Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

Everyone loves to remember how blogs were so much better than social media, but the truth is a bit more complicated.

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I admit it. I took the bait. Charity Majors made an appearance on Gergely Orosz’s show called “Stop being skeptical about AI for development”. I listened to the podcast—I don’t listen to many tech podcasts—and I don’t think she ever said to stop being skeptical. Not directly anyways. Great title, though. Good for engagement. “Stop being skeptical” is a phrase guaranteed to rustle any skeptic’s jimmies. A whole lotta provocation, not a lotta substance. 10/10. No notes.

Cosmic radiation comes from space. Only a small amount reaches the Earth's surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes.

Andy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.

The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.

Researcher says sightings of the endangered moth have increased over the last two years but ‘this year has blown them out of the water’

What can a rare disorder tell us about human behavior?

A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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