A Russian mosaic
An uncharacteristically brilliant article from the New York Times, and very ... evenly-balanced one today https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/world/europe/putins-forever-war.html Here are some quote…
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Under the influence under water
This felt like "the most 2023-ish" headline yet, showed up when I was browsing today:…
Dark Stars (!)
From this paper The first phase of stellar evolution in the history of the universe may be Dark Stars (DS), powered by dark matter (DM) heating rather than by nuclear fusion. Although made almost en…
The hitman
Seen in the wild … I thought that was a familiar face but had to do a Google search to confirm. If you’re old enough to know what this might be, yes, it’s him. (I wouldn’t want wear a giant face on…
Logical, Wonderful, Magical
Follow up to my previous post — I finally found the song I was looking for! I had to repeatedly search for a few words of lyrics, and then “just eyeball” song results until I found fragments that I r…
Poes
I passed by this poster in the lobby of a hotel, then came back for a closer look because I’d seen that name somewhere. I had to stand and stare before I realized that I’d stumbled across them while…
Treasure Island
It’s just one of those things. I had borrowed an abridged copy of Treasure Island from the library to read at home (fwiw, didn’t go down that well, will possibly try again later, or ... perhaps it’s…
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On deciphering ancient Minoan scripts youtu.be/PiLyN9T2s...…
“Curations” is moving
Some sort of monthly curated links has been a staple here for about a decade now (I started with a breakdown by category, but towards the end had just a “bag of links”). In an effort to consolidate a…
Monthly Curations: February 2023
* Something truly novel for me, "reaching before and beyond spacetime" through deep learning * A long essay on the war in Ukraine. Goes against the grain but has a thorough ove…
Monthly Curations: January 2023
* On caring for abandoned strangers * On art as “the overcoming of death” * Beauty in the philosophy of cosmism is not an aesthetic category, but an ontological one.…
Monthly Curations: December 2022
* LiDaR is the gift that keeps giving, in the dense forests of South America * It's good to make things for fun * A reasonable overview of Urbit * On over-hyped claims and throwing around the…