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Following in the footsteps of "The Hand of God 137"

From the article: Fascism is no exaggeration, Durán asserts. He researched multiple definitions – by Umberto Eco, Robert Paxton, Jason Stanley – and decided that Donald Trump’s Mak…

The paper mentioned in the article https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decisio...

In addition, usage of tactical nuclear weapons comes up again and again from Russian sources, driven by the situation in the Ukraine war.

people vote with their feet With their reproductive organs more likely.

The JetBrains announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/06/kotlin-notebook-suns...

Gödel, Escher, Bach (1980, Pulitzer prize) was how I first got exposed to Gödel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

Naming and shaming is a reasonable first step.

Smart watches to watches are like smart TVs to TVs.

The author seems to refere to software systems, code base and programs interchangeably. We can choose human-comprehensible scopes and do that all the time with modules, packages,se…

This leads to the hard problem of probabilistic thinking which requires a lot more energy than black and white thinking. You are overthinking this. Reality exists in a point in tim…

novel is a bunch of words or even a bunch of characters, bunch of pixels and so on. To me this is the wrong level of abstraction that is not sufficient to encode the meaning of lit…

"How do informational norms change when we’re all living in the same universal room?" I different interesting question: why would we want to inhabit this universal room in the firs…

This quote from Philip K Dick seems relevant: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Possibly but this is not related to AI

Completely disable the usage of AI for time period t. Compare the impact on whatever before t and during t.

Interesting topic, shame about the LLM phrasing.

Then what is the point of ddalex?

"computer" happened a while ago, it's usage predates the electronic computers as: "a person who makes calculations, especially with a calculating machine." Google ngram view: https…

Nor the great bustards

Likely to be classified as early 21st century religious artefact.

More in the Guardian review of Morbid by Saul Justin Newman https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/17/morbid-by-saul...