A new essay and some new stories about diet optimization.

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What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty-four questions, thirty-four types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?

There are several countries that don’t have an army.

Website of an old history teacher of mine.

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.

Obselescence Guaranteed replicas of PDP-8, PDP-11, PDP-10, PDP-1

Now the Picture is as Dynamic as the Sound! You Watch It! You Experience It! You’re In It!

A contrarian opinion piece that draws parallels between some Mao’s campaigns and the rush to AI. Lots of great views that give perspective and help keep things in check.

very nice discussion of the history of histories of easter.

I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960