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Why barcodes are about to go extinct QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
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Why barcodes are about to go extinct

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

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QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
The Brains of the Operation One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has...
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The Brains of the Operation

from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups

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One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has long been great at storing, retrieving, and sharing a company’s knowledge. This is most SaaS apps, from Slack to GitHub to Notion. But as easy as it is to store information, it’s...
How Copy-on-Write Works with Memory-Mapped Files Let’s step inside the kernel and understand how it implements copy-on-write and what are its...
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How Copy-on-Write Works with Memory-Mapped Files

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Let’s step inside the kernel and understand how it implements copy-on-write and what are its implications for the performance of user-space systems
George Dryden Reading my recent computing retrospective, I realised there was a big section missing: the people in...
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George Dryden

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Reading my recent computing retrospective, I realised there was a big section missing: the people in my life that made an impact and helped shape my career. Outside my immediate family, one person made an outsized contribution, and I’m fairly certain that without his influence my...
Mark Zuckerberg on research, Cambridge Analytica, and more I’d love to hear all of the ideas you guys have here, including relatively extreme things that might...
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Mark Zuckerberg on research, Cambridge Analytica, and more

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

6 days ago
I’d love to hear all of the ideas you guys have here, including relatively extreme things that might sound crazy at first.
Lexxy 1.0 is here Today we are releasing the version 1.0 of Lexxy. Lexxy is a rich text editor for Rails built on...
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Lexxy 1.0 is here

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Today we are releasing the version 1.0 of Lexxy. Lexxy is a rich text editor for Rails built on Lexical. It already powers Basecamp, Fizzy and many others, and it will become the default editor in Rails. I recently presented it in Rails World (slides, video coming soon). This is...
Post Capitalism You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want...
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Post Capitalism

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

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You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want this, and there will only be so long you can keep shoving it down their throats. Money is tied to nothing. American companies sell equity instead of products. The main narratives...
Change the first 100 diapers. #112 is advice for new fathers.
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Change the first 100 diapers.

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

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#112 is advice for new fathers.
Nothing to Fix The third cohort of Foundations of Dyadic Unfolding begins October 8.
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Nothing to Fix

from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life

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The third cohort of Foundations of Dyadic Unfolding begins October 8.
Winner, Name that Ware August 2026 The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”,...
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2026

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”, part number 99-35107. Above is a contextual photo of how the unit looked mounted in the kit. And above are a couple examples of projects you can build with the “IC” as part of the...
Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision...
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Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

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Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision models can now be run at no cost with low latency. Based on text, decision models answer yes-or-no questions, choices and scores about it, with a probability for every option.
Introducing The AirTag Silencer Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone....
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Introducing The AirTag Silencer

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone. That's great, but if your bike is stolen - the very last thing you would want is for the thief to hear the AirTag and throw it away. That's why we designed The AirTag Silencer - a...
The AI Pascal’s Wager The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source...
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The AI Pascal’s Wager

from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature

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The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? Let’s put aside for a moment all the ethical/ecological/societal considerations about the use of generated code (also known as "slop" if you don’t like it and "vibecode" if you...
The Invention of Islamic Invention How a rogue Wikipedia editor credited Muslims with... everything
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The Invention of Islamic Invention

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

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How a rogue Wikipedia editor credited Muslims with... everything
Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode Podcast: Play in new window | Download 37:37 – A feedback episode, reading comments about the show...
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Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download 37:37 – A feedback episode, reading comments about the show from Adam, Alistair, and Abdullah. Discussing my favourite personal shows that are still going (Into Your Head, The Overnightscape Underground), task management (Getting Things...
Too Late Smart My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively...
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Too Late Smart

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

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My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.
A Fanciful (Not Fussy) Tea Sandwich To Usher in Apple Season It’s fed me through essays, exams, and even recipe columns The post A Fanciful (Not Fussy) Tea...
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It’s fed me through essays, exams, and even recipe columns The post A Fanciful (Not Fussy) Tea Sandwich To Usher in Apple Season appeared first on TASTE.
Don’t ruin my song, man Read More The post Don’t ruin my song, man appeared first on Least I Could Do.
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Don’t ruin my song, man

from Least I Could Do [alt+shift+b] in comics

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Read More The post Don’t ruin my song, man appeared first on Least I Could Do.
'A Frangible and Transparent Failure' The title poem in Anthony Hecht’s 1979 collection The Venetian Vespers is a dramatic...
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'A Frangible and Transparent Failure'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

