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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the patterns of life...
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This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the patterns of life for the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of humans who lived in the past. Last week, we started looking at family formation through the lens of marriage, this...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 130: GPT-5 August 8, 2025.
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Global Inequality...
Dr. Morell and the Patient A A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
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The Ruffian
The Data Says We're Doing Fine, So Why Are We Furious? When Data and Anecdote Conflict
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Wuthering...
What I Read in July 2025 - books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts instead of uttering them by...
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In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts instead of uttering them by word of mouth; and he was fond of reading, for books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader. (Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette, 1932, p. 77 of the 1933...
nanoscale views
Brief items - Static electricity, quantum geometry, Hubbard model, + news It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the...
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It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the past couple of weeks. Physics Today has a cover article this past issue about what is colloquially known as static electricity, but what is more technically described as...
Mazdak
OpenAI Launches GPT-5 On August 7, 2025, OpenAI officially released GPT-5, its latest flagship model, to the world.
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One Useful Thing
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge
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Flashbak
Logan Airport Versus Neptune Road, Photographing Boston’s ‘War’ of 1973 “I look at these photographs and feel the overwhelming sensation of the noise of these low-flying...
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“I look at these photographs and feel the overwhelming sensation of the noise of these low-flying aircraft. Yet I could leave what seemed like a war zone. And it was a kind of war, long-time residents trying for normalcy and the powers that be wanting them out.” – Michael Philip...
Archinect - Features
Archinect City Guide: Unlock Manhattan with Julia Gamolina of Madame Architect Manhattan: So much to do, so little time! To make New York City's most densely populated borough...
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Manhattan: So much to do, so little time! To make New York City's most densely populated borough more accessible for out-of-towners and residents alike, we've asked Julia Gamolina to host today's Archinect City Guide. Beyond her role as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
AI Is A Money Trap In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive...
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In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on
Adventures In...
Time-warp walkability mapping in ArcGIS Pro In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also...
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In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also how long it takes me to get there. My perceptions of the same distances, but with different walk times, are much different. There are realities that slow me down like...
Scott Jenson
Hype is a Business Tool Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started...
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Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started playing with ChatGPT? Like everyone else, you probably created a poem in a pirate’s voice. “Pirate Poetry” was fun, exciting, and even playful. Today, EVERYONE is talking about AI, and...
Trying to Understand...
It Gets Worse. This time, there will be consequences.
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Computer Things
Software books I wish I could read New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with...
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New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with a new chapter on code proofs, three chapter overhauls, and more! Full release notes here. Software books I wish I could read I'm writing Logic for Programmers because it's a book...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Notifications Take back your attention.
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Handprinted - Blog
Speedball Speedy Carve Block using Process Colours Speedy Carve Blocks are delicious to cut and a joy to print. We have featured them many times in our...
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Speedy Carve Blocks are delicious to cut and a joy to print. We have featured them many times in our blog, but this time we have created a process with a three-layered print. For a layered print like this, it's helpful to start with a drawing. Map out the colours to plan their...
tonsky.me
We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current...
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Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3, and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa, when writing its version 1.2.3, needed another library: liblupa. So...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Age of AI Flattery How Wrong Incentives Can Undermine Honest AI-Human Dialogue
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Acko.net
HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has...
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Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved...
Build In Public...
The Job Search for Independents Just Got AI-Powered The 2 AM job hunt is officially over thanks to Indy AI 🚀
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Musings on Markets
The Imitation Game: Defending against AI's Dark Side! A few weeks ago, I started receiving a stream of message about an Instagram post that I was...
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A few weeks ago, I started receiving a stream of message about an Instagram post that I was allegedly starring in, where after offering my views on Palantir's valuation, I was soliciting investors to invest with me (or with an investment entity that had ties to me). I was not...
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is on the move Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed...
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Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250...
Blog - Practical...
Why Are There No Short Arch Dams? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Flaming Gorge Dam rises from...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Flaming Gorge Dam rises from the Green River in northern Utah like a concrete wedge driven into the canyon, anchored against the sheer rock walls that flank it. It’s quintessential, in a way. It’s what we...
Both Are True
"Unearthed 2008 blog reveals Dobrenko's early genius" i sent an unfinished blog entry from 2008 to some literary critics and here's their reply???
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some stories from healthcare founders | Out-Of-Pocket Titles matter, you can change regulation, how M&A happens
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NeuroLogica Blog
It’s Just A Correlation Did you know that the number of Google searches for cat memes correlates tightly (P-value < 0.01)...
