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Once again, I am coming out with stats on the colors in the latest fashion collections: this time, for the fall/winter 2026 season.
Previous entries: SS26, FW25, SS25, FW24, SS24.
As I’ve done before, I’m using my a...
Workers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland, the only facility where torpedo fuel is produced for the U.S. Navy
In the event of a late-2020s Chinese attempt to invade Taiwan, leading to a US-China military conflict...
Artist: Lily Taylor
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything lately, and that doesn’t feel good. My writing voice has always been loadbearing to my identity, and if I don’t have anything to say, if I’m not “appearing in public”, it’s...
One thing Claude Code has really made too cheap to meter is data analysis. If you have a question that statistics could shed light on, and there’s relevant public data online, you can now get your answer frictionlessly.
One thing I’d been...
Back in June, I proposed that it would be a good idea to look for broad-spectrum cancer treatments — i.e. therapies that work on many types of cancer, rather than being hyper-specialized for narrow subtypes.
There’s noth...
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