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The title poem in Anthony Hecht’s 1979 collection The Venetian Vespers is a dramatic monologue spoken by an aging American expatriate living in Venice. Across its roughly eight-hundred lines the speaker gives the impression of fleeing something left unstated – not a scandal or...
Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment;...
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Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

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AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment; Cyber risk
Inside Walthamstow's Magnificent Town Hall And why it has a basement like a yellow submarine.
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Inside Walthamstow's Magnificent Town Hall

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

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And why it has a basement like a yellow submarine.
TfL FoI requests in September 2026 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2026 1) Since Superloop routes were...
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TfL FoI requests in September 2026

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2026 1) Since Superloop routes were introduced, the most used is the SL8 (22.7m passengers) followed by the SL9 (12.7m) and SL7 (10.5m). Already twice as many people have ridden the SL11 (2.2m, introduced January 2026) than...
Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s... These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for...
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These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for ‘cross-dressing’ or ‘female impersonation’. They were taken between 1970 and 1979 in Philadelphia when police were the jurisdiction of Police Commissioner (and later Democrat Mayor of...
Sumibiyaki Arashi Thanks to Ipanemagirl, I finally got to dine at Sumibiyaki Arashi.  Reservations are hard to come-by...
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Sumibiyaki Arashi

from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life

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Thanks to Ipanemagirl, I finally got to dine at Sumibiyaki Arashi.  Reservations are hard to come-by since Pete Ho's yakitori omakase spot has become a Vancouver favourite since it opened in February of 2025.  The place has already earned a Michelin-star and places #17 on...
How Themistocles Used a Prophecy to Defeat the Persians In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I,...
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How Themistocles Used a Prophecy to Defeat the Persians

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

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In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I, hundreds of thousands of troops traveled towards Greece’s heartland in search of vengeance for a disastrous defeat ten years prior. As their customs demanded, the Athenians sought...
To grieve, or not to grieve? Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the...
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To grieve, or not to grieve?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

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Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen before. Language models are solving hard problems which … Continue reading →
Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests? A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The...
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A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The country is trying to restore its native forests through one of the world's most ambitious and well-funded tree-planting campaigns, but experts question whether the trees will...
Media and messages Rock and roll came from the transistor radio. When Sony launched its cheap portable radio more than...
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Media and messages

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

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Rock and roll came from the transistor radio. When Sony launched its cheap portable radio more than sixty years ago, it came with a headphone. For the first time in history, teenagers could listen to music without their parents eavesdropping. This opened the door to Chuck Berry...
Providing Global Relief Bert Spaan has taken Mapterhorn's global terrain data to create an interactive global Relief map....
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Providing Global Relief

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

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Bert Spaan has taken Mapterhorn's global terrain data to create an interactive global Relief map. What is particularly interesting about this new map is that, unlike traditional topographic maps with a fixed colour-to-elevation scale, the map's colour spectrum adapts dynamically...
An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest...
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An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

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An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest battle in retail between Amazon and Walmart.
[Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs I’m excited to share this previously unreleased 2022 conversation between Charlie Munger and Todd...
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[Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs

from Farnam Street [alt+shift+b] in finance

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I’m excited to share this previously unreleased 2022 conversation between Charlie Munger and Todd Combs.  Public Release: Oct 6th. Members have access now.Join us. As with any Munger talk, the subjects are both deep and wide. I’ve pulled out the ideas that most resonated with me....
Who lost Afghanistan? George W. Bush blundered away a winnable war.
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Who lost Afghanistan?

from Slow Boring [alt+shift+b] in history

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George W. Bush blundered away a winnable war.
A Belated Personal Anniversary I really intended to post this when it was the correct week (I don’t remember the day)…four weeks...
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A Belated Personal Anniversary

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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I really intended to post this when it was the correct week (I don’t remember the day)…four weeks ago…but in any case last month marks the 50th anniversary of me starting to commute by subway, in 7th grade. At first it was simply the 7 train to Grand Central for school in east...
The Dot and the Swarm Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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The Dot and the Swarm

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

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Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of...
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

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All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of them.
Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid...
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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

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It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. This leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as well as when it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than half of the countries that...
✈️ A FLIGHT THAT ALMOST ENDED VERY DIFFERENTLY October is here, the markets are coming off a pretty choppy September, and there’s a lot happening...
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✈️ A FLIGHT THAT ALMOST ENDED VERY DIFFERENTLY

