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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban BillIn a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries. 2025-8-14 5:23am BOOK RIOT Kelly Jensen 1,000 words Rated 2025-8-14 6:18pm
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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? 2025-4-24 6:28am TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated 2025-5-4 1:15pm
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#AskTamara: Which mugs are Lead-free? How can I tell if my mug has unsafe levels of Lead? Which mugs do you use?For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method ... Read More about #AskTamara: Which mugs are Lead-free? How can I tell if my mug has unsafe levels of Lead? Which mugs do... 2019-12-28 11:17am Lead Safe Mama, LLC Tamara 10,000 words Rated 2024-6-14 5:22pm
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#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia | Charlotte Gauthier | The Critic MagazineRated 2023-4-23 7:27am
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'Anti-dopamine parenting' can curb a kid's craving for screens or sweetsDopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior. #Dopamine #Parenting 2023-6-12 2:00am NPR Michaeleen Doucleff 3,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 10:59am
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Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill... 2023-4-11 5:08pm Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2023-5-5 1:38pm
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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 2024-4-17 7:31pm
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Watching Paint DryThe unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings and what they tell us about the modern world 2023-2-3 5:05am Material World Ed Conway 3,000 words Rated 2023-5-27 12:36pm
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Your Book Review: How the War Was WonFinalist #8 in the Book Review Contest 2024-8-9 1:24pm astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 7,000 words Rated 2024-8-9 2:19pm
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The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah SmithRated 2023-4-20 6:16pm
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1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies - zendesk.md Gist 262588213843476 3,000 words Rated 2024-10-12 9:52pm
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10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs. 2025-10-27 4:00am Ars Technica Nate Anderson 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-27 7:46pm
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12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9The Map Happenings series on the hugely impactful events that forever changed our world. This week: the story of a little known company called 'Etak'. I think you'll find it a fascinating read... 2024-4-11 8:00am Map Happenings 4,000 words Rated 2024-4-16 9:02pm
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15 Minute Cities15 Minute Cities datasecretslox.com 45,000 words Rated 2023-5-7 12:23pm
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1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals... 2025-2-7 3:40am astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 15,000 words Rated 2025-2-7 8:39pm
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world? 2025-4-7 9:21am GitButler Scott Chacon 3,000 words Rated 2025-4-7 4:49pm
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2024-10-26 buy payphones and retireComputers Are Bad 3,000 words Rated 2024-10-29 7:19am
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4 month sleep regression: Why it happens and what you can do about itWhat are the signs of 4 month sleep regression? Learn about developmental changes causing the 4 month sleep regression, and how you can improve your baby's sleep Huckleberry 3,000 words Rated 2024-4-6 5:40pm
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50 years of silenceRated 2023-3-25 10:12am
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7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor CampA man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times. #China #Crime 2023-12-17 1:54am The New York Times Isabelle Qian, Pablo Robles ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-12-18 1:56pm
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7 Reasons Why Some D.C. Residents Are Voting Against StatehoodRated 2023-3-22 5:32pm
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9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth (Published 2022)A fortune of $172 billion is almost impossible to fathom. For the magazine’s Money Issue, the artist Mona Chalabi came up with some extremely original comparisons. 2022-4-7 6:21am The New York Times Mona Chalabi ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-5-8 9:04pm
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[Letter from Minneapolis] The Sanctuary2020-9-11 1:55pm Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/author/wesenzinna/#author 7,000 words Rated 2023-4-13 7:16pm
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A Beginner’s Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi DetectorCrystal radios are famous for doing something almost magical: picking up broadcast signals with nothing more than a diode, an antenna, and a pair of headphones. They’re the simplest RF receivers you can build — and a brilliant way to learn how radio waves become electrical signals. In this post, I’m taking that idea into… 2025-12-11 9:16pm Silicon Junction 1,000 words Rated 2026-1-3 12:43pm
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A Brief History of The Super 73 ProblemWith the rising popularity of the Super 73 model, we’re focused on educating riders and regulatory bodies about the distinctions between throttle-powered and pedal-assist e-bikes. E-BIKE ACCESS 3,000 words Rated 2025-3-23 7:27pm