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Did you know that the number of Google searches for cat memes correlates tightly (P-value < 0.01) with England’s performance in cricket World Cups? What’s going on here? Is interest in funny cat videos driven by the excitement created by cricket victories. Perhaps cat memes are...
The History of the...
We Are Still the Web Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great...
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Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Arduino Blog
This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)...
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In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch to control multiple computers with the same mouse and keyboard — and even then, it would take a button press to move from one to the other. Today, Apple’s Universal Control...
TokyoDev
Extending My Japanese Visa as a Freelancer With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services...
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With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa for another three years. I’m thrilled by this result, because my family and I recently moved to a small town in Kansai and have been enjoying our lives in Japan more than...
BLDGBLOG
Mineral Hurricane I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton,...
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I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton, directed by Victor Kossakovsky and released last week by A24. The screening I attended was held inside a Cedars-Sinai medical imaging center in west Los Angeles; seeing this particular...
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Mineral Hurricane I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton,...
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I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton, directed by Victor Kossakovsky and released last week by A24. The screening I attended was held inside a Cedars-Sinai medical imaging center in west Los Angeles; seeing this particular...
Tony Finch's blog
p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to...
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Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to something already described in the literature – if you know of something, please let me know via the links in the footer! The gist is to throw away the tree and interior pointers from...
The Marginalian
Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the...
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Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the sight of each dead animal in the streets between home and school — deaths I could not prevent and could not bear. To cope with the aching helplessness, I developed a private...
Retail Design Blog
MUFG Workplace: A Workplace Rooted in Nature and Culture Amidst rapid growth, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) envisioned a Bengaluru workplace that...
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Amidst rapid growth, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) envisioned a Bengaluru workplace that echoed its global ethos and commitment to...
The Honest Broker
"You Have to Get People's Attention in the First Two Seconds" And other updates on previous articles
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The Elysian
The TERRAFORM print pamphlet is now available—here's what we earned Plus, join our literary salon discussion this week!
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Atoms vs Bits
Trust This one makes me sad to write, but: I've had two people who worked for me who told me early on that...
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This one makes me sad to write, but: I've had two people who worked for me who told me early on that their previous manager was terrible, horrible, a nightmare, etc. This instantly activated a visceral protectiveness in me, and made go out of my way to give
Quanta Magazine
Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its...
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Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved. The post Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface...
Yale E360
World Cannot Recycle Its Way Out of Plastics Crisis, Report Warns The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to...
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The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report published in the leading medical journal The Lancet. Ahead of a U.N. conference on plastic pollution, authors warn that countries urgently...
Common Edge
When a Beloved Client Dies The connection between designer and user can—wonderfully and painfully—transcend the business of...
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The connection between designer and user can—wonderfully and painfully—transcend the business of architecture.
History Today Feed
‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review ‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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Open Culture
Watch Anémic Cinéma, Marcel Duchamp’s Whirling Avant-Garde Film (1926) Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made some heady art. His whole goal was to “put art back in the service...
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Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made some heady art. His whole goal was to “put art back in the service of the mind,” or to create what Jasper Johns once called the “field where language, thought and vision act on one another.” And that’s precisely what Duchamp’s 1926 avant-garde...
Rest of World -...
VinFast speeds into India after U.S. U-turn After U.S. failure, Vietnam’s EV leader turns to markets dominated by Tesla and BYD.
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Maps Mania
Mapping the MutiVerse
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The American Scholar
“Dead Man’s Hand” The post “Dead Man’s Hand” appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Grounded
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is...
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I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is genuinely useful. There’s simply something magical about being able to design or download a model from the internet, send it to a machine, and after a few hours you get an actual...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.03 - Hear The Ocean New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What...
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I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href attribute? Well, I looked around. I found some things I already knew about, e.g. Link protocols like mailto:, tel:, sms: and...
Confessions of a...
Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
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Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Sisyphus, Sophists, and Stoics
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Seth's Blog
Movies, books and paintings No important movie has ever been a solo project. While we can see a director’s point of view from...
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No important movie has ever been a solo project. While we can see a director’s point of view from movie to movie, the collaborative nature of the work is evident. Actors, cinematographers and musicians all change what we see. And because of the huge amount of time and money...
balajis.com
AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic And ten more thoughts on AI.
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Old Vintage...
A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next...
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I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next natural step from the Motorola 68000 family must be to PowerPC. For example, the Palm OS moved from the DragonBall to ARM, and it's not necessarily a well-known fact that the...
diamond geezer
Pond Square 45 45 Squared 27) POND SQUARE, N6 Borough of Camden, 90m×90m×90m The thing about Pond Square is it...
