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[Image: the headline image, edited from Prof. Brian Cox, from an under-notified article.]
Published 2023-03-22
I discovered a bug in this publication platform which means that about 0.1% of people are notified for an article if it doesn't meet some requirements. One must have a leading graphic and some number of words or notification is reduced to that 0.1%. Naturally, I was annoyed but then thought; okay, this bug might be useful, a feature.
Recently, there have been a collection of publications outside of the core topic of this newsletter, geopolitics. You may find some of them interesting.
How can you know of them? You could read the footer which I use in all geopolitical articles, of which I include a modified version of below. Just a hint.
Here's a list of recent, deliberately or accidentally, "under-notified" articles:
A Hidden Giant Placed a Beacon (science)
On Sy Hersh, or Rather, Interviewing Him (society)
Forest and Trees (nuclear weapons)
Reprogramming 6 (music)
Reprogramming 7 (music)
Un-reprogramming 1: Missin' Things (music; Blues, Clapton/B.B.King)
I sorta like this separation of themes via volume of notification. I’ll run it down the channel lines, which was their purpose. Geopolitical articles get max notification (the YesXorNo channel). Sidelines, Thoughts-for-the-day or Cricket, no. There are edge cases like technology and society (SocTech), when I return to it. It probably deserves full notification as its an area where I have expertise. So, maximum notification is split on geopolitics or areas of technical expertise
That’s the plan.
An Aside
Sorry to be immodest and cross into crazy territory but I believe this newsletter’s Tor series is right up their on a series of grounds. The 12 000 word 4 article series provides detailed citation, which should be expected. Its gift is a description of the cultural, and technological background which lead to this valuable and sadly, still obscure technology. I hesistate to add that the series concludes with a most accessible and technically correct desciption of Tor’s core. Just the original graphics took hours, a labour of love.
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Wow.