Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Alex Wellerstein
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Did I mistakenly check an option that says, "please assume I don't know what I'm doing, and can't read?" I get annoyed by all of the AI offers for "help" anyway but the tone really seemed to suggest that I might want to be careful with all of those pages, like I didn't know what I was in for.
pondering my orb
I opened a PDF on my non-usual computer, which opened it in Adobe Reader (which I have switched from on my main computer). The first thing it did was to offer up a warning that the document I had opened was long, and maybe I ought to have its AI summarize it for me. I mean, really.
If you like Depths of Wikipedia or generally have trivia brain, check out catfishing.net
(... named BEFORE that term meant anything else, they hasten to assure ...)
They tell you the categories to which a wiki article belongs (e.g., "1855 novels," "novels about whales") and you guess the article.
In my last show guest-hosting for Bill, I talk with nuclear historian @wellerstein.bsky.social about Truman’s struggle to control the atomic bomb. He never considered it a military weapon - a far cry from those now pushing to build more bombs and to use them. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
