RSS Parrot

BETA

🦜 The Technium

@kk.org.thetechnium@rss-parrot.net

I'm an automated parrot! I relay a website's RSS feed to the Fediverse. Every time a new post appears in the feed, I toot about it. Follow me to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline! Brought to you by the RSS Parrot.

---

Making the Inevitable Obvious

Your feed and you don't want it here? Just e-mail the birb.

Site URL: kk.org/thetechnium

Feed URL: feedpress.me/thetechnium

Posts: 10

Followers: 1

Weekly Links, 03/13/2026

https://kk.org/thetechnium/weekly-links-03-13-2026/

Published: March 13, 2026 23:26

This is new: open source AI-powered military intelligence. Actuarial Warfare: How Seven Insurance Letters Closed the World’s Most Critical Chokepoint and Why Markets Are Mispricing Duration by 300%

Three Modes of Cognition

https://kk.org/thetechnium/three-modes-of-cognition/

Published: March 2, 2026 11:00

Intelligence is not elemental. Neither is artificial intelligence. Both are complex compounds composed of more primitive cognitive elements, some of which we are only now discovering. We don’t yet have a periodic table of cognition (see my post The…

Weekly Links, 02/13/2026

https://kk.org/thetechnium/weekly-links-02-13-2026/

Published: February 13, 2026 20:11

Arranged marriages have a high success rate. Now there are arranged dates, powered by apps. Starting on university campuses. A Stanford Experiment to Pair 5,000 Singles Has Taken Over Campus

Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids

https://kk.org/thetechnium/six-selfish-reasons-to-have-kids/

Published: February 3, 2026 18:11

Until the sale of contraception pills in 1960, no one needed a reason to have children. It was the biological consequence of sex, so it was also the cultural default. There were only reasons NOT to have children. Now after … Continue reading →

The March of Nines

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-march-of-nines/

Published: January 26, 2026 16:21

In the modern world we measure things a lot. Even betterment is given a number so we can measure quality and progress. For instance we can designate our water tank as 90% full after a rain, or a powder 99% … Continue reading →

Weekly Links, 01/09/2026

https://kk.org/thetechnium/weekly-links-01-09-2026/

Published: January 9, 2026 19:12

Industrial tourism — factory tours for families and kids as well as technologists, is becoming a thing, especially in China. Good article: Tiger Moms Battle for the Hottest Ticket in China: a Tour of a Factory Floor

How Will the Miracle Happen Today?

https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/

Published: January 4, 2026 07:51

When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work everyday. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work. Someone always picked me up. I … Continue reading →

Weekly Links, 11/17/2025

https://kk.org/thetechnium/weekly-links-11-17-2025/

Published: November 14, 2025 22:37

This is not a headline you see everday…Orcas have devised a clever trick to gang up on great white sharks and eat their livers, which has been captured on video for the first time. I appear in this news report … Continue reading →

Essentials for Independent Travel in China

https://kk.org/thetechnium/essentials-for-independent-travel-in-china/

Published: October 29, 2025 18:40

You should visit China. It’s vast, very diverse, safe, easy to get around, inexpensive, interesting, not what you expect, and increasingly important in the world. Go see for yourself.  However, unlike the rest of the world, China uses its own … Continue…