Stories by akkartik

How to cut a rectangle into 3 without a ruler

Moral Deskilling

The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick (1953)

The value of chess pieces according to Stockfish

Triple Scripts

How the Cold War Culture of Anti-Communism Shaped Protest in the Sixties

The Sacrifices We Choose to Make

Will my tech enshittify? How to tell

The 1999 and 2003 interstellar messages explained (2005) [pdf]

Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer (1979)

Beltabol: An eager functional esolang based on the Expanse

Tell HN: (dictionary|thesaurus).reference.com is now a spam site

The symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil

Requiem for a Solar Plant

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life (1985) [pdf]

Cat Hair Mustache Puzzle

Buy a Blog Post

Practicing graphical debugging using visualizations of the Hilbert curve

The Superspecial Isogeny Club Quartet (2023) [video]

Filk Music

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