- A Wolfram Language keynote at reClojure 2021
- A passionate denouncing of the false promises of crypto-currency
- Using the congressional record to get around “big tech”
- A more reasonable de-mystification of “web3”
- A minimal writing service
- An interesting person
- C++ dissatisfaction
- David Bowie speaking about the impact of the internet, in 1999
- Overview of UAP news in the last few years
- Richard Dawkins is still writing long-form pieces, and I think it’s worth reading it
- On the role of COBOL
- On selective crime reporting
- Life on Mars
- Some hedging: “On Earth, the signal would be seen as strong evidence for ancient microbial life.” and “Still, the rover has seen no physical traces of ancient microbes, so the researchers say it’s also possible deep microbes might have jump-started the enrichment, with UV light driving it the rest of the way”
- “Pandemic-era” movies
- Amenhotep III’s sphinxes unearthed
- Scalable web services as a commodity