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Twitter, Elon and the Indigo BlobThe line between expertise and politics has become increasingly blurry. The demise of "Old Twitter" could help to reverse that. 2023-7-31 7:51am Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-20 2:58pm
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It's easy to screw up on breaking news. But you have to admit when you do.This week brought another self-inflected wound for trust in journalism. 2023-10-19 7:51am Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-20 6:42am
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Please Pay For a Year of Nothingjoe-steel.com 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-19 5:24pm
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What Happened to San Francisco, Really?Nathan Heller on the fate of America’s most enterprising downtown and the debates over housing, homelessness, and public safety that have engulfed the city since the pandemic. 2023-10-16 3:00am The New Yorker Nathan Heller 8,000 words Rated 2023-10-18 10:05pm
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Rethinking the Liberation Pledge (Eva Hamer) — EA ForumThis article is a really interesting example of people in a prosocial movement trying radical tactics and then changing their minds. I'm not sure the… 2023-9-3 11:44am forum.effectivealtruism.org Aaron Gertler 4,000 words Rated 2023-10-12 6:31pm
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The Great Awokening of Higher Ed Has Ended—But Is It Too Late?Growing numbers of Americans prefer sticks over carrots to move colleges and universities towards reform—a crisis we in academia largely brought upon ourselves 2023-6-21 5:15am The Liberal Patriot Musa al-Gharbi 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-12 6:23pm
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‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unintended test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmthPollution cuts have diminished “ship track” clouds, adding to global warming Science Advances 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-12 5:38pm
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Opinion | Israel Has Never Needed to Be Smarter Than in This MomentIt 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 2023-10-10 2:58pm The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-12 10:25am
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Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat DevicesThe Department of Justice alleges that eBay illegally sold 343,011 emissions defeat devices, and could face billions in penalties. 2023-9-30 11:30am The Drive Chris Rosales 500 words Rated 2023-10-10 8:23pm
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‘We’ve Been Shaken Out of This Fantasy’: How the Left Sees the War in IsraelA former top aide for Bernie Sanders on how Israel's critics on the political left see the Hamas attack and what this means for deal-making in the region. Politico 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-9 12:16pm
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The Wager That Betting Can Change the WorldA coterie of tech insiders believe that “prediction markets” can fix social ills. Are they right? #Gambling 2023-10-8 2:01am The New York Times Kevin Roose ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-8 7:32pm
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Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking FutureRated 2023-10-8 6:26pm |
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. 2023-10-1 5:30am The Verge Elizabeth Lopatto 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-8 6:16pm
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New talk: Making Hard Things EasyNew talk: Making Hard Things Easy Julia Evans 6,000 words Rated 2023-10-6 9:55pm
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Where does my computer get the time from? – Tony FinchRated 2023-10-5 10:25pm
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The Harvard Professor and the BloggersWhen Francesca Gino, a rising academic star, was accused of falsifying data — about how to stop dishonesty — it didn’t just torch her career. It inflamed a crisis in behavioral science. #College #Lawsuit #Sociology 2023-9-30 2:01am The New York Times Noam Scheiber ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-10-5 4:38pm
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A review of Number Go Up, on crypto shenanigansZeke Faux's book on crypto shenanigans is best book on crypto ever and occasionally frustrating, plus bonus commentary on financial journalism. 2023-9-29 9:52am Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 4,000 words Rated 2023-10-4 4:35pm
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Your Project Management Software Can't Save YouDo-everything workplace managers like Asana and Trello promise organizational utopias. But they reveal limitations that date all the way back to the factory floors of the 1900s. #Labor #programming #Silicon Valley #Startups #Work 2023-10-1 3:00am WIRED Matt Alston 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-4 8:54am |
Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Here to Pump You Up (Emotionally)“The more powerful you are,” says the action icon, author of a new self-help book, “the more power you have in giving back.” #2020 Election #Comedy #Donald Trump 2023-10-1 2:01am The New York Times David Marchese ($) 5,000 words Rated 2023-10-1 7:36pm
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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. 2023-10-1 5:20am Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-1 3:48pm
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Y Combinator's Garry Tan Declares War on San Francisco PoliticsThe CEO of Y Combinator is using his considerable wealth and social media megaphone to attack the progressive agenda. #Elon Musk 2023-9-27 5:00am The San Francisco Standard Josh Koehn 4,000 words Rated 2023-9-27 3:38pm
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One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cyclingA cyclist discovered widespread cheating on the popular online cycling platform Zwift. Then came the death threats. 2023-9-22 9:50am The Hustle Katherine Laidlaw 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-26 9:31pm
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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. 2023-9-26 6:16am Federal Trade Commission 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-26 9:13pm
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America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No TomorrowUnchecked overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a data investigation by the New York Times revealed, threatening millions of people and America’s status as a food superpower. #Agriculture #Climate Change #Global Warming #Water 2023-8-28 2:19pm The New York Times Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi, ... ($) 5,000 words Rated 2023-9-26 7:16am
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Great ‘Indiana Jones’ Adventure“I’m not interested in perfectly behaved men or women,” the actress says. “I’m drawn to the ones who feel a bit dangerous.” #Actor #Movies #TV 2023-7-2 2:00am The New York Times David Marchese ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-9-26 4:52am
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After FBI busts Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC, six more exposed in USAfter the FBI arrested “Harry” Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping, charging them with illegally opening a Chinese government "police station" to spy on Chinese nationals in New York, a human rights groups says there are other stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and US other cities. #China #Los Angeles #Minnesota #Nebraska #New York City #San Francisco #Spying 2023-4-18 3:23pm New York Post Isabel Vincent 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-24 8:44pm
