In every team and organization important decisions need to be made related to goals, strategy, and allocation of resources. When decisions are announced people make evaluations of the fairness of the decision based on two aspects. First, the outcome of the decision (distributive justice) and second, the process by which the decision was made (procedural justice).

The framework of distributive and procedural justice, apparently due to Tom R. Tyler, seems to be quite useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_R._Tyler

PDF version: https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.mit.edu/dist/3/652/files/2020/06/Sharing-Difficult-Decisions-.pdf

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

via: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/

Scientific paradigms and religions reframed in the language of memetics.

TL;DR: I wrote a Neovim plugin in Lua that serves HTTP requests from open buffers. It has no external dependencies, it has first-class support for serving content in Djot, and it is faster than Nginx so it won’t be a performance bottleneck behind a reverse proxy. What’s not to like?

via: https://lobste.rs/s/l5qpv2/this_website_is_served_from_nine_neovim

Indeed, it seems that one of the many offerings of generative AI is a kind of psychosis-as-a-service. If you are genuinely AGI-pilled—a term for those who believe that machine-born superintelligence is coming, and soon—the rational response probably involves some combination of building a bunker, quitting your job, and joining the cause. […] It’s hard to care about tariffs or authoritarian encroachment or getting a degree if you believe that the world as we know it is about to change forever.

via: https://lobste.rs/s/y7gw78/ai_is_mass_delusion_event

mac devs on twitter be like “i made an app that makes your video files smaller without any quality loss”

and then its just a $20/mo ffmpeg wrapper with a promo video like this

So I gradually accumulate evidence, fodder for my intuition, and over years and even decades my intuition slowly learns to recognize rhymes, and starts answering me back with insights — into the rhyming structure of the various subjects of study, hence the blog title. And the insights more or less gather dust, in my files or even just in my head.

What theoretical physics needs, I’ve long believed, is to violate some assumption that is shared in common by both classical physics and quantum mechanics. Everyone nowadays seems to understand that something different is needed, but I suspect the “radical” new theories I’ve heard of aren’t radical enough.

So in this post I’m going to suggest a class of physical theory that seems to me to be radical enough (or if, you prefer, weird enough) to shake things up.

So when you see a no-go theorem that’s being given a very broad interpretation, you may do well to ask whether there is, after all, a way to get around the theorem, by achieving what the theorem is informally understood to preclude without doing what the theorem formally precludes.

Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

Decide if each email address is valid or not. I used the email-addresses library to verify against the relevant RFCs. Enjoy.

Learned a lot of cursed email stuff.

The images on this page are created using the standard iterative series of the Mandelbrot, that is, iterate the function zn+1 = zn2 + z0 where z0 is each point in the image plane (complex plane). However, instead of recording the behavior of the series at each point z0 we now consider only those points that escape to infinity and we create a density plot of the terms in the series. The result then is a 2D density plot of the trajectories that escape to infinity. The following shows the buddhabrot for that part of the complex plane that is interesting.

Beautiful illustrations.

i have written a few short guides and notes about ways you can help contribute to media preservation by doing it your damn self. most of the guides lean very technical, but i try to give appropriate explanations and links to the tools and documentation where i can.

In 1987, Steven Weinberg wrote a cute little paper entitled “Anthropic Bound on the Cosmological Constant”. I say cute little paper because it feels minor in comparison to, say, electroweak unification theory that won him the Nobel Prize. Weinberg was foundational in establishing the standard model of particle physics, and represented an enormous leap in understanding how this universe works. But his little 1987 paper, though more obscure, may tell us something about how the multiverse works, and can even be thought of as evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes.

O’Dowd’s recent videos on multiverse theory have been super enlightening. Weinberg presents a surprisingly convincing argument for a multiverse using anthropic reasoning. Pretty cracked.

The inscribed square/rectangle problem, solved using Möbius strips and Klein bottles.

Excellent intuition-building for topology. I jumped out of my chair when I recognized the Möbius strip construction :P.

via: ~azurylite

Nice proposal for quickly writing undirected graphs in text.