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In which I whinge at Google for getting their core business of search badly wrong. I am (as so often) looking for my post " I dislike ...

More wank - but I shouldn't spoil the plot - by Lawrence Torcello , who has form . Naively, he wonders  whether people are ethically ac...

Roger Pielke has a Twit complaining bitterly about Advancing the estimation of future climate impacts within the United States . He appear...

Via RS , some considerations of language from UnSciAm . I'm doubtful that twatting around with language is going to help at all; substa...

There's yet another shot fired in the #exxonknew  culture wars, with  Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections by the usual s...

Or so proposes Bryan Caplan 1 . Happily, Waterstones has a copy of Fossil Future , and I browsed far enough to get past the vague wurble in...

I wasn't too keen on Rawls , but on New Year's Eve I happened to sit by a copy of AToJ so opened it in the middle, to Liberty, and...

It's time for the annual pick-of-the-year, as I record my slow slide into obsolescence. Jan:  Two views of democracy (20). Feb:  Meeti...

The traditional - or is it? - Christmas post. To begin: Happy Christmas to the World in general, and to any remaining readers in particula...

As some of you may have noticed, I rather like the Libertarian worldview, despite generally disagreeing with them about GW; see-also  Talki...

In desperation, and on a recommendation from a colleague, I asked ChatGPT to write me some code to reset an USB device from within C. It did...

From the Economist . Probably paywalled, not up to TE's usual standards of thinking; more on the lines of wishful handwaving. Samples: ...

I'm afraid some more comments have got lost in moderation. I blame Blogger, which doesn't mail me about comments in the queue. Sadl...

I hoped in  The Evil Empire strikes that the plucky Ukrainians remain plucky, and stall the Russkies for long enough for the assault to fa...

Henry Hazlitt 's The Foundations of Morality is available from places such as here , or perhaps better here since that is as text, rat...

Analysis of the effects of extreme heat shows that low-income, tropical countries have suffered the greatest financial losses , but is it tr...

[This post I found among my drafts, from some time in 2005. It isn't, now, especially interesting, though Hobbes is always worth a read...

Utilitarianism, eh. I've previously described it as "broken" on the grounds that there is and cannot be any utility function ...

Kinda like pulling the wings off butterflies, execpt doing it to irritating things that deserve it. The target of my barely controlled ire ...

But in reverse. And not complete. You can find descriptions of the route in various places, for example here . Arguably, after Wednesday goi...