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No Jobs for Horses
In the face of automation, the free market failed completely to provide horses jobs that paid a living wage. Why this happened is critical…

Click, clack, moo: cows that type
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want

Why your Steppe Empire can not exist
‘Like a sauna’: London tube travellers swelter in temperatures higher than legal limit for cattle
The tube cannot easily be adapted to cope with heatwaves, making conditions almost unbearable

A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

What it cost an early-medieval civilisation to put a single book on the road to Rome: a flock of cattle, several years of scribal labour, the grain to feed sixty monks for the duration, and the life of one of its most accomplished men. Eight centuries later a person publishes an essay on a laptop, pays nothing, and reaches more readers in an afternoon than the Codex has been read in thirteen hundred years.
The New Moon Eclipse + Year of the Fire Horse

Our Duty - shepherds in the future - sneptech writings
walking the path of acceleration means sticking together
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack, on July 31st, 2013. It had been a little under seven months since…

new blog post: how standard.horse works. wherein I accidentally talk way too much about RSS and forget what I originally set out to say
How standard.horse works
mozzius.devFWIW, I'm a fire horse: - Fire: intensity, urgency, and passion... motivating but also demanding - Horse: rapid change, fresh opportunities, personal growth, faster (according to Vogue, anyway: vogue.com/article/year-of-the-fire-hors…) That figures...
This Is What the Year of the Fire Horse Means for You
www.vogue.com
Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?
npmx (@npmx.dev)

Teaching AI How Science Actually Works | IFP

Octosphere, an experiment in decentralised science with ATProto – Andreas Varotsis
This skeet will self destruct (@pardoguerra.bsky.social)
The Fork in the Road: AI Horseless Carriages or Collective Intelligence for Science