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Opinion | What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?

Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes. #California #Homelessness #Mental Health #Oregon #Politics

2024-06-15T04:00:48-0700 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-21T09:07:10-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Wellness Should be Just a Hobby

Wellness should be just a hobby.

2024-11-10T03:00:08-0800 The New York Times Ashwin Rodrigues ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-11-10T14:21:21-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | Urban beekeeping has boomed. Is it bad for the other bees?

The Washington Post

Rated 2023-04-17T15:00:37-0700 - cindy

Opinion | Turning the Great Highway into a park will reap millions for business

The city's walkers and rollers won't be the only beneficiaries of a permanent highway closure. Nearby businesses will see a spending windfall.

2024-10-20T06:00:00-0700 The San Francisco Standard Stephen Braitsch 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-20T18:21:04-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong About Antisemitic Speech

The proper response to censorship is not more censorship. #Censorship #College #Harvard

2023-12-10T06:00:05-0800 The New York Times David French ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-12-10T15:08:15-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | The Climate Solution That’s Horrible for the Climate

Corn ethanol and soy biodiesel accelerate food inflation and global hunger, but they’re also a disaster for the climate and the environment. #Agriculture #Climate Change #Global Warming #Iowa

2023-06-06T02:01:07-0700 The New York Times Michael Grunwald ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-06-06T20:26:41-0700 - elll

Opinion | The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know

Three terms in, she’s exiting her political adolescence and coming into her own as a veteran operator. #Congress #Joe Biden #US Politics

2024-05-04T04:00:07-0700 The New York Times Gaby Del Valle ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-05T19:17:49-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Prop. K was a battle between urban and suburban SF. The right side won

Proposition K wasn’t just about the future of a road: It was a clash between two ideologies battling to shape the city.

2024-11-19T15:00:00-0800 The San Francisco Standard Jane Natoli 1,000 words

Rated 2024-11-19T17:50:01-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | Plutocratic Power and Its Perils

The New York Times

Rated 2023-04-19T04:20:34-0700 - cindy

Opinion | Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do

Whether 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

2024-01-04T02:01:26-0800 The New York Times Anna Marks ($) 5,000 words

Rated 2024-01-09T22:03:34-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | Israel Has Never Needed to Be Smarter Than in This Moment

It would be a mistake to give Hamas what it wants: an overreaction like an invasion of Gaza. #Israel #Joe Biden #Middle East #Military #Politics #Terrorism

2023-10-10T14:58:28-0700 The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-10-12T10:25:12-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message

The New York Times

Rated 2023-04-28T05:35:52-0700 - cindy

Opinion | How Big of a Climate Betrayal Is the Willow Oil Project?

The New York Times

Rated 2023-03-16T21:57:25-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Are Smartphones and Social Media Driving a Teen Mental Heath Crisis?

The New York Times

Rated 2024-07-29T15:38:53-0700 - sethherr

OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: Exclusive

Time

Rated 2023-03-18T15:32:42-0700 - sethherr

Onion Lake Cree Nation sues provincial government over Saskatchewan First Act

CBC News

Rated 2023-04-14T05:21:47-0700 - Jaog

Parable of the Sofa

ongoing by Tim Bray 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:19:44-0700 - sethherr

One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cycling

A cyclist discovered widespread cheating on the popular online cycling platform Zwift. Then came the death threats.

2023-09-22T09:50:44-0700 The Hustle Katherine Laidlaw 2,000 words

Rated 2023-09-26T21:31:37-0700 - sethherr

On “owning” software

When it comes to services supporting software teams, ownership is expensive.

2024-01-24T14:01:57-0800 avdi.codes Avdi Grimm 4,000 words

Rated 2024-01-27T09:05:57-0800 - sethherr

Omegle

omegle.com

Rated 2023-11-08T17:42:10-0800 - sethherr

Nuclear Power Today | Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association

Nuclear energy provides about 30% of the world's low carbon electricity. There are about 450 commercial nuclear power reactors operable in 30 countries. #Nuclear power

world nuclear 3,000 words

Rated 2023-04-28T23:06:20-0700 - sam

Notes From The Progress Studies Conference

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2024-10-24T05:16:15-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 55,000 words

Rated 2024-10-28T08:16:23-0700 - sethherr

Netanyahu’s political touch eludes him as Israel spirals into chaos

The Washington Post

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

Negativity drives online news consumption | Nature Human Behaviour

Nature

Rated 2023-03-17T19:03:56-0700 - sethherr

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 second year without a job

Reflecting on two years of unemployment: personal growth, financial lessons, and creative pursuits like music and startups. Here's how I navigated year two without a job.

shilin typing... 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-07T07:54:42-0800 - sethherr

My New Band Is: The Indoctrinated Rich

On the Brearley dad, what indoctrination means in the context of education, and private schools that are segregation academies

2021-04-17T15:11:30-0700 My New Band Is Elizabeth Spiers 6,000 words

Rated 2024-08-05T15:40:50-0700 - 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

MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen blasted for 'leave pity city' leaked video

NPR

Rated 2023-04-19T05:54:42-0700 - Jaog

Rated 2023-04-19T07:51:11-0700 - sethherr

Mifepristone and the rule of law - by Adam Unikowsky

Adam's Legal Newsletter

Rated 2023-04-20T15:58:23-0700 - &e

How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing

News that Microsoft caught hackers using its generative AI tools prompted security experts to guess that it was spying on users. Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan argue that the gradual erosion of expectations of privacy has a lot in common with the gradual destruction of fish populations in the ocean. #Microsoft #Privacy

2024-06-03T04:00:02-0700 IEEE Spectrum Barath Raghavan, Bruce Schneier 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:20:40-0700 - sethherr

Meta’s Broken Promises

The 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights. Human Rights Watch found that the problem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government...

2023-12-21T18:30:08-0800 Human Rights Watch 15,000 words

Rated 2024-11-13T08:17:50-0800 - 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

Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm | Meat industry

The Guardian

Rated 2023-03-28T05:10:23-0700 - Jaog

Maybe Bluesky has “won”

November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social network.

2024-11-15T11:36:51-0800 Gavin Anderegg 2,000 words

Rated 2024-11-15T19:38:56-0800 - sethherr

Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure

Marketing executives focus too much on ever-narrower demographic segments and ever-more-trivial product extensions. They should find out, instead, what jobs consumers need to get done. Those jobs will point the way to purposeful products—and genuine innovation.

2005-11-30T21:00:00-0800 Harvard Business Review 6,000 words

Rated 2023-03-17T16:47:53-0700 - alexandradancing

March Madness betting: Gambling on expanding legal sports gambling was a bad idea

Vox

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

March 16, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Rated 2023-03-17T06:05:54-0700 - cindy

lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

d-shoot.net

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

Long accused of Native American misappropriation, Boy Scouts ask if it’s time to change

NBC News

Rated 2023-04-20T05:55:15-0700 - Jaog

Rated 2023-04-20T18:18:58-0700 - 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

linear_regression_notes.pdf

westga.edu

Rated 2023-03-19T09:05:57-0700 - ScottSchoenwaelder

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