What I saw on the web on 2024.12.9

1. A sequence of puzzles (about sequences).
   by Ben Orlin
   https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024/12/09/puzzling-sequences/
   several nice ones here, only some of which i solved instantanously
   via rss
   
   
2. raga Ahir Bhairav
   by ustad Bahauddin Dagar with pandit Sadanand Naimpalli
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxKbwGoQXX8
   in case you need a morning raga performed on rudra veena (and, honestly, who doesn't?)
   via going looking
   
   
3. There Are Five Academias
   by Michael O. Church
   https://antipodes.substack.com/p/there-are-five-academias
   and none of them are doing what they're supposed to
   via rss
   
   
4. Predicting the present
   by Cory Doctorow
   https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose
   i'd been wondering what Cory's take on Recent Events™ would be
   via rss