3. The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research (marginalrevolution.com)

In The Nationalization of American Science I warned that the Trump administration’s rewriting of the seemingly mundane Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance was a tremendous threat to America’s historically successful decentralized system of science funding. Many others are now sounding the alarm. It’s not surprising that organizations like the AAAS oppose the rule, albeit with unusually […]

7. Satan's 19th-Century Bank Note (www.historytoday.com)

In the early 19th century ‘filthy rags’ – or banknotes – became a common form of currency. A surge in forgery followed, accompanied by a surge in harsh prosecutions. How did we get from gold to paper?

15. Codex is wearing out our devices (old.reddit.com)

​ Weeks ago there was an incident which claimed to be closed that codex makes unnecessary inflated writing to ssd which accelerates its...

20. Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars? (www.npr.org)

U.S. presidents have promised short, decisive wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. All have proved much more difficult than advertised and fallen far short of the political goals set at the beginning.

27. The Anti-Palantir Manifesto (nonogra.ph)

1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception...

30. Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies (2021) (www.scopeofwork.net)

Our buildings are often long lived things, capable of outlasting the society that produced them. The Egyptian Pyramids are still with us, thousands of years after the civilization that produced them collapsed. The shrine of Ise Jingu is an interesting contrast to this - the buildings there are always young, perpetually

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