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6/2/2025 11:55 Hypocrisy and politics in free and open source software projects: Bottom line: do not contribute to the FreeBSD Foundation.
6/2/2025 10:46 The Return Of Doomscrolling: Rui Carmo: “the West’s former beacon of economic might is being run like a Mexican soap opera”.
5/2/2025 8:06 Julia & JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth: Brief summary of progress in Julia adoption since 2020.
24/12/2024 12:10 Teddy Blanks, the Typography Maestro Getting Calls From Greta Gerwig and Robert Eggers: He is devoted to the art of movie titles.
24/12/2024 11:06 This Week’s Hype, etc.: Peter Woit muses on how string theory hype harms the credibility of science in general.
23/12/2024 8:50 Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index: Prediction: years from now you’ll have to endure somber and urgent advice from relatives and friends to throw away your black plastic cooking utensils. Because debunking is hopelessly powerless in the face of baseless panic.
13/12/2024 15:15 Einstein’s Tutor by Lee Phillips: I referenced the excellent Einstein’s War by Matthew Stanley several times in my book, so was pleased to see this appreciative review by Stanley of Einstein’s Tutor. It appeared in this week’s Times Literary Supplement.
7/12/2024 8:05 Martianus Capella: Precursors to Copernicus. Well told, with fine illustrations.
6/12/2024 9:50 My interview on TalkRadio about “Einstein’s Tutor”: I talked with Paul Ross for a quarter hour about my book on a UK radio station. You have to make a free account to listen. My bit starts at 1:39. The host was charming and gracious and had clearly read the book.
05/12/2024 15:11 I talk about Einstein’s Tutor on TalkRadio in the UK: On Friday, the 6th of December at 02:30 UTC I will be talking about my book with Paul Ross on UK’s TalkRadio.
3/12/2024 10:08 Beastly beginnings: Erik Kwakkel, in his website medievalbooks, offers up some fine prose on the animal origins of old books.
29/11/2024 20:13 Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too): Detailed discussion of labor abuses made more common, and somehow more acceptable, when perpetrated with the assistance of “apps” (Uber, etc.). A slight omission is the prevalence of such practices as pretending that employees were “independent contactors” long before the existence of cellphones. I was a such a fictional contractor when I worked for a summer as a bicycle messenger in New York City. We satisfied the legal definition of employees, but somehow the messenger companies got away with classifying us as contractors, which meant no benefits whatsoever.
25/11/2024 12:13 Chinatown Vendor Tallies Neighborhood’s Decline in $1 Plastic Bracelets: Another story about the sad decline of interest in handcrafts.
23/11/2024 13:56 Pipe Viewer: I didn’t know about this obviously useful utility: just stick it in your linux command pipeline to get a progress meter.
19/11/2024 14:16 Dental supply stock rallies on theory RFK’s anti-fluoride stance will prompt more dentist visits: This is a real headline.
19/11/2024 13:29 ‘Scientific American’ Departing Editor Laura Helmuth Helped Degrade Science: Jesse Singal gets it exactly right.
17/11/2024 16:28 The meaning of “AI”: “This ridiculous situation could’ve been avoided if we had settled on a more accurate buzzword like ‘applied statistics’ instead of ‘AI’.” This analysis by Jeremy Keith really hits the nail on the head efficiently. I’ve been (annoyingly, I’m sure) refusing to let people talk to me about “AI”, because the language models that they’re referring to do not exhibit intelligence.

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