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SPARQL Commas, Commas, Everywhere Expansion As most readers here probably already know, I spend Thursday evenings on the blog digging through an episode from the Star Trek media franchise. Starting in February 2025, those posts began including what aired on “sibling productions” at around the same time, to (I hope) give some context to what the writers might have had in mind in the script. In my eyes, it made a reasonable compromise between watching each show entirely in isolation (scrubbing…

Recipe What Passes for Design Notes Maintenance Get to the Point Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Library Updates Next While not nearly as important as some historians like to present it, today marks the 178th anniversary of the s

The Radioactive Kaiju in the Room The Why Real Example, Watching Media Your Version Actual Needs Media Box Requirements Flexibility More to Come It occurs to me that

Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the third quarter of Galactic

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Disclaimer Previously… Deep Space Nine Season 1 Summary Conclusions Training and Professionalism Economics Science and Technology Design

Mini-Server, Part 27 Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Notoboto Library Updates Next While the date changes depending on exactly where one lives—by a lot, I mean, not the usual week or so that you’d expect from asymmetric calendar changes—Mongolia will wrap up their National Naadam (ᠨᠠᠭᠠᠳᠤᠮ) Festival today, featuring wrestling (Bökh/ᠪᠥᠬᠡ), horse racing, and archery. And with that, on to

Recap Taking Responsibility, Again The Four Freedoms Again Libertarians at the Gates Digital Microbiomes Opportunistic Schism Licensing Gaps

Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the second quarter of Galactic

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Social Media Recipes Scrawls Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Reviving the former Emancipation Day/Fifth of July, New York celebrates the first Monday of the month as Abolition Commemoration Day, marking the state’s 1827 abolition of slavery. While the state declared Emancipation Day to coincide with the country’s Independence Day on the fourth, fears about violence from white people—legitimate, given that anti-abolitionist riots would rip New York City apart about seven years…

Callooh Callais Social Constructs The Origin of Race The Triangle Oh, Right Post-Racial Society, Though Sabotaged Amendment Vote-Nihilism

Galactic Mutant Animals What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Forgotten Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads the first half quarter of Galactic Mutant Animals, Operation Nature Space and Anti-Human Commando

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Disclaimer Previously… Duet Conclusions The Bad The Weird Stay Tuned…

Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Mini-Server, Part 26 Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Library Updates Next Again lacking a real holiday, today marks the 413rd anniversary of the fire that destroyed the original Globe Theatre. About a year later, the replacement on the same site opened its doors, which the 1997 reconstruction down the road mimics.

The Maybe-One War A Hundred Years Plus More Civility Labor Pains No Asterisks Getting to the Point Siege Engines Leading the Witness

Neon Northern Lights, Part 1 What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Won’t You Come In? Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club wraps up reading about

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Entropy Arbitrage Next Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Cap-Français, where (oversimplifying) the French occupiers, trying to stop the Haitian Revolution, made the mistake of fighting each other and recruiting slaves for the front lines with the predictable results of giving everybody the opportunity to rise up against the government. Over in Europe, Croatia celebrates Anti-Fascist Day, celebrating their World War II uprising against the Axis occupiers. And with that, on…

The Cunning Plan Why Paying the Piper Bubbles and Pin Pricks A Certain Musky Odor The Point At the risk of constantly returning to the subject of the lack of use from large language models—and I hope to keep this one short—early in June, I started seeing a strange shift in sentiment.

Neon Northern Lights, Part 1 What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Elephants Dream Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club continues reading about

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Disclaimer Previously… The Forsaken Conclusions The Good The Bad Stay Tuned… Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular cult

Entropy Arbitrage Entropy Arbitrage, the Posts Next Less a celebration than one of the world’s shared historical anchors, today marks the anniversary of the Bur-Sagale eclipse in 763 BCE. Because we can calculate the precise moments of eclipses for thousands of years in any direction, and since Solar eclipses tend to leave such a deep mark on people, the wide notability allows people to connect dates on different calendars. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Entropy Arbitrage entr

The Right Thing to Do Economies of Scale Business Nonsense You Never Know The Main Event The General Case Cone of Shame Gender Roles

Neon Northern Lights, Part 1 What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Motherload (Stardrifter) Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club starts r

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