Enriched macaroni product. Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning. SAFC https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Look at the contempt in which the architects of this deal - JP Morgan - hold football fans. You get the sense that they perversely enjoy this. The executives like Mary Erdoes also deserve much more public scrutiny. These people are just warped by greed and insularity. www.ft.com/content/c81d...
A short review by me in the lates 'Technology and Culture.' I am really impressed by the journal's extensive commitment to book reviewing. muse.jhu.edu/article/996529
Project MUSE -- Verification required!muse.jhu.edu"Mair, an institutionalist to the end, mourned the passing of mass-party democracy...he could not fully see that the void would be filled not by a replacement institution but by a post-institutional form" www.theideasletter.org/essay/froth-...
Froth, Fury, and the Rise of the New RightLeonard revisits the political scientist Peter Mair’s influential concept of the democratic void: the widening gap between increasingly detached political elites and citizens who no longer participate...www.theideasletter.org"although South Vietnam ceased to be a country over 50 years ago, it remains the fourth-largest recipient of US foreign aid in history." open.substack.com/pub/indevelo...
Numbers ManHistory remembers two Robert McNamaras.open.substack.comAs with Deepseek R1, there is a lot of value in going back and just reading some of Moonshot's technical papers. They are out there: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26692
Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention ArchitectureWe introduce Kimi Linear, a hybrid linear attention architecture that, for the first time, outperforms full attention under fair comparisons across various scenarios -- including short-context, long-c...arxiv.orgVery interesting benchmark which should raise questions about where and how contemporary models will transfer beyond comparatively static, verifiable domains. arxiv.org/abs/2607.16165
An Exam for Active ObserversHuman vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot. Decades of psychophysics and cognitive science have argued that this active obs...arxiv.orgLise Klaveness of the Norwegian FA might be one of the most important people in football today: www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
Norwegian FA to complain over Donald Trump interference in Balogun caseLise Klaveness says she won’t allow scandal to be swept ‘under carpet’ and calls on Gianni Infantino to admit decision to suspend USA striker’s ban was an errorwww.thetimes.comwww.reuters.com/investigatio...
The US army veteran and the mystery Boeings flying Sudan’s war routesReuters found that companies controlled by a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran operated a fleet of aging Boeing aircraft that flew to key logistics hubs used by the Rapid Support Forces.www.reuters.com"Moyn is blunt about this: the solution to the problem of gerontocracy in America is the expropriation of the assets of older citizens who have far more than they need." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · The Cult of LongevityWe don’t have a politics of what works so much as a politics of what older citizens won’t notice. All human beings...www.lrb.co.ukFood delivery rider wins China's top literary prize www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Food delivery rider wins China's top literary prizeWang Jibing is among blue-collar Chinese workers gaining wider attention for their literary works.www.bbc.co.uk
