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• Access Control Models (Tech): RBAC, ABAC, and the other models for deciding who gets access to what.
• Activism (Society): Rules for effective activism: match effort to influence, and work with imperfect allies.
• After New Atheism (Society): The case against God was made, belief barely moved, and churches left a gap.
• AI (Tech): Prompts that keep answers honest, running a model locally, and when embeddings are enough.
• Answer Patterns (Mind): Four dimensions for reading what an answer is doing.
• Apple TV Home Videos (Life): Play videos from a Mac through the Apple TV app.
• Arcade (Tech): MAME on a desktop and on a Raspberry Pi, with the cabinet configuration.
• Argue in Writing, Bet on Predictions (Society): Why writing and bets beat a stage debate.
• Attention (Mind): Two ways the mind processes, feature integration, the gorilla test, and the global workspace.
• Avoid and Practice (Mind): The site’s advice in one-line pairs, each linked to the entry that argues it.
• AWS (Tech): Instance comparison and metadata commands.
• Azure (Tech): Entra, management hierarchy, CLI install, VMs, and PowerShell.
• Azure Data Factory (ADF) (Tech): A cloud-based data integration service that orchestrates data movement and transformation between direct data compute resources.
• Baseball (Life): Why baseball is an American art form, plus one link for data hacking.
• Beauty (Mind): Where our sense of beauty comes from, and why I think it redeems us.
• Blood Pressure Diet (Life): A DASH-style cheat-sheet of foods to favor and foods to limit.
• Chess (Life): Openings to master, and a PGN cleanup function.
• Cold at the Top (Society): Indifference at the top: traits plus incentives, no excuse.
• Cold Logic (Mind): Reasoning that follows a principle past where it serves people, and its warm opposite.
• Columbo (Life): All 69 episodes, and how to transcode the DVD set.
• Comfort and Biases (Mind): Why comforting beliefs persist, and the one bias under all the others.
• Compatibility (Life): Fit in the three realms, and the luck that decides whether two people meet.
• Complexity (Mind): Two fields that share one word, the key terms, how settled each is, and the traps.
• Computation (Mind): Universal computation, computational irreducibility, and why paradigm shifts matter.
• Confederate Monuments (Society): Memorials to a myth, not to history.
• Consciousness (Mind): The easy problem, the hard problem, the answers on offer, and why I side with Dennett.
• Constitutional Republic (Society): Why “republic, not democracy” is a false choice, and what is contested.
• Containers (Tech): Docker installation and the commands I reach for.
• Converting iPhone Ringtones (Life): M4R to MP3 and back with FFmpeg.
• Crop Videos (Life): Crop a widescreen clip to 4:3 with FFmpeg.
• Cultural Cognition (Mind): Reading facts through group identity, and how societies move past it.
• Daniel Dennett (Mind): Gradualism, intuition pumps, and Darwin’s dangerous idea.
• Dealing With Difficult Personalities (Society): Handling people in power who cannot be reasoned with.
• Decrypt Disc to MKV (Life): Rip a Blu-ray or DVD to MKV, then to MP4 for Apple TV.
• Desire (Mind): A single scale from hatred to addiction.
• Detecting Baloney (Mind): Pointers for an intellectual self-defense toolkit.
• Devops Documentation (Tech): The four kinds of documentation and how to write them.
• Discourse (Society): A protocol for arguing with reasonable people, and a guide for the rest.
• Dispositions (Tech): The recorded decision on a finding, the common labels, and why none of them means fixed.
• DNS (Tech): Record creation, cache flushing, NextDNS on OPNsense, and PowerShell DNS commands.
• Domain-Specific Models (Mind): Beliefs as bundles of inborn and learned models, and how they get misapplied.
• Dunning-Kruger (Mind): What the effect does and does not show, and a public lesson in taking an honest review.
• Edge Website (Mind): The best salon on the web, and its Epstein problem.
• Editors (Tech): vi and VS Code settings I forget.
• Elite Rapture (Society): Apocalyptic framing from the very wealthy, and why the framing is the danger.
• Email (Tech): DMARC, SPF, and DKIM setup.
• Emotions and Relational States (Mind): Emotions by intensity and by group, and the states between people.
