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Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill... 2023-04-11T17:08:25-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2023-05-05T13:38:34-0700 - sethherr
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(1) Prof. Ian Walker on X: "And this is where we saw the big win-win: there's a clear negative relationship between water pressure and consumption. More powerful showers used less water overall. A LOVELY TINGLY SHOWER MIGHT BE *BETTER* FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THAN A WEAK DRIBBLE. I know, right? https://t.co/dVCWHgb7JO" / XX (formerly Twitter) 500 words Rated 2024-04-17T19:31:22-0700 - sethherr
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Your Book Review: How the War Was WonFinalist #8 in the Book Review Contest 2024-08-09T13:24:01-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 7,000 words Rated 2024-08-09T14:19:17-0700 - sethherr
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A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the CraftJames Somers, a professional coder, writes about the astonishing scripting skills of A.I. chatbots like GPT-4 and considers the future of a once exalted craft. 2023-11-13T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker James Somers 4,000 words Rated 2023-11-13T20:43:44-0800 - sethherr
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A Plan to Save Downtown San Francisco, Break the Doom LoopRated 2023-04-10T13:25:35-0700 - alexandradancing
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Ability to See Expertise is a Milestone Worth Aiming ForGood news: we have a neat, universal milestone on the journey to mastery. What that looks like, and how to use it. 2022-04-05T12:34:10-0700 Commoncog Cedric Chin 4,000 words Rated 2023-07-21T13:00:59-0700 - sethherr
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Alcohol healthy: the flip-flop on whether it's good for you is to understand—if you know who's behind it.Rated 2023-04-25T05:05:47-0700 - cindy
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Automattic is doing open source dirtyAutomattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to WordPress is a wanton violation of general open source ideals and the specifics of the GPL license. Automattic is completely out of line, and the potential damage to the open source world extends far beyond the WordPress. Don't let the drama or ... world.hey.com 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-10T15:07:34-0700 - sethherr
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Banking in very uncertain timesRated 2023-03-16T21:15:39-0700 - sethherr
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Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to ‘Extreme’ Water RecyclingSan Francisco is at the forefront of a movement to recycle wastewater from commercial buildings, homes, and neighborhoods and use it for toilets and landscaping. This decentralized approach, proponents say, will drive down demand in an era of increasing water scarcity. Yale E360 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-20T07:12:37-0700 - sethherr
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Burying Indiana JonesChristopher Heaney on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and the titular character’s impact on the public’s perception of what it means to be an archeologist. #Movies 2023-06-18T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Christopher Heaney 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-19T23:43:03-0700 - sethherr
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Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast | GeoengineeringRated 2023-04-03T06:55:16-0700 - cindy
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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the WebRated 2023-03-31T16:37:52-0700 - sethherr
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Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mappedChicago has the nation's highest concentration of lead pipes. We mapped them all. 2025-08-28T03:30:00-0700 Grist Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, ... 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-02T20:47:52-0700 - sethherr
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Conspiracy theory: Electric cars make more air pollution than gas carstires + battery + heavy 2023-07-27T09:00:29-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2023-07-30T22:08:44-0700 - sethherr
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Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug?People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting. #Drugs 2023-05-19T07:37:59-0700 The Atlantic Sarah Zhang ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-19T16:53:16-0700 - sethherr
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Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your EnemyI’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, the whole post is a praise of how Shopify engages with Open Source communities. Hence, given the current climate, I don’t think I could publish it without addressing the elephant in the room first anyway. 2025-10-08T22:03:51-0700 byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-25T06:15:32-0800 - sethherr
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Discworld RulesAnd LOTR is brain-rot for technologists 2025-03-07T18:34:39-0800 Contraptions Venkatesh Rao 7,000 words Rated 2025-03-15T09:06:54-0700 - sethherr
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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderationRated 2024-03-18T22:49:24-0700 - sethherr
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Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?Rated 2023-04-14T10:02:58-0700 - alexandradancing
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Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>Rated 2026-01-16T07:24:16-0800 - sethherr
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Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of ThisHow the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else 2025-06-07T04:55:12-0700 My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-10T20:57:05-0700 - sethherr
