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Issue 91 – GDP on the blockchain The regulator set to take on primary crypto oversight is down to a single Commissioner, and new...
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The regulator set to take on primary crypto oversight is down to a single Commissioner, and new pro-crypto PACs focus on installing more Republicans in the midterms
Handprinted - Blog
Monotype on Fabric using Screen Printing Inks The satisfyingly fuzzy printed lines of a monotype are usually reserved for prints on paper....
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The satisfyingly fuzzy printed lines of a monotype are usually reserved for prints on paper. However, using the method below you can create prints onto fabric with the same texture and line quality, making fast and spontaneous fabric designs to sew up into bags, quilts, or...
Computer Things
Logical Duals in Software Engineering (Last week's newsletter took too long and I'm way behind on Logic for Programmers revisions so short...
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(Last week's newsletter took too long and I'm way behind on Logic for Programmers revisions so short one this time.1) In classical logic, two operators F/G are duals if F(x) = !G(!x). Three examples: x || y is the same as !(!x && !y). <>P ("P is possibly true") is the same as...
Computer Ads from...
ArtSci MagiCalc The Visual Difference. See for yourself.
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Tony Finch's blog
strongly typed? What does it mean when someone writes that a programming language is “strongly typed”? I’ve known...
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What does it mean when someone writes that a programming language is “strongly typed”? I’ve known for many years that “strongly typed” is a poorly-defined term. Recently I was prompted on Lobsters to explain why it’s hard to understand what someone means when they use the...
Wuthering...
a fantastic universe where the presence of man was not foreseen - Maurice Herzog's Annapurna: First... Books that generate other books, books that are first in the line, interest me.  Despite...
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Books that generate other books, books that are first in the line, interest me.  Despite little interest in mountaineering, I read Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak (1951, tr. Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith) by Maurice Herzog, the subject of the book well summarized...
This Space
Reading, forgetting In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of...
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In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of activity, I picked two books from my shelves stubbornly remote from utility, lacking the intimacy of possession, and a third in which I had never read a key section. The first was...
The Works in...
The beauty of batteries Keeping the grid stable requires overbuilding generation, driving up costs. Batteries fix that.
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wadertales
Identifying key areas of Iceland for wader conservation In the same way that geological maps tell mining companies where to look for precious metals, new...
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In the same way that geological maps tell mining companies where to look for precious metals, new bird maps, produced by Verónica Méndez and colleagues in a paper in Wildlife Biology, highlight the areas of Iceland most likely to hold significant populations of breeding waders....
Trying to Understand...
Is That It? No "why"s in Liberalism.
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Christopher Butler
The National Design Studio is a Scam Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services. President Trump’s appointment of AirBnB...
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Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services. President Trump’s appointment of AirBnB co-founder Joe Gebbia as “Chief Design Officer” of the United States is a sickening travesty. It not only proves a fundamental misunderstanding of both design and governance, but...
Escaping Flatland
Collaborative writing A common phenomenon in the history of literature is couples writing together.
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Both Are True
I cannot handle my son’s crying I’m an adult male btw
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David Heinemeier...
National pride The Danish flag is everywhere in Denmark. It's at the airport when parents greet their kids coming...
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The Danish flag is everywhere in Denmark. It's at the airport when parents greet their kids coming back from holiday. It's on the birthday cake when you invite people over. It's swinging from the flagpoles in house after house, especially in the countryside. It's on the buses on...
Commoncog
Chaos and Coherence in Business Learning the right lessons from my old boss, in the wake of a successful acquisition.
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On Life and Lisp
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware...
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In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. Our story begins in...
TokyoDev
Changing Careers to Software Development in Japan TokyoDev has published a number of different guides on coming to Japan to work as a software...
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TokyoDev has published a number of different guides on coming to Japan to work as a software developer. But what if you’re already employed in another industry in Japan, and are considering changing your career to software development? I interviewed four people who became...
Josh Collinsworth
Titles matter Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the...
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Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the difference, and why does that matter so much?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Successive Prototypes Bridge the Gap Between Idea and Reality Dismissing an idea because it doesn’t work in your head is doing a disservice to the idea. (Same for...
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Dismissing an idea because it doesn’t work in your head is doing a disservice to the idea. (Same for dismissing someone else’s idea because it doesn’t work in your head.) The only way to truly know if an idea works is to test it. The gap between an idea and reality is the work....
The Beauty of...
The Other Stations (226 Garages and Service Stations, by Philip Butler) Railway stations, bus stations and… filling stations? The first two have made frequent appearances...
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Railway stations, bus stations and… filling stations? The first two have made frequent appearances on the pages of this website, the third far less often. Filling stations, and their close cousins garages and car showrooms, only occasionally attract significant architectural...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
How To Argue With An AI Booster Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can...
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Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. Thanks for
Transit Maps
Submission: Official Map – Transportation Network of Brittany, France, 2025 Submitted by Nicolas, who says: I live in Brittany, France, mostly on the western side of the...
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Submitted by Nicolas, who says: I live in Brittany, France, mostly on the western side of the region, so I am submitting its network map, containing coach, boat, and plane (yes, plane) routes in this great region. Since merging the transport networks a few years ago, the region...
Beautiful Public...
How LiDAR measures the toll of climate disasters Comparing LiDAR data from before and after the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles reveals the scale...
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Comparing LiDAR data from before and after the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles reveals the scale of devastation in ways satellite imagery can’t match.
NeuroLogica Blog
Brightest Fast Radio Burst Discovered The universe is a big place, and it is full of mysteries. Really bright objects, that can be seen...
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The universe is a big place, and it is full of mysteries. Really bright objects, that can be seen from millions or even billions of light years away, can therefore be found, even if they are extremely rare. This is true of fast radio bursts (FRBs), which are extremely bright and...
