When a Blogger Shares a Too-good-to-be-true Meme Featuring Hilarious Handwritten Notes from a Passive-Aggressive Attention Whore Who Can’t Deal Maturely with One of Life’s Routine Disappointments and Some Random Person Who Isn’t Benefitting in the Least from all the Attention, You Won’t Believe What Happens Next

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‘Jane Austen, Game Theorist’ by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Is a Joke

When [Chwe] says that Austen was a game theorist, he means for us to take him at his word. Never mind the fact that game theory did not emerge until the middle of the twentieth century. Austen, he claims, was a “social theorist” who “carefully establishes game theory’s core concepts” and “systematically explored” them in…

Dear 11yo Daughter

You are growing up smart, talented, determined, and beautiful. (And mercurial. And obstreperous.) For a little while longer, please keep thinking that problems like these are so important, because I know I can fix them so easily. Similar:45m into a game against a player ranked 400pts higher than him. In a frilly shirt for the…

If You’re Getting Walled in a Cellar I Feel Bad for You Son

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The Whole Internet Hates Me

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Komarny

Seton Hill’s #CIO @PhilKomarny is moving on to @robotsNpencils

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First Stanford code poetry slam reveals the literary side of computer code

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STEM Needs a New Letter

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