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45 45 Squared 27) POND SQUARE, N6 Borough of Camden, 90m×90m×90m The thing about Pond Square is it doesn't have a pond and it's more of a triangle. We're on the northern edge of Camden off Highgate High Street, shielded behind Oxfam and the pink-fronted cake shop if you choose...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 28 July-3 August 2025 Catch up on what you missed this week.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Ten-pound Life Will Give You Every Fact' On this, the tenth anniversary of poet-historian Robert Conquest’s death at ninety-eight,...
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On this, the tenth anniversary of poet-historian Robert Conquest’s death at ninety-eight, let’s recall the sonnet he wrote about the treachery of biographers, “Second Death”:  “A ten-pound Life will give you every fact -- Facts that he’d hoped his friends would not rehearse To a...
journal – Winnie Lim
my body is a temple The people who brought me up have a sweet tooth, so I was allowed to snack on unregulated amounts of...
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The people who brought me up have a sweet tooth, so I was allowed to snack on unregulated amounts of chocolate, sweets, chips and carbonated drinks whenever I wanted. I used to...
Noahpinion
Will data centers crash the economy? This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bomb Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The guy in panel 3 is actually Superdupont at his...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The guy in panel 3 is actually Superdupont at his day job. Today's News: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? The Weinersmiths investigate perhaps the biggest questions ...
Christian Selig
High quality, low filesize GIFs While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for...
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While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for sharing short clips where an actual video file might have some compatibility issues. For instance, I find when you just want a short little video on your website, a GIF is still so...
Construction Physics
Reading List 08/02/2025 European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China’s self-driving car test, a “mini Moravec's...
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European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China’s self-driving car test, a “mini Moravec's paradox”, and more.
Computer Ads from...
Your Computer Interviewed Chris Curry (1981) Chris talks about his work with Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers with a little BBC Micro.
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TheCollector
Why Chinese Calligraphy Is More Than Just Beautiful Writing Western perceptions of Chinese calligraphy often focus on the skills used to make the artistic...
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Western perceptions of Chinese calligraphy often focus on the skills used to make the artistic lines. However, an appreciation of skills alone does not take into account the traditions tied to it. For over two millennia, Chinese calligraphy was more than an art form. It was a...
Dreams of Space -...
Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953) My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though...
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My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though I have been collecting these children's book for over 30 years it still is very exciting to find one that you never knew existed. Jack Coggins was an amazing space artist in the...
Machine Learning for...
You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server! I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can...
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I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can have access to all of my curated feeds that I use to keep up with AI resources, news and jobs. This is also a private space for paid subscribers to chat, learn, network, and get...
IEEE Spectrum
A Cold War Kit for Surviving a Nuclear Attack On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested its first nuclear weapon. Over the next year...
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On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested its first nuclear weapon. Over the next year and a half, U.S. President Harry S. Truman resurrected the Office of Civilian Defense (which had been abolished at the end of World War II) and signed into law the Federal Civil...
Inverted Passion
Becoming a Republic The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the...
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The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the Oxford University, where we read Plato’s Republic. The essay includes a few references to structure and specific content from the book, so if something doesn’t make sense, it’s probably...
Cheese and Biscuits
Luna, Shad Thames This is not going to be a long post. Not because Luna - a cosy little new wine bar from the people...
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This is not going to be a long post. Not because Luna - a cosy little new wine bar from the people behind Legare just over the road - isn't good, but rather because it really isn't going to take me long to describe why it's good. Because it's really not rocket science - take...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime in the Nordics A collection, description and visualization of data from the Nordic countries
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The Works in...
Least Village Has Its Blacksmith The next section of Chapter 3 of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance on Books in Progress
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Citation Needed
Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own...
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Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
Escaping Flatland
A constellation of lookers Fragments, vol. 5
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Res Obscura
OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
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Charlie Becker
Help me read my way through the history of the novel. CBL #96 | A short essay followed by a very long list
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The Works in...
We're hiring: Daily newsletter writer Join us and document the scientific, technological and economic progress happening around the world.
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 012: Local-first talks, Automerge 3, and Scribbling on a Google Calendar A secret master plan, the official launch of Automerge 3, and an update on Sketchy Calendars
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Working Theorys
Playing to Win Friends & Influence People The Craft 003: A conversation with founder Avi Schiffman on conviction, AI companionship, and...
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The Craft 003: A conversation with founder Avi Schiffman on conviction, AI companionship, and launching the first version of Friend.
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components with Vite and React-Router (tip) Create a small example app and send payloads from the server to the client using RSC's
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