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Schneier on Security

Chilling Effects - Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpop...
9 hours ago
Why Evolution Is True

“Peer Review”: A new section of a science journal that critiques articles in other journals - Correction: Colin told me this: “One minor correction: Theory and Society isn’t a new journal. What’s new is the newly approved ‘Peer Review’ paper categor...
1 day ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

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...
1 day ago
oftwominds

Could Instability Trigger Radical Change In Your Life? - *I propose that the world is upside down, that the way we live is the opposite of what we're told it is: we don't experience Progress, we experience Anti-P...
1 day ago
Farnam Street

Proven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on the Rules of Product 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...
1 day ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance - As most readers have presumably heard by now, Paul Erdös’s Unit Distance Problem from 1946—one of the central open problems from the field of discrete geom...
1 day ago
Noahpinion

Your future job will be to keep AI on task - The one thing humans will always be comparatively good at is knowing what we want.
2 days ago
Azimuth

The Great Icosahedron - I never knew what was so great about the ‘great icosahedron’. Now I do. Take a regular icosahedron whose vertices have coordinates in the field ℚ[√5], whic...
2 days ago
Overcoming Bias

The Elephant In The Op-ed - Most writing and talking embraces our usual illusions on human motives.
3 days ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

new issue of RWER – #113 - real-world economics review issue 113download whole issue Entropy and Economics:A bioeconomic perspective on economic development and sustainability 2Lu...
3 days ago
Planetocracy

The Rebirth of Starship - Flight 12 marks a new phase in the program
3 days ago
Interdependent Thoughts

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

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.
4 days ago
Michael Hudson

When the Empire Becomes the Risk - 04.25 Glenn Diesen: Welcome back. We are joined today by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss the devastating global economic struggle which is resulting ...
1 week ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

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
dale lane

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
John Quiggin

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
Our Finite World

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...
2 weeks 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 ...
3 weeks 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 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...
1 month ago
The Philosopher's Beard

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
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...
1 month 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: `
1 month 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.
2 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
3 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

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
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...
7 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