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Welcome to Gas TownHappy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town! 2026-01-01T13:07:32-0800 steve-yegge.medium.com Steve Yegge 9,000 words Rated 2026-01-19T21:24:45-0800 - sethherr
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Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS NewsA Profile of the new editor-in-chief, covering her previous work at the Times and The Free Press and her work and relationships with Larry and David Ellison, Donald Trump, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Tony Dokoupil. #Profile 2026-01-19T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Clare Malone 8,000 words Rated 2026-01-19T23:12:42-0800 - sethherr
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I'm addicted to being usefulseangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2026-01-20T19:18:16-0800 - sethherr
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Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of CanadaCanadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry. 2026-01-20T11:17:13-0800 World Economic Forum 3,000 words Rated 2026-01-21T20:33:01-0800 - sethherr
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at ScaleOn agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code maggieappleton.com 5,000 words Rated 2026-01-23T21:02:48-0800 - sethherr
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Opinion | A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it. #Donald Trump #US Politics 2026-01-29T02:05:06-0800 The New York Times Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd ($) 10,000 words Rated 2026-01-29T08:31:15-0800 - sethherr
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How I Taught My Neighbor to Keep the Volume DownWhen I moved to a new apartment with my family, the cable company we were used to wasn't available. We had to settle for Dish Network. I wasn't too happy about making that switch, but something on the Ibrahim Diallo Blog 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-02T07:53:13-0800 - sethherr
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My thousand dollar iPhone can't do mathTL;DR: My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs. An iPhone 15 Pro runs the same code perfectly. A MacBook Pro also runs the same code perfectly. The tensor outputs on the 16 show numerical values an order of magnitude wrong. I suspect it points to a hardware defect in the Neural Engine or some other ML-needed system. It was a PITA to debug, but at least I got a blog post out of it. How did I get there? This was supposed to be a simple, unwinding-time project. For 2026-01-28T00:52:11-0800 Rafael's Journal Rafael Costa 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-02T07:58:32-0800 - sethherr
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Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair - @theUResearchers analyzed samples of Utahns' hair going back a century to document a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations. attheu.utah.edu 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-02T19:34:10-0800 - sethherr
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Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap'The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow. #Israel 2026-01-31T15:45:56-0800 Daily Mail Glen Owen, Dan Hodges, Mark Hookham, Daisy Graham-Brown 6,000 words Rated 2026-02-02T20:43:15-0800 - sethherr
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Q&A: Cannabis usage in middle-aged, older adults linked to larger brain volume, better cognitive functionResearch studying the effects of cannabis on the brain has often focused on adolescents, but a new study from CU Anschutz researchers looks at population-level impacts of cannabis usage on the brain in older adults. The work is published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2026-02-03T13:38:31-0800 Medical Xpress Matthew Hastings 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-04T06:42:50-0800 - sethherr
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AI is Killing B2B SaaSSaaS is the most profitable business model on Earth.1 It’s easy to understand why: build once, sell the same thing again ad infinitum, and don’t suffer any marginal costs on more sales. I have been writing software for more than half my life. In the last year itself, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders and operators in SF, from preseed to Series E companies. AI is bringing an existential threat to a lot of B2B SaaS executives: How to keep asking customers for renewal, when every customer... 2026-02-03T16:00:00-0800 namanyayg 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-04T15:07:02-0800 - sethherr
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Sorry, the "Heated Rivalry" gay Marvel fanfic origin story isn't trueAuthor Rachel Reid sets the record straight about one couple in her queer hockey romance novels. #LGBTQ+ 2025-12-06T11:00:11-0800 Salon.com Angelina Mazza 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-04T21:20:24-0800 - sethherr
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Kirkville - I Now Assume that All Ads on Apple News Are ScamsMany ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams. 2026-02-05T09:19:31-0800 Kirkville 500 words Rated 2026-02-06T07:45:09-0800 - sethherr
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Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying EyesThe financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros. 2026-02-06T09:13:22-0800 Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 7,000 words Rated 2026-02-07T14:05:48-0800 - sethherr
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One Regulation E, Two Very Different RegimesHow consumer protection in payments works, why it was designed that way, and why it’s being contested today. 2026-01-07T13:12:19-0800 Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 4,000 words Rated 2026-02-08T23:06:02-0800 - sethherr
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The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesdaysrc={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in campedersen.com 3,000 words Rated 2026-02-10T15:57:01-0800 - sethherr
