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Flipping the switch on far-UVC We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?
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Tech and Tea
My Buy Nothing baby changed my relationship with consumption Buy Nothing communities, neighborhood lending libraries, economic boycotts, and being intentional...
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Buy Nothing communities, neighborhood lending libraries, economic boycotts, and being intentional with where our money goes
Win Vector LLC
Don’t think of a basketball player, or search engines don’t even support “not” In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a...
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In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a while. This may be a small part of why the newer Large Language Models (LLMs) / Generative AIs look so good. The large language models at least implement a usable approximation of...
CrimethInc.
Then They Came for the Palestinians : How to Respond to the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian organizer...
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On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian organizer and graduate student at Columbia University who had permanent residency in the United States. Donald Trump’s State Department arbitrarily revoked his residency. They are holding...
lcamtuf’s thing
Why are sine waves so common? A simple question that takes some effort to answer in a satisfying way.
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Abort Retry Fail
Intel and the New Millenium Losing the performance crown
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Adventures In...
Make a seafloor map in the spirit of Marie Tharp & Heinrich Berann Here’s how you can make a map inspired by the glorious collaboration of geologist Marie Tharp and...
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Here’s how you can make a map inspired by the glorious collaboration of geologist Marie Tharp and landscape painter Heinrich Berann. We’ll use ArcGIS Pro (injected with a special terrain toolbox provided by cartographer, author, and public figure Ken Field), its amazing raster...
Abishek Muthian
Pricing Bone Health Tracker Premium Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Get...
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Bone Health Tracker Premium Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Get more reports and cloud sync for just ₹1,332.21/year Free Premium Parsed BMD reports ✓ ✓ Skeleton visualization ✓ ✓ T-Score chart ✓ ✓ Z-Score chart ✓ ✓ Submit reports without private...
Scarlet Ink
Do Jerks Get Hired For Management Roles, or Does Management Create Jerks? I assumed that certain rude personalities were promoted to leadership positions. Then I both found...
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I assumed that certain rude personalities were promoted to leadership positions. Then I both found myself being promoted, and adopting some of those behaviors.
UX Collective
Office politics: the skill they never taught us Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Grant Slatton
Rohit Chess fun little board game
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TokyoDev
Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from...
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Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from Tokyo by Shinkansen. The elevation is approximately 1000 meters above sea level, making the summers relatively mild. Unlike other colder places in Japan, it doesn’t get much snow,...
Christopher Butler
From Pascal's Empty Room to Our Full Screens On the Ambient Entertainment Industrial Complex “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s...
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On the Ambient Entertainment Industrial Complex “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Pascal’s observation from the 17th century feels less like historical philosophy and more like a diagnosis of our current condition. The...
ntietz.com blog -...
Stewardship over ownership Code ownership is a popular concept, but it emphasizes the wrong thing. It can bring out the worst...
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Code ownership is a popular concept, but it emphasizes the wrong thing. It can bring out the worst in a person or a team: defensiveness, control-seeking, power struggles. Instead, we should be focusing on stewardship. How code ownership manifests Code ownership as a concept means...
Engineer’s Codex
Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
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Posts on Made of...
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode...
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About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
African History...
A complete history of Mogadishu (ca. 1100-1892) Journal of African cities: chapter 16.
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 10: Greek Drama Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also...
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Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also listened to the blues and watched a movie starring a venerable recently departed actor. How do they connect? Perhaps they don’t. Let’s find out. Readings The plan for this week...
journal – Winnie Lim
choosing health over social ties Being covid cautious is a very socially-isolating endeavour. Most people think we have some...
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Being covid cautious is a very socially-isolating endeavour. Most people think we have some psychological disorder, and that’s putting it very nicely. I feel alone and lonely for continuously writing about this,...
A Smart Bear
The wrongness of relativism Comparing yourself to other startups? Focus on yourself instead.
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weird medieval guys
My favourite etymologies: clue A word for worms, string, romance, and advice
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Working Theorys
Make Something Heavy You're creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing.
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Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on the iPod This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me and makes me wonder where the...
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This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me and makes me wonder where the scenario thinking is in Windows.
Anarchy Unfolds
Is anarchy compatible with modern society? Problems of scale and shape in imagining the futures
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Thu Le
Things I have changed my mind about lately On some perspectives of mine that have shifted over time.
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The Perry Bible...
Snowflake The post Snowflake appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960) Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms...
