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The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov... fxrant.blogspot.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-21T16:34:51-0700
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How Private Equity Was BornPrivate equity, now a major presence in the US economic landscape, has been booming since the 2008 financial crisis. Its roots lie in the rise of the corporation at the turn of the century and the shareholder revolution of the 1980s. jacobin.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-22T21:06:23-0700
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Inside the Rise and Fall of Toys ‘R’ UsThe retailer turned everyone into a “Toys ‘R’ Us kid”… by driving its competition out of existence. 2018-03-19T14:57:36-0700 HISTORY Erin Blakemore 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-23T07:40:53-0700
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An end to all this prostate trouble?yarchive.net 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-26T20:05:25-0700
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Flagellomania and Fatherhood: Roald Dahl, My Father, and MeI smacked my daughter once. The guilt still haunts me. #Culture #Literature #Memoir #Parenting #Psychology 2025-03-17T03:00:00-0700 The MIT Press Reader 3,000 words Rated 2025-04-27T21:06:18-0700
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The One-Person Framework in practiceHow I built a seven-figure business with Rails bramjetten.dev 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-28T19:17:40-0700
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Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for SearchPaying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday. Daring Fireball 1,000 words Rated 2025-04-29T07:52:39-0700
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Demolition Begins at DC’s Black Lives Matter PlazaThe bright yellow letters became a landmark in 2020, and now are being removed. 2025-03-10T16:51:55-0700 Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com/author/chonker/#author ... 500 words Rated 2025-04-29T15:07:15-0700
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Runaway TrenHow a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela #Colorado #Donald Trump #Housing #Immigration #Real Estate #Venezuela 2025-04-24T05:30:00-0700 The American Prospect Maureen Tkacik 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-29T22:19:56-0700
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A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App StoreThe Epic Games v. Apple judge banned Apple from collecting commissions on purchases made outside its App Store, finding the company in contempt of a 2021 ruling over its anticompetitive behavior. #Apple 2025-04-30T15:58:56-0700 The Verge Jay Peters 500 words Rated 2025-05-01T09:41:50-0700
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How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects<p>The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual event that brings the global technical community together to connect and have technical discussions, hack on existing projects and ...</p>\n 2025-04-01T12:20:19-0700 Diff 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-02T06:02:05-0700
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Vatican City2021-02-01T13:57:15-0800 Vatican Observatory 500 words Rated 2025-05-02T06:05:20-0700
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Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt ReferralJudge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down. 2025-04-30T20:11:22-0700 BIG by Matt Stoller Matt Stoller 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-02T18:21:07-0700
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The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN BusinessDriverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. 2025-05-01T14:31:39-0700 CNN Alexandra Skores ($) 500 words Rated 2025-05-02T18:24:31-0700
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The life-or-death case for self-driving carsNew research from Waymo shows self-driving cars hugely reduce crashes and injuries compared to human drivers. Robot vehicles may be the future of safer roads. #Artificial Intelligence #Google #Technology 2025-05-04T05:00:00-0700 Vox Bryan Walsh ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-04T10:16:35-0700
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"You Wouldn’t Steal a Car”... But Would You Pirate a Font? * TorrentFreakThe statement "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" launched one of the most iconic anti-piracy campaigns. But did the campaign use a pirated font? 2025-04-24T06:28:46-0700 TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-04T13:15:31-0700
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I'd rather read the promptI have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life. claytonwramsey.com Clayton Ramsey 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-04T21:48:19-0700
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TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials💡Update May 3, 2025: I have posted a follow-up, Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials. Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar with Waltz, he's most well known for inviting The... 2025-05-02T14:34:09-0700 micahflee Micah Lee 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-06T06:59:55-0700
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The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | BlogA reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency. 2025-04-23T17:00:00-0700 NotAShelf 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-06T16:36:46-0700
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So much bloodbut how much exactly? 2025-05-04T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-07T06:48:01-0700
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Ghost students are creating an 'agonizing' problem for Calif. collegesCalifornia community colleges are facing a unique and "agonizing" problem with this technology. #Covid 19 #San Francisco 2025-05-07T04:00:00-0700 SFGATE Madilynne Medina 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-07T22:28:11-0700
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Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax – Jake ZimmermanA discussion of how Sorbet's type syntax came to be, the problems it solves, and how it could improve. blog.jez.io Jake Zimmerman 4,000 words Rated 2025-05-09T14:15:56-0700
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Opinion | What People at Pornhub Were Thinking When It Shared Videos of Child RapeFive years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’ #Alabama #Child Abuse #Pornography #Rape #Social Media 2025-05-10T04:00:09-0700 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-10T16:59:56-0700
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DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreakFacing escalating DNS piracy blocking orders, major providers like OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google are adopting notably different responses. #Belgium #Google 2025-05-08T06:23:53-0700 TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-11T15:47:37-0700
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Meet San Francisco’s ‘anti-profit’ bike shop, Scenic RoutesA bike shop at 521 Balboa St. in the Inner Richmond was born out of a pandemic-era, quarantine-addled Twitter joke. 2025-05-04T11:02:00-0700 Mission Local Nicholas David 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-12T19:55:37-0700
