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19 September
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
18 September
Journalist, editor and typesetter covering technology and printing history; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.
Jen Farrell is a generational talent in letterpress craft printing. You can get one of her most remarkable prints right now at a steal: $100 for 1 of 85 of "The City is My Religion." Just incredible work for a Chicago lover. www.starshaped.com/chicago/ci... @starshapedpress.bsky.social Related
17 September
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
The current moment of AI doomerism reminds me so much of the millenarian, apocalyptic thinking of evangelical Christianity it’s uncanny I think it’s safe to say that the Singularity was modeled directly after the Apocalypse/Tribulation/Rapture/End Times, whether consciously or unconsciously This isn’t widely known, but the bestselling nonfiction book of the entire 1970s was Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth. It claimed to predict the imminent end times by mapping biblical prophecy to current events, like Israel’s founding as a state, the Soviet Union, and nuclear weapons He predicted… Related
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Neko is opening in NYC They’ve created a truly remarkable experience at crazy low cost compared to other options. A 30 min full scan AND report—bloods, skin, heart, strength, body composition. I need to fix a few small things, and will b/c of Neko Future is here! Related
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
This is spot on. We need to stop listening to fantasies - these people have watched too many marvel movies. Quoting @JesseBWatters 🚨 NEW: @Jason Calacanis just DEBUNKED every A.I. DOOMER panicking about A.I. "BIOWEAPONS" 🚨 “You would have to create an incredible THRILLER.” “We were all trained on SCIENCE FICTION to get excited about it… When they see a crisis like this, they want to JUMP on it.” “NERDS, get BACK TO WORK.” 🤣 Related
16 September
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
The stories humans most enjoy usually begin with hope, descend into catastrophe, and end in triumph. Joseph Campbell wrote about the Hero’s Journey in the 1940s. Since then, advances in big data and machine learning have given researchers new ways to analyze stories. In one study, researchers used sentiment analysis to track the emotional trajectories of 112,000 plots from books, movies, video games, and even commercials. Their main conclusion was striking. If we had to summarize the average story humans tell, it would go something like this: “Things get worse and worse until, at the last min… Related
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
14 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
What do you call that thing in old movies where an actor’s shadow is visible on the matte painting? Like they’re standing on top of a “mountain” gazing at the “sky” but their shadow appears on the sky. And somehow the film gets released with that mistake in it? Related
13 September
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
10 September
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
We now have: 7% mortgage rates 5% bond yields 3.5% inflation A roaring stock bull market A transformational tech innovation boom Good movies Angst among the younger generation This really is the 1990s all over again inflation Related
8 September
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) shares a fascinating dispatch on how fast the war in Ukraine is changing, and what it means for the US military: "The first time I went to Ukraine after the war, I went to this drone factory, and it really was remarkable because in real time they were starting to get results from the battlefield, and then they were adapting. But at that time it was very simplistic stuff. They were getting kids' toy trucks and re-engineering them into drones, ground drones that could put a landmine on a tank. I was back there a couple of months ago, and the advances are just unbel… Quoting @patrick_oshag My conversation with Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead). Walter has spent decades studying how America came to dominate the world and whether it can keep doing it in an era of AI, robotics and what he calls personal politics. He's a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providen… Related
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117233413705701198 A remarkable achievement: Alpöge and Buckmaster have managed to push one of the major promising approaches towards constructing blowup solutions to fluid equations --- as developed by Cordoba and Martınez-Zoroa --- to establish finite time blowup for many key fluid equations, including 3D incompressible Euler, with a smooth forcing term. (Previous work by these authors on similar equations could obtain a smooth forcing term for the IPM equation, and a subcritical but not smooth regularity for other equations.) The arguments hav… Related
6 September
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
I don't think this is true and the evidence offered is funny. A lot of replies like "many STEM people can have a conversation about Hollywood movies or basic philosophy, but few artists study breaking research in STEM fields" Lol, yes well those are very different goal posts Quoting @constans You’ll find most people in science, particularly researchers, have very deep interests in literature a philosophy and the arts. Whereas the converse is extremely rare. Related
5 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
3 September
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
Reading the latest analysis of suspected academic fraud by the @DataColada team and having all the feels. It's really remarkable what they do, and often quite funny, but the whole thing is pretty disheartening too. datacolada.org
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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
As much as I try to avoid app / hype hopping now… @bot is truly exceptional. Remarkable what @SpaceXAI pulled off here. Related
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
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Astra is a remarkable piece of technology. Earlier agents often tried to dampen my ambitions—they’d push me to do “pilots” or “proofs of concept.” Then agents started meeting my ambitions. Astra is the first agent that routinely raises my ambitions. I encourage you to try it!
