Thursday, September 3, 2026

Links 4 September 2026

Martin Gerlach, Abduction by a Lake Monster, 1900

Noah Smith, Why You Won't Get a Flying Car

William Spaniel says Russia's rumored plan to attack the Baltics, which led the CIA chief to fly to Moscow this week, is the most serious crisis facing NATO since the end of the Cold War. 13-minute video.

Claims about quantum gravity.

Study finds that Google's AI is reducing traffic to wikipedia by about 5 percent.

Ben Pentreath wandering the Orkneys.

DNA study finds that the Upton Lovell Shaman, a goldworker of c. 2000 BC, was female.

My new fantasy novel, The Voice from the Darkness, is now for sale on Amazon. And still on Royal Road for free.

Long tweet on the Hugging Face incident, somewhat technical but anti-alarmist.

Remaining, largely ruined structures from California's back-to-the-land movement. I am old enough to remember when this was in full swing and these houses were new.

The ceilings of Iranian mosques.

Here's a distraction for you: twenty of my best art and image posts.

An interesting take on Edgar Allen Poe.

Virginia Mom Gets 6-Month Suspended Jail Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond

Despite the cancellation of some datacenters, we are still poised for a datacenter boom.

USDA approves genetically-engineered, blight-resistant chestnut trees for widespread planting, but there are doubts about how well they will survive in the wild.

Americans love stories about art heists.

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