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Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms of ephemera. There were meant to be used, admired? and then thrown away. Yet many children owned them and there were at least 40 issued between 1950 and 1970 on space themes. If...
SatPost by Trung...
An Ode to Skype PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
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Ploum.net
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3) 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3) Previously in "20 years of Linux on the Deskop": After...
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20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3) Previously in "20 years of Linux on the Deskop": After contributing to the launch of Ubuntu as the "perfect Linux desktop", Ploum realises that Ubuntu is drifting away from both Debian and GNOME. But something else is about to shake the...
ben-mini
Platform or Point Solution? A while back, I wrote a post titled “What is a Platform?”. I defined what a platform is and why tech...
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A while back, I wrote a post titled “What is a Platform?”. I defined what a platform is and why tech companies are so determined to become labeled as one. My definition of a platform is a tool that allows users to define and build their own things, which can be used by other...
Wuthering...
Clarice Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart - When she spoke, she invented crazy, crazy! My subject is Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart (1943), her first novel, and the only book...
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My subject is Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart (1943), her first novel, and the only book of hers I have read.  I read Alison Entrekin’s English translation because 1) I did not have a Portuguese text handy and 2) I figured it would be too hard for me, which I think is...
Archinect - Features
How to Get a Job at Studio Ma Founded in 2003, Phoenix-based architecture and environmental design firm Studio Ma has established...
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Founded in 2003, Phoenix-based architecture and environmental design firm Studio Ma has established itself as an award-winning creative powerhouse within its native Arizona, as well as beyond state borders. Under the guidance of Principals Christiana Moss, Christopher Alt, and...
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
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This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
the singularity is...
AMD YOLO AMD is sending us the two MI300X boxes we asked for. They are in the mail. It took a bit, but AMD...
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AMD is sending us the two MI300X boxes we asked for. They are in the mail. It took a bit, but AMD passed my cultural test. I now believe they aren’t going to shoot themselves in the foot on software, and if that’s true, there’s absolutely no reason they should be worth 1/16th...
alexwlchan
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
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I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
Uncharted...
What Asian Development Can Teach the World The Magic Development of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and China, and What That Tells Us about US...
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The Magic Development of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and China, and What That Tells Us about US Tariffs, China’s Future, EU Protectionism, Japan’s Zombie Debt, Argentina’s Arrested Development, and more
Unfiltered by Tim...
You Only Have 1 Hour a Day to Build Your Online Empire (If You Work a Job) Here’s the simple system to use
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A Collection of...
Collections: What Do Historians Do? For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!)...
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For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: we’ve talked about “How Your History Gets Made” from the perspective of the different people who do it – research historians, public...
./techtipsy
I yearn for the perfect home server I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past decade, mainly because I keep changing the...
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I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past decade, mainly because I keep changing the goals all the time. I’ve now realized why that keeps happening. I want the perfect home server. What is the perfect home server? I’d phrase it like this: The perfect home server uses...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Great software design looks underwhelming Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very...
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Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very straightforward - building a CLI tool that hit an…
macwright.com
Introducing the blogroll This website has a new section: blogroll.opml! A blogroll is a list of blogs - a lightweight way of...
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This website has a new section: blogroll.opml! A blogroll is a list of blogs - a lightweight way of people recommending other people’s writing on the indieweb. What it includes The blogs that I included are just sampled from my many RSS subscriptions that I keep in my Feedbin...
Blog posts of...
Take Trump Seriously In his first presidency he was verbal shit-posting and looking what sticked and rotated people...
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In his first presidency he was verbal shit-posting and looking what sticked and rotated people around him until something fitted. This time he comes prepared and is very intentional about what he says and does.
PostHog's RSS Feed
What I learned attending my first ever hackathon We sponsored the recent hackathon hosted by ElevenLabs – and I got to be in the room in San...
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We sponsored the recent hackathon hosted by ElevenLabs – and I got to be in the room in San Francisco as it unfolded, and behind-the-scenes during…
Julia Evans
Standards for ANSI escape codes Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI...
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Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were supposed to be defined or whether or not there were...
Infinite Scroll
Trapped in the Platforms Platform lock in and the Open Web
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McMansion Hell
About my last few months. the hairshirt doldrums About my last few months.
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nanoscale views
Some updates on the NSF and related issues Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a...
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Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a good idea to give a brief bulleted list of updates regarding the NSF and associated issues: A court decision regarding who has the authority to fire probationary federal workers...
CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – An New Addition And Updated Garden For This Brick Home Locus Design has shared photos of a renovation project they completed for a brick home in Greater...
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Locus Design has shared photos of a renovation project they completed for a brick home in Greater London, England, that added space at the rear of the house for an updated living room, dining room, and kitchen, as well as a landscaped yard. At the rear of the home, a new brick...
latest projects -...
Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
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IEEE Spectrum
"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying...
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Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying microbots—weighed down by batteries and electronics—have struggled to get very far. But a new combination of circuits and lightweight solid-state batteries called a “flying batteries”...
Arduino Blog
Come visit Arduino at Embedded World 2025! We’re gearing up for Embedded World, the leading event for embedded systems, industrial automation,...
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We’re gearing up for Embedded World, the leading event for embedded systems, industrial automation, and IoT technology, taking place March 11th-13th in Nuremberg. Visit us in Hall 3A, Booth 313 to explore our latest innovations and experience more live demos than ever, thanks to...
NeuroLogica Blog
Where Are All the Dwarf Planets? In 2006 (yes, it was that long ago – yikes) the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially...
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In 2006 (yes, it was that long ago – yikes) the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially adopted the definition of dwarf planet – they are large enough for their gravity to pull themselves into a sphere, they orbit the sun and not another larger body, but they don’t...
Construction Physics
Will Boom Successfully Build a Supersonic Airliner? Boom Supersonic is an aerospace startup trying to build a supersonic airliner.
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The Ruffian
Jemima Kelly on Trump: Part II On Melania, and Trump's Taste In Music
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Irrational...
Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
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If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
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<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Getting Healthcare Data To Train An AI Model - with Protege | Out-Of-Pocket And all the different ways you can “train” a model
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Quantum Frontiers
What does it mean to create a topological qubit? I’ve worked on topological quantum computation, one of Alexei Kitaev’s brilliant innovations, for...
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I’ve worked on topological quantum computation, one of Alexei Kitaev’s brilliant innovations, for around 15 years now.  It’s hard to find a more beautiful physics problem, combining spectacular quantum phenomena (non-Abelian anyons) with the promise of transformative...
Coding Horror
Let's Talk About The American Dream A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of...
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A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask
The Marginalian
Against Self-Improvement: Adam Phillips on the Danger of Treating Ourselves as Pathological Patients... "So much depends on what we can make of what happens to us."
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DYNOMIGHT
My 16-month theanine self-experiment The internet loves theanine. This is an amino acid analog that’s naturally found in tea, but now...
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The internet loves theanine. This is an amino acid analog that’s naturally found in tea, but now sold as a nutritional supplement for anxiety or mood or memory. Many people try theanine and report wow or great for ADHD or cured my (social) anxiety or changing my life. And it’s...
Eric Bailey
Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating...
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I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. They are adapted from The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s original eight principles. My adapted principles reflect...
Applied Cartography
Recursive filter schema When we added support for complex filtering in Buttondown, I spent a long time trying to come up...
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When we added support for complex filtering in Buttondown, I spent a long time trying to come up with a schema for filters that felt sufficiently ergonomic and future-proof. I had a few constraints, all of which were reasonable: It needed to be JSON-serializable, and trivially...
anderegg.ca
Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
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Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
Society's Backend
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
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The Elysian
The company of the future looks like this A Guest Lecture with Salim Ismail, author of Exponential Organizations
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Musings on Markets
Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism! In my ninth (and last) data post for 2025, I look at cash returned by businesses across the world,...
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In my ninth (and last) data post for 2025, I look at cash returned by businesses across the world, looking at both the magnitude and the form of that return. I start with a framework for thinking about how much cash a business can return to its owners, and then argue that, in the...
Build In Public...
What if Pinterest and Shopify had a baby? Just hunted Depict — a new AI tool that turns boring Shopify grids into stunning visual stories...
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Just hunted Depict — a new AI tool that turns boring Shopify grids into stunning visual stories without a single line of code.
oftwominds-Charles...
The Stoicism of the Caregiver These are difficult realities without Hollywood cliche answers. Caregivers and the costs of...
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These are difficult realities without Hollywood cliche answers. Caregivers and the costs of caregiving don't get much attention. They're not part of the news flow, and the day-to-day grind of caregiving doesn't lend itself to the self-promotional zeitgeist of social media....
