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A nuclear war wipes out all inhabitants of the northern hemisphere and leaves behind a radioactive cloud that's slowly making its way over to the southern hemisphere. We follow a few people in Australia, waiting for the cloud to reach...
podcast with Tyler Cowen
I saw recently an announcement that arXiv – which recently became a standalone nonprofit organization – now hosts more than three million articles. That message took me to a post on the arXiv blog from which I learnt that said blog is on...
Speed, Walthamstow and Heroin Chic A man bombs around Crystal Palace on one of Britain’s first motorcycles. He created both the bike and the engine. A couple of years later, he lives in Walthamstow and is busy designing some of Britain’s...
Rather slow week for me as I was sick for the first 2 days, but things kept happening anyway 🙃 Socializing The gang had booked tickets for Spider-Man: Brand New Day so we got together to watch that on Friday evening. The movie itself was...
My Own Failure The Second Coming Meanwhile Broader Story So What This may seem simplistic and superficial, and if not that, then almost tautological—and at least has the virtue of relative brevity, for once—but I want to suggest that the...
Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÃ…UGUST 2026, challenge #1 is from a list by Phlox - "Water Levels." Inspired by the submerged megalithic structures of Sein Island I was thinking about near offshore ruins and the adventure potential thereof....
Engineers often complain that visibility should be their manager’s job. In other words, they think engineers should be able to focus on the code, while their manager figures out who’s doing well and rewards them. This attitude is an...
The other day I saw this post about "Stolen Buttons". It is a browser extension that "steals" a button from every website that you visit. You can see the creators collection of "stolen" buttons here: Stolen Buttons | Anatoly Zenkov If...
Yesterday morning I switched this site to its fourth major engine, a little over twenty years after sketching out the core idea behind it. The new generator is called sashimi, is written in Go, and runs almost entirely inside GitHub...
While I abhor plans and get myself into holes of spur-of-the-moment decisions… I'm participating in Blaugust this year. Perhaps I'm not fulfilling the requirements, because I didn't post an announcement or anything until today, which is...
Contents 1. The Death of the Annual WinWe are conditioned to treat winning as an astronomical event. It is rare, blindingly bright, and lightyears away. We are told that winning looks like the promotion at the end of the fiscal year, the...
#spiky is the confrontational, direct, and uncompromising path within radical movements. It is the willingness to push back against power, name uncomfortable truths, and refuse to water down political edges to make ideas more acceptable...
I know this is going to be a bit ironic, considering the permanence of the internet I continually preach (nothing ever really disappears per-se), but the internet does have a habit of forgetting.Websites disappear without warning,...
Sunday Asides #106 Marvel has been having quite a week. First off, they announced that David Jonsson is the new Black Panther. The chatter online about it has ranged from happiness to disbelief to anger, with people saying it's not fair...