The Prince We Never Knew
A revealing new documentary could redefine our understanding of the pop icon. But you will probably never get to see it.
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There Are Only Two Shakers Left. They’ve Still Got Utopia in Their Sights.
Their numbers have dwindled, but the remaining members are imagining what comes next.
Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?
This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
Thoughts while watching myself be automated
(Excluding “please stop”)
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Opinion | What Will We Do With Our Free Power?
The price of solar power is plummeting faster than we ever expected.
Intel Honesty
The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government to pick up the bill via purchase guarantees.
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...
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Founder Mode
September 2024 At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the…
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Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective,…
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In Praise of Reference Books
Reference volumes should be valued as least as much as fiction and other nonfiction books
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John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism
Back when I was an undergraduate, during the final years of the cold war, by far the most exciting thing going on in political philosophy was the powerful resurgence of Marxism in the English-speaking world.
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What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
Stephen Wolfram explores minimal models and their visualizations, aiming to explain the underneath functionality of neural nets and ultimately machine learning.
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Priority 600HXT Review: Shifting Opinions
Find Miles' Pinion Smart.Shift equipped Priority 600HXT review after thousands of miles of bikepacking and trail riding here…
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How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.
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The rise of the "Brat Pack" — and a new Democratic political style
At the DNC, a political approach long relegated to the wings takes center stage
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How ‘Inside Out’ and Its Sequel Changed Therapy
Mental health professionals and educators say the movies are remarkably helpful in providing a common language they can use with children and parents.
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Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia
Rounding up migrants. Lists of “friendly” sheriffs. Debating political assassinations. Internal messages reveal AP3's journey from Jan. 6 through the tumultuous lead-up to the 2024 election. One member predicts: “It’ll be decided at the ammo box.”
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When Was the Last Time You Finished a Book? You Need an AI Reading Companion Like Me
When a flattering email arrived inviting me to participate in an AI venture called Rebind that I’d later come to think will radically transform the entire way…
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Alex Karp Has Money and Power. So What Does He Want?
In a rare in-depth interview, this billionaire man of mystery, the head of Palantir Technologies, talks about war, A.I. and America’s future.
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Quick look: applications of chaos theory
Introduction Recently we (Elizabeth Van Nostrand and Alex Altair) started a project investigating chaos theory as an example of field formation.[1] The number one question you get when you tell peo…
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Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan
The facts of Palmer Luckey’s life are so uniquely bizarre—combining elements of fantasy with lunacy and also world-altering change—that they could be printed on…
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The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
A Read Max re-run: A Hackernews comment opens up a strange new world
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Integration and Android
The most important takeaway from Google’s Pixel event is that it is Android that matters most, and Google’s integration with Android is worth preserving if the goal is spurring innovati…
