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Monday, 12 January 2026
Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them
Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Short-Circuiting ‘Pig Butchering’ Scam Texts
JAG: “Sometimes people who send messages like this aren’t doing it by choice, and are being forced or trafficked into it. If that’s what’s happening, you don’t have to tell me details but please know you can get help confidentially and for free.”
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
The Vibecession and the AI bubble
Doug Muder, The Weekly Sift: “I’m currently reading 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin. I’ve also lived through the internet bubble of 2000-2001 and the subprime-mortgage real estate bubble of 2008. One common characteristic of bubbles is that accounting departments get a bit creative near the end.”
Friday, 26 September 2025
Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident
Gil Duran: “… collapsing institutions, chronic inflation, and the awkward realization that screeching about free markets doesn’t put bread on the shelves.”
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Study finds hidden fingerprints on our hottest days
Sarah DeWeerdt, Anthropocene: “By tracing the chain of causality back from extreme events to climate change to individual emitters, the analysis could contribute to a legal basis for establishing responsibility for heat waves and implement the ‘polluter pays’ principle.”
Monday, 15 September 2025
War for Ukraine Day 1,298: Putin’s Polish Gambit
Adam L Silverman, Balloon Juice: “My professional assessment is that Russia has now directly and intentionally attacked NATO member states. These are acts of war. These states, and NATO, need to accept reality and respond appropriately.”
Sunday, 14 September 2025
The iPhone 17 Event: Less Awe, More Unsexy & That’s A Good Thing
Om Malik: “The new iPhone 17 Pro only proves that they are the only company that will spend hundreds of millions to build a new cooling gizmo for the phone. … Most companies do vaporware. Apple does vapor chambers.”
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Stop pretending you know what AI does to the economy
Noah Smith: “… most of the ‘new-graduate gap’ appeared before the invention of generative AI. In fact, since ChatGPT came out in 2022, the new-graduate gap has been lower than at its peak in 2021 … the recent rise in college graduate unemployment is entirely concentrated among men; women are doing just as well as ever.”
Sunday, 24 August 2025
New type of supernova ‘looks like nothing anyone has ever seen before,’ astronomer says
Ashley Strickland, CNN: “The discovery provides direct evidence of the long-theorized, but difficult to observe, internal structure of massive stars. It is also challenging the conventional ways in which astronomers understand stellar evolution.”
Saturday, 23 August 2025
Tinted sunscreen does something regular sun protection can’t
Andrea Muraskin, NPR: “A survey of U.S. dermatologists found that while over 90% of providers said that they counseled their patients about visible light protection, only about 10% made evidence-based recommendations.”
Also – Laura Baisas, Popular Science: Sunscreen may have kept ancient humans alive during a polar reversal