Hamilton parody arguing against the repugnant conclusion.
Derailing as a conflict of authority.
Paul Graham on The Refragmentation paints a frightening picture of America's future. The good news is that we don't have enough teenagers for a political revolution. The bad news is that adults are still behaving terribly.
Twitter updated their design last month, and once again we must remind platforms that the problem isn't change, the problem is terrible decision-making. Wodtke argues there's roughly an order of magnitude difference between what developers offer and what users will accept.
Scott Alexander on types of typologies.
Tom Scott argues against backdoor encryption.
Researchers detected acrylonitrile in Titan's atmosphere, which likely forms cell-membrane-like structures in the moon's conditions. This adds to the evidence that Titan may be an abode of life in the solar system.
NASA has a Venus surface simulator, being used to study materials that might be useful on future space probes.
The first wedding in the British Antarctic Territory happened this month. I don't think they're planning to stay there, but it still brings humanity one small step closer to colonizing the southern continent.
Falcon Heavy launch date pushed back to November.
Wordpress supports LaTeX, so I was able to show off some differential equations in my Chaos review. Expect a lot more mathy posts over there in the coming months.
