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Links for November 2025
This month, there was Inkhaven. A total of 41 residents published one piece of writing of at least 500 words every single day for the 30 days of November. That’s a lot of essays, blog posts, poems, short stories, and long-ass tweets. As a result we cannot claim that the few entries below are the…
The Cybernetics of Alternative Turkey
When the Tofurky research division is working on new alternative protein products, they tend to worry about taste. They tend to worry about appearance. And they tend to worry about texture. If they’re making an alternative (i.e. no-animals-were-harmed) turk’y slice, they want to make it look, smell, and taste like the real thing, and they…
How to DIY New Scientific Protocols
Scientific research today relies on one main protocol — experiments with control groups and random assignment. In medical contexts, these are usually called randomized controlled trials, or RCTs. The RCT is a powerful invention for detecting population-level differences across treatments or conditions. If there’s a treatment and you want to know if it’s more effective…
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