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

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October is here, the markets are coming off a pretty choppy September, and there’s a lot happening beneath the surface.
Understanding the AI That Drives Robots An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models
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Understanding the AI That Drives Robots

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

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An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models
How Japan Redrew Asia Short article
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How Japan Redrew Asia

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

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Short article
In Suburbia, No One Can Hear You Clean How college life created quiet logistical constraints against clutter
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In Suburbia, No One Can Hear You Clean

from The Deleted Scenes [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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How college life created quiet logistical constraints against clutter
Butterflies Are Masters of Illusion Stephen J Gould (still my favorite science essayist) wrote an excellent article in 1985 (Red Wings...
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Butterflies Are Masters of Illusion

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

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Stephen J Gould (still my favorite science essayist) wrote an excellent article in 1985 (Red Wings in the Sunset, later published in his book, Bully for Brontosaurus) about artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer. Thayer wrote about how animals use coloration as camouflage...
Now That Information Is Free, What’s a College Campus For? The internet and AI haven't killed the classroom. Instead, they’ve changed what university buildings...
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Now That Information Is Free, What’s a College Campus For?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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The internet and AI haven't killed the classroom. Instead, they’ve changed what university buildings can and should be used for.
This mouse droid knows how to party Not a lot of thought went into the “mouse droid” in the first Star Wars movie. It was just a bit of...
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This mouse droid knows how to party

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Not a lot of thought went into the “mouse droid” in the first Star Wars movie. It was just a bit of cute world-building, created by putting a box on an RC car. But it became a fan favorite and that in-universe model, the MSE-6, appears throughout subsequent movies, TV shows, and...
More firms are adopting building performance analysis, AIA finds The AIA has released its latest 2030 Commitment By the Numbers report. The initiative tracks the...
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More firms are adopting building performance analysis, AIA finds

from Archinect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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The AIA has released its latest 2030 Commitment By the Numbers report. The initiative tracks the architecture and design industry’s progress toward carbon-neutral buildings by 2030.  Based on performance data from 2025, the report found that 67% of whole-building projects...
MacKenzie Scott should have gotten Kindle in the divorce But she can still build the e-book future we’ve been waiting for. Here’s an open letter to the...
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MacKenzie Scott should have gotten Kindle in the divorce

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

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But she can still build the e-book future we’ve been waiting for. Here’s an open letter to the author.
A Sketch of Meta as an Enterprise AI Company Plus! IP; Gemini; Interfaces; The End Customer; Humans
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A Sketch of Meta as an Enterprise AI Company

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

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Plus! IP; Gemini; Interfaces; The End Customer; Humans
Space easy rewards out Every couple of days, I’ll drink a hojicha latte at a coffee shop I like. It’s delicious and gives...
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Space easy rewards out

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

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Every couple of days, I’ll drink a hojicha latte at a coffee shop I like. It’s delicious and gives me a perfect energy lift. I intentionally make sure it doesn’t happen every day, because I don’t want to rely on caffeine to get work done. I drink one beer very occasionally,...
AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon Is Google back?
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AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

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Is Google back?
The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand...
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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

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In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?
In Praise Of Bulletpoints - they are great
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ABLE Hospital Where does recovery take place? Able Hospital began with this question. If rehabilitation is...
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ABLE Hospital

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

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Where does recovery take place? Able Hospital began with this question. If rehabilitation is ultimately about returning to everyday life,...
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
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A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

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The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
Is This the Worst Map in Current Circulation? No, It Is This One! As I often mock the AI-slop maps that I see on X (“Twitter”), my account has apparently responded by...
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Is This the Worst Map in Current Circulation? No, It Is This One!

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

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As I often mock the AI-slop maps that I see on X (“Twitter”), my account has apparently responded by sending even more garbage my way. One example recently caught my attention as perhaps the worst map that I had ever seen. Then, several days later, I encountered something even...
Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part five: data quality When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models...
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When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models were not as good as OpenAI's original GPT-2 models, despite being based on the same architecture. My models all had 163M parameters, and followed the design from Sebastian...
Poker. I didn’t realize being a venture investor would also mean becoming a full-time event planner.
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Poker.

