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*  It's funny how Noah Smith told the world a few months ago that he had re-gained his libido (after many years of mysteriously having n...

I'm being facetious in the title:  but it's just that the dropping birth rate everywhere, no matter how conservative or liberal the ...

I think I commented earlier this year about the abrupt disappearance of long time conservative blogger Currency Lad, and see that (as some p...

This is a rather interesting article at The Guardian, all about how even in relatively conservative (and Catholic) Poland, the birth rate i...

The New York Times: Since early September, U.S. forces have carried out eight strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing at leas...

The Guardian says that Interstellar is Nolan's  "most loved" film.  The article starts: Every Saturday, for the last 18 month...

Here's an interesting article by someone who went on a Buddhist inspired weekend retreat in a completely blacked out room.   It seems he...

It's disappointing that Albanese has had to join the long standing tradition of Labor Prime Ministers pretending they have no issue wit...

Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level  We learned last week that a cohort of Republican activists and political staff members had shared ra...

 

It's driving me a bit nuts that the condemnation of Trump FOR DECIDING TO EXECUTE ALLEGED CRIMINALS AT SEA is not louder.  This is appal...

  Here's my personal souvenir from the last trip to Singapore:  a figurine of a Chinese deity who I had been seeing in different version...

I really like the ABC's finance guy Alan Kohler, but he really shows inadequate skepticism in this article about the prospects for fusio...

I haven't noticed any discussion of this, surprisingly: Size doesn't matter: Just a small number of malicious files can corrupt LLMs...

It would seem I have had Influenza A for a week or so, without knowing.   I thought flu was supposed to make you sicker than this, as I was ...

On the 40th anniversary of the show, the New York Times looks back at the complicated origin of Les Miserables and notes the (pretty well k...

For months now, Right Wing Twitter types have been high-fiving each other about the claimed stagnation and Lefty navel gazing of Bluesky, as...

Stumbling around the internet, I just found myself reading about the earliest dated physical copies of the Buddhist scriptures. For those wh...

While I usually watch only State of Origin (and then, not always) matches and the Grand Final (at least if a Queensland team is involved), I...

I've been back home for a few days, but have been feeling a bit sick, hence the lack of posts. I should do a post about how well I now k...