• Engaging Strangers (Life): Seven steps for opening a conversation with a stranger.
• Enlightenment Ideals (Society): Reason in the service of flourishing, its four rivals, and the realist objection.
• Famous Lessons (Mind): Razors and reminders for thinking.
• Famous Quotes (Mind): A few lines worth remembering, and how to use quotes well.
• Flourishing (Life): Six directions for the seeking drive, and why direction beats arrival.
• Four Floors (Mind): Where motivation comes from: genes, reflection, other minds, and reflexivity.
• Free Will (Mind): The Harris and Dennett exchange, in three layers.
• git (Tech): Everyday git, branch cleanup, rebase, squash, OIDC to Azure and Vault, and GitHub App permissions.
• Github Actions Workflow General (Tech): Two workflow jobs that release a Go binary, one automatic and one manual.
• Github Actions Workflow OIDC Access to Azure (Tech): Logging a workflow in to Azure with short-lived OIDC tokens instead of a service principal secret.
• Github Actions Workflow OIDC Access to Vault (Tech): Logging a workflow in to HashiCorp Vault with short-lived OIDC tokens instead of stored secrets.
• GitHub App Installation Permissions (Tech): The three sets of permissions a GitHub App can ask for at installation, with their defaults.
• Go (Tech): Install, local module overrides, build fixes, and snippets.
• Growing Old (Life): Bertrand Russell’s answer to the fear of death.
• Hold Your Identity Lightly (Mind): Fewer labels, freer thinking, calmer talk, and the values worth keeping.
• Holographic Space (Mind): Why space itself may be one more level, built from quantum information.
• Human Core Challenges (Mind): The biological, social, and entropy problems under every other problem.
• iCloud Photos (Tech): Exporting, backing up, and restoring a Photos library.
• Internet Archive (Tech): Account, keys, the ia command line, and what a login does and does not unlock.
• Internet Monetization Model (Society): How attention becomes revenue, and what recommender systems optimize for.
• Israel and Hamas (Society): The legal and humanitarian framings of genocide and proportionality, with sources.
• John Tooby (Mind): The mental programs that write the reality we live in, and why seeing them is the way out.
• Karaoke (Life): Songs I sing, grouped by what earns each one its place.
• Karl Popper (Mind): Three principles of toleration under every good argument.
• Kidneys and Blood Pressure (Life): How the kidneys regulate blood pressure and what that means for diet.
• Legacy (Life): Why wanting to be remembered is ego, and what is worth passing on anyway.
• Libertarianism (Society): Where body sovereignty stops serving people.
• macOS (Tech): Migration, shell setup, networking, image conversion, and hardware info.
• Markets and Capitalism (Society): Tools, not moral oracles; outcomes depend on the rules.
• Mild Leviathan (Society): AI as a volunteered mild Leviathan for self-governance.
• Mix Music Into a Video (Life): Put a song under a clip’s own sound with FFmpeg.
• Noam Chomsky (Mind): Where I follow him, where I part ways, and his point about the limits of intelligence.
• Not Conservatism (Society): Measured by conservative values, the administration is institutional decay.
• OIDC and SAML (Tech): The two protocols behind single sign-on, the three parts they share, and where they differ.
• Oligarchy (Society): Why the problem is concentrated wealth, not one man, with a ledger of who gains and who pays.
• Optimism (Mind): Lines and proverbs against pessimism.
• Ordenador (Tech): Computers and AI as tools for putting life in order, and how to organize well.
• PDF (Tech): Shrinking and merging PDFs from the command line.
• Perception Management (Society): How narratives, not facts, shape mass belief.
• Personal Growth (Life): The handful of ideas I run my own life on.
• Poker (Life): Chip counts, blind schedules, and payouts for home games.
• Politics (Society): Reason and Compassion as the real poles, plus three smaller convictions.
• Privacy (Tech): Online basics, why we surveil, and where it becomes overreach.
• Pseudoscience (Mind): Why it is bad, who is drawn to it, and what actually counters it.
• Reflexivity (Mind): Observing and revising your thinking, its evolved limits, and how institutions extend it.
