After a gap during which I quit following numerous friends, acquaintances, fellow writers, etc. due to a collapse of my RSS feed reader, I have gotten set up with a new feed reader, and am beginning t...

Many Americans want fewer immigrants, primarily because they worry that immigrants are competing with native-born U.S. citizens for jobs. There are of course other reasons. Some people are racists. So...

I read Cory Doctorow's newsletter Pluralistic regularly and this book was essentially an expanded version of a number of his columns. But I found several points insightful. Recently I cited Cory when ...

I had completely forgotten about this post, written more than 20 years ago, even though I went on to write about exactly this topic for Wise Bread for years. This post was about the difference ...

Armed federal agents and border wall contractors entered Tohono O'odham Nation land without authorization Wednesday morning, according to the Tohono O'odham Nation Office of the Chairman and Vice Chai...

My brother shared a post that used the word "eigentlich" (which in German just means "actually"). I said it looked like "elegant lich." And then a few minutes later, we both said, "That would make a g...

Planning for Elegant Lich magazine—Refined fantasy for a more civilized age

The one bright spot in the economy—the stock market—is actually (as I've been saying about how the markets have this all completely wrong) "severe systemic risk."

If you're wealthy, living of capital is easy. Not trivially easy, of course, but generally, living off your investment income is straightforward. But there are many circumstances where the barely-weal...

If you last reread one of your favorite books for comfort during lockdown, congratulations, that was six years ago and counting. A major event like lockdown is likely to stand out no matter how old yo...

The prescription is almost trivially easy: Get outside at dawn. Get as much sunlight as you can without burning during the day. Within a couple of hours after sunset make your space as dark as possibl...

The first confirmed case of the tick-borne Bourbon virus, which is extremely rare and potentially fatal, has been identified in New York.

AI firms are on the ropes, having spent way too much money building infrastructure for tools that are valuable, but not nearly valuable enough to support the money already spent, let alone what they'r...

When I was about seven years old (circa 1970), my family got a boxer dog. I recollect that we paid $100 (about $860 today) for a flashy fawn from a breeder, who let her go because she was the runt of ...

An invasive insect is rapidly spreading across Texas, threatening millions of acres of pastureland and raising new concerns for the state's cattle and hay producers.

US military drone losses in Iran war spur Pentagon call for cheap replacements.

My brother asked me today, "Which author do you think best immanentizes the eschaton?" Not being a moron, I immediately replied, "Obviously it's Charlie Stross." Before I could finish typing tha...

If your website has a "See more" link, I assume that indicates that the rest of the article or site is unimportant or uninteresting, so I basically never click on it. Why would I? Now, if you share...

- The Tuttle Capital Government Grift ETF (GRFT) was filed with the SEC this week. - The fund plans to hold a concentrated portfolio of 10 to 30 positions.

The result is going to be a recession, very possibly a severe recession, and one that goes on for a very long time. It’s not obvious yet, because businesses are still spending huge amounts of money on...

“The panopticon is absolutely not a fad. It is an idea whose time in the tech world has come.” Feb 21, 2022 9/17/23 9/24/24

Steven commented while he was visiting on how much fun vole-watching on my patio was. Ashley thinks so too. Ashley has caught three voles that I know of (because she was on-leash when she caught...

Palace of Deception by Darrin Lunde describes the lives of three men, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Roy Chapman Andrews, and William Akeley, who were instrumental in the creation of the American Museum of N...

I'm always on the lookout for books that take a more balanced view of sun exposure than "skin cancer bad," and this looks to be a good one: In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposu...

The 2026 Nebula Awards Conference was fantastic. I attended with my brother Phil. I had driven in a few days ago and spent several days with him before we traveledRead More

Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.

However wonderful it is to find a great post, it's much better to find a great writer.

A while back someone among our local group shared a link to a set of books they'd found on the internet, with interpretations and drills for Meyer's Art of Fencing. Word among the local group was that...