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

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I didn’t realize being a venture investor would also mean becoming a full-time event planner.
Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small...
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Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

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Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker talk; Wells Fargo crime-spree started in 1998; Stencils...
trading off love is freedom
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trading off

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

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love is freedom
Nothing beats having good references On this day in letters
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Vintage retro hand-drawn-ish hillshade in ArcGIS Pro Adding a hillshade terrain to your basemap can give the map reader incredible amounts of information...
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Vintage retro hand-drawn-ish hillshade in ArcGIS Pro

from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

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Adding a hillshade terrain to your basemap can give the map reader incredible amounts of information about the surface of the earth. But it’s also a mechanism for adding visual charm and interest to a map! With emotional resonance and technical merit bound up together in such a...
A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution,...
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A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

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thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution, which covers thirty-some hominin species from Sahelanthropus to sapiens. It covers what we know about each of them, what we don’t know, and what the experts are arguing over (and...
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How to Experience Wellness in Malta Beyond the Spa

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

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Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
Lighthouse map Lovely global map with animated lights sweeping the waters
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Lighthouse map

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Lovely global map with animated lights sweeping the waters
The Idea Factory My mail, WhatsApp and Signal now live in one app I built myself. I called it Contact. It is not a...
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The Idea Factory

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

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My mail, WhatsApp and Signal now live in one app I built myself. I called it Contact. It is not a chat app and not an AI app, it sits somewhere in between. When I tried to draw what it is in my notebook, a factory came out. This post explains that drawing, starting with a...
#97 Joe Giago on Project Quiver Joe Giago is skilled bowyer from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and an enrolled member...
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#97 Joe Giago on Project Quiver

from Salish Wolf [alt+shift+b] in literature

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Joe Giago is skilled bowyer from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and an enrolled member the Oglala Sioux tribe. Joe began his bow-making journey over 15 years ago from the encouragement of an uncle and has been carving beautiful replica Native American bows every...
What we lost when we lost comments Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.
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What we lost when we lost comments

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.
GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided My last official contribution to GitHub was something I’ve wanted for a long time: Writing the code...
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My last official contribution to GitHub was something I’ve wanted for a long time: Writing the code to display an ACCESSIBILITY.md file’s contents on the repository landing page. This content lives in the same tab component that the README, License, Code of Conduct, Security, and...
Our AI Midwife A guest post by Drew Housman
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Our AI Midwife

from Astral Codex Ten [alt+shift+b] in literature

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A guest post by Drew Housman
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home As the sun sets in Tokyo, its alleyways become illuminated by the lights of “sunakku” snack bars....
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OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

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As the sun sets in Tokyo, its alleyways become illuminated by the lights of “sunakku” snack bars. But OrySnack is illuminated by something entirely different: the gentle, glowing eyes of six small humanoid robots that are pouring drinks and interacting with customers. But you...
Dawn of the Brain-Dead Carl Elliott on the ethical implications of going beyond organ transplantation The post Dawn of the...
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Dawn of the Brain-Dead

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

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Carl Elliott on the ethical implications of going beyond organ transplantation The post Dawn of the Brain-Dead appeared first on The American Scholar.
A rebel wild and free [Plus audio version]
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RAMageddon $1000 for a base-PS5-strength machine with no controller, or $1200 with one. At the original rumored...
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RAMageddon

from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics

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$1000 for a base-PS5-strength machine with no controller, or $1200 with one. At the original rumored $7-800 price point, the Steam Machine might have justified its existence to me for its living-room form-factor/access to my Steam library. But adding in the AI RAMflation, I just...
Clip of me singing Despard in Ruddigore in 2013 A clip of me singing a funny song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore back in 2013
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Clip of me singing Despard in Ruddigore in 2013

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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A clip of me singing a funny song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore back in 2013
How and Why fork() Uses Copy-on-Write In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a...
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How and Why fork() Uses Copy-on-Write

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

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In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a memory usage problem that Instagram encountered with Python.
Trims and fits: How product design works, at Buck Mason Back in the spring, we spent some time with the Buck Mason team in LA , working on a project but...
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Trims and fits: How product design works, at Buck Mason

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

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Back in the spring, we spent some time with the Buck Mason team in LA , working on a project but also learning about their design process, how their references work and the way those feed into finished products.  This was important for me be... > Read more
What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes" One extra home can change the rules, the costs, and who can afford to build.
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What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes"

from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture

yesterday
One extra home can change the rules, the costs, and who can afford to build.
Bang or bust? At Bang Bang Oriental, Mohammed Ali Salha considers the invention of the London food hall....
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Bang or bust?

from Vittles [alt+shift+b] in life

yesterday
At Bang Bang Oriental, Mohammed Ali Salha considers the invention of the London food hall. Photographs by Dashti Jahfar
Make tmux the OS I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX...
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Make tmux the OS

