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Posted on January 16, 2019January 27, 2019by Don

Today’s quote June 13, 2026
Grim: The good argument in favor of billionaires — trillionaires, now — is that one person can make a decision about how to deploy substantial capital in efficient ways that a government, a corporation, or a committee can never. Musk is building space rockets and tunneling equipment that could build a Mars colony because he […]
Tune of the day #272 June 13, 2026
Today’s chemistry lesson, courtesy of the McGarrigles.
Notes from the Department of Circular Communications June 12, 2026
A query about “armchair paleontology” in the Halupedia led circuitously to an entry about Auguste Dubois-Lacroix (b. 1842, Paris; d. 1907, Pont-de-Chéruy), “an individual whose primary professional skill was the avoidance of notice.” … a highly unremarkable civil servant whose posthumous notoriety arose from the ADLB, a complex and ultimately unsuccessful initiative he spearheaded during […]

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