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Fantastique Unfettered #1 (Kalpa) What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Endgame: Singularity Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads Fantastique Un

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Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Social Media, I Guess Mini-Server, Part 31 My Kingdom for a Sensible Router Staking the Claim Forgetting Why I Walked in Here Who Goes There Finaliz

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The Seven Sisters Saga credits What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Virtuoso Coming Attractions This week, our

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Wikipedia Mini-Server, part 30 Recipe Bread Again Other Scrawls Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next August’s most important anniversary, as everyone definitely

Politics Further Afield The Bots, to Everyone’s Chagrin The Return of Hash-Cash Reading Is Fundamental If Not Those, Then What Agents and Demons As you might have guessed by this going out so late in (for me) the morning, most of the idea for this post struck me late yesterday. As such, I hope that you’ll

The Seven Sisters Saga What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Pentagon Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club continues listening to The Seven Sisters Saga, with

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Mini-Server, Part 29 Entropy Arbitrage Next This week’s not-quite-interesting anniversary celebrates the launch of the North River steamboat—“the Clermont” in some circles—the first steam-powered commercial water vessel, originally operating on the Hudson River between New York City and state capital Albany, which should make “North River” make a bit more sense as a name if you know the eastern United States. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Mini-Server, Part 29 While I haven’t…

The Quest for Mittens Commentary Looking through the git log on my notes, it looks like I wrote this in early 2021 and promptly forgot about it. And since I not only didn’t have time to finish a post for this morning1 but also haven’t released any (new) fiction of my own devising since last summer’s Battle of the Sexes, Title IX: No Hope, this seemed like as good an opportunity as any to finally release it. The Quest for Mittens Once upon a time, there were three little witches who lost their…

The Seven Sisters Saga What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Prelude to Whitespace Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club starts listening to

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Codidact Wikipedia Entropy Arbitrage, the Posts Entropy Arbitrage, the Code Next I can’t find a better anniversary for today than the 346th for the start of the Pueblo Revolt, a massive uprising against colonization (by the Spanish at the time), largely in modern New Mexico. Many groups of soldiers, missionaries, and settlers forced the natives off their land and tried to stamp out their culture for well over a century, they ousted the Spanish colonial government and held control for twelve…

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Under the Net What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Morevna, Episode 3 Six-and-Change Years Hence Coming Attractions This week, our

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Scrawls Library Updates Next August doesn’t have many holidays for us to latch onto, so fair warning, this month’s developer diaries will end up naming themselves for an assortment of sometimes-odd anniversaries. Case in point, today marks the 248th anniversary of the premiere of Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta, which itself marked the opening of La Scala. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Scrawls scrawls We now have a default configuration file to identify the

My Own Failure The Second Coming Meanwhile Broader Story So What This may seem simplistic and superficial, and if not that, then almost tautological—and at least has the virtue of relative brevity, for once—but I want to suggest that the last decades of political positioning by those in the United States with progressive views has given conservatives and regressives the space to metastasize into what we see today. I didn’t make the connection until recently, but I see two ideas bracketing this.…

Titan Tactics What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man

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A couple of months ago, I put together a post—not entirely serious, but also not entirely joking—about how corporate personhood might provide an opportunity to wipe out almost every exploitative organization. I won’t rehash that blog post, but at the end of the post, I joked that the idea could probably gain some traction with the cynical addition of a clichéd dystopian logo for hypothetical branded merchandise, coming up with this example. Maybe surprisingly, I haven’t gotten any feedback on…

Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Mini-Server, Part 28 Scrawls Library Updates Next Lacking a more substantial holiday, on this day in 1794, the French Revolutionaries put Maximillen Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just to death in the guillotine. If the names sound familiar, the close friends—despite a strong start as staunch, pro-democracy voices—led the Reign of Terror. Louis also lends his name to the fictional Marguerite St. Just, the actress married to Percy