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OmegleRated 2023-11-08T17:42:10-0800 - sethherr |
New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodonSummary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon announced effective July 1 there will be a ... 2025-06-17T15:40:04-0700 GitHub mcclure 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-18T21:39:09-0700 - sethherr |
Netanyahu’s political touch eludes him as Israel spirals into chaosRated 2023-03-26T07:21:59-0700 - Jaog |
Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological DeficitsSmall plastic particulates can induce inflammatory responses in the gut and brain, but removing them reverses this damage. #Nanoplastics The Scientist Magazine 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-08T07:40:41-0700 - sethherr |
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut UpElon Musk and The Enduring Appeal of “Criticism is Censorship” 2023-11-19T19:11:56-0800 The Popehat Report Ken White 1,000 words Rated 2023-11-20T20:02:40-0800 - sethherr |
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All NutsMy smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding. Fly 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-02T16:13:47-0700 - sethherr |
The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organizationThe people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ... Moxie Marlinspike 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-10T20:29:09-0800 - sethherr |
Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend ItRated 2023-04-10T21:16:58-0700 - sethherr |
Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate ProtestersFor decades, the Atlas Network has used its reach and influence to spread conservative philosophy—and criminalize climate protest. 2023-09-12T00:00:00-0700 The New Republic Amy Westervelt 4,000 words Rated 2023-09-23T10:43:28-0700 - sethherr |
Meditations On MolochI. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u… 2014-07-29T21:00:06-0700 Slate Star Codex 90,000 words Rated 2023-04-30T12:53:41-0700 - pypurvis |
March Madness betting: Gambling on expanding legal sports gambling was a bad ideaRated 2023-03-16T19:20:17-0700 - sethherr |
lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in KagiRated 2024-05-14T08:40:53-0700 - sethherr |
llamafile: bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computerMozilla Innovations 1,000 words Rated 2024-09-23T17:06:38-0700 - &e |
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 |
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 2023-06-12T16:01:56-0700 - elll |
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 |
JuiceRated 2023-03-24T07:34:43-0700 - sethherr |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer-- seangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700 - sethherr |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong questionRated 2023-03-21T08:26:54-0700 - sethherr |
Good WritingRated 2025-05-24T09:40:00-0700 - sethherr |
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 |
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 |
Fox News Is Bigger Than Any HostRated 2023-04-24T11:30:24-0700 - Jaog |
First-principles on AI scalingRated 2023-03-09T18:08:54-0800 - sethherr |
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 |
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 |
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>Rated 2026-01-16T07:24:16-0800 - sethherr |
Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?Rated 2023-04-14T10:02:58-0700 - alexandradancing |
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderationRated 2024-03-18T22:49:24-0700 - sethherr |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the WebRated 2023-03-31T16:37:52-0700 - sethherr |
Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast | GeoengineeringRated 2023-04-03T06:55:16-0700 - cindy |