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Michael Hudson

The Bubble Beneath the Empire - Michael Hudson and Steve Keen explain how financialisation, oil shocks and rising debt could turn inflation into a global debt-deflation crisis. The post ...
13 hours ago
Don't Worry About the Vase

Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026 - I am grateful that Anthropic is producing periodic Risk Reports.
16 hours ago
The Snow Report

Edu-sociology: a sad but important time of reckoning - This is in part, a blog-post I have been meaning to prepare for a few weeks but have been delayed by the commencement of some long-service leave and over...
16 hours ago
Windows On Theory

Michael Rabin Memorial Conference - As part of Mind-IL.- Israel’s Science and Academia Week (which also is around the Israeli election) there would be a special conference in honor of Michael...
17 hours ago
Why Evolution Is True

Barack Obama, Larry David, and the tan suit - This comedy video, starring Barack Obama and Larry David, shows that the ex-President is a natural actor and comedian. (I’ve added a Facebook post below th...
21 hours ago
Schneier on Security

LLMs and Contextual Integrity - I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity. Part of that is contextual integrity. I recently found two papers on the topic. “CIMemories: A Composi...
1 day ago
Noahpinion

Where to eat in San Francisco - Part 1 of my personal recommendations.
1 day ago
John Quiggin

The Economics of Swifties - Yesterday, on my Substack Newsletter, I ran my first gimmick promotion for the Brisbane to Gold Coast Ride against Cancer [1]. I invited anyone who donated...
1 day ago
oftwominds

In Our "Everything is Disposable" Economy, We're Disposable, Too - *Authentic community takes time and effort and a set of values and priorities that can't be commoditized into a profit-maximizing venture or government pro...
1 day ago
Interdependent Thoughts

Last Flickr Embeds Finally Removed - I today replaced the last handful of embedded Flickr images with self hosted copies, that merely link back to the source at Flickr. This way I am certain t...
1 day ago
Jennifer Marohasy

How Unstable Power Corrupts Australia’s Temperature Record - Since 1996 the Bureau of Meteorology has been replacing liquid-in-glass thermometers with electronic probes connected to automatic weather stations. The ...
2 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Michael Rabin memorial conference - Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) Adi Akavia has asked me to publicize that she’s helping to organize an exciting CS conference called Mind-IL ...
2 days ago
Overcoming Bias

No-New-Physics Consciousness - There is a vast literature near the topic of this post, much of which has developed specialized vocabularies and concepts.
3 days ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

At the Edge of the Possible: An Intellectual Biography of Stephen Hsu - Note: This intellectual history was produced by GPT, with additional fact-checking and corrections by Qwen and Gemini.
4 days ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

A week of fika: ACM ICER 2026 - A peaceful Wednesday night by the water. By the end of this academic year, I needed a vacation. It was a year of major disruptions to my federal research f...
4 days ago
Planetocracy

The New Berlin Wall - One of the key debates of the 21st century strangely echoes the 20th century.
5 days ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

Cherry-picking economic models - from Lars Syll How would you react if a renowned physicist, say, Richard Feynman, were telling you that sometimes force is proportional to acceleration and...
5 days ago
Farnam Street

Roblox CEO: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First - David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. Publi...
6 days ago
Azimuth

Three Generations in E7 - It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with...
6 days ago
dale lane

Why we can’t have nice things - Looking at the server request logs for Machine Learning for Kids is a depressing reminder of what it means to run something on the Internet nowadays. I was...
1 week ago
Our Finite World

Affordability, Not Scarcity, Is the Real Energy Crisis - With the recent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, many expect oil prices to spike and stay high. . . . Looking at energy data going back to 1820, low demand...
1 week ago
Rodney Brooks

Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment - I have come to understand four very different time scales for development of technologies and their deployments. And I think people often jump between the...
2 weeks ago
The Ethical Skeptic

ECDO Theory Interactive Globe - An interactive globe showing the basic key features involved in the Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander (IITPW) proposed by ECDO Theory.
2 weeks ago
C21st Left

A Pentridge memoir: a political prisoner’s story - Please indulge me in this promotion of my new book ‘A Pentridge memoir: a political prisoner’s story’. A few readers might be interested and, as the book i...
2 weeks ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Interview: David Harvey on Marx and Capitalism - Doomscroll Podcast with Joshua CitarellaWhitney Museum of American ArtJuly 28, 2026 The Story of Capital is available now from Verso Books.
3 weeks ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Why both Republicans and Democrats should support aggressive permitting reform - Bipartisan deals are often impossible, but on permitting it’s totally possible—because permitting delays kill projects that members of both parties deeply ...
4 weeks ago
Climate Etc.

Climate Etc. is now an archive - 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...
1 month ago
The Philosopher's Beard

Everyone hates Neoliberalism – But We’ll Still Miss It When It’s Gone - *Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.* H. L. Mencken Neoliberalism is doomed because...
1 month ago
Casey Handmer's blog

In Defense of the Marginal Baby - 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...
1 month ago
Tekkie

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...
4 months ago
Computing Education Blog

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...
4 months ago
STRANGE TIMES

China - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUt-BVirLA very interesting site!
6 months ago
Club Troppo

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...
7 months ago
Invent To Learn

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...
10 months ago