When the Boy Scouts of America, recently rebranded as Scouting America, gathers in Dallas May 11-15 for its National Annual Meeting, its leaders will confront a crisis that messaging cannot solve....

May 6, 2026 – “Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”

LLMorphism is the biased belief that human cognition works like a large language model. I argue that the rise of conversational LLMs may make this bias increasingly psychologically available. When...

Walton-GSV-Gallup survey finds young people are feeling angrier about AI, cautious about integrating AI in the classroom

An article about ADHD, Task Paralysis and AI.

Stephen Brennan's personal website and blog.

Note for
numberphiles:
all numbers have been rounded to their first significant
digit, because I’m a fan of Rob Eastaway’s
“zequals” method
of getting to the point when it comes to estimation. It’s much
more valuable to walk away with the heuristic “some…

I have to apologize because this is not the normal sort of question for this site, but there have been times in the past where MO was remarkably helpful and kind to undergrads with similar types of

Millions may qualify for refunds on COVID-era penalties and interest. Learn how to claim yours and why you must act before the July 10, 2026 deadline.

Bambu Labs controversy heats up.

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize - Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

Scientists are increasingly worried that a vast system of ocean circulation, which delivers warmth to northern Europe and impacts climate globally, is at risk of collapse. Mounting evidence suggests it may be nearing a tipping point, though the research is…

The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat

...or welcome back! I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-)

Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the

Discover a curated list of peculiar Japanese inventions that add a playful twist to everyday life. Explore the weird and useless yet strangely intriguing creations from Japan.

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy…

A series of unfortunate events.

You can take steps to delete it though.