GSD What if your todo list is part of a distributed, unsupervised task management app that's running your company without anyone realizing it?
Nopecoin A blistering takedown of cryptocurrencies leads to an exceptionally dark thought: what if crypto is a self-perpetuating trauma machine?
How to talk to conspiracy theorists about Atlantis It’s tempting to think of conspiracy theorists as uneducated, unintelligent, insane, or bad-faith actors. But we’re increasingly finding that the inverse is often true.
It's all abstract Research abstracts have changed a lot since they first appeared two centuries ago. It might be time to re-evaluate them.
Vacation I'm heading on vacation, and won't be posting much here most likely. But here's a parting thought about the need for breaks.
Oops We need to come to terms with the fact that the information age is basically a giant uncontrolled experiment.