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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Why People Don't Trust Scientists, continued

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An amateur sleuth is singlehandedly demolishing dangerous scientific groupthink How Scientific American Went from Fighting Pseudoscience to...
Monday, June 15, 2026

A Few Useful Thoughts for the Week

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Chimichanga, Tacotarian . Tobias Leenaert : YANYA - You Are Not Your Audience - Most people don't want what you want. Start from where t...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Skip - Repetitive. Sorry.

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Cardiff Beach   Yes, I harp on liberal dogma and how harmful it is that we can't have honest conversations about facts and solutions. I ...
Friday, June 12, 2026

How I Use LLMs, June 2026

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the above to: Nano Banana; Gemini recognized and remembered Dusty's name, but didn't remember Cody's.  Nothing below really take...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The Claude Delusion

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Follow-up to my LLMs and our infinite capacity for delusion :  Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion . If you'd rather watch a video, ...
Monday, June 8, 2026

More on How the Internet Is Destroying Society (Derek Thompson)

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Better to have your head in a box than be on social media. This AI summary pretty much covers it - offered as an argument to stay off algori...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

WTF Birds and Free Willy (SMBC)

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Craziest headline of 2026: " Liver macrophages guide pigeons on cloudy days " Also: 
Friday, June 5, 2026

This Blog Isn't Entirely Useless (George Carlin)

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Short clip of the Amazing George Carlin in 1999 .  
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

We are not informed | You can't trust anyone

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Prompt: Isolate the two cats [Dusty and Cody] and put them in a silly situation. A key point of my blog is: Don't pay attention to thing...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Useful and Actionable Information

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Don't sleep on this opportunity. Very, very little information you come across makes the world a better place. Much is just depressing d...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Meaning

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I really like this post by our Kiwi pal James, especially the Free Guy clip  (keeping with the "Worse than Hitler" chapter of Los...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Say "Hi!" (and more)

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Why saying hello to strangers can be good for you For investors: Is this a bubble?   Also a podcast:  How Long-Term Investors Actually Think...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Is Deprivation Necessary for Gratitude? (True High Holy Day 2026)

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Not to rehash the witty and infinitely amusing opening chapters of Losing , but my childhood sucked for a number of reasons. No air conditio...
Monday, May 25, 2026

LLMs and our infinite capacity for delusion

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I originally published “Robots Won't Be Conscious” (below) in September 2022 (ChatGPT came out on Nov. 30, 2022). This recent piece from...
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