Post Nate Silver FiveThirtyEight is such a disappointment

Just read Tim Urban’s book. IMO a wonderful addition to the canon of passionate defenses of rationality. Recommended.

Early progress with our second participant neuralink.com/blog/prime-stu…

The discovery of the New World, told in European maps from 1490, 1504, 1529, and 1540.

In case you were wondering whether Martin Luther's parents were fun people, they were not

We're far more interested in a chess match between grandmasters than between AIs, even though the AIs are way better. I'm noticing the same thing with video and art. Once I realize it's made by AI I lose interest, no matter how good it is. Maybe a good sign for human creators?

Alaska’s Passive Aggressive Map of the USA

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there is nowhere in the world safer than a daytime scene in a horror movie

I think of Alaska as just up and to the left of where I live and eastern Russia as an impossibly far away place across the planet from me. The fact that East Asia is an hour long boat ride from North America is just so weird to me.

Welcome to the University of Austin class of 2028. Governor Abbott gave a great short speech to our founding undergraduate class at the TX Capitol, before our convocation. In the USA, when institutions are broken, we build anew. A historic day!

Best video on interstates, by CGP Grey 🐝: youtube.com/watch?v=8Fn_30…

Towering over Uranus’s moon Miranda is the tallest know cliff in the Solar System: Verona Rupes. Along its sheer drop of 12 miles you could stack 40 Empire State Buildings. We really gotta get the space tourism industry going. [NASA / JPL / Voyager Imaging Team / Jason Major]

I'm always interested in how controversial historians and political scientists (on the left and right) selectively wield the concept of agency. The easiest way to revise history is to assume highest agency for your villain and lowest agency for your anti-villain. So you get -