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my body is a temple

5 days ago

from journal – Winnie Lim in life

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...

Will data centers crash the economy?

5 days ago

from Noahpinion in startups

This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bomb

6 days ago

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal in comics

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The guy in panel 3 is actually Superdupont at his day job. Today's News: Can we settle space, should...

High quality, low filesize GIFs

6 days ago

from Christian Selig in technology

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...

Reading List 08/02/2025

6 days ago

from Construction Physics in architecture

European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China’s self-driving car test, a “mini Moravec's paradox”, and more.

Your Computer Interviewed Chris Curry (1981)

6 days ago

from Computer Ads from the Past in technology

Chris talks about his work with Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers with a little BBC Micro.

Samuel Pepys Day: Four Walking Tours Trace Footsteps Of London's Most Famous Diarist

6 days ago

from Londonist in travel

Put it in your diary!

The ghost in the machine

6 days ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

When a system becomes complex and our knowledge peters out, we’re tempted to assert, in the words of Gilbert Ryle, that there’s a ‘ghost in the...

A Speculative Atlas of Climate Disaster

6 days ago

from Maps Mania in cartography

The One Weird Trick That Gave Humans Language

6 days ago

from The Ruffian in life

An Extract From 'A Brief History of Intelligence' by Max Bennett

'Delight Crowns All My Days, and Here I’ll Die'

6 days ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

R.L. Barth has been translating the epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis – the first-century Roman poet Martial, as we know him – for more than forty...

Comic for 2025.08.02 - Last Summer

6 days ago

from Explosm.net in comics

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

TfL FoI requests in July 2025

6 days ago

from diamond geezer in travel

25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in July 2025 1) It's anticipated that buses on route SL7 will eventually be replaced by electric double...

BATWRITE AUGUST DATES ARE LIVE

a week ago

from Both Are True in life

"omg this is crazy" - every big newspaper

Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953)

a week ago

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera in history

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...

I Am a Stranger in This Country: An Outsider Photographs Britain and Ireland’s Travellers

a week ago

from Flashbak in history

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...

AI Roundup 129: Personal Superintelligence

a week ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

August 1, 2025.

How the Hospitallers Lost the Holy Land but Survived the Ages

a week ago

from TheCollector in history

During the Crusades, warriors devoted themselves to protecting the Holy Land from attack, dedicating themselves to God, the Church, and their mission....

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation

a week ago

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry in history

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...

A Cold War Kit for Surviving a Nuclear Attack

a week ago

from IEEE Spectrum in science

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...

Becoming a Republic

a week ago

from Inverted Passion in startups

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...

Luna, Shad Thames

a week ago

from Cheese and Biscuits in travel

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...

Immigration and crime in the Nordics

a week ago

from Patterns in Humanity in history

A collection, description and visualization of data from the Nordic countries

Least Village Has Its Blacksmith

a week ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

The next section of Chapter 3 of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance on Books in Progress

Curate your own newspaper with RSS

a week ago

from Citation Needed in finance

Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

A constellation of lookers

a week ago

from Escaping Flatland in literature

Fragments, vol. 5

OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

a week ago

from Res Obscura in history

Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans

We're hiring: Daily newsletter writer

a week ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Join us and document the scientific, technological and economic progress happening around the world.

Dispatch 012: Local-first talks, Automerge 3, and Scribbling on a Google Calendar

a week ago

from Ink & Switch in programming

A secret master plan, the official launch of Automerge 3, and an update on Sketchy Calendars

Playing to Win Friends & Influence People

a week ago

from Working Theorys in startups

The Craft 003: A conversation with founder Avi Schiffman on conviction, AI companionship, and launching the first version of Friend.

React Server Components with Vite and React-Router (tip)

a week ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

Create a small example app and send payloads from the server to the client using RSC's

Our $100M Series B

a week ago

from Oxide Computer Company Blog in programming

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...