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GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge
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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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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...
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...
Charlie Becker
One Month of Building the Used Bookstore of the Future + Things I loved in July Charlie Becker Letter #97
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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...
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...
Basta’s Notes
Doing versus Delegating A staff+ skill
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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...
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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The Ruffian
The One Weird Trick That Gave Humans Language An Extract From 'A Brief History of Intelligence' by Max Bennett
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Both Are True
BATWRITE AUGUST DATES ARE LIVE "omg this is crazy" - every big newspaper
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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...
Flashbak
I Am a Stranger in This Country: An Outsider Photographs Britain and Ireland’s Travellers In I Am a Stranger in This Country Berlin-based photograph Frederik Rüegger shows us pictures from...
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In I Am a Stranger in This Country Berlin-based photograph Frederik Rüegger shows us pictures from the two years he spent visiting the Roma and Traveller communities in Britain and Ireland. The book’s title is a nod to his reflects his status as a foreigner abroad and the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 129: Personal Superintelligence August 1, 2025.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of...
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This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
How Much Money Do OpenAI And Anthropic Actually Make? Hello and welcome to the latest premium edition of Where's Your Ed At, I appreciate any and all of...
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Hello and welcome to the latest premium edition of Where's Your Ed At, I appreciate any and all of your subscriptions. I work very hard on these, and they help pay for the costs of running Ghost and, well, my time investigating different things. If you're
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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Protocol Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you oppose this it's because you want line go...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you oppose this it's because you want line go down, but I want line go up. Today's News: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? The Weinersmiths investigate perhaps the biggest...
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...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sophists Man is the Measure of All Things...
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Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 11 getting mad + drinking occasionally
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Quanta Magazine
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at...
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After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. The post At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Yale E360
Bizarre New Creatures Discovered 30,000 Feet Under the Sea The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean. The pressure down there is so immense that even...
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The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean. The pressure down there is so immense that even submersibles supposedly built for those conditions can, as we know, tragically fail. Now imagine taking a sub nearly three times deeper. Read more on E360 →
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.01 - Compadres New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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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...
Retail Design Blog
Amouage Zhang Yuan In the heart of Shanghai’s historic Zhang Yuan district, Paris-based agency Héroïne has redefined...
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In the heart of Shanghai’s historic Zhang Yuan district, Paris-based agency Héroïne has redefined luxury retail with The Sillage, a...
Noahpinion
Why does everyone still hate the Democrats? It should be easier to capitalize on the anti-Trump backlash.
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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...
Seth's Blog
After you make a strategic error Of course, we make strategic errors all the time. Not enough time. Incomplete information. A...
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Of course, we make strategic errors all the time. Not enough time. Incomplete information. A fast-changing system. Sooner or later, a significant strategic error occurs. Don’t beat yourself up. Now what? The real problems occur after the error is made. Don’t follow a strategic...
Open Culture
Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches... If any discussion of medieval medicine gets going, it’s only a matter of time before someone brings...
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If any discussion of medieval medicine gets going, it’s only a matter of time before someone brings up leeches. And it turns out that the centrality of those squirming blood-suckers to the treatment of disease in the Middle Ages isn’t much overstated, at least judging by a look...
Londonist
The Great River Race 2025: The London Marathon... But On The Thames Passing beneath 28 bridges.
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Maps Mania
Solve the Global Treasure Hunt!
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diamond geezer
Unblogged July 31 unblogged things I did in July Tue 1: Thanks for your 57 comments on Unblogged June, even if...
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31 unblogged things I did in July Tue 1: Thanks for your 57 comments on Unblogged June, even if they were predominantly about smoke alarms. I have now sorted the issue, thanks (and the replacement will itself need to be replaced in ten years' time). Wed 2: In surprising news, as...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Book That Everybody Can Understand' A partner at the Houston law firm where my youngest son is working as an intern this summer has...
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A partner at the Houston law firm where my youngest son is working as an intern this summer has loaned him two nineteenth-century law books. Both were compiled by John G. Wells (1821-80) and were bestsellers in their day, long before the practice of law was fully...
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye Scotland draws tourists year-round to discover its stunning nature, fantastic views, and rich...
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Scotland draws tourists year-round to discover its stunning nature, fantastic views, and rich history. The Isle of Skye is the largest of the Inner Hebrides islands and is famous for its breathtaking views. You can discover the top places to visit on the Isle of Skye here. If...
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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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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Oxide Computer...
Our $100M Series B We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in...
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We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in USIT with participation from all existing Oxide investors. To put that number in perspective: over the nearly six year lifetime of the company, we have raised $89M; our $100M...
Engineers Need Art
Camera Genealogica (Part 1) I’m very much into genealogy. I came to realize that my interest was more specifically as a kind of...
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I’m very much into genealogy. I came to realize that my interest was more specifically as a kind of photograph genealogist.
Commoncog
A Vaccine for Anthropomorphism of AI How to resist thinking of large language models as friends. Or sentient things. Or intelligences you...
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How to resist thinking of large language models as friends. Or sentient things. Or intelligences you have to treat like God.
Drew Ex Machina
As Government Cuts Weather Forecasting, Private Weather is Poised to Take the Lead By Ilya Schiller For decades, Americans have relied on federal agencies like NOAA and the National...
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By Ilya Schiller For decades, Americans have relied on federal agencies like NOAA and the National Weather Service (NWS) to provide essential weather forecasts, storm tracking, […]
The Rational Walk
Daily Journal Accused of Incorrect Accounting Daily Journal has been accused of incorrectly accounting for software development costs by an...
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Daily Journal has been accused of incorrectly accounting for software development costs by an activist investor seeking a consulting contract.