Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (2003)(pespmc1.vub.ac.be)

44 points by carapace 3 years ago | 1 comments

GNU Pascal (2005)(gnu-pascal.de)

86 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 95 comments

Racter (1984)(ubu.com)

29 points by buescher 1 month ago | 8 comments

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language(orwell.ru)

96 points by night-rider 2 years ago | 40 comments

Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms(dylan.gr)

94 points by James72689 5 months ago | 83 comments

E.W.Dijkstra Archive(cs.utexas.edu)

133 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 12 comments

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)

265 points by gaplong 5 days ago | 247 comments

A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

CDC data are disappearing(theatlantic.com)

614 points by doener 1 year ago | 479 comments

The Atlantic article by Katherine J. Wu reporting that the CDC has removed scientific data from public view, with more removals possibly to follow.