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Read: Buckeye by Patrick Ryan ★★★★ 📚 Say, forever. What is it about time that confounds us? We spend it. We save it. We while it away. We waste it. We kill it. We complain about not having enough of it, or about having too much of it on...
[The lawyers have been busy.] I’ve recently received a higher than average number of dumb emails. Let’s talk about a few of them. Subject Lines From Dumb Emails I’ve Recently Received ***Attention requested, Paul: You’re getting the...
A city full of millions of people living their lives. Photo: CC-0 Michael Lynch wrote an excellent and thought-provoking article yesterday titled Why I Stopped “Creating Content”. In this article he discusses a lot of the mentality that...
Somehow I stumbled on another Puutalo (company) building. It’s the sauna from the 1948 London Olympics which has fairly recently been Listed as a heritage building. It’s fascinating to see how little the main elements of the building...
Finally started reading this.
There’s something about the rhythm of a day that either drags us down or draws us closer to heaven. Morning rush, midday crash, evening blur, bedtime chaos… then late-night scrolling. Then we wake up and do it all again. But what if our...
I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m kind of excited about this new paper, so I’ll talk about it here too: • John Baez, Endre...
I was dumb enough to argue on discord again. The following article is going to read as unkind, and unfortunately this feels unavoidable because the facts of what's being presented are simply unkind on its face. The following is a...
Judging by the headlines in the New York Post, reparations for slavery are back in the news. This time, Alameda County, California, which notably contains Oakland, is considering cash payments to black residents.The conservative outlet,...
I never did enjoy reading Nancy Drew when I was young. But I very much enjoyed reading Miss Marple. These women detectives are now entering public domain. Ellen O’Connell Whittet is asking: what comes next for them?
2026 // July 13 - July 19Trying out this weeknotes thing! I’ve seen more than a few people I follow talk about it in the last couple of weeks, and while I’m a sucker for trying new things, I’m skeptical about how well I’ll keep up with...
So, according to this report from 404 Media, Apple failed to fix a privacy bug with its Hide My Email feature for more than a year. The bug was only fixed after the website published its report earlier this month. Well, dear Apple, the...
William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the continent and suffered painful internal damage. Physicians examined his urine and predicted imminent death. William...
I love Dyson products. I love the founder less, but there’s no denying their products are well thought out and built. My Dyson cordless cleaner is the best vacuum cleaner I’ve ever owned. So when they announced a handheld cooling fan,...
Ordinarily the sine of x radians and the sine of x degrees are very different numbers. Having your calculator in radian mode when it should be in degree mode, or vice versa, results in a major error. But sometimes it doesn’t matter. A...