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Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energyA road trip I took with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm confirmed one thing: The U.S. is wrestling with an inadequate charging network (unless you're a Tesla driver). 2023-09-10T03:00:51-0700 NPR Camila Domonoske 4,000 words Rated 2023-09-17T08:44:38-0700 - sethherr
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First-principles on AI scalingRated 2023-03-09T18:08:54-0800 - sethherr
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Fox News Is Bigger Than Any HostRated 2023-04-24T11:30:24-0700 - Jaog
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Full-breadth DevelopersThe software industry is at an inflection point unlike anything in its brief history. Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It has rendered entire product… justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/about 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-04T06:49:20-0700 - sethherr
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Giving people money helped less than I thought it wouldEnding the war on poverty will take more than cash transfers 2025-08-19T03:00:58-0700 The Argument Kelsey Piper 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T14:32:51-0700 - sethherr
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Good WritingRated 2025-05-24T09:40:00-0700 - sethherr
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GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong questionRated 2023-03-21T08:26:54-0700 - sethherr
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Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies HappyThe pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.” #Babies #Interview #Parenting 2023-04-09T12:25:06-0700 The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words Rated 2023-06-09T16:54:30-0700 - sethherr
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How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals3M found that many of its products, including Scotchgard and Scotchban, leached toxic chemicals called PFAS. Sharon Lerner reports on why the company kept making them. 2024-05-20T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Sharon Lerner 7,000 words Rated 2024-05-30T14:40:17-0700 - sethherr
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPTdanluu.com 20,000 words Rated 2024-04-24T13:03:34-0700 - sethherr
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How critical theory is radicalizing high school debateNew rhetorical tactics are creating a generation of nihilists #Debate 2023-07-29T05:49:43-0700 Slow Boring Maya Bodnick 3,000 words Rated 2023-07-29T22:28:11-0700 - sethherr
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How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer-- seangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700 - sethherr
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How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary1. Tilson // 2. Myrie // 3. Adams // 4. Lander* // 5. Cuomo // (X) Not Mamdani 2025-06-16T10:19:50-0700 Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 5,000 words Rated 2025-06-16T19:42:36-0700 - sethherr
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How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuckYoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems 2025-07-09T09:30:24-0700 Riskgaming by Lux Capital Danny Crichton 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-21T17:13:51-0700 - sethherr
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How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it. 2023-10-01T05:30:00-0700 The Verge Elizabeth Lopatto 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-08T18:16:30-0700 - sethherr
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How to be More AgenticOn a supposedly difficult thing 2024-01-10T12:43:50-0800 Useful Fictions Cate Hall 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-14T17:26:33-0700 - sethherr
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How to get 7th graders to smokeOR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable" 2024-05-14T07:01:50-0700 Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 4,000 words Rated 2024-05-15T09:15:35-0700 - sethherr
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In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking noticeForty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's why Maine's approach to education and work in prison is making waves in the world of corrections. 2025-08-29T10:12:00-0700 WMEH Susan Sharon 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-22T18:02:49-0700 - sethherr
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Jacques on X: "Sharing a long, but insightful comment @Gwern made in response to the question: "EA had a pretty weak hand throughout and played it as well as can be reasonably expected"? Gwern: It was a pretty weak hand. There is this pervasive attitude that Sam Altman could have been…" / XX (formerly Twitter) 1,000 words Rated 2024-02-11T13:27:12-0800 - sethherr
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JuiceRated 2023-03-24T07:34:43-0700 - sethherr
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Less Utilitarian Than Thou... 2024-02-27T21:03:18-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T23:08:24-0700 - sethherr
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Lessons From a Renters’ UtopiaWorldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? #Housing #Real Estate 2023-05-23T01:20:41-0700 The New York Times Francesca Mari, Luca Locatelli ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T11:07:14-0700 - sethherr
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings—AsteriskAmerica’s HVAC labor force is plagued by dishonesty and frequently incapable of meeting industry standards. Interventions in indoor air quality are the next frontier in pandemic prevention — but are they up to the task? asteriskmag.com 3,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T07:13:01-0700 - sethherr
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llamafile: bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computerMozilla Innovations 1,000 words Rated 2024-09-23T17:06:38-0700 - &e
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