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This is excellent, by Johann Kurtz becomingnoble.substack.com/p/young-adul...

"very often, legacy software is simply software that solved a problem so well nobody felt the need to replace it." @davorg.davecross.co.uk perlhacks.com/2026/08/the-...

The Future Isn’t Evenly Distributed - Perl Hacks"The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed."— William Gibson I was reminded of that quote this week when I received a support request for a Perl CGI script I helped write about twe...perlhacks.com

Lars Christensen’s “implied inflation” framework is admirably straightforward. marketmonetarist.com/2026/08/01/w...

Warsh, you are way behind the curveSecond-quarter GDP figures arrived this week for both the US and the euro area, and the coverage has been almost entirely about a single number. US real GDP grew at an annualised rate of 1.5% in th…marketmonetarist.com

“If Elon Musk ran the GPS system, you’d hear abt it nonstop, valorizing this great man who built something so remarkable and valuable. But since it’s govt invented, owned, and operated, it just works, quietly and without fanfare… that’s…ideology, not so much what you hear about, but what you don’t.”

Google Maps, Uber, and Wall Street Run on Socialism: How the U.S. Government Built the Global Positioning SystemThe Federal government built a global navigation system, nicknamed "Lighthouses in the Sky" on which Google Maps, Wall Street, and shipping rely. Just don't call it socialism.www.thebignewsletter.com

i find it tiresome when people are mean to people.

civil society is the name we give to how the demos constitutes itself. its development and formation is the essential prerequisite of democracy.

“if the cost of cheating someone goes down, we’re just going to have a lot more cheating as a business model.” @matthewstoller.bsky.social

cc @steveroth.bsky.social

social epistemology is democracy's biggest challenge. we all know our own experiences, values, and interests. we do not know truth abt the external world and what sort of actions in that world would advance our values and interests. we depend upon institutions for that, and our institutions are bad.

we need less personalist forms of collaborative media.

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“the laws of probability we're first studied in the context of games of chance. But a casino is a very weird man-made environment, not a laboratory of rationality.” @dsquareddigest.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

there is nothing outside the framethe artificial information environment, againbackofmind.substack.com