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Britney Spears’s Instagram is secretly being used by Russian hackersComments on her photos are the key to the Russian hackers’ operations. #Social Media 2017-6-8 12:30pm Vox Lindsay Maizland 500 words Rated 2024-3-18 10:50pm
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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderationRated 2024-3-18 10:49pm
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Gary Stevenson: This Is How You Make Money TradingRated 2024-3-18 8:24am
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40 years of programmingRated 2024-3-12 4:12pm
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“Rabbit Test” unwins the HugoI cannot convey the supreme depths to which I'd rather be doing anything else with my Saturday afternoon other than writing this blog post, but here we are. If you have been blessedly insulated from the current furor over the 2023 Hugo Awards -- good for you! (I'm going to have to explain this post… 2024-2-17 5:08pm SAMANTHA MILLS 2,000 words Rated 2024-2-18 9:22pm
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Berkeley's Upzoning Would Be Among Nation's LargestA proposal to end exclusionary zoning would allow for 100,000 more homes in Berkeley's neighborhoods. 2024-2-17 7:02am The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words Rated 2024-2-17 9:20pm
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Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-MossIf you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate. jacobian.org 2,000 words Rated 2024-2-16 8:44pm
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Taste gamesor why I avoid midrange beer 2024-2-15 9:01am Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 3,000 words Rated 2024-2-15 8:46pm
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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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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 2024-2-11 1:27pm
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What it was like working for GitLabyorickpeterse.com 6,000 words Rated 2024-2-11 11:43am
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The rise of the American oligarchyWhat targeting Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own. 2024-1-22 11:26am Mother Jones Tim Murphy 7,000 words Rated 2024-2-10 12:02pm
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40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl ForeverAn oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase. #Apple #TV 2024-2-9 8:53am The New York Times Saul Austerlitz ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-2-9 6:39pm
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How to hire low experience, high potential peopleFinding diamonds in the rough 2024-1-26 8:51pm Working Assumptions Tara Seshan 2,000 words Rated 2024-2-7 7:06pm
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Why You Should Be a LudditeTech columnist Brian Merchant takes us back to the 19th century to see who the Luddites really were and what they fought for. Luddism, he says, is about “questioning who machinery serves.” Current Affairs 6,000 words Rated 2024-1-31 9:27pm
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Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking SandOrganized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped? 2024-2-1 6:00am Scientific American David A. Taylor 4,000 words Rated 2024-1-30 10:35pm
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At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill’s ResignationProfessors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom. #College 2024-1-29 9:20am The New York Times Stephanie Saul ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-29 7:12pm
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How “Co-regulation” Became the Parenting Buzzword of the DayJessica Winter on why parenting experts claim that co-regulation is the single goal from which all other family aspirations can flow. #Parenting 2024-1-25 9:17am The New Yorker Jessica Winter 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-28 3:22pm
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That Smartphone in Your Hand Changes How You WalkHunching over a device can mess with your gait, slow you down and poison your mood. And that’s before you trip and fall. 2024-1-23 12:00am The New York Times Markham Heid ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-28 2:49pm
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In case you missed it: America just effectively got much biggerNo shots fired. No flags raised. No land gained. Still, the U.S. recently grew by the size of about two Californias. Big Think 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-28 8:46am
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Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?Rated 2024-1-27 10:49pm
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Rising Leqembi Prescriptions Are Straining Clinic Capacity | ALZFORUMalzforum.org 4,000 words Rated 2024-1-27 4:47pm
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On “owning” softwareWhen it comes to services supporting software teams, ownership is expensive. 2024-1-24 2:01pm avdi.codes Avdi Grimm 4,000 words Rated 2024-1-27 9:05am
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Driving Faster Takes LongerI often drive between Boston and New Haven. While on the road, I find myself pondering a simple question: If my only goal is to arrive as fast as possible, how fast should I drive? Ignoring things like ethics (or fuel efficiency), the solution would seem to be simple. Drive as fast as possible. But there's a… 2024-1-27 7:17am Algorithm Soup 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-27 9:04am
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Review | A love letter to intellectualismNikhil Krishnan’s “A Terribly Serious Adventure” is an entertaining and informative homage to philosophers at Oxford. 2024-1-19 2:00am The Washington Post Michael Dirda ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-27 9:00am
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Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use – experts explain the hazardsRecycled plastics are not safe if the chemicals used in creating them in the first place are harmful. #Cameroon #Mauritius #Microplastics #Nigeria #Togo The Conversation Bethanie Carney Almroth 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-26 4:39pm
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Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicyclingSam Shuster compares men and women’s responses to the sight of a unicyclist 2007-12-22 12:00am PubMed Central (PMC) 3,000 words Rated 2024-1-23 8:45am