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

yesterday
I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd
Warming up the Puma master before it forks Basecamp 5 runs on Puma in cluster mode: one master process with preload_app! and 63 single-threaded...
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Warming up the Puma master before it forks

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 days ago
Basecamp 5 runs on Puma in cluster mode: one master process with preload_app! and 63 single-threaded workers per host, deployed as a Docker container with Kamal. We serve Basecamp from several sites. Each site has its own web hosts and a read replica of the database, and writes...
The 2030 Census is in Trouble Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
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The 2030 Census is in Trouble

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

yesterday
Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
UX Roundup: Vigilance Fatigue | Adaptive Authoring | UI Clutter | Scenarios vs. Surveys for User... Asking users to watch AI carefully is doomed to failure | Adaptive authoring of content that changes...
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Asking users to watch AI carefully is doomed to failure | Adaptive authoring of content that changes depending on the reader | A cluttered experience kills user focus | To predict patients’ treatment preferences, discussing medical dilemmas beat both survey responses and the...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #213 Starship Orbital, America.gov, Matic Master Plan, Freckle, Heart Age + Extra Doses
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #213

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

yesterday
Starship Orbital, America.gov, Matic Master Plan, Freckle, Heart Age + Extra Doses
Origins of the Odyssey Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
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Origins of the Odyssey

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

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Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality? It’s an empirical question!
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Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality?

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

yesterday
It’s an empirical question!
Comic for 2026.10.02 - Pregnant New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Comic for 2026.10.02 - Pregnant

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

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New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Seed Shanty The post Seed Shanty appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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Seed Shanty

from The Perry Bible Fellowship [alt+shift+b] in literature

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The post Seed Shanty appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Two more 27.0 design grumbles After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest....
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Two more 27.0 design grumbles

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

yesterday
After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten worse. I’ve already ranted about the Liquid Glass material in general, but these two design changes in particular have really...
Boilerplate revenue crash 💰 Interesting stuff here. This guy found that Marc Lou's ShipFast boilerplate dived in revenue from a...
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Boilerplate revenue crash 💰

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

yesterday
Interesting stuff here. This guy found that Marc Lou's ShipFast boilerplate dived in revenue from a height of $125k per month to $2,000.
Premium: How Has AI Changed The Economy? This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming illustration of AI’s potential share of GDP that...
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Premium: How Has AI Changed The Economy?

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

23 hours ago
This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming illustration of AI’s potential share of GDP that I’d argue did more to muddy the waters than actually telling anyone anything, mostly because its measurement, for whatever reason, covered 2025 to 2032, meaning that six out of
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of...
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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

yesterday
This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game, easily one of the most popular historical games on the market today and thus tremendously influential in both the...
Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to...
23 hours ago
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Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

23 hours ago
Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems.
Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc....
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

yesterday
An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc. It is quite common to want to calculate such a summary repeatedly, e.g. “the maximum noise level in dB for the past 30 seconds” for a nuisance detector. In such a case we say there...
The AI God Delusion Goes Mainstream Anthropic now treats the Pope as a competitor in a battle for souls
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The AI God Delusion Goes Mainstream

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

22 hours ago
Anthropic now treats the Pope as a competitor in a battle for souls
[instagram] there will still be 125 pieces of my love lingering somewhere on the internet i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being...
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i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being with her for years and years through all the tears and laughter it is starting to make me sad that if anything were to happen to me she wouldn’t be able to do things like make...
An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community...
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An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

yesterday
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and more capable.
Haunted by the ghosts of materialism Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
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Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science

13 hours ago
Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
Peak Burnham A Champagne Supernova In the Sky
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Peak Burnham

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

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A Champagne Supernova In the Sky
SumatraPDF new features: March 18, 2026 New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent...
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SumatraPDF new features: March 18, 2026

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18 hours ago
New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent via DDE can take arguments, the same as in custom shortcuts (#5383). Loading message in tab While a document loads, its tab shows a “loading” message instead of the home...
Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the...
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Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

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I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the previous one started with “Wow, has it really been 7 months since I did one of these?” and that was in December 2023. Maybe I can make it a more regular thing. Anyway blogging...
Another Saturday, Another Song. “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the...
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Another Saturday, Another Song.

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in creative

an hour ago
“Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end. The post Another Saturday, Another Song. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Equations Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That janitor just goes from building to building...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Equations

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

2 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That janitor just goes from building to building helping people. Today's News:

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