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I asked Claude Fable 5 to, for each 25yr period starting in 1825, find the top 5 authors arguing for strong world governance, collect the top 3 reasons each offered, integrate those into a comparable set of reasons, and finally to graph...
From The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris, by Andrea Wulf (Knopf, 2026), Kindle pp. 133-135: On 18 September 1773, after a month in the Society Islands, the Resolution and the Adventure...
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All I really know about Sears is that shopping there makes you the butt of teen comedy jokes. Then I read a 2017 Atlantic article (archived copy) about Sears anticipating Amazon. But look at the illustration at the top of that article....
Evolvable AI or “eAI” refers to artificial intelligence systems that can autonomously create copies of themselves, pass on heritable traits, and undergo some form of natural selection, e.g. random mutation, recombination, and survival of...
A marimo notebook that wires a live Paint canvas, kernels and a slider into a WidgetDAG that convolves a hand-drawn digit.
Beabadoobee “Switchblade” A lot of Gen Z approximations of Gen X rock sounds rather flat to my ears – all the expected signifiers of various alt sub-genres cut and pasted in, but not much depth or dynamics. Not so for “Switchblade.”...
Movies The Death of Robin Hood (2026) D: Michael Sarnoski. S: Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Noah Jupe, Murray Bartlett. Beautifully directed, revisionist old-man ROBIN HOOD picture asks… what if he was actually a murderous...
Standishgate Standishgate Wallgate - "Join A Union" The Face of Wigan A heavy, overcast sky above Wigan makes for a day without shadows. Low-contrast light is great for many things, but I often struggle with it when walking about,...
Ana-Maria Stanciuc for The Next Web: The money is tied up in off-balance-sheet vehicles, the same kind of structure Enron used to hide debt before it collapsed 25 years ago. Back then it was fraud. Now, tightened rules and fuller...
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Tiny actions adding up to build a kinder society, the comeback of the Great Lakes Piping plover population, and art as therapy are a few of the interesting stories I’ve enjoyed in the past month. I hope you enjoy them, too! What I Found...
One of the things I am most loving mucking around with in my play scripts is time--the movement backward and forward. GRAVEYARDS OF CHICAGO takes place in two timelines, one of which changes mid-scene through cues like music, lights, and...
Michael Harley for Ars Technica: In 2022, many US cellular carriers, including AT&T, T‑Mobile/Sprint, and Verizon, shut down their 3G networks to create system capacity for upcoming 4G and 5G rollouts. When the 3G signal finally ceased,...