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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. 2023-9-12 12:00am The New Republic Amy Westervelt 4,000 words Rated 2023-9-23 10:43am
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When half a million Americans died and nobody noticedWas the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far? 2012-4-27 2:04am The Week Alexander Cockburn 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-22 3:37pm
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Start Pagecs.cmu.edu 500 words Rated 2023-9-21 8:22am |
The babies who nap in sub-zero temperaturesWould you put your baby or toddler outside in the freezing cold for their lunchtime nap? Many Nordic parents wouldn't give it a second thought. 2013-2-21 7:04am BBC News By Helena Lee 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-21 8:03am
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Organic Maps: An Open-Source Maps App That Doesn't SuckOrganic Maps impressed me with its elegant UI, effective routing, and good ethics. hardfault.life Evan Grove 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-20 8:18pm
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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 2023-9-7 4:00am The Atlantic Ann Hulbert ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-9-20 8:57am
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GPS Watch? No Thanks. Top Runners Are Ditching the Data.An increasing number of elite distance runners don’t wear activity tracking or GPS watches. They think they are better athletes because of it. #Running 2023-9-16 12:00am The New York Times Scott Cacciola ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-20 8:35am |
Speed Kills: Addressing the Real Road Hazard - CalBikeThe best thing we could do to prevent traffic fatalities is to prevent speeding. And the best way to do that is through infrastructure. 2023-9-18 6:15pm California Bicycle Coalition Kendra Ramsey 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-19 4:04pm
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Mythbusters: Wing Commander I EditionYou've probably heard of the famous 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' story. It claims that a programmer on the original Wing Commander was stuck getting an error message when the game unloaded its memory during a quit. Pressed for time, instead of fixing the issue he simply hex edited the memory manager's error reporting to print 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' instead. A funny and relatable story! 2023-9-18 12:00am Wing Commander CIC LOAF 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-18 8:44pm
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One day after suing Open AI, Michael Chabon and other authors sue MetaOne day after suing Open AI, Michael Chabon and other authors sue Meta overf its LLaMa chatbot #Facebook #San Francisco #Twitter 2023-9-12 11:36am San Francisco Chronicle Chase DiFeliciantonio 500 words Rated 2023-9-18 7:53am |
Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAIAnother would be copyright class action 2023-9-12 8:45am The Register Jude Karabus 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-18 7:49am
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Gilead’s Phase 2 EVOKE-02 Study of Trodelvy® (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) in Combination With KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Demonstrates Promising Clinical Activity in First-Line Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung CancerGilead’s Phase 2 EVOKE-02 Study of Trodelvy® (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) in Combination With KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Demonstrates Promising Clinical Activity in First-Line Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer gilead.com 3,000 words Rated 2023-9-17 9:23pm
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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). 2023-9-10 3:00am NPR Camila Domonoske 4,000 words Rated 2023-9-17 8:44am
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Close to 2,000 Environmental Activists Killed Over Last DecadeYale E360 500 words Rated 2023-9-17 8:30am
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Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike calledAfter a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated. 2023-9-15 12:04pm Ars Technica 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-15 1:43pm
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‘A Ticket to Disney’? Politicians Charge Millions to Send Migrants to U.S.The Biden administration vowed to “end the illicit movement” of people through the Darién jungle. But the number of migrants moving through the forest has never been greater — and the profits are too big to pass up. #Colombia #Panama #Politics 2023-9-14 2:03am The New York Times Julie Turkewitz, Federico Rios ($) 6,000 words Rated 2023-9-15 1:05pm
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The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons never worked. Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old. 2023-9-7 3:00am ProPublica Joaquin Sapien 10,000 words Rated 2023-9-14 7:40am
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Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtainThe LLM is for spam 2023-9-12 2:43pm Amy Castor 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-13 6:27pm
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Don’t mess with a geniusOr: What happens when Newton's laws are violated Recently, I read a book called Newton and the Counterfeiter, subtitled The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist. It focuses on an awesome phase of Isaac Newton's later career that, like his pursuits in alchemy, gets little mention in most accounts. The story, of Newton's… 2010-6-4 7:25am The Lumber Room 3,000 words Rated 2023-9-13 5:47pm
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MarginalismAdam Smith struggled with what came to be called the paradox of “value in use” versus “value in exchange.” Water is necessary to existence and of enormous value in use; diamonds are frivolous and clearly not essential. But the price of diamonds—their value in exchange—is far higher than that of water. What perplexed Smith is ... 2018-2-4 5:46pm Econlib 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-12 7:26pm
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How Much Would Reducing Lead Exposure Improve Children’s Learning in the Developing World?Around half of children in low-income countries have elevated blood lead levels. What role does lead play in explaining low educational outcomes in these settings? Center For Global Development | Ideas to Action 500 words Rated 2023-9-12 3:30pm
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Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer ★ The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue ThoughtI'm beginning to wonder if he's constructed an entire system of moral philosophy around the effects of the loyalty mod—a prospect that makes me distinctly uneasy. It would hardly be the first time a victim of mental illness has responded to their affliction that way—but it would certainly … unremediatedgender.space Zack M. Davis 25,000 words Rated 2023-9-12 3:16pm
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Lachlan Morton completes Tour Divide route in 12 days, 12 hours, and 21 minutesThe EF Education-EasyPost star overcomes trench foot, freezing rain, wildfire detours mental demons and a busted derailleur to lay down a blistering time on the storied ultra-bikepacking route. 2023-9-11 11:08am Velo Betsy Welch 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-11 9:45pm |
Typical mind and gender identityOzy Frantz introduced zirself to me by saying that “I major in gender studies, but I am not that kind of gender studies student. Promise.” So far this claim has been entirely borne out … 2013-2-18 2:27pm Slate Star Codex 15,000 words Rated 2023-9-11 6:56pm
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