Res Obscura
AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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Tony Finch's blog
constantly divisionless random numbers Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
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Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow paths. However a simple...
Bits about Money
Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50,000 cash Ever wondered what happens if you try to take $50,000 in cash out of a bank? Answer: a year of...
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Ever wondered what happens if you try to take $50,000 in cash out of a bank? Answer: a year of investigative journalism.
The Honest Broker
The World Was Flat. Now It's Flattened The state of the culture, 2025
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Escaping Flatland
An essay in which my friend feels stuck and I suggest relaxing some constraints The short version is that my friend, in my opinion, thinks about what he wants in a too constrained...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
6 Must-See Events in Dallas This Spring and Summer
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Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - pointless Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: pointless Today's News:
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Math Is Still...
A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions...
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Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among species. The post A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Map of the Week
The Brattleboro Words Project Last year I was in Brattleboro, Vermont and saw an interesting map on display. It is part of...
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Last year I was in Brattleboro, Vermont and saw an interesting map on display. It is part of the Brattleboro Words Project. The project “connects community members to the Brattleboro area’s unique history, the art of audio storytelling - and each other” through audio pieces, maps...
Common Edge
Violent Trouble in Television Paradise The dystopian streaming shows that reflect our times—and that we can’t get enough of.
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Stat Significant
Which Songs Are Frequently Featured in Film and Television? A Statistical Analysis Which songs have become staples of film and television?
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Strange Loop Canon
In defense of Gemini a kvetch
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Don't Worry About...
On OpenAI's Safety and Alignment Philosophy OpenAI’s recent transparency on safety and alignment strategies has been extremely helpful and...
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The Intimate Mirror
Buddhism Consumed The Unbundling of Dharma by Secular Materialism
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Flashbak
Mystery, God And The Wonder of Death: Cristoforo de Predis’ Illuminated Visions “He commanded and they were created.” – Psalm 33     Cristoforo de Predis (1440-1486) painted his...
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“He commanded and they were created.” – Psalm 33     Cristoforo de Predis (1440-1486) painted his visions of the final judgement in the late 15th Century. We see fish above the sea, the sun and moon dying, blood dripping from trees and winged demons dropping naked, fragile...
Both Are True
Access to the super secret google doc log!! for BAT paying subscribers only
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Rest of World -...
Colombia’s EV sales soar, but battery recycling startups struggle to keep pace A surge in electric vehicle sales has helped drive a boom in battery recycling, but the startups...
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David Heinemeier...
Air purifiers are a simple answer to allergies I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many...
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I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many miserable days in the throes of sneezing, headache, and runny eyes. I tried everything the doctors recommended for relief. About a million different types of medicine, several bouts...
Seth's Blog
The opposite of a good idea… might also be a good idea. The hard part isn’t finding proof before you begin. The hard part is...
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might also be a good idea. The hard part isn’t finding proof before you begin. The hard part is beginning, knowing you might not succeed.
History Today Feed
The Wild Hunt in England The Wild Hunt in England JamesHoare Wed, 03/05/2025 - 09:23
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Maps Mania
Wiki Explore
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Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Breathing the rest is commentary
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Wrong Side of...
Bumping up against solid reality Pourquoi mourir pour Donetsk? Britain's young might well wonder
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Odds and Ends of...
The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state A British "DOGE" (of sorts) is rearchitecting the government
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Trying to Understand...
All About Aid. Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
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diamond geezer
London's largest square What's London's largest square? covered that. I reckon it's this. And you're right, it's not...
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What's London's largest square? covered that. I reckon it's this. And you're right, it's not really the largest square you can fit inside Greater London, only the largest where the sides run north/south and east/west. Twist your square and you can do a lot better. We can...
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: defying the global psychopaths In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
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In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2022.
Anecdotal Evidence
'All That Is Human Slips Away' Varlam Shalamov (1907-82), who ought to know, opens a poem with this line: “Memory has veiled / much...
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Varlam Shalamov (1907-82), who ought to know, opens a poem with this line: “Memory has veiled / much evil . . .” Shalamov survived almost eighteen years in the Gulag, in the Arctic region known as Kolyma. His final imprisonment, from 1937 to 1951, was imposed after he referred to...
The American Scholar
Brown Wasps The post Brown Wasps appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Water Damage
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Open Culture
Carl Jung’s Hand-Drawn, Rarely-Seen Manuscript The Red Book Despite his one-time friend and mentor Sigmund Freud’s enormous impact on Western...
