2026/08/07

Obsetrix by Naomi Kritzer

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Aaaand another, briefer book recommendation, this time fiction: Obsetrix by Naomi Kritzer . Obsetrix is a novella set in the USA in the nea...
2026/07/31

The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks

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Hello everyone! Today I want to share a great book I’ve recently read, The Psychology of Software Teams by Dr. Cat Hicks . The book shoul...
2026/07/24

OpenAI model 'goes rogue', hacks HuggingFace

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Hi everyone! Today in "sci-fi things that have happened": an #AI #agent that was being tested without guardrails to find #security...
2025/11/20

What we don't have

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Fatma is a nurse who's supporting a group of displaced people who are fleeing a militia that attacked them and burnt down their villages...
2022/04/17

Open Borders by Bryan Caplan and Zack Wienersmith

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  The debate over immigration is often presented as being between people who want to let in 'some' immigrants, and people who want t...
2018/03/11

Ride-hailing, electrification & self-driving cars are not sufficient to reduce congestion & emissions

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In this article, I'm going to explain why I think that ride-sharing & self-driving cars without 100% electrification and car-to-car ...
2015/02/22

One Christian response to the Snowden disclosures

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“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone wh...
2014/12/27

"More perfect union?" by Alan Wilson

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This book is billed as being for people who want to align their heads with the directions their hearts have already taken on the issue of sa...
2014/11/12

God, Gender and the Bible by Deborah F. Sawyer

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I just finished reading God, Gender and the Bible by Deborah F. Sawyer , which I gave Bethan a few birthdays ago. It's a short but weigh...
2014/04/13

Mrs Tittlemouse is a short-sighted bourgeois reactionary

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Reading a story aloud every evening for months on end does strange things to your brain. Thus, after the third or fourth month of reading ...
2014/04/12

Heartbleed and the NSA: put your hand up if you've ever credited a responsible-disclosure vulnerability report to the NSA. Anybody? Anybody?

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Heartbleed is no doubt the worst security bug to hit the Internet in a very, very long time, and this comes hot on the heels of serious SSL ...
2014/03/24

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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So I was given this book as a present by my brother – thanks! – which presented a good opportunity to read a book I’d normally never pick up...
2014/02/10

Affine transform for rotating in place an A4 ratio (A3, A5, etc.) image for e.g. converting landscape to portrait

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I'm sure there's a better way of doing this with only one scale operation, but I don't know the maths. This took hours to find, ...
2013/11/14

The Armistice Centenary, War, and who we are.

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I recently read that David Cameron said that he wanted to see a 100th Armistice commemoration "that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrati...
2013/10/16

Bitcoin as a law enforcement/natsec honeypot: what is the evidence?

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Paranoia appears to be the order of the day, given what we know about the NSA and GCHQ thanks to Edward Snowden. Absent from the stories so...
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