Common Edge
Did New Orleans Really Survive Katrina? What almost happened instead…
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Rest of World -...
How Africa’s e-commerce giant is fighting off Shein and Temu Jumia is capitalizing on the U.S.-China trade war as Chinese vendors are exploring new avenues to...
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Jumia is capitalizing on the U.S.-China trade war as Chinese vendors are exploring new avenues to route their products into markets such as Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire.
computers are bad
2025-08-25 teletext in north america I have an ongoing fascination with "interactive TV": a series of efforts, starting in the 1990s and...
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I have an ongoing fascination with "interactive TV": a series of efforts, starting in the 1990s and continuing today, to drag the humble living room television into the world of the computer. One of the big appeals of interactive TV was adoption, the average household had a TV...
nanoscale views
Learning and AI/LLMs - Why do we need to know or teach anything anymore? The fall semester is about to begin at my university, and I'm going to be teaching undergraduate...
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The fall semester is about to begin at my university, and I'm going to be teaching undergraduate statistical and thermal physics.  This is a course I've taught before, last full term in 2019, and the mass availability of large language models and generative AI tools have changed...
journal – Winnie Lim
the unlikeable parts of self-care When it comes to self-care people may think about treating themselves to a day at a spa, having some...
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When it comes to self-care people may think about treating themselves to a day at a spa, having some quality alone time, or spending some time on hobbies, but as I grew...
Old Vintage...
Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU other irredeemably nerdy habit is roadgeeking, exploring and mapping highways both old and new, and...
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other irredeemably nerdy habit is roadgeeking, exploring and mapping highways both old and new, and it turns out that 8-bit roadgeeking on ordinary home computers was absolutely possible. For computers of this class, devising an optimal highway route becomes an exercise not only...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Arc of Columbus, Part 1 The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan to pick up the...
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The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan to pick up the kid from college after the end of the spring semester. It was a great trip and I managed to collect eight previously unvisited counties in Ohio along the way. But now I was doing...
Strange Loop Canon
Walter experiments in rlnvr
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Construction Physics
Reading List 08/23/25 Thermal energy storage, an adjustable allen wrench, the new race to the moon, the former world’s...
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Thermal energy storage, an adjustable allen wrench, the new race to the moon, the former world’s largest indoor water park, and more.
The Ruffian
Notes on The Greatest Night In Pop A Study In Leadership, Teamwork, and Love
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Noahpinion
Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane Adopting foreign technologies is scary, but it's what makes a society rich.
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mtlynch.io
Flash an AirGradient ONE from the Command Line I’ve purchased two AirGradient ONE indoor quality monitors to measure air quality in my home....
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I’ve purchased two AirGradient ONE indoor quality monitors to measure air quality in my home. AirGradient devices are open-source, so you can flash your own custom firmware and collect your air data locally rather than sending it to AirGradient’s proprietary cloud dashboard. I...
SatPost by Trung...
SharkNinja’s $16B+ Product Machine The strategy behind how SharkNinja operates in 37 categories and has seen sales grow 24x from $250m...
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The strategy behind how SharkNinja operates in 37 categories and has seen sales grow 24x from $250m in 2008 to ~$6B in 2025.
A Collection of...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More This is the start of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) discussing the structures of...
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This is the start of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) discussing the structures of life for pre-modern peasants, who made up the majority of all humans who have ever lived. In the last few sections, we’ve looked broadly at how mortality, marriage and childbearing...
Flashbak
The Evolution of 178th St at Vyse Ave, South Bronx, NYC – 1980-2022 “I feel that a people’s past, including their accomplishments, aspirations and failures, are...
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“I feel that a people’s past, including their accomplishments, aspirations and failures, are reflected less in the faces of those who live in these neighborhoods than in the material, built environment in which they move and modify over time. ” – Camilo José Vergara   Since 1980,...
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 15 More friends should have secret codes.1 If you're at a restaurant and the waiter asks "do you want...
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More friends should have secret codes.1 If you're at a restaurant and the waiter asks "do you want desert?", you often have this weird back-and-forth where 1) you're trying to figure out if the other person(s) want desert, 2) you're
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Super Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: These are actually the nicer heroes. Today's...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: These are actually the nicer heroes. Today's News: Get your copy of A City on Mars signed in person in Charlottesville, VA on August 23rd!
The Honest Broker
The Importance of Counter-Clockwise Dance Rituals The pathway to magical living goes in a circle
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Classical Wisdom
Lord of the Rings, Stoics, and Justice Plato's Republic
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 132: The B-word August 22, 2025.
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Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Radical juries (22 Aug 2025) Today's links Radical juries: They sure hate Big Tech. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
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Today's links Radical juries: They sure hate Big Tech. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DIY TSA universal keys; Steve Jackson Games raid +20. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em,...
The Elysian
Marginalia: How to run the world, the case against elections, unions championing WFH Notes from the margins of my research.
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Quanta Magazine
Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s...
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The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation. The post Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math...
Machine Learning for...
The Strange Reality of AI and SWE Hiring in 2025 Understanding the job market beyond 'the market is bad' is
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Yale E360
Wildfires Burning Less Land but Threatening More People A growing number of people globally are seeing wildfires encroach on their homes. That is not...
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A growing number of people globally are seeing wildfires encroach on their homes. That is not because wildfires are burning more land, however. Over the last two decades, the number of acres burned has dropped. The growing exposure to fires, a new study finds, is driven by the...
Retail Design Blog
Element store by atelier tao+c Multi-brand store Element first opened its doors on Shanghai‘s bustling Yuyuan Lu in 2019. Following...
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Multi-brand store Element first opened its doors on Shanghai‘s bustling Yuyuan Lu in 2019. Following a revamp two years ago,...