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Despite his one-time friend and mentor Sigmund Freud’s enormous impact on Western self-understanding, I would argue it is Carl Jung who is still most with us in our communal practices: from his focus on introversion and extroversion to his view of syncretic, intuitive forms of...
Astral Codex Ten
Spring Meetups Everywhere 2025 - Call For Organizers ...
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Noahpinion
Is China inventing big important things? More thoughts on a great civilization at its peak.
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Angela Chalmers Hi, my name is Angela Chalmers. I am a visual artist living in North Yorkshire. I work with...
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Hi, my name is Angela Chalmers. I am a visual artist living in North Yorkshire. I work with cameraless photography techniques and the cyanotype process producing 2D and 3D artworks on paper and textiles. Cyanotype dates from the early days of photography and produces beautiful...
Asterisk
Are AIs People? Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they...
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Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they are, how would we know?
Steve Klabnik
A Happy Day for Rust
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Maggie Appleton
March 2025
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Willem's Blog
Durable Smartphone
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99% Invisible
A Beetle By Any Other Name In a limestone cave deep in Central Slovenia, an unremarkable insect lives in complete darkness....
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In a limestone cave deep in Central Slovenia, an unremarkable insect lives in complete darkness. This tiny beetle, barely visible to the naked eye, has no eyes and a brownish-yellow coloration—adaptations to a life spent entirely underground. The beetle has survived for...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building WebSites With LLMS And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog....
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And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog. Through the design/development process, I had some insights which made me question my knee-jerk reaction to building pieces of a page as JS-powered interactions on top of the...
Marcus on AI
Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
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Mazdak
Claude vs. ChatGPT: A Comprehensive Comparison In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, two names stand out in the realm of conversational...
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In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, two names stand out in the realm of conversational assistants—Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Although both are built on large language models, they diverge sharply in design philosophy, technical implementation, safety...
Overcoming Bias
Philosophical Angst As Culture Skepticism In her new book, my podcast co-host Agnes Callard does a great job of expressing classic...
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The History of the...
Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
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The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web.. The post Expanding Access: The History of...
Birchtree
Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted...
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Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted would happen with the base iPad this year: I fully expect to see the 11th gen iPad in 2025, and I think it will come with a jump to the A17 Pro or
TheCollector
Where Was King Arthur’s Mount Badon? War between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons started in c. 430 CE and continued for centuries. For...
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War between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons started in c. 430 CE and continued for centuries. For some time, the Anglo-Saxons faced little difficulty in conquering new territory. However, a war leader, either named Ambrosius Aurelianus or King Arthur, helped the Britons fight...
Herbert Lui
Three conditions to just do stuff (and minimize overthinking) If you have fun writing something, the reader will have fun reading it. You’ve given your work the...
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If you have fun writing something, the reader will have fun reading it. You’ve given your work the right energy.  Building on this observation, Cassidy Williams notes that sometimes she wants her work to be strategic, or clear and thorough. She writes, “I think a lot of that...
Retail Design Blog
Cultural Area “Hahnekiez” DIA has renovated and converted the former Auerhahn brewery in Schlitz near Fulda (Hessen), giving...
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DIA has renovated and converted the former Auerhahn brewery in Schlitz near Fulda (Hessen), giving it a new lease of...
wingolog
whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been...
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Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting into , and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all my bases...
Artificial Ignorance
Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
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The Diff
PE: Cycles and One-Off Events Plus! Streaming and Marketplaces; Automating Applications; Edge AI; Tariff Day; The AI Buildout
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Classical Wisdom
What to Expect When You're Dead *New Event* April 2nd, 2025
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Blog - Practical...
All Dams Are Temporary [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Lewis and Clark Lake, on the...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Lewis and Clark Lake, on the border between Nebraska and South Dakota, might not be a lake for much longer. Together with the dam that holds it back, the reservoir provides hydropower, flood control, and...
Calculated Risk
Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in January; Fannie Mae... Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in January Freddie Mac reported that the Single-Family serious delinquency rate in January was 0.61%, up from 0.59% December. Freddie's rate is up...
Matt Mullenweg
On Lenny’s Podcast One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably...
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One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast;...
Hidden History
Project Mercury Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space...
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Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space before the Soviet Union did. The Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 caused a near-panic in the United States and led to desperate calls to “catch up”. President...