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What you need to know about the deep web
2022.03.18
• The deep web can be dangerous. Here's how to protect yourself.
My perspective on AI safety
2022.01.20
• literally life-or-death more so than climate change
Why and how Minecraft should redo structures
2022.01.18
• SIX melon seeds? it must be my lucky day!
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The best music of 2021
2022.01.01
• if the title says so, it must be true
Minor rant about rating scales
2021.12.30
• reclaim the number 3
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Music genres as foods
2021.12.13
• everyone talks about their music taste, but no one talks about their music's taste
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The news attention span
2021.07.08
• headlines last only a day or two. does it matter?
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Siphon State postmortem
2021.06.27
• R.I.P. to an O.K. game
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Units Of Measurement That Never Caught On
2021.02.23
• the metric system is passé
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If Things Went As I'd Hoped
2021.01.30
• be careful what you wish for
Embarrassment and Instinct
2021.01.03
• does embarrassment make sense in a modern world?
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No Such Thing As Free Leverage
2020.11.19
• leverage as in expected influence over a game
damien's site 2
2020.11.02
• we're on version 3 of the site, but this is what version 2 looked like
this is my first blog post
2020.10.03
• thats right folks. step riiiight up