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Omegle

omegle.com

Rated 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/mastodon

Summary 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 chaos

The Washington Post

Rated 2023-03-26T07:21:59-0700 - Jaog

Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits

Small 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 Up

Elon 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 Nuts

My 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 organization

The 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 It

Techdirt

Rated 2023-04-10T21:16:58-0700 - sethherr

Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters

For 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 Moloch

I. 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 idea

Vox

Rated 2023-03-16T19:20:17-0700 - sethherr

lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

d-shoot.net

Rated 2024-05-14T08:40:53-0700 - sethherr

llamafile: bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computer

Mozilla Innovations 1,000 words

Rated 2024-09-23T17:06:38-0700 - &e

Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings—Asterisk

America’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’ Utopia

Worldwide, 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 Rated 2023-06-13T11:07:14-0700 - sethherr

Less Utilitarian Than Thou

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2024-02-27T21:03:18-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T23:08:24-0700 - sethherr

Juice

garden.bradwoods.io

Rated 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…" / X

X (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 notice

Forty-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 smoke

OR: "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 Agentic

On 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 Isaacson

Walter 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 stuck

Yoni 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 Primary

1. 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

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seangoedecke.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700 - sethherr

How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate

New 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 ChatGPT

danluu.com 20,000 words

Rated 2024-04-24T13:03:34-0700 - sethherr

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

3M 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 Happy

The 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 Rated 2023-06-09T16:54:30-0700 - sethherr

GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question

aisnakeoil.substack.com

Rated 2023-03-21T08:26:54-0700 - sethherr

Good Writing

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-05-24T09:40:00-0700 - sethherr

Giving people money helped less than I thought it would

Ending 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 Developers

The 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 Host

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-24T11:30:24-0700 - Jaog

First-principles on AI scaling

DYNOMIGHT

Rated 2023-03-09T18:08:54-0800 - sethherr

Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy

A 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 This

How 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>

antirez.com

Rated 2026-01-16T07:24:16-0800 - sethherr

Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?

Mother Jones

Rated 2023-04-14T10:02:58-0700 - alexandradancing

Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

danluu.com

Rated 2024-03-18T22:49:24-0700 - sethherr Rated 2024-02-21T10:59:46-0800 - elll

Discworld Rules

And 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 Enemy

I’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 cars

tires + 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, mapped

Chicago 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 Web

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-31T16:37:52-0700 - sethherr

Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast | Geoengineering

#Solar Geoengineering

The Guardian

Rated 2023-04-03T06:55:16-0700 - cindy