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wrote a piece for ⚡ reboot ⚡ and Kernel Magazine about StumbleUpon, randomness, the historical roots of The Algorithm™️, and the rose-colored glasses through which we look at the technological past!

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I migrated my personal newsletter from TinyLetter (RIP) to Sub**a*k.
The algo is going to suppress this domain like hell still but sharing a link here — hope you subscribe!
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Happy spring. I'm typing this outside on a perfect, simple day, with birds chatting and chortling all around. No leaves out yet on the birch tree in front of our house, but its white-stretched, black-spotted bark sings out like a transfigured dalmation against the blue sky.

Profiling Dan Dennett was one of the peak experiences of my life. It wasn't just that his thinking changed mine, but that he was an inspiring human being, full of curiosity, vitality, and creativity. We should all try to be a little more like Dan. newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…

maybe i’m feeling jaded… i just miss the old days when everyone was here on this site. now it’s all kinda fragmented everywhere

Today I noticed that the Folger's Shakespeare Library softcovers look suspiciously like cans of LaCroix. Here is a 🧵of pairings, starting with A Midsummer Night's Dream and a lovely can of fizzy lemon water.

The South Korean fast food chain, Mom's Touch (weird name, I know) just opened its first store in Tokyo, taking over from McDonald's which stood there for 39 years.

Big win for South Korean uber-capitalism over American cultural imperialism

Alan Turing came fifth in the 1948 Olympic marathon trial — his time was 2:46:03 (insanely fast for a genius) which was only 11 minutes slower than the Olympic winner's time.

Can we make Turing Time a thing?!?

Hopefully, one day we'll stop calling the Turing Award the 'Nobel Prize of Computing' and just call it, you know, the TURING AWARD

My brain went blank trying to decipher the quadruple negative here

The incredible Avi Wigderson is recipient of the 2023 ACM Turing Award! Congrats Avi!

I had the privilege of writing the first piece for WIRED's new column 'Machine Readable'

Yes, JavaScript is a silly-ass language, but I love serious things/people that don't take themselves too seriously. Read my defense — it's an endearing language!
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Don Hertzfeldt (World of Tomorrow) and Ari Aster (Beau Is Afraid) are collaborating on an upcoming existential/horror animated feature film.
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In order to help Akira Kurosawa get more money for making 'Kagemusha' (1980), Francis Ford Coppola, who wasn't a drinker, agreed to appear in a series of commercials along with Kurosawa for Japanese whiskey company, 'Suntory'.