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How Costco Hacked the American Shopping PsycheMore than 100 million people visit the retailer for their groceries — and gas and TVs and gold bars and pet coffins — but saving money may not be the only motive. 2024-08-20T13:46:25-0700 The New York Times Ben Ryder Howe ($) 4,000 words Rated 2024-08-24T22:16:53-0700 - sethherr
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPTdanluu.com 20,000 words Rated 2024-04-24T13:03:34-0700 - sethherr
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. 2025-01-04T02:00:00-0800 ProPublica Joshua Kaplan 10,000 words Rated 2025-01-05T08:08:32-0800 - sethherr
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See what it’s like to dig a tunnel 100 feet below a cityA massive drill is digging a tunnel deep beneath Alexandria that will keep millions of gallons of raw sewage from seeping into the Potomac River. 2023-07-07T03:00:17-0700 The Washington Post Teo Armus, Hadley Green, Bill O’Leary, Ricky Carioti ... ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-07-10T19:34:54-0700 - Jaog
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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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Housing First - National Alliance to End HomelessnessRated 2023-04-17T13:12:34-0700 - cindy
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Hi Google, please stop 💩 the bed: a desperate plea from the independent web.Served with humor, as I cry into my goldfish bowl of boxed Chardonnay. 2024-10-28T09:51:44-0700 Building Shepherd.com Ben Fox 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-30T16:44:07-0700 - sethherr
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Our crazy farm subsidies, explainedThe US offers farm subsidies pretty heavily for some crops, but what began as a temporary measure gradually became more permanent. #Technology 2015-04-20T02:00:23-0700 Grist Amelia Urry 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-12T19:36:26-0700 - cindy
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Joseph Hone - He Steals Them, of Course!Joseph Hone: He Steals Them, of Course! Literary Review 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-12T08:24:30-0800 - sethherr
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Have You Been to the Library Lately?Librarians once worried about shushing patrons. Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence 2023-06-12T06:30:31-0700 The Walrus Nicholas Hune-Brown 6,000 words Rated 2023-08-24T21:18:02-0700 - 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 2023-06-08T22:29:05-0700 - alexandradancing
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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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GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with themRated 2023-03-06T20:06:22-0800 - sethherr
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Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It?It’s not entirely clear who it’s for and what its function should be in a rapidly changing literary ecosystem 2023-08-29T06:30:32-0700 The Walrus Tajja Isen 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-31T22:42:49-0700 - sethherr
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Good WritingRated 2025-05-24T09:40:00-0700 - sethherr
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Gone to the DogsRated 2023-04-11T02:56:44-0700 - sethherr
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God Help Us, Let's Try To Understand The Paper On AI MonosemanticityInside every AI is a bigger AI, trying to get out 2023-11-27T13:00:12-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 20,000 words Rated 2023-11-28T17:49:44-0800 - sethherr
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Georgia’s Broad Racketeering Law May Now Ensnare Donald TrumpFani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, often relies on Georgia’s capacious *RICO*{: .small} statute—though critics say that she has stretched it past the law’s intent. #2020 Election #Donald Trump #Georgia 2023-07-31T04:12:47-0700 The New Yorker Charles Bethea 1,000 words Rated 2023-07-31T05:20:26-0700 - Jaog
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George Eliot’s Subversive Vision of MarriageUnlike Jane Austen, the novelist was most interested in what happens after “I do.” #Marriage #United States 2023-09-07T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Ann Hulbert ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-09-20T08:57:21-0700 - sethherr
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Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTAGemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model. 2025-03-28T07:16:23-0700 thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 4,000 words Rated 2025-03-31T07:27:30-0700 - sethherr
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Gem::SafeMarshal escapenastystereo.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-22T07:11:01-0800 - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly PowerThe Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com, Inc. 2023-09-26T06:16:29-0700 Federal Trade Commission 1,000 words Rated 2023-09-26T21:13:12-0700 - sethherr
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From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer ClubRated 2025-02-06T21:00:43-0800 - sethherr
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Fox News Is Bigger Than Any HostRated 2023-04-24T11:30:24-0700 - Jaog
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Four supply chain experts on the challenges of manufacturing in the US—and the tactics to turn to insteadThe daily email newsletter covering the latest news from Wall St. to Silicon Valley. Informative, witty, and everything you need to start your day. 2022-08-16T08:03:14-0700 Morning Brew Erin Cabrey, Maeve Allsup 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-11T18:24:10-0700 - sethherr
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Foundation for Government Accountability behind child labor law rollbacks, emails showRated 2023-04-23T16:41:03-0700 - Jaog