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2 September
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
it’s so absurdly redundant to make this, not even reimagine but cosplay the movies so slavishly, a bonfire of human creative effort, I love it, I’m in awe Quoting @DiscussingFilm The new trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series has been released. Releasing December 25 on HBO. Related
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
1 September
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
The Polymath8b upper bound of 246 on the gap between consecutive primes that appear infinitely often, has held since 2014, but has finally been shaved down to 240 in this recent preprint of Julia Stadlmann: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31126 . Her paper is a remarkable effort in the spirit of the original Polymath8b argument, except now done by one mathematician (with the assistance of traditional numerical computation, but not modern AI tools). Ever since the seminal work of Goldston, Pintz, and Yildirim, the progress on this problem has proceeded by carefully designing a "sieve" of bounded in… Related
31 August
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
🎉 Nestflix turned 5 years old this month! Time flies, whew. To celebrate, I made some t-shirts! If you love movies within movies or shows within shows, you can grab one too. 👉 nestflix.fun
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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
interesting to read this article (in french) about how some movies are no longer distributed https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/chroniques/2024-04-26/repertoire-des-films-disparus.php the only way I could find one of the movies in this article was to borrow the DVD from the library, and then I bought a DVD player on fb marketplace to watch it (also the tray on the DVD player I got wouldn't open so I ended up disassembling the DVD player to put the disc in) Related
18 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Congratulations billing department you have successfully recreated a gag poster from the 1970s which wasn't really even funny then. (I am fine, I can actually talk to a real human tomorrow, I was just like "I have seen that one before....") Related
16 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
I’m accumulating a list of movies that I might watch but definitely might not. The Spine of Night Beyond the Black Rainbow The Princess & the Dragon (2026) The Descent (2006) (okay definitely not watching this one, claustrophobia is a bad one for me) Related
14 August
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
A remarkable result, but an increase from 95 votes to 9455 makes Binface about 100 times more popular this time around, not 1000 times. I know the Count will be kicking himself over this one. Related
7 August
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
3 August
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
23 July
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: We Need Guidelines for Learning and AI https://t.co/d16V9iW0OU I've been thinking a lot about AI and learning lately. The technology is remarkable, but I've become convinced we need better habits for using it. In this article, I share the guidelines I've created. Related
13 July
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Choosing Movies Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies.... chriscoyier.net
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11 July
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
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this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made
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9 June
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon Work continues on Kyroh. Movies set in Egypt? I haven’t seen all of these, and I’m sure I’m missing some obvious ones. Haven’t kerned this one yet in case that’s not obvious! ;) Related
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27 May
Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.
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We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 - a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030.
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24 May
Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
18 February
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
27 January
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
I’m deeply sad to learn of the passing of Dr. Bill Foege. Bill was a towering figure in global health—a man who saved the lives of literally hundreds of millions of people. He was also a friend and mentor who gave me a deep grounding in the history of global health and inspired me with his conviction that the world could do more to alleviate suffering. Bill and I often talked together about the future of global health. The legacy of his career is that many of the remarkable developments to come will have his imprint all over them. gatesnot.es
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15 December 2025
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
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This is Spinal Tap offers a lot of joy. It is one of the funniest movies ever made, a movie that can make you laugh until you cry, and also, make you laugh even if you have been crying.
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24 May 2025
Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.
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And so, one of the reasons why you have this narrative that Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirttails of the Americans and all the blood was spilt in eastern front and Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah, that kind of traditional narrative, that narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s.
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12 April 2025
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Stumbled on the first(?) RAG in NarrativeQA from 2017. Because books & movies were too large for LSTMs to do Q&A on, they embedded 200-word chunks and retrieved similar snippets to answer questions. "Chunking and cosine similarity retrieval is so 2017." arxiv.org
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26 March 2025
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
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The screen that I use to code from home, it's a 21:9 aspect ratio, which is perfect for coding and watching movies.
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12 February 2025
Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.
16 December 2024
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
14 October 2024
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
29 June 2024
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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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one of the best movies I’ve seen all year, well worth paying to see on the big screen
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6 June 2024
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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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There are not many anime from the 1970s which could be said to be as worth watching now as the day they were made, but Chirin no Suzu manages to be one of them for its unflinching honesty.
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13 April 2024
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
12 January 2024
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.
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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man by David Von Drehle. It’s a short, great read.
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14 December 2023
Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.
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We do know that humans are doing something different from these models, in part because we're so power efficient. The human brain does remarkable things and it does it on about 20 watts of power. And the AI techniques we use today use many kilowatts of power to do equivalent tasks.
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3 December 2023
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter.
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In fact, I would say it’s more surprising that the matter that we know about is constitutes as big a fraction of the universe as it does. We’re limited, we’re human. The fact that we see 5% of the energy density of the universe, about one sixth of the energy density in matter, that’s remarkable.
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26 May 2022
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
@dunepod Best Dan Ackroyd movies are obviously Dragnet and Grosse Pointe Blank. Not sure how you missed those. Related
25 January 2022
Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.
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What what I find generally is if I don't understand something, I I try to read backwards and and and kind of the further back back I read, the more universal things I find. And the more things that I think are kind of remarkable and unique to our era actually turn out to be quite universal.
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11 September 2021
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
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Klara and the Sun is an absolutely remarkable example of how to develop this understanding.
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14 May 2020
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
10 October 2019
Programmer; started Rust, and writes long posts on language design, compilers and the history of computing.
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I do have a QNAP NAS for local file service, movies and music, but I foolishly bought one with too little RAM so to keep it from paging I have it reboot itself every 24 hours.
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1 June 2019
British military historian and former army officer; author of Stalingrad, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, D-Day and The Second World War.
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It is a remarkable work, not just of scholarship and research but, above all, of a fresh angle on the way that the inter-reaction between Nazism and Stalinism actually caused such appalling levels of hatred and murder in this particular area.
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28 May 2019
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
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Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World: When it comes to climate change, there are many possible futures. At one end, things get irreversibly worse; at the opposite end, technology “solves” climate change just like any engineering problem. This book looks at that intellectual clash between environmentalists on the one side and the techno-optimists on the other by telling the history of two little-known twentieth-century scientists.
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20 January 2019
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
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13 February 2018
Author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and The Culture Code, writing on how skills and group cultures are built.
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please stop reading this immediately, and click over a remarkable place that, in my opinion, delivers more good ideas per square inch than anything else on the web: Adam Grant's Twitter account.
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9 September 2017
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
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As with movies, it's very rare for a book sequel to be so much better than the original. Seven Surrenders is rated 0.34 points higher on Goodreads than Lightning, which is the gap between an average book and "best of" lists.
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1 March 2016
Writer and web developer; founding editor of Lifehacker, co-creator of ThinkUp and of the todo.txt format.
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