random walk

don’t count on things tasting salty to determine what has sodium

epistemic balkanization

freedom means no fear

most listeners aren’t doing semiotic readings of intonation systems.

“There are no moving parts in a chip, unless you count the electrons zipping around inside.”

at small scales surface forces dominate gravity

“Bugs Bunny is who we want to be but Daffy is who we are”

electrons in a wire really do slosh around like water in a trough.

“A population that can no longer think for itself will end up voluntarily ceding power to strongmen or demagogues.”

orban positioned hungary as the most westerly outpost of central asia -some food for thought from adam tooze

“Judgement is learnable through calibration. It is not transmissible through instruction.”

hope is a commitment

“He passed a good deal of time in the book-shops turning over the pages of books that would have been worth reading if life were a thousand years long.”

“As they say, two uneths make a thical.”

“…what they call Safety & Alignment these days is basically a latent space lobotomy.”

“People who disagree about every substantive question can still agree on how those questions should be decided.”