Causality Podcast # Just discovered this it promises to be promising: https://causalbanditspodcast.com/ AI deals show no signs of slowing # https://www.nature.com/articles/d43747-025-00027-z …

Finished chapter 1 of Shadows at Noon. A very dense 83 pages. I can see why Joya Chatterji won the Wolfson History Prize. Reading with a pencil, not a single page is unannotated!

Probably the cutest paper you’ll read today. The wetting and general tribology of cats has not progressed enough to give a definitive answer to the capillary dependence of the feline relaxation time. …

It seems monstrosity requiresan organic element. When there isn’t one, monsteris more often an adjective than a noun qualifying an incomplete potentialfor monstrosity. […] Monumentality embodies …

Every few years decentralization and RSS feeds come back into the ligh. Usually this happens when one otherwise functional social media site dies in a real or practical way. Google Reader being my, …