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Formic is reviving American manufacturing with robots as a serviceRated 2023-03-26T08:27:26-0700 - Jaog
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Forgetting to Breathe May Be Fueling Your Anxiety | ElementalRated 2023-03-17T19:00:08-0700 - alexandradancing
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For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a SuperpowerIn the long run, e-bikes are cheaper than motorbikes. With financing help from start-ups like Guajira, many immigrant workers are making the switch. #Sustainability #Transportation #Work 2025-03-07T00:00:16-0800 Reasons to be Cheerful Mariel Lozada 2,000 words Rated 2025-03-19T06:29:11-0700 - sethherr
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Florida district reviewing film 'Ruby Bridges' after parent complaintRated 2023-03-28T05:00:50-0700 - Jaog
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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 - sethherr
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First-principles on AI scalingRated 2023-03-09T18:08:54-0800 - sethherr
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Firing of gay Catholic school teacher could test latest Supreme Court rulingA 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 2023-07-13T21:00:03-0700 - sethherr
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Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make you happy.State partisanship and COVID vaccination rates are strongly predictive of COVID death rates even once you account for age. 2023-10-01T05:20:22-0700 Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-01T15:48:58-0700 - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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fi-le.netfi-le.net, the Fiefdom of Files Rated 2025-04-04T20:08:14-0700 - sethherr
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Felt for Advocacy Groups: Mapping Traffic Violence in OaklandBryan Culbertson and Kuan Butts, two activists working on Traffic Violence Rapid Response, leverage Felt maps to advocate for safer streets in Oakland. felt.com 1,000 words Rated 2023-07-11T09:56:29-0700 - sethherr
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Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learningFundamental algorithms such as sorting or hashing are used trillions of times on any given day1. As demand for computation grows, it has become critical for these algorithms to be as performant as possible. Whereas remarkable progress has been achieved in the past2, making further improvements on the efficiency of these routines has proved challenging for both human scientists and computational approaches. Here we show how artificial intelligence can go beyond the current state of the art by... 2023-06-07T00:00:00-0700 Nature Mankowitz, Daniel J., Michi, Andrea, Zhernov, Anton, Gelmi, Marco, ... 10,000 words Rated 2023-06-07T23:48:39-0700 - sethherr
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FAQ | statehoodRated 2023-03-21T18:57:44-0700 - cindy
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Faced with measles, Texas healthcare workers confront ‘information warfare’For the first time in a decade, a US child has died of measles. What can doctors and nurses do to encourage vaccination? #Donald Trump #Politics #United States 2025-03-31T09:37:11-0700 Al Jazeera Tyler Hicks 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-07T17:33:18-0700 - sethherr
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Explosions Are Great, Actually. - by areoform - 1517 FundRated 2023-04-22T15:36:20-0700 - sethherr
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Explore the In Our Time archive | BraggoscopeRated 2023-03-08T23:32:14-0800 - sethherr
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Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources sayAhead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. 2023-11-22T18:51:48-0800 Reuters Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-22T20:26:18-0800 - sethherr
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Everything you ever wanted to know about car bloatnewsletters.feedbinusercontent.com Rated 2023-12-19T08:49:28-0800 - sethherr
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Everyone knows your locationRecently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. Oftentimes, even without developers` knowledge. I looked into the list (link here) and found at least 3 apps I have installed on my iPhone. Take a look for yourself! This made me come up with an idea to track myself down externally, e.g. to buy my geolocation data leaked by some... 2025-01-31T15:30:18-0800 tim.sh tim 3,000 words Rated 2025-02-02T18:58:15-0800 - sethherr
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Every company should be owned by its employeesCentral States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership. 2024-07-24T03:13:57-0700 The Elysian Elle Griffin 2,000 words Rated 2024-07-30T10:39:38-0700 - sethherr
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Europe And U.S. Diverge Sharply On Treatment Of Gender Incongruence In MinorsIn line with precautionary principle, introduction of treatments whose effects are either disputed or unknown should be carefully reviewed before being routinely adopted. #Transgender 2023-12-02T06:15:36-0800 Forbes Joshua Cohen 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-03T22:25:05-0800 - sethherr
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Escalation Theory: Compliance, Violence, and Overachievement In SocietyHow Elites Cause Crime By Acing Marshmallow Tests Some people think crime is caused by poverty. Some think crime is caused by criminals. Some even think crime is caused by the climate. Don’t swallow these easy-to-digest popular narratives — society is shaped by its elite, always has been, always will be. It all comes back to the marshmallows. 2024-01-07T08:09:59-0800 Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 10,000 words Rated 2024-01-16T09:04:11-0800 - sethherr
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