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A World Without Men: Inside South Korea’s 4B Movement

thecut.com

Rated 2023-03-16T18:28:17-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-03-17T06:11:16-0700 - Jaog

A Weekend at the Immersion Larp Festival

A world where you buy every word you speak, a sensory journey through Monet’s memories, and life in an open-air prison.

2024-08-21T12:50:01-0700 mssv + Have You Played 6,000 words

Rated 2024-08-27T23:21:18-0700 - sethherr

A review of Number Go Up, on crypto shenanigans

Zeke Faux's book on crypto shenanigans is best book on crypto ever and occasionally frustrating, plus bonus commentary on financial journalism.

2023-09-29T09:52:31-0700 Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 4,000 words

Rated 2023-10-04T16:35:56-0700 - sethherr

A return to hand-written notes by learning to read & write

research.google 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-28T21:24:35-0700 - sethherr

A Radical Approach to Flooding in the UK: Give Land Back to the Sea

When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative. #Agriculture #Birds #Britain #Climate Change #England #Environment #Global Warming

2024-10-21T21:01:25-0700 The New York Times Rory Smith, Andrew Testa ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-22T07:50:25-0700 - sethherr

A police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom

Law enforcement officers in Kansas raided the office of a local newspaper and a journalist's home. First Amendment experts are calling it a likely violation of federal law.

2023-08-14T02:00:34-0700 NPR Danielle Kaye 1,000 words

Rated 2023-08-14T23:38:42-0700 - sethherr

A Plan to Save Downtown San Francisco, Break the Doom Loop

#Homelessness #San Francisco

The San Francisco Standard

Rated 2023-04-10T13:25:35-0700 - alexandradancing

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

2023-09-01T02:01:41-0700 The New York Times Benjamin P. Russell ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-09-03T10:12:01-0700 - sethherr

A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks

Shoddy 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

2023-08-05T02:00:09-0700 The New York Times Seth Kugel, Stephen Hiltner ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2023-08-07T19:19:07-0700 - sethherr

A new energy source for downtown Boston: the Charles River

The 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.

2023-05-01T13:10:43-0700 The Boston Globe Jon Chesto ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-02T12:31:48-0700 - jmjmh

A first-of-its-kind geoengineering experiment is about to take its first step

#Solar Geoengineering

MIT Technology Review

Rated 2023-04-04T23:33:02-0700 - sethherr

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 2023-05-05T14:45:30-0700 - sethherr

A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum

by 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 2023-07-12T08:07:31-0700 - sethherr

A cognitive revolution in animal-behavior research has begun

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-03-19T08:26:57-0700 - Jaog

A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft

James 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

[Letter from Minneapolis] The Sanctuary

#Homelessness

2020-09-11T13:55:36-0700 Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/author/wesenzinna/#author 7,000 words

Rated 2023-04-13T19:16:16-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-04-12T17:48:40-0700 - alexandradancing Rated 2023-04-12T18:57:49-0700 - cindy

</> htmx ~ Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation

htmx.org 1,000 words

Rated 2023-11-19T17:12:47-0800 - sethherr

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.

2022-04-07T06:21:21-0700 The New York Times Mona Chalabi ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-08T17:17:07-0700 - jim Rated 2023-05-08T21:04:56-0700 - sethherr

7 Reasons Why Some D.C. Residents Are Voting Against Statehood

#DC Statehood #DC Statehood

WAMU

Rated 2023-03-21T18:44:53-0700 - jim

7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp

A 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

2023-12-17T01:54:29-0800 The New York Times Isabelle Qian, Pablo Robles ($) 4,000 words

Rated 2023-12-18T13:56:54-0800 - sethherr

50 years of silence

Eli Dourado

Rated 2023-03-25T10:12:12-0700 - sethherr

40 years of programming

liw.fi

Rated 2024-03-12T16:12:19-0700 - sethherr

Firing of gay Catholic school teacher could test latest Supreme Court ruling

A substitute drama teacher in North Carolina sued after being fired for marrying his partner; the school says such discrimination is allowed.

2023-07-11T07:30:12-0700 The Washington Post Rachel Weiner ($) 200 words

Rated 2023-07-12T01:19:00-0700 - Jaog Rated 2023-07-13T21:00:03-0700 - sethherr

3 social triggers for behavioral health needs – and what to do about them

Brookings

Rated 2023-04-17T12:56:06-0700 - cindy

2024-10-26 buy payphones and retire

Computers Are Bad 3,000 words

Rated 2024-10-29T07:19:41-0700 - sethherr

12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9

The 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...

2024-04-11T08:00:00-0700 Map Happenings 4,000 words

Rated 2024-04-16T21:02:02-0700 - sethherr

1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies

1 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 2024-10-12T21:52:02-0700 - sethherr

The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith

noahpinion.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-20T18:16:38-0700 - sethherr

90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck

tidyfirst.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-19T09:37:46-0700 - sethherr

(20) TracingWoodgrains on X: "In conversations about intelligence, people often take the @charlesmurray approach of emphasizing that intelligence doesn't determine a person's worth. I find myself a bit dissatisfied when I chew on this. It's true, but I suspect it's a bit too easy. Specifically: while I https://t.co/jzo9YEsWRX" / X

x.com 1,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T15:24:08-0700 - sethherr

Your Book Review: How the War Was Won

Finalist #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

Watching Paint Dry

The unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings and what they tell us about the modern world

2023-02-03T05:05:51-0800 Material World Ed Conway 3,000 words

Rated 2023-05-27T12:36:16-0700 - sethherr

(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" / X

X (formerly Twitter) 500 words

Rated 2024-04-17T19:31:22-0700 - sethherr

(1) Patrick McKenzie on X: "It occurs to me that I have explicitly explained to my children that teachers respond well to guessing their password and that a rule of the game is you aren’t supposed to explicitly say that is what you are doing. “Remember this is just game, not all games have the same rules.”" / X

X (formerly Twitter) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-04-17T23:27:23-0700 - sethherr

Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill

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2023-04-11T17:08:25-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T13:38:34-0700 - sethherr

'Anti-dopamine parenting' can curb a kid's craving for screens or sweets

Dopamine 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

2023-06-12T02:00:32-0700 NPR Michaeleen Doucleff 3,000 words

Rated 2023-06-13T10:59:28-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-06-12T21:17:53-0700 - alexandradancing

This is not a joke: Chinese people are eating — and poking fun at — #whitepeoplefood

The playful term is trending on social media: Urban workers are embracing (even while joking about) easy-to-fix, healthy Western-style lunches — think sandwiches, veggies ... a lonely baked potato.

2023-07-10T08:41:32-0700 NPR Aowen Cao, Emily Feng 1,000 words

Rated 2023-07-10T19:39:37-0700 - Jaog

#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia | Charlotte Gauthier | The Critic Magazine

thecritic.co.uk

Rated 2023-04-23T07:27:58-0700 - sethherr