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• Tax

  

  Preston might seem an unlikely source for one of the most famous quotations about tax, but Christopher Bullock's one act comedy 'The Cobbler of Preston' (1716)... Read more

  1 hour, 21 minutes ago by   Ashleylister
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• From Yesterday's Trip to Newport Mall

  

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  2 hours, 22 minutes ago by   Bbenzon
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• Tyler Cowen on Robert Wright’s The God Test

  Here’s Cowen’s post in full, but without the internal links: The subtitle is Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, due out June 23. Read more

  2 hours, 31 minutes ago by   Bbenzon
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• Washington St., up and Down, at the Hoboken Arts and Crafts Festival

  

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  The 23 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• On Method: Epistemic Triangulation with LLMs While Writing About Cowen’s...

  If you look at the first post I did on Tyler Cowen’s recent monograph, The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution, you’ll see... Read more

  The 23 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Evaluation of AIs as Article Reviewers

  PREPRINT REVIEW—————————45 domain scientists spent 469 hours rating 2,960 individual criticisms from peer reviews of 82 Nature-portfolio papers, mostly from... Read more

  The 23 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Black is White, Up is Down

  

  Trump is the only president who refused to release his tax returns. Even fought to keep them from congressional investigators. Read more

  The 23 may 2026 by   Fsrcoin
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• Fight! Gary Marcus Vs. Roon on X

  Here's how Grok summarizes the feud: The clash began Friday when roon, an OpenAI researcher, posted that cognitive scientist Gary Marcus has been 'plainly ... Read more

  The 23 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Making It Strange on the Tabletop @3QD

  

  I’ve got a new piece at 3 Quarks Daily: What’s a Tablescape? I’m Glad You Asked. It’s about photos I’ve taken atop tables where I’m eating a meal, mostly... Read more

  The 23 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Clerkenwell Observations, on the Streets and Within the Venues at CDW 2026

  

  The last three years I have visited Clerkenwell Design Week I've discovered new things and interacted with interesting people, as per my glowing reviews in... Read more

  The 22 may 2026 by   Janeslondon
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