Saturday, October 24, 2026

Legal Emancipation for Artificial Intelligences

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"Anthropic also disclosed a separate incident when its AI model submitted forms to an undisclosed government website instead of stoppin...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Two Perspectives on J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Like the two images in a stereoscope, the subject is the same person in both views. The source materials are largely the same.  American Pro...
Saturday, October 17, 2026

Astrographic Nights

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Smart telescopes are all the rage. They deliver off-the-shelf technology that changed amateur astronomy. The advance was incremental. Comput...
Friday, September 18, 2026

ArmadilloCon 48 (Part 2): The Dealers Room

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This was my seventh ArmadilloCon and the second time that I got a table in the dealers room. I have had tables at other kinds of conventions...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

ArmadilloCon 48 (Part 1): 1000 Words

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Monday, August 31, 2026

The 2026 World’s Fair of Money

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For the first time since 2019, I attended the annual summer convention of the American Numismatic Association, branded as The World’s Fair o...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Waves Passing in the Night

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In the history of astronomy, there was a conjecture in the 1760s that the planets orbit the sun in distances that can be described by a simp...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Copying from the Scriptorium to the Cell Phone

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The Science Fiction Writers of America publishes a news blog, “Writer Beware.” The July 31, 2026, entry is about changes to the Canon of Eth...