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Graphomane | Neal Stephenson | Substack
Neal Stephenson's Substack. Mostly about the intersection of tech and art, with some excursions, digressions, and tangents. I will talk about projects I'm actively working on. I have a personal financial interest in some of those. Click to read Graphomane, by Neal Stephenson, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Wiggle Fest Slow Ride!
Sunday April 13th wiggle along some slow streets!
Meet at Balboa Park 12pm, Roll @ 12:30
Bike along Cayuga stopping at Palega Rec Center, then to Herons Head Park, and finally thru the Mission to Duboce park and Wiggle Fest.
More info: https://www.safestreetreb…

It is so hard to write headlines for basic biochem research.
I can substantially understand what the popular summary is saying about the primary source and thanks to my antique education including some graduate-level biochem courses, I can even read

Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government.
Donald Trump is a dementia-addled old man along for the ride.
Hopefully, the chaos makes a little more sense now.
I told you you weren't gonna like it.

Democracy Is Done: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy
The Real Agenda Behind Elon's Coup & Trump's Chaotic First Weeks

"We can't verify that the DNS root servers are running the code they say they are nor trust that the root zone won't be manipulated by a rogue U.S. administration. Therefore, we need [something completely different]."
DNS is a convenient example, but substitute almost any widely deployed subsystem or tech of your choice.
I find these sorts of hand wavy, shallow 240-character arguments to be as easily dismissed as they are so often made.

The Zoë dieting app gets the treatment from @timharford.ft.com on the BBC's excellent MoreOrLess programme. It isn't pretty. Grossly exaggerated claims made for Alzheimer's. Tim Spector abuses science. Listen from 16:45 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_…

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A tunnelled road underneath Ontario's Highway 401 would be an expensive and very short term solution to congestion. A high speed train subway would be cheaper, move many more people and cost less.
A better Toronto, for all.
A Real Solution to Highway 401 Congestion — the Express Subway.
A subway to Pickering makes much more sense than a 401 Tunnel.

A Real Solution to Highway 401 Congestion — the Express Subway.
A subway to Pickering makes much more sense than a 401 Tunnel.

On Level Crossings and Fade Durations in von Mises-Fisher Scattering Channels
Kenan Turbic, Slawomir Stanczak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05898 https://

On Level Crossings and Fade Durations in von Mises-Fisher Scattering Channels
This paper investigates the second-order statistics of multipath fading channels with von Mises-Fisher (vMF) distributed scatters. Simple closed-form expressions for the mean Doppler shift and Doppler spread are derived as the key spectral moments that capture the impact of mobility and scattering characteristics on level crossings and fade durations. These expressions are then used to analyze the influence of vMF parameters on the Level-Crossing Rate (LCR) The results show that isotropic scatt…

Wiggle Fest Slow Ride!
Sunday April 13th wiggle along some slow streets!
Meet at Balboa Park 12pm, Roll @ 12:30
Bike along Cayuga stopping at Palega Rec Center, then to Herons Head Park, and finally thru the Mission to Duboce park and Wiggle Fest.
More info: https://www.safestreetreb…

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Zik Zak | Tarotplane | Substack
Lunch for your ears. Click to read Zik Zak, by Tarotplane, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.