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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has ChangedI still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things 2026-02-09T23:30:00-0800 James Randall 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-10T16:13:23-0800 - sethherr
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Gov. Murphy signs controversial e-bike law despite cycling groups oppositionRated 2026-02-11T07:29:20-0800 - sethherr
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Why Vampires Live ForeverThe modern longevity movement's obsession with blood transfusions makes perfect sense — if you accept that Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson are vampires. 2026-02-08T16:00:00-0800 Machiel Reyneke 3,000 words Rated 2026-02-11T17:40:52-0800 - sethherr
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HatchetDeploy More Resilient Apps. Hatchet is a platform for building distributed web apps that solves scaling problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting. Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure. hatchet.run 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-13T16:14:47-0800 - sethherr
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Francis Ford Coppola Didn’t Want ‘Megalopolis’ to Be ‘Some Woke Hollywood Production’ and Says the Cast Includes ‘People Who Were Canceled’Francis Ford Coppola did not want 'Megalopolis' to be a "woke Hollywood production" and cast canceled actors in supporting roles. 2024-08-26T14:47:50-0700 Variety Zack Sharf 200 words Rated 2026-02-16T13:47:21-0800 - sethherr
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Privilege is bad grammarWhen I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ... Tadaima. 500 words Rated 2026-02-16T20:09:34-0800 - sethherr
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TOP REPORT: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied and deceived the Committee. The Tech Oversight Project has compiled some of the most damning evidence against Meta on our Big Tech on Trial microsite, which will be updated throug 2026-02-17T20:44:33-0800 The Dispatch The Tech Oversight Project 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-18T07:25:08-0800 - sethherr
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How Hipsters Gave Us TrumpDonald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was powered by its embrace of the white working class. It also drew energy from its rejection of feminist conceits. While critics charged Trump... 2026-02-15T22:00:00-0800 First Things Matthew Schmitz 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-18T19:38:12-0800 - sethherr
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The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social mediaHis heroes are Patrick Bateman, John Wick, Tommy Shelby and Walter White. He follows Andrew Tate and idolises wolves. And he has quickly become a laughing stock. Welcome to the world of the sigma male 2024-06-12T02:00:19-0700 The Guardian Steve Rose 3,000 words Rated 2026-02-23T13:07:28-0800 - sethherr
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My journey to the microwave alternate timeline — LessWrongRecommended soundtrack for this post • As we all know, the march of technological progress is best summarized by this meme from Linkedin: … 2026-02-10T09:59:24-0800 lesswrong.com Malmesbury 7,000 words Rated 2026-02-23T13:16:37-0800 - sethherr
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How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel HawksleyOver the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe: hawksley.org Joel Hawksley 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-23T16:02:15-0800 - sethherr
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Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's WeblogSimon Willison’s Weblog Simon Willison 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-23T20:41:04-0800 - sethherr
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We installed a single turnstile to feel secureAfter the acquisition by a much larger company, security became a top priority. Our company occupied three tall buildings, each at least 13 stories high. Key card readers were installed next to every Ibrahim Diallo Blog 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-24T10:12:26-0800 - sethherr
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How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one weekOne engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command. 2026-02-24T12:00:00-0800 The Cloudflare Blog 3,000 words Rated 2026-02-24T16:51:22-0800 - sethherr
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Higher-crime areas are safer - by Aaron ZingerRated 2026-02-24T17:02:33-0800 - sethherr
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Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: ReportA minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15. 2026-02-23T04:02:36-0800 Drop Site News Sharif Abdel Kouddous 4,000 words Rated 2026-02-24T20:02:20-0800 - sethherr
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Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the EconomyCalifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt. 2026-02-24T15:55:13-0800 BIG by Matt Stoller Matt Stoller 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-24T21:42:39-0800 - sethherr
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Long Range E-Bike · Jacques Mattheijjacquesmattheij.com Jacques Mattheij 3,000 words Rated 2026-03-01T13:19:37-0800 - sethherr
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What Is a City When Its Wealthiest Leave? - WSJRated 2026-03-01T19:25:22-0800 - sethherr
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ClawedOn Anthropic and the Department of War 2026-03-02T04:21:17-0800 Hyperdimensional Dean W. Ball 4,000 words Rated 2026-03-05T18:09:14-0800 - sethherr
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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer MachinesA prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another. 2026-03-05T00:00:00-0800 grith grith team 1,000 words Rated 2026-03-05T18:17:25-0800 - sethherr
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Where things stand with the Department of WarA statement from Dario Amodei anthropic.com 1,000 words Rated 2026-03-06T07:06:52-0800 - sethherr |