• Reflexivity Curriculum (Mind): Norms, practices, and safeguards that make reflection the default.
• Richard Dawkins (Mind): The gene’s-eye view that settles what an adaptation is for, and prose worth rereading.
• Rights and Remedies (Society): A right you cannot enforce is not a right, and those paths are narrowing.
• Roger Penrose (Mind): Provisional physics and non-algorithmic consciousness.
• Rule of Law (Society): How far the U.S. has slipped, measured by an index and by acts the courts called unlawful.
• Rules and Models (Tech): Code and language models as two ways of computing, and what joining them changes.
• Salomon’s House (Society): An order of science explainers, after Bacon, under a four-rule charter.
• Science (Mind): The most important mental tool we have, and why it comes hard.
• Security (Tech): Passwords, certificates, SSH keys, pfSense, OpenSSL, Vault, and OIDC versus SAML.
• Slow by Design (Society): A republic built to cool passions, how virality undoes it, and the remedies I would add.
• Smug Pilots (Society): How engagement media and bickering experts wore down trust, and what experts owe listeners.
• Social Roles (Society): Five role domains everyone holds, and the terms for how roles are assigned and strained.
• Software Before AGI (Tech): Domain-specific harnesses, what to build now, and why all of it is provisional.
• Sorites Paradox (Mind): No paradox once you set the gate, and the move to watch for.
• Star Wars Chronology (Life): The films and live-action series in story order, with release years.
• Steven Pinker (Mind): My primary reference in psychology, with three reservations.
• Terraform (Tech): Modules, state moves, workflow, Azure, and GitHub Actions, plus two essays on IaC and state.
• Terraform to Vault From Azure (Tech): Logging Terraform in to Vault with an Azure VM’s managed identity, and the same from a GitHub Actions job.
• The Immigration Choice (Society): Tax and legalize the workforce already here, or pay to remove it.
• The Money Exception (Society): Why even skeptics go easy on concentrated wealth, and when to speak up anyway.
• The Orbán Playbook (Society): Bending institutions by legal means, as in Hungary, and how it can be beaten.
• The Ouroboros (Mind): One world in levels, from particles to minds, and how it folds back on itself.
• The Perception Gap (Society): Why heavy news users see the other side as more extreme than it is, and what I did.
• The Problem with Infrastructure-as-Code (Tech): Why infrastructure-as-code exists, what platforms have absorbed since, and what remains unsolved.
• The Problem with Terraform State (Tech): What the state file is, the well-known pains it causes, and which ones are being fixed.
• The Sense of Style (Mind): What Pinker’s book argues, which popular tips are his, and how to use it.
• The Two-Front War (Society): Illness in the U.S. means fighting the disease and the bill.
• Threads of Mind (Mind): An intuition pump: many threads of consciousness, and why the mind already has them.
• Three Realms (Mind): Physical, emotional, and intellectual, and why effort flows to the one that pays.
• Trans Issues (Society): Neither panic on the right nor dogma on the left: rights, evidence, open debate.
• Transcendence (Mind): Why we crave something larger: the fear half, the appetite half.
• Trust in Truth (Mind): Six habits for keeping trust in each other and in the institutions of knowledge.
• Two Systems (Mind): Fast and slow thinking as a fiction, what survived, and the remedy.
• U.S. Identity Politics (Society): Identity first, policy rationalized afterward, and the way out.
• Understanding Microsoft Access Token Validation (Tech): Why only the intended resource should validate an access token, and the Azure Management exception.
• Validate YAML in GitHub Actions (Tech): A job that checks the YAML files a push changed against a schema.
• Viral Truth (Society): What truth can borrow from how lies spread, and what it must not.
• Virtue Signaling (Society): Moral display without action, often unintended, and a test for it.
• Who Counts (Mind): Why an AGI with the right machinery is someone, and where the line falls.
• Who Opened the Door (Society): What Latinos owe the Black civil-rights movement, and how to repay it.
• Who We Thank (Society): Ballpark honors for the military: deserved, but excessive and selective.
• Whose Problem (Society): Real problems, and why no single donor should own them.
• Written With Help (Tech): This site is written with an LLM’s help, and why discounting that is preposterous.

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