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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. 2023-11-13 3:00am The New Yorker James Somers 4,000 words Rated 2023-11-13 8:43pm
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A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chumby John MahoneyThis is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks. It signals that they should let go, deploy their nictitating ... The Awl 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 8:07am
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A few words on Ruby's type annotations state...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words zverok.space 5,000 words Rated 2023-5-5 2:45pm
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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. 2026-3-5 12:00am grith grith team 1,000 words Rated 2026-3-5 6:17pm
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A Huge City Polluter? Buildings. Here’s a Surprising Fix.Rated 2023-3-16 10:14pm
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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 2025-4-30 3:58pm The Verge Jay Peters 500 words Rated 2025-5-1 9:41am
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A new energy source for downtown Boston: the Charles RiverThe owner of a Kendall Square plant is launching a project to generate steam for Boston and Cambridge by drawing water from the river that runs between them. 2023-5-1 1:10pm The Boston Globe Jon Chesto ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-5-2 4:57pm
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A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated GuidebooksShoddy guidebooks are flooding Amazon. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers, but are they A.I. inventions? And how big is the problem? #Amazon #Artificial Intelligence #Books #Fraud 2023-8-5 2:00am The New York Times Seth Kugel, Stephen Hiltner ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-8-7 7:19pm
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A Nicaraguan Novelist Betrayed by the Revolution He Helped Build“I’m no longer a leader in the fight,” says Sergio Ramírez. “Now I’m just an author being punished for the words he writes.” His latest crime tale is out in English. #Books #Nicaragua #Writer 2023-9-1 2:01am The New York Times Benjamin P. Russell ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-3 10:12am
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Meet the Guy Who Invented the Belay Test—and the Modern American Climbing GymWhen Peter Mayfield set out to create the first gym designed to welcome new climbers to the sport, he made climbing gym history. 2025-3-17 10:34am Climbing Bruce Hildenbrand 3,000 words Rated 2025-3-23 9:28am
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A return to hand-written notes by learning to read & writeresearch.google 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-28 9:24pm
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A review of Number Go Up, on crypto shenanigansZeke Faux's book on crypto shenanigans is best book on crypto ever and occasionally frustrating, plus bonus commentary on financial journalism. 2023-9-29 9:52am Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 4,000 words Rated 2023-10-4 4:35pm
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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any sizeAnthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-9 9:39pm
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A Soiree into Symbols in RubyA Pythonista opens `irb` and looks at all the symbols in Ruby. Or so the joke begins. #ruby 2025-11-3 2:06am Stonecharioteer on Tech 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-15 8:33pm
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Review | A love letter to intellectualismNikhil Krishnan’s “A Terribly Serious Adventure” is an entertaining and informative homage to philosophers at Oxford. 2024-1-19 2:00am The Washington Post Michael Dirda ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-27 9:00am
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A ton of AI images I've made that I've likedI think people with my aesthetic taste have been underrepresented in presentations of AI art. Here I try to change that. 2025-8-13 6:59pm The Weird Turn Pro Andy Masley 1,000 words Rated 2025-9-4 4:07pm
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A Weekend at the Immersion Larp FestivalA world where you buy every word you speak, a sensory journey through Monet’s memories, and life in an open-air prison. 2024-8-21 12:50pm mssv + Have You Played 6,000 words Rated 2024-8-27 11:21pm
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A Whale-Oiled Machine - 99% InvisibleRated 2023-3-21 7:01am
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A World Without Men: Inside South Korea’s 4B MovementRated 2023-3-16 6:28pm
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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. 2022-4-5 12:34pm Commoncog Cedric Chin 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-21 1:00pm
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About – make-sunsetsRated 2023-4-4 8:57am
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Activists vow to keep installing guerrilla benches at East Bay bus stopsBerkeley has replaced one DIY bench with a city-approved one. A pair of activists have added at least four more wood benches in the East Bay. #Transportation 2024-1-12 4:30pm Berkeleyside Iris Kwok 2,000 words Rated 2024-2-11 9:22pm
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it existsRated 2025-7-7 2:34pm
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21 Lessons From 14 Years at GoogleLessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code. addyosmani.com Addy Osmani 2,000 words Rated 2026-1-4 7:57pm
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Advantages of incompetent managementRated 2024-7-16 5:09pm
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