Елена Поленова в Поленово

Библиотека в Большом доме в Поленово

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Moar Updatez

To start on a somber note: those of us at UT Austin are in mourning this week for Savitha Shan, an undergrad double major here in economics and information systems, who was murdered over the weekend by an Islamist terrorist who started randomly shooting people on Sixth Street, apparently angry about the war in Iran. Two other innocents were also killed.

As it happens, these murders happened just a few hours after the end of my daughter’s bat mitzvah, and in walking distance from the venue. The bat mitzvah itself was an incredibly joyful and successful event that consumed most of...

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Вокруг матрешки

Приближается день, когда мужчины приносят дары прекрасной половине...

My Dinner with Jeffrey

What the Epstein Files Reveal about Us All

See YouTube monologue here

I got a text from my daughter last week asking, “um…so why are you in the Epstein files?”

Cut to the chase, my name is in the CC field of emails from my former literary agent, who used to publish an online journal in which a bunch of scientists and thinkers would answer questions about the future. Like, “what should we really be worried about?” or “what scientific concept would improve everyone’s cognitive toolkit?” The agent would start by sending the question to a group of maybe thirty of us — people from Brian Eno,...

Детство Фени

Феня появилась у нас полгода назад. Женщина, отдавшая...

Summary of changes for February 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.

At the start of the month, we spent a delightful couple of days deep in the wintry and rainy Spanish countryside, gathered in a medieval monastery with the Ink...

Recently

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The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and temperatures have started to lift. Yesterday got in a solid 45 miles of cycling, including up to this point near the George Washington Bridge, and back on the Tappan Zee.

I didn't add any new music to my collection this month. My Swinsian library has 15,562 tracks already so there's plenty to explore in the back catalog. I listened to The Private Press and The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.

I did find a new podcast that I've been...

Anthropic: Stay strong!

I don’t have time to write a full post right now, but hopefully this is self-explanatory.

Regardless of their broader views on the AI industry, the eventual risks from AI, or American politics, right every person of conscience needs to stand behind Anthropic, as they stand up for their right to [checks notes] not be effectively nationalized by the Trump administration and forced to build murderbots and to help surveil American citizens. No, I wouldn’t have believed this either in a science-fiction movie, but it’s now just the straightforward reality of our world, years ahead of schedule. In particular,...

Дом Анны Ивановны Лобковой-1

В Козицком переулке есть старомосковский особняк в стиле...