Tag: academia

9 posts

Turley on “White Time” “Scholarship”

Jonathan Turley, a notable constitutional scholar and law professor, runs a popular law blog where he covers legal matters and other topics. On the matter of other topics, we have “White Time”: Dutch Professor Argues that Time Itself is Racist, a look at some thought-provoking scholarslop coming out of the Netherlands. Before discussing the chronological-racial...


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Jun 28, 2026
.plan-26-25: Planetary scale plans, Windows file-descriptor scale problems

.plan-26-25: Planetary scale plans, Windows file-descriptor scale problems

Ten years of the CCI with Sir David Attenborough, Andrew's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, and the third PROPL at PLDI, while wrapping a local DeepSeek agent in OCaml and a first stab at getting Eio fleshed out on Windows.

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Jun 20, 2026
The Royal Society Environmental Prize lecture on feeding the world without costing the earth

The Royal Society Environmental Prize lecture on feeding the world without costing the earth

Notes from Andrew Balmford's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, on why shifting diets and cutting food waste are necessary but not sufficient, and why sustainable high-yield farming tied to land sparing is the key to slowing the extinction crisis.

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Jun 15, 2026

Diverse intelligences, alien intelligences

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May 16, 2026

Academic Atmosphere

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May 6, 2026

The Liebox That Wears Our Words

A call to hold the line against Claudeswallop.

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Apr 9, 2026

The machines are not, in fact, fine.

"Claude, write me a viral debut blog post using these three sources, make no mistakes."

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Apr 5, 2026
Sub-citations for efficient recall and validation of references

Sub-citations for efficient recall and validation of references

We already use sub-citations for books and legal documents, why not academic / scientific papers?

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Dec 30, 2025

Harvard considered as a long-lived biological organism

What the survival of Harvard tells us about Harvard.


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Nov 19, 2022