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Wasteland Wrap-up #15

The MANIAC, shader programming, and Soviet spies...

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Alex Wellerstein
Oct 20, 2024
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The Northeast weather feels like it truly turned to Fall this week, with a slight chill that wasn’t here a week ago. The leaves are sporadically turning bright red, and the neighborhood has gone gonzo with Halloween decorations.

Lyndon’s stoic gaze while sitting on a bench at a nearby park.

ICYMI: I had a quick post on Doomsday Machines this week on the Climate Clock and David Bowie: “Five years, that's all we've got!” I’ve been working on another post, a somewhat longer one, that I’ll be putting up next week that has a few different things going on in it — a strange personal story, the concept of an “Emergence,” and Leo Szilard’s story of getting out of Germany…

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