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Fourteen-Lion Parade

Parking this here so I can find it easily. In 2007 earthquakes reopened the Savuti Channel from the Okavango Delta—where the Cuando/Okavango River flows…

Jun 26 •

In the Country of the Tswana

In 2007 earthquakes reopened the Savuti Channel from the Okavango Delta—where the Cuando/Okavango River flows into the Kalahari Desert and dries up—to…

Jun 25 •

LECTURE NOTES: Lash, Cash, & Cotton in the Imperial-Commercial & Early SteamPower Age

& the racialization of slavery. A ten-mintue taste of what my lectures have to say about post-1500 slavery. This then becomes the lecture introduction…

Jun 21 •

Who Were the ‘We the People’ Back in 1787?: Race, Law, & Original Constitutional Sin

Plus the Reconstruction-Era XIV-Amendment redemption. In which I go down a rabbithole of “original public meaning” or whatever. A law student’s white…

Jun 21 •

What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?: How We All Already Have Our Superintelligent AI-Assistant :: POSSIBLE LECTURE OUTLINE

Anthology Intelligence: humanity's collective brain is already our superintelligent friend: We don't need to build superintelligence because we did it…

Jun 19 •

DRAFT: Prosperity & "Utopia": The Moving Target :: History of Economic Growth Lecture Notes 1.5

DRAFT: Why the best-laid plans of philosophers and poets never quite survive contact with history—or the marketplace. From Arkadian simplicity to…

Jun 17 •

Rakes, Rage, & the Rationality Racket: Jane Austen, High-T, & the Long Arc of Bad Decisions

Contrary to Edward McLaren, literary Regency marriage patterns, stand-up comedy, and Homeric epic all agree: marrying Colonel Brandon is in no way a…

Jun 15 •

On the Political Economy of Mendacity in 21st Century America

Yes. The algorithm serves me up Kevin Hassett this morning. The pretense of economic analysis as a form of performance art; a press corps—even an élite…

Jun 10 •

Mondays with the Machine: The Tongue & the Token: Language as Interface in Our Current Age of AI

Natural-language interfaces as quite possibly the most important thing about the current wave of MAMLMs. Our frontier MAMLMs are tools that “understand…

Jun 9

The Oddest Man Out Among Our $Hundred-Billionaires: Elon Musk

The mirage of green-tech modernity, the evaporation of Tesla’s cultural capital: oligopoly, charisma, political extremism, the collapse of a psychic…

Jun 4 •

Understanding Inequality: Can Gini Coefficients Be Fruitfully Demystified? (Revised and Expanded)

Understanding Gini Coefficients (Revised and Expanded)

Jun 1 •

From ChatGPT Back to Clay & Cuneiform: A Start at Rethinking Pedagogy for the Age of "AI"

The future of education depends on what we expect students to remember and do, not just what they can prompt Chatbots to generate. Thus forget banning…

May 31 •

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