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* Why We Have Prison Gangs: Q&A whose ultimate answer is that gangs are a form of governance in a place that has little. Skarbek also talks about what being in a gang is like, rules they have in place (bedtime, taxes, no affiliating with sex offenders or former LEOs),...

Lines Will Move Further Away If They Aren’t Defined Three types of lines exist in the policy and behavior sense: * Soft: These are okay to cross, but not preferable. There may or may not be a tangible action taken afterwards, but the person whose line was crossed should take...

Over the last few months we[1] have been doing a sleep experiment inspired by our suspicion that orexin is an exciting target for sleep need reduction. We mildly deprived ourselves of sleep (5-5.5 hours, relative to 7-7.5 hours normally) and took either a placebo or orexin intranasally. We tracked our...

* An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: An OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot)) agent goes wild on a developer for rejecting a pull request. Plenty of follow-up material. * Best Of Moltbook: Related to the above, Moltbook is a Reddit-like community for OpenClaw bots to gather and...

* My Apartment Art Commission Process: jenn details how she captures her apartments in digital art form. It even includes an email template! * “Everything’s Expensive” is Negative Social Contagion: Justis argues that saying such things makes people think the economy is bad, resulting in “facially insane political choices”. I’d...

Taiwan trip report from 23-30 November 2025. This is more a collection of thoughts and observations about Taiwan than a play-by-play report. Vibes, or What Paul Graham Would Say Taiwan is nice. By what definition of nice? you ask. To which I answer: all of them. The place itself is...

I had a wonderful time at LessOnline 2025 and am excitedly looking forward to the 2026 installment. If you're reading this, you should definitely consider going! Here are a few ideas I had that may improve the LessOnline experience a bit. Feel free to add your own ideas to the...