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Michael Hudson

Why America is at War with Iran - Prof Michael Hudson on why america is at war with Iran. How far are the neo-cons willing to push it? The post Why America is at War with Iran first appear...
1 hour ago
Overcoming Bias

Combos Cut Long-Shot Bias - Simple betting markets have long suffered from a long-shot bias: long-shots chances are too high, while favorite chances are too low.
7 hours ago
Why Evolution Is True

Colossal Biosciences is still pretending it’s “de-extincted” the dire wolf - If you’ve read this site at all, you’ll know that Colossal Biosciences has pretended that it’s brought an extinct species back to life: the dire wolf (Aeno...
8 hours ago
oftwominds

Meta-Thoughts on the War - *Decades of 'The Fog Machine of War' have jaded the public's appetite for 'Narrative Control'. * *The Fog of War is perhaps better described as The Fog Ma...
9 hours ago
Schneier on Security

Largest DDoS Attack to Date - It was a recently unimaginable 7.3 Tbps: The vast majority of the attack was delivered in the form of User Datagram Protocol packets. Legitimate UDP-base...
14 hours ago
John Quiggin

Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...
1 day ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Trump and Iran, by popular request - I posted this on my Facebook, but several friends asked me to share more widely, so here goes: I voted against Trump three times, and donated thousands to ...
1 day ago
Noahpinion

The economic consequences of a war with Iran - I wouldn't be too worried.
1 day ago
Planetocracy

Perspective on a Failure - Another Starship lost - is the program in trouble, or can SpaceX bounce back?
3 days ago
Azimuth

Polarities (Part 6) - I’ve been working with Adittya Chaudhuri on some ideas related to this series of blog articles, and now our paper is done! • John Baez and Adittya Chaudhur...
3 days ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

HIRING: High-impact writers to join the Energy Talking Points team - Apply to join our content team by submitting an "Energy Talking Points"-style article about an energy or climate issue!
4 days ago
Farnam Street

Indra Nooyi: Leading Without Losing Who You Are [The Knowledge Project Ep. #234] - On her first day as CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi fired her general counsel. Then rehired him before dinner. It wasn’t a stunt. It was a signal. She ran a ...
4 days ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

Patrick McGee: Apple In China — Manifold #88 - Patrick McGee is a longtime FT business reporter with extensive experience reporting on China.
4 days ago
Our Finite World

What should individuals do in a world filled with conflict? - Regardless of how things play out, it is the physics of the self-organizing system that determines what happens next. No matter how offended we as individu...
5 days ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

On holiday until the 26th -
6 days ago
Interdependent Thoughts

A Decade Hence, Self Driving Cars Still Same Blind Spot - My longtime blogging friend Roland Tanglao recently posted something about the horizon for Tesla to reach full self driving, and how it keeps being a decad...
1 week ago
dale lane

How to use kafka-console-consumer.sh to view the contents of Apache Avro-encoded events - kafka-console-consumer.sh is one of the most useful tools in the Kafka user’s toolkit. But if your topic has Avro-encoded events, the output can be a bit h...
1 week ago
Casey Handmer's blog

NASA Is Worth Saving - Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government suppor...
1 week ago
Windows On Theory

Trevisan prize (guest post by Alon Rosen) - The Trevisan Prize for outstanding work in the Theory of Computing is sponsored by the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University and the Itali...
1 week ago
The Philosopher's Beard

Tiny Countries Should Not Exist - There is no good reason for tiny countries to exist, and we should stop making more of them. The World Bank classifies 40 countries as 'small states' on t...
2 weeks ago
Club Troppo

The Magical Mystery of The Beatles - Ian Leslie has released what looks to be a fascinating book about the Beatles and more specifically the relationship between Lennon and McCartney. I though...
2 weeks ago
Jennifer Marohasy

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...
3 weeks ago
Climate Etc.

Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets - by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) Part 3 of this series examines power markets, promoted by policymakers (FERC) and industry advocates to lower costs...
3 weeks ago
Computing Education Blog

Seeking K-12 Computing Teachers With Emerging Bilingual students in their classes - Emma Dodoo is a PhD student working with me. Emma works with K-12 computing teachers who have emerging bilingual (EB) students in their classes, e.g., stud...
3 weeks ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

How is fascism going for you? Here’s how it’s going for me. - [image: Fuzzy speckles of red, black, and yellow, with a circular cutout in the center, and stick figure Amy pushing against its edits, with an angry, resi...
1 month ago
Rodney Brooks

Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots - Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big things in AI at the moment. They are Generative AI and Humanoid Robots. There i...
1 month ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Piero and Me - I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest New Left Review.
2 months ago
C21st Left

European Far Right are Russian Quislings - We need to strongly oppose pacifist opposition to European re-armament. The latter is urgent and essential to defeating Russian fascist aggression in Ukrai...
2 months ago
Tekkie

Re. software engineering: Seeing the wheel - Many years ago, I heard Alan Kay talk about software that’s commonly used as being “a broken wheel.” I had trouble understanding what he meant by that, but...
2 months ago
danah boyd | apophenia

Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society) - For years, I thought that there were two “sides” to the discussion around climate change. There were the people who believed in the science and the people ...
2 months ago
The Snow Report

“Cold calling is psychologically damaging to students”. Discuss. - Image source: MS PowerPoint *Please note - there are extensive comments below this post, including from me. Readers are encouraged to review these an...
2 months ago
STRANGE TIMES

Good News Ukraine. - Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry Occupies” and drones are...
2 months ago
The Ethical Skeptic

Blame: The Original Cryptocurrency - They tie up heavy bundles of blame and place them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to help, siphoning off from the g...
3 months ago
Eli Dourado

Cargo airships are happening - I got something wrong; introducing Airship Industries
8 months ago
Invent To Learn

Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation) - Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo idėjos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idėja – mokytis darant. Visada išmokstama ger...
10 months ago
FabLearn Fellows

Marble Maze Modules - Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring a w...
1 year ago
Milky Eggs

Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction - Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand, we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy years ...
1 year ago