August 17, 2025

Weekly Distractions for August 17, 2025

🧠 Links

• Language

  • Try And

  Philosophy

  • Rationalists not being rational

  Science

  • Fossilized dino teeth used to analyze ancient climate!

  AI

  • Chain of Thought is a Mirage?

  • An article about AI in another (nicer) eleventy blog

  Games

  • A “game” that gives me a headache!

📖 Currently Reading

• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• Cleave the Sparrow by Jonathan Katz

  Esperance by Adam Oyebanji