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Opinion | George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla HaydenWhen a ship is sinking, there’s value in knowing how fast, and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto. #Books #Donald Trump #US Politics 2025-05-13T02:02:07-0700 The New York Times George Saunders ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-13T07:18:14-0700
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The Great Displacement Is Already Well UnderwayIt's Not a Hypothetical, I've Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year 2025-05-04T10:52:05-0700 Shawn K's substack Shawn K 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-13T13:07:33-0700
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How The Economics of Multitenancy WorkWith millions of jobs running monthly on our bare-metal fleet, we've seen the economics of multitenancy hold up — here's a peek behind the curtain of how the math works. blacksmith.sh 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-14T07:07:56-0700
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SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain peoplei have a friend -- she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's be... 2025-05-14T05:51:04-0700 stillgreenmoss 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-14T07:12:28-0700
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Sending Threaded Emails Using Rails ActionMailerAt Flexport, we communicate with our customers — and their software — in many ways. API and EDI integrations are ideal because they allow structured data to flow seamlessly with no humans involved… 2020-07-28T07:21:11-0700 Flexport Engineering Kyle Kinsey 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-15T13:50:48-0700
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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing TreatmentThe technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. #Babies 2025-05-15T10:00:14-0700 The New York Times Gina Kolata ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-16T07:14:49-0700
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Public Bike Parks Saved My Soul – Travis EngelDoes seeing a nice, tall curb-cut ever remind you of the first time you got both wheels off the ground? Travis had been chasing that dragon for decades until a leg injury brought him swiftly down to earth. But then he found an unlikely path back to dirt jumping when it finally became possible to find a really good public bike park. I don’t skate, but I understand how a skateboard works. That’s why I’m so confused when I see bad skateparks. It should be obvious that a 3-foot quarter... 2025-05-15T02:00:56-0700 The Radavist Travis Engel 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-16T18:54:42-0700
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Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routesStudies have shown that many people don't commute by bike due mainly to a fear of being hit by cars. A new bike-mounted proximity sensor has been designed to help such folks, by objectively telling them which streets are the safest for cyclists. 2025-05-12T10:23:03-0700 New Atlas https://newatlas.com/author/ben-coxworth/ 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-17T19:29:23-0700
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The Fall of RoamI don’t use Roam anymore. Why? 2022-02-12T00:00:00-0800 every.to Dan Shipper 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-18T18:06:35-0700
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Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values 2025-05-09T06:00:00-0700 Scientific American Cody Cottier ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-20T08:42:44-0700
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How do you find the positive integer solutions to \frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?Answer by Alon Amit (אלון עמית), PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler. Quora 4,000 words Rated 2025-05-20T10:11:21-0700
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Biking Is TherapyDerek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t go into detail. But for a number of rea kottke.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-20T10:21:15-0700
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By Default, Signal Doesn't RecallSignal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on... Signal Messenger 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-21T15:17:43-0700
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how to cheat at settlers by loading the diceizbicki.me 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-22T12:21:54-0700
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Good WritingRated 2025-05-24T09:40:00-0700
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After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Boarddanvk.org Dan Vanderkam 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-26T07:28:41-0700
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GitHub issues for notesGitHub issues is *almost* the best notebook in the world. Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes. Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus … Simon Willison’s Weblog Simon Willison 500 words Rated 2025-05-26T07:29:51-0700
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Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreakCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain. 2025-05-25T23:27:27-0700 TF Publishing Andy Maxwell 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-26T08:27:41-0700
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My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest companyPower Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon. 2025-05-26T13:30:21-0700 Gordon Wintrob 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-26T20:39:01-0700
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Salsa Cutthroat Build - Brakes - 180mm flat-mount - Hike Bike CakeDuring the Salsa Cutthroat build we discover its unique design for the front brake mount - a flat-mount caliper that is able to take a 180mm rotor. 2020-04-23T16:18:29-0700 HikeBikeCake kaitatari.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-27T17:23:39-0700
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The Who Cares Eradansinker.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-28T06:40:22-0700
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Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go ViralA new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology 2025-05-28T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words Rated 2025-05-29T08:05:51-0700
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Why I Broke Up with New YorkMost people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took Lena Dunham several decades to realize that she could go her own way. 2025-05-05T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Lena Dunham 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-30T21:44:30-0700
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Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instrumentsPhotographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings. 2025-05-22T17:00:00-0700 DPReview Abby Ferguson 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-31T06:07:23-0700
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Figma Slides is a Beautiful DisasterSome highlights and lowlights. Allen Pike 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-01T07:10:32-0700
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