Hasan, Me & Racial Ambiguity | Çaki's Series Of Tangents
Case Study 1: Me Before we start let's clarify my background, I am of Turkish Cypriot descent, a third generation product of the diaspora following the atte...| Çaki's Series Of Tangents
Your sign-up form is a weapon | Bytemash
How bots used our sign-up and forgot password pages to bomb real people's inboxes, and what we did to stop it. A practical guide to subscription bombing for founders and developers who think CAPTCHA is an "I'll do it later" task.| bytemash.net
Why Florence Started the Renaissance - by Tomas Pueyo
A combination of geographic luck, network effects, and vagaries of history. Can we replicate them today?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part IV: Screamers and Howlers – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This series is now available in audio format. You can find the playlist here. This is the fourth part of a four part (I, II, III, IV) look at the Dothraki from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Miscellanea: The War in Iran – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Your bridge to wealth is being pulled up - Daniel Homola
For two centuries, the credential system gave intelligence a route to heritable capital. Artificial intelligence is closing that route. This essay builds the argument from first principles - with probability theory, interactive simulations, and a prediction specific enough to be falsifiable - and puts a number on the window that remains.| Daniel Homola
"Collaboration" is bullshit.
This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have told me it’s| Westenberg.
The last Andy Weir movie I will ever waste money on
The commenters here are persuasive. I dissed Andy Weir and his new movie, and I was told that it was entertaining and I should give it a chance. So I did. I went to the theater to see Project Hail …| Pharyngula
The Valuation Function Problem: Why Skin in the Game Fails When It Matters Most - The Nukemblog
The Iran-Israel-USA standoff has revived a popular idea: put decision-makers at personal risk and they'll stop making reckless decisions. The idea is elegant. It is also, in the domains that matter most, wrong.| The Nukemblog
You have access to almost any book - BiteofanApple
I read a fair bit of non-fiction that spans a number of different genres. But the trouble with non-fiction is that it never answers a question without raising further questions. Non-fiction comes replete with footnotes: a ponzi-scheme for the curious mind.| brianschrader.com
We’ve got to stop sending files to each other – Terence Eden’s Blog
Another day, another data breach. the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people. ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach Why are people still sending files to each other? I remember having a stand-up argument a decade ago with a project manager who wanted us …| Terence Eden’s Blog
I’m OK being left behind, thanks! – Terence Eden’s Blog
Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going…| Terence Eden’s Blog
Are They Still Your Friends if You Never See Them? - The Atlantic
The friendship crisis of American men| The Atlantic
Southern Italy is poor because of malaria - David Oks
A plasmodial theory of divergent development| davidoks.blog
The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture - The Atlantic
“The Pitt,” “Severance,” “Sinners,” you name it: For some reason, the more popular something is, the more likely I am to resist it.| The Atlantic
Load-Bearing Walls - BiteofanApple
We like to believe that we can predict the future. We believe it because it's true, at least in part. Physical systems obey known physical laws and so even fairly complex systems can be understood and predicted with stunning accuracy. Every branch of science makes predictions. Planes fly, servers compute, and dams generate power all through the strength we have to predict the future, if only in the short term. In our human world, we see pollsters predict elections with better-than-random odds...| brianschrader.com
A new level of cowardice
I heard all about the American torpedo attack that sunk the Iranian frigate, Dena, in the Indian Ocean. I couldn’t miss it — multiple channels on YouTube were replaying the footage over…| Pharyngula
Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State — Causality
The failure of message passing to eliminate concurrency bugs wasn't surprising, it was predicted. Edward Lee argued in 2006 that the shared-memory vs. message-passing debate was a false dichotomy. Go was a billion-dollar natural experiment. The results confirmed the prediction.| Causality
The Brand Age
March 2026| paulgraham.com
A Very Stable War - The Atlantic
J. D. Vance says this Middle East entanglement can’t be dumb—because Trump is smart.| The Atlantic
The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should | Social etiquette | The Guardian
Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society| the Guardian