Jarosław Duda is a Polish professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He developed a family of entropy coding methods called asymmetric numeral systems (ANS), mainly used in data compression.…

We can agree that all oppression is irrational, right? At least it is to me. Because of the irrationality of oppression, people in oppressed groups find trouble making sense of their situation. I…

Comments on the current exploratory WCAG 3 conformance proposal and the Working Group’s related Conformance issue record. AFixt appreciates the substantial effort the Accessibility Guidelines…

Rachel and I were talking about near death experiences (NDEs) some time ago when we came to the question: should these accounts be understood as what will actually happen after death? To be clear,…

As I said on Bluesky, I utterly hate that the American social safety net in the 21st century seems to consist of "start a GoFundMe" campaign. But that's where we're at, so.My friend Emily Dare is…

Making money is easy if you have no ethics.

Pictures from Copenhagen pride parade and street party 2026 Some of my pictures and video clips from the Copenhagen pride parade and street party 2026. My focus was on capturing individual…

Some things take real talent to be that bad — you laugh, you mock, you almost envy, until badness stops being bad and becomes the absurdity of life itself.

In February 2024, I defended my second dissertation and earned the highest academic degree Russia awards. By June, I knew I wanted out. Out of this kind of research, out of this academic system and…

More than a half century ago California passed New York to become America’s most populous state. It was not only first in population, but an industrial, agricultural and technology behemoth […]…

Although my business is to “stop the madness” on the web, I can’t seem to stop myself from the quixotic madness of posting articles on the web criticizing Apple’s curation of the App Store. Can my…

As I'm writing this, there are two main Hullabaloos I'm aware of in the RPG scene. One concerns the upcoming 5.5 release of Dark Sun, and one Luke Stratton's Pirate Borg continuing to trip on the…

Please welcome back Lila Warren, a recent contributor to the 21st Century Tech Blog. This is her fourth article appearing here. All of them have been related to artificial intelligence (AI) and its…

en particulier Marc Bloch, « Sur la réforme de l’enseignement », Les Cahiers politiques, n° 3, n°3, juillet 1943, p. 17. Un mot, un affreux mot, résume une des tares les plus pernicieuses de…

Why the post-scarcity utopia is unlikely.

Two factors about the long reach of skeptical philosophy and its practical results. Social construction of reality: If influential philosophers teach that “reality” is merely a social…

Lubin Manufacturing Company in 1911 Table of Contents Introduction Lubin Vault Fire Fox Vault Fire MGM Vault Fire National Archives Vault Fire Universal Studios Fire Still Confusing Conclusion…

Time is irreplaceable. How you decide to spend it means everything. The House Of Dragons recently wrapped up season three. A surprising character was the clear MVP. Roderick Dustin (Roddy the Ruin),…

automating job applications has almost killed the usefulness of applying. quality over quantity.

Why AI;DR immediately makes sense: readers are looking for a human mind behind the words, not just useful information without effort, personality, or authenticity.

On August 10, 2026, The Roys Report published an article about an extraordinary claim made by televangelist Katie Souza. There they report this jaw-dropping bit of news … Katie Souza, whose…

This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and…

Einleitung: Wird der Rechtsruck zum Wirtschaftsproblem? Es ist ein Jahr her, da gab es diesen Moment in Indien, der Außenminister Johann Wadephul wohl ins Nachdenken brachte. Eine Veranstaltung der…

What do you do with a system that worked?The leadership literature is well supplied with accounts of systems that fail. Bad incentives, perverse metrics, cultures that eat their young: these are…

Fraternity advocate Michael Ayalon interprets the facts.

i'm going to talk about a few things today. but i'm going to keep them all short and concise (to the best of my ability)... i feel so strongly about everything politics, lgbt rights, poc rights,…

I had to have The Talk with my boss today. You know the one: Nobody's saying you have to use 'AI', but you really should experiment with frontier models. Almost everyone else on the team loves them.…

How I registered a Linux machine with Apple's private services, received an existing Find My People key over IDS, and decrypted the live location without a Mac.

A Canadian man spent eighteen months in prison because investigators mixed up two Kik usernames differing by a single underscore, a case that says as much about human negligence as about technology.

If you return to Twitter/X after leaving it out of principle, do you really still have those principles?

Apollonius' problem has eight solutions in generic position. While formalizing it in MachLib we assumed the obvious general-position condition — three equal circles, comfortably separated. That…

The 2nd part will add some actionable insights through the examination of post-Kuhnian thought and the debate for and against method.

Picture by Aron Visuals Table of Contents Disappearing Software Buildings are Durable Apps and Protocols Open Source is Anti-Short-Termist Anti-Ephemeral is Antifragile Files Beat Algorithms…

AI has not just entered the workforce. It has begun speaking for it. Over the past two years, the rise of large language models has transformed how we work, far beyond coding. People now turn a few…

What if the answer to Tech monopolies wasn't a new application, but a new way of designing the Web?

I am seeing a lot of resentment from leaders / managers / team members that their coworkers are using AI, which I can understand, but I feel that putting blame on individuals is wrong. There are…

Today we're launching the Palomar Registry, an index of formalized mathematics repositories with a valid #comparator setup and #formalization.yaml metadata. Limited automatic review rejects…

Every data catalog lets you tag a column as PII, true or false. For a platform processing student data under GDPR this single bit drops the questions a data protection officer actually asks: Does the…

tl;dr I tested whether values tell you anything about a company. The answer is yes, just not about the company. Somewhere in the operating manual of modern tech is a rule that a company must publish…

While we have many options in choosing technology, there are a few foundational things that are prudent to put in place early. Each costs little while the system is young and a great deal to retrofit…

The power was out in our area of Maui for over 48 hours due to Hurricane Lala. This is the second time this year that we’ve experienced a multi-day outage due to storms, and this is a typical…

This is a long piece I (Sarah) have written in response to Kathleen Stock's article Why Are Young Women Using Walking Sticks? in The Times newspaper. The article is behind a paywall. The gist of it…

I was talking to some friends about how much more we travel now than we (our parents generation) did in the 1980s. I know there are a lot of factors that contribute towards the shift, but the main…

Clumsy, arbitrary environmental ideas ignore the incredible complexity of the systems modern society depends on

In a recent op-ed in the New York Times , Gregory Conti and Aaron Sibarium wrote "as race and gender preferences became more overt and widespread, so did the grievances of young white men, who saw…

I’m not so sure that there isn’t some hay to be made around insisting that AI firms should be distributing half their profits to the writers whose works they stole to train their models,…

Программный код, на котором работал миссия Аполлона-11 в GitHub На человеческий язык этот код переводится как “Это один маленький шаг для человека, но гигантский скачок для всего человечества”

Read the full post at - US Energy Cost Explorer US Energy Cost Explorer is a classic website that takes open, publicly available data on energy costs and makes it usable, useful & interesting -…

Monster appears to be a relentless source of identity theft scams with “Michael Parks” and Linear being the latest. Monster must be making money from these identity theft scams because…