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And… Cloudflare protects this website But, something went wrong trying to reach it If the problem isn’t resolved in the next few minutes, it’s most likely an issue with the web server you were trying …

Yep, can’t work because Substack is down. The risks of living in the cloud

QUOTE: When it comes to viral infections, past is prologue: The version of a virus to which we’re first exposed can dictate how we respond to later variants and, maybe, how well vaccines work

Lapham’s Quarterly: A World in Time excellent history books podcast

QUOTE: The federal government classifies voting systems as “critical infrastructure,” important to national security, and access to their software and other components is tightly regulated. In several…

How about an AI program to organize the 400 comments into a more logical sequence? I always think there’s a lot of intelligent commentary in nearly random order

I found it fascinating how the human writer was trained to think like the AI writer. Co-authorship with an AI writer might be a selling point in the near future

I recommend “The Cult of Pharmacology,” which long ago characterized this serotonin theory as bio-babble reductionism

I work, of course. Often the only way to get yourself in a mood to work is by working when not in the mood. Avoiding only adds misery to the misery. Writing a novel, for example, if you wait for inspi…

Yes, maybe someone can offer some links for background reading

Quote from article: Armed with the genealogists’ data, Boustan and Abramitzky have methodically dismantled the myths that have grown up around past generations and revealed some surprising truths. On …

Maybe it’s best understood like a Big Mac. One crappy burger after another, eaten for eternity because they are reliably average. There’s money to be made as a serial provider of homogeneous sustenanc…

I only used AM when I was out of the country and didn’t have data. You could load the maps at the hotel and they would still work, I think because they’re vector based whereas GM is pixel- ?

From the article: “You will never have a Great Dane-sized Chihuahua, and you will never have a Chihuahua-sized Great Dane,” Karlsson added, “but you can definitely have a Chihuahua that acts like a G…

Another thing done at all levels of schooling is to ignore the needed process of revision. A paper is written and then graded, but if revision was a focus the student would learn a great lesson: great…

Quote from article: If what makes our houseplant special is a result, not of the evolution of the species, but of modern laboratory manipulations, do we perceive it in the same way? Should we?

Dead at 62, he should have been his first patient

Did you know… that if you use a letter multiple times but it’s used fewer than that, the extra letters are grayed out - this surprised me but it’s correct to do it

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