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Balaji represents the quintessential enemy - a parasitic leech who has built his trade not on the expansion of genuine infrastructure or extrastatecraft mastery but hyperfinacial vaporwave and LinkedIn vibes. The Network State in...
Nutan Limaye and Thore Husfeldt guest post on the new deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite perfect matching by Abhranil Chatterjee, Sumanta Ghosh, Rohit Gurjar, Roshan Raj and Thomas Thierauf.The post will try to explain three...
You have made a fool out of yourself. You've done something you regret. You feel embarrassed because of something you said. Guess what? People have already forgotten about it. No one remembers what you did or didn't do as hard as you do....
I watch a lot of YouTube videos. That's probably not something to be proud of. When I was single, I could sit down and spend a couple of hours writing a blog post. That was mostly in the Groundhog Day era. Today I'm lucky if I get 45...
How to Kill a Languageby Sophia Smith GalerGenres: History, Non-fiction, Science Pages: 272 Rating: Synopsis: As Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language...
Wildfire smoke in Niagara region, St. Catharines, ON, 15 July 2026 (photo from Wikimedia) 19 July 2026 As I wrote on Friday 17 July, wildfire smoke has been plaguing the northeastern U.S. and the Great Lakes region in the U.S. and...
Thank you to editor Steliana Cristina Voicu for selecting my haiku for Enchanted Garden: Issue 16! Source
Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1. Part 2 of this post then covers Alex Turner’s...
A long-lasting concern in communicating transit to the public is how to best package the information: whether to do something like the iconic London Underground map with its complete ignoring of geographical reality or just slap the...
I’m currently on a weight loss journey—I’ll tell more about that in a future post. But I just heard a statement once again that confused me for a long time: When you’re losing weight, you need to be careful that your body doesn’t burn...
Is this the silliest giveaway I’ve ever done on The Pen Addict? Possibly. But it is Summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and you need protection from the sun. Who better to handle that other than JetDo, the cute JetPens mascot! I have...
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. Porky Draws gives us (by which I mean, gives the world, not us particularly, we’re just pointing to it as usual) an...
I miss my 120 Minutes CDs. Like many people, I was lured in by the iPod. I could have all of my music on a little machine? I wouldn’t need to store anything? Sign me up! In the early 00s, I was already sick of moving boxes around. I did...
I made an Instagram recipe for a McGriddle sausage cake, but modified it to be muffins. I recommend making these in silicone muffin cases, or greasing the muffin cases really well, they stuck hard to paper muffin cases. I used a Mexican...