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Japan’s Housing Crisis: What The YIMBYs Don’t UnderstandWhat Really Drives Housing Prices — And Why Japan’s Haven’t Increased Since 1995! 2022-11-25 10:34am Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 8,000 words Rated 2024-1-23 5:56am
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‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. CrusadeThe backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign. #College #Texas 2024-1-20 1:35pm The New York Times Nicholas Confessore ($) 7,000 words Rated 2024-1-22 6:03pm
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Should I Open Source my Company?The unexpected upsides of building in public 2022-3-25 12:00am Supabase https://github.com/awalias 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-22 11:52am
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Book Review: What's Our Problem?... 2023-2-22 8:05pm astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander ($) 30,000 words Rated 2024-1-21 8:37pm
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Why Holes at the Bottom of the Ocean Disappear and ReappearScientists made a new discovery about other causes for holes on the seafloor. Find out what is causing the pits to disappear and reappear all over again. #Animals #Ocean 2024-1-18 3:05pm Atlas Obscura 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-19 8:31am
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The Quiet Death of Ello's Big DreamsEllo launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened? 2024-1-18 8:23am Waxy.org Andy Baio 6,000 words Rated 2024-1-18 5:29pm
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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. 2024-1-7 8:09am Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 10,000 words Rated 2024-1-16 9:04am
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What happened to GE?Bill Gates shares his review of “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric” by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann 2021-6-14 12:00am gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-16 8:29am
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Pinker was right, I was wrong. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Sciencestatmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Rated 2024-1-14 8:42am
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group"When an organization has, say, financed the overthrow of the government of Guatemala, you would think there might be a speaking fee." 2024-1-9 12:20pm The Paris Review Johannes Lichtman 3,000 words Rated 2024-1-10 7:12pm
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LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 - <antirez>Rated 2024-1-10 11:19am
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Opinion | Look What We Made Taylor Swift DoWhether she is conscious of it or not, Ms. Swift signals to queer people — in our language — that she has some affinity for queer identity. #Celebrity #Country Music 2024-1-4 2:01am The New York Times Anna Marks ($) 5,000 words Rated 2024-1-9 10:03pm
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Cycling Doping FallaciesI make the case that we cannot extrapolate clean performances from Lance Armstrong’s doped performances against doped rivals in the Tour de France. 2024-1-5 6:05am The New Leaf Journal Nicholas A. Ferrell 6,000 words Rated 2024-1-9 9:42am
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The reality of the Danish fairytaleDenmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the United States into. And for many good reasons. Education is state-funded, and students are even paid a stipend to go to university. Health care is equally free of individual charge, and there’s generally a robust social safety net for u... world.hey.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-6 11:17pm
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Bill Gates–1986As chief executive officer of Microsoft, William H. (Bill) Gates is considered one of the driving forces behind today's personal computing and office automation industry. Gates started his career in computer software at a young age. Both Gates and Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, worked as programming consultants while attending high school in Seattle, Washington. In… 2008-5-19 10:50pm Programmers At Work 10,000 words Rated 2024-1-6 11:01pm
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The Christian Science Monitor Daily for January 4, 2024Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views. 2024-1-3 9:00pm The Christian Science Monitor ($) 5,000 words Rated 2024-1-5 1:14pm
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Everything you ever wanted to know about car bloatnewsletters.feedbinusercontent.com Rated 2023-12-19 8:49am
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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 ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-12-18 1:56pm
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Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful PeopleIntelligent individuals are better at understanding the reputational consequences of their beliefs 2023-11-19 3:00am Rob Henderson's Newsletter Rob Henderson 3,000 words Rated 2023-12-17 11:15pm
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RAG to RichesToday I will be regaling you with tales of marvelous cherry-picked new developments in AI, from Sam Altman's recent Uno Reverse incident to bear spraying job-hungry engineers. Sourcegraph 5,000 words Rated 2023-12-16 10:30am
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Giant food companies are quietly ruining your favorite snacks — and hoping you don't noticeFrom Coke to Nutella, your favorite treats are being ruined by a sneaky ploy known as 'flavorflation.' #Economy #Food & drink #Retail 2023-12-12 2:52am Insider Jairaj Devadiga ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-14 11:24am
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What’s on the Menu When Your Cat Goes Out? Probably More Than You Think.Free-ranging cats hunt or scavenge more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, according to a new study. #Birds #Endangered Species 2023-12-12 8:03am The New York Times Catrin Einhorn ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-12-12 8:52pm
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Joseph Hone - He Steals Them, of Course!Joseph Hone: He Steals Them, of Course! Literary Review 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-12 8:24am
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