections on David Harvey’s The Story of Capital” - The Story of Capital makes a major contribution to Marxist theory and critical communication studies. Harvey offers a synthetic, lucid, and expansive accou...6 days ago
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Proven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on the Rules of Innovation - Mark Pincus built Zynga into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and helped shape the early era of social products on the internet. Public R...6 days ago
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Data Space Standardisation in a Volcano - Trains at Atocha station Madrid I spent the week in Ciudad Real in Spain, under an hour by high speed train (~200km) south of Madrid. I was there for a ple...1 week ago
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Why Democrats and Republicans both need comprehensive permitting reform - Both Republicans and Democrats should absolutely want strong NEPA reform, strong Clean Water Act reform, strong transmission reform, and permitting certainty.1 week ago
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AI Billionaire on Existential Risk: Jaan Tallinn, Manifold episode #112 - Jaan Tallinn is a tech billionaire and founding engineer of Skype who leverages his wealth to mitigate existential risks from artificial general intelligen...1 week ago
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Presenting at Current / Kafka Summit - A few of us at Current this week were talking about how Current (formerly “Kafka Summit”) has changed over the years, and it got me remembering the bits I’...1 week ago
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Pet Haidt - One my betes noires has been in the news lately. Jonathan Haidt has been annoying me since at least 2012, when I was critical of his bothsidesism on the cu...1 week ago
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China and US Trade Talks: A Solution for Oil Shortages? - President Trump of the US and President Xi of China will be meeting in Beijing on May 14-15. This meeting would seem to be the perfect time to start reorga...3 weeks ago
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How to build a lunar mass driver - Casey Handmer May 2026 What? Elon has recently (late 2025, early 2026) been talking about building many terawatts of orbital AI compute and launching some ...3 weeks ago
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Cognitive load theory meets trauma-informed practice - Image source: ChatGPT One of the defining aspects of education is the number of narratives running at any one time. It can be quite noisy. Sometimes th...4 weeks ago
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CHI 2026 trip report: ay ay AI - [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...1 month ago
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The Post-Westphalian World: Reflections on Trump 2.0's Military Adventurism - *The weak are meat, and the strong do eat* *(Cloud Atlas)* The international rules based order sets normative expectations, deters transgressions, and ma...1 month ago
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Retracing steps - 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...2 months ago
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Inversion — ECDO Theory: The Hidden Mechanism Driving Cataclysm, Cultural Tradition, and Climate - Inversion — ECDO Theory - The Hidden Mechanism Driving Cataclysm, Cultural Tradition, and Climate. Coming April 2026 - A New Knowledge.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...2 months ago
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Rethinking climate change - 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...2 months ago
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Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 - 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...5 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...5 months ago
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ACAMIS 2025 Resources by Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager - New 2025 Materials & Programming Environment Links The Eight Big Ideas Behind Constructionism by Seymour Papert (in multiple languages) Logo books, artic...7 months ago
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Complicating the IPCC Planck Feedback, Plank #4 of Climate Resilience Theory - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an idea about how the Earth cools itself: when the planet’s surface warms up, it sends more heat...1 year ago
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