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A civilization confident in its values does not need to erase another nation’s culture. – Kate Turska, Attack on Kyiv Pechersk Lavra…, The Kyiv Independent, June 16, 2026.
I’ve been testing Claude’s ability to generate Lean 4 code to prove theorems. I’ve written about a couple experiments that verified calculations. I did not write about my failed attempt to get Claude to formalize a proof of the pqr...
All One Song - “Down by the River” with Lee RanaldoWelcome back to All One Song, a Neil Young podcast presented by Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. We’ve spent the last couple months conversing with a bunch of great musicians and writers...
Read the full post at - Redwood Forest & Ecosystem On my trip to Redwood National Park, I learned that the story isn't really about the Redwood trees - it's about the entire ecosystem, which is both under threat and at the center of...
Aragosta's new cookbook, A Kitchen on Goose Cove by Devin Finigan, brings Deer Isle's celebrated seasonal cooking into your home kitchen. From lobster toast and crab dumplings in tidal broth to scallop ceviche with pickled blueberries,...
Transcribing the artifact.
A few days ago my wife took me on a trip to Madrid for a concert of my favorite classical music composer - Ludovico Einaudi. What a show it was! And how can a piano composer fill out an entire arena with 10-12 thousand viewers and...
The mainstream media continues to sleep on the most important story in the world. It has now been two days since Anthropic flew its people out to Washington, and I offered my previous update. We have heard nothing back from … Continue...
Haiku written in response to the VSS Threads Prompt for February 2, 2025. Prompt: egg. Source
I have posted before on William Preston’s series of stories featuring his pastiche/homage to Doc Savage: The Old Man. This series is made up of five short stories that appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction from 2010 to 2024. At the time...
From J.L.: Language Log has only one entry on slop (Dec. 21,2025), and I couldn't figure out how to comment there. I was wondering about its origins. Could it be a non-ethnic version of schlock? The sound is similar, and the meaning is...