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Schneier on Security

Insider Betting on Polymarket - Insider trading is rife on Polymarket: Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot be...
15 hours ago
Why Evolution Is True

Words and phrases I detest - There’s no absence of world events to discuss, but they’re not moving quickly and, at any rate, I have nothing to add to anyone’s view of those events. The...
19 hours ago
Overcoming Bias

Four Culture Fixes - Humanity has broken its superpower of cultural evolution, at least at the level of large cultural units, the units that set our game theoretic equilibria o...
20 hours ago
Casey Handmer's blog

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 ...
1 day ago
Noahpinion

Barack Obama was a successful President - A repost, because I'm annoyed.
1 day ago
Azimuth

Freiman’s Constant - I recently asked people on Mastodon “What’s the most surprising fact you’ve learned in the last couple of weeks?” It was a nice way to learn a lot of int...
1 day ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

AI productivity boom and shorter workweeks - from Dean Baker Productivity growth is an old concept; we’ve been seeing it at a substantial pace for more than 200 years. Nonetheless, many elite intellec...
1 day ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

Embryo Selection and Frontier Genomics with Dr. Alex Young – Manifold #111 - Dr.
1 day ago
Farnam Street

Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions - Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the AI platform built for the legal industry. Public Release: May 12. Members have access now.Join ...
1 day ago
oftwominds

What Would Be Truly Bullish? Actually Fixing What's Broken - *Refusing to recognize, much less actually fix, what's broken hurries our collective rendezvous with consequences.* *We've come to an interesting juncture...
2 days ago
Michael Hudson

Wars Are Won by Economics, Not Armies - Michael Hudson and Ian Proud discuss why modern wars are increasingly fought through economics rather than military force, and why sanctions against Iran...
2 days ago
The Snow Report

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...
3 days ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

The Strait of Hormuz crisis, the economics of OPEC+, and more - My recent interview with John Coogan and Jordi Hays on the popular tech show TBPN
3 days ago
The Philosopher's Beard

The Extinction of the Human Species Won't Matter - All things come to an end eventually, including the human species. From the perspective of the universe it won't matter, and so it also shouldn't matter ...
4 days ago
Planetocracy

The Regolith Industry - How to extract value from dull, grey rocks
4 days 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,...
5 days ago
dale lane

Instrumenting a Kafka Connect connector with metrics - Metrics can help provide operational insight over Kafka Connect connectors, informing users of how to better configure them. With simple updates, a Kafka C...
6 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Will you heed my warnings NOW? - Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you hit t...
1 week ago
Interdependent Thoughts

Stop and think - In reply to Stop and think by Paolo Valdemarin This made me stop and think. My company contains a well above average number of actual philosophers, 50% of ...
1 week ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Press Roundup from Mexico City - La acelerada producción del capitalismo provoca deshumanización y deterioro ambiental: David Harveypor Sebastián Campos RiveraBuzos de la noticiaAbr 15, 20...
2 weeks ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

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...
3 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
Our Finite World

Losing the Iran War May Be the Best Outcome for the World - At this point, the world economy needs to make a major transition in order to deal with the inadequate level of fuels available for long-distance transport...
5 weeks ago
Windows On Theory

The state of AI safety in four fake graphs - Here is a quick overview of my intuitions on where we are with AI safety in early 2026: `
5 weeks ago
The Ethical Skeptic

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.
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Climate Etc.

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...
1 month ago
C21st Left

ANALYSIS OF THE UKRAINE WAR, 2026 - Bill Kerr Q&A format: What is the situation on the battlefield? The situation changes everyday. To keep up to date follow some of the links here to regular...
2 months ago
STRANGE TIMES

China - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUt-BVirLA very interesting site!
3 months ago
Rodney Brooks

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...
4 months ago
Club Troppo

Market – what market? The catch 22 at the heart of innovation in government - The first of what may be quite a few articles I reproduce here which I wrote for The Mandarin from around 2016 to 2020 or thereabouts (The Mandarin has put...
4 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...
6 months 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...
11 months ago