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America’s New Political War Pits Young Men Against Young Women - WSJRated 2024-07-29 - sethherr
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Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones)The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two big political news items of this week—the happenings of the Republican National Convention and the desperate attempts of many Democrats to replace their candidate before their own convention next month—reflect these asymmetries. Nevertheless, many discussions of American politics assume… 2024-07-20 The Scholar's Stage 5,000 words Rated 2024-07-28 - sethherr
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Advantages of incompetent managementRated 2024-07-17 - sethherr
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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the MediaGideon Lewis-Kraus writes about the tension between Scott Alexander, of the rationalist blog Slate Star Codex, and the New York Times. #Journalism #New York Times #Silicon Valley #Social Media 2020-07-09 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 5,000 words Rated 2024-07-16 - sethherr
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Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public RecordThe feud between basilisk-obsessed Wikipedia admin David Gerard and everyone from heterodox news sources to the right wing to rationalists, 2024-07-10 Tracing Woodgrains 15,000 words Rated 2024-07-16 - sethherr
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I Ate Poison Oak To Try to Gain Immunity. Here’s What Happened. - WSJRated 2024-07-09 - sethherr
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I Ate Poison Oak To Try to Gain Immunity. Here’s What Happened. - WSJRated 2024-07-09 - sethherr
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Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon GasThe more you learn about xenon gas the stranger it gets. 2023-07-13 Tripsitter Tripsitter, Justin Cooke 🍄 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-27 - sethherr
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UUID Benchmark WarThis month's PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let's have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have decided to orchestrate a benchmark war between four different methods of storing a primary key: use a text field to store… 2024-02-03 Ardent Performance Computing 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-25 - sethherr
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An Unexpected Turn in the Evangelical Culture WarsA proposal to ban Southern Baptist women from serving as pastors failed a two-thirds-majority vote, signalling that the far right has not yet consolidated its control of the Church. #Christianity #Religion 2024-06-12 The New Yorker Eliza Griswold 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-15 - sethherr
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Not Your Childhood LibraryPaige Williams writes that an ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space. #Homelessness #Libraries #Minnesota 2024-05-23 The New Yorker Paige Williams 4,000 words Rated 2024-06-15 - sethherr
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How to be More AgenticOn a supposedly difficult thing 2024-01-10 Useful Fictions Cate Hall 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-15 - sethherr
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Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now?Across the internet and in gyms everywhere, body-modifying drug use has become ubiquitous, effective and... normal. Can this really be a good thing? 2024-06-05 GQ Rosecrans Baldwin 5,000 words Rated 2024-06-15 - sethherr
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Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder LiquidityAsk most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE A BIG MOVE!!!" And then you'll ask, "but why are you yelling?” The narrative of the founder's risk is a cornerstone of Silicon Valley's mythology. Founders are celebrated for leaving stable jobs... 2024-06-09 Stefan Theard 1,000 words Rated 2024-06-15 - sethherr
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How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in ScienceThe most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works 2024-05-25 Scientific American Jack Murtagh ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-15 - sethherr
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Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building ThemThe state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. #Climate Change #Colorado #Global Warming #Transportation 2024-05-31 The New York Times Megan Kimble 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-02 - sethherr
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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. 2024-05-20 The New Yorker Sharon Lerner 7,000 words Rated 2024-05-30 - sethherr
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Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?Anthony Lane writes about Blinkist, one of a number of phone apps that aim to boil down entire books into synopses lasting as little as ten minutes. 2024-05-20 The New Yorker Anthony Lane 4,000 words Rated 2024-05-29 - sethherr
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The Lunacy of ArtemisFor the first time since the 1960's, it looks doubtful whether the US space agency is even capable of getting us to the Moon. idlewords.com 8,000 words Rated 2024-05-20 - sethherr
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Third Time: a better way to work — LessWrongHOW CAN you be more productive? Instead of half-working all day, it’s better to work in focused stints, with breaks in between to recover. … 2022-01-07 lesswrong.com bfinn 7,000 words Rated 2024-05-20 - sethherr
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Scrabble, Anonymous“As was the case with alcohol, my first and last thoughts of the day are usually Scrabble related (RELATED anagrams: ALTERED, REDEALT, ALERTED, TREADLE).” 2024-05-15 The Paris Review Brad Phillips 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-20 - sethherr
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How to get 7th graders to smokeOR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable" 2024-05-14 Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 4,000 words Rated 2024-05-15 - sethherr
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Spontaneous PneumothoraxSpontaneous pneumothorax refers to the abnormal collection of gas in the pleural space between the lungs and the chest wall. Spontaneous pneumothorax occurs without an obvious etiology such as trauma or iatrogenic causes. Spontaneous pneumothorax can be classified as either primary or secondary. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) occurs when the patient does not have a history of the underlying pulmonary disease, whereas secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) is associated with a... 2023-07-24 PubMed Central (PMC) 2,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train—AsteriskThe United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world. That’s because we refuse to learn from experts, other countries, and our own history. asteriskmag.com 5,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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Is Justin Timberlake the pop star anyone wants?Justin Timberlake’s resurfaced scandals involving Janet Jackson and Britney Spears have soured his image. Can he pull off a comeback with Everything I Thought It Was? #Culture #Music 2024-03-14 Vox Kyndall Cunningham 2,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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A Social History of Jell-O SaladShaped by the rise of home economics, the industrialization of the food system, World War II, and changing expectations about women's labor, the Jell-O salad—the wobbling jewel of domestic achievement—can teach us about U.S. life in the 20th century as few foods can. 2015-08-19 Serious Eats Sarah Grey 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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The Berkeley Software DistributionUNIX is always litigious 2024-02-05 Abort Retry Fail Bradford Morgan White 7,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in KagiRated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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The Hidden-Pregnancy ExperimentJia Tolentino on an experiment in which she tried to hide her pregnancy from her phone and on how we are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. #Parenthood #Pregnancy #Surveillance 2024-05-04 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 2,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'Plus: animation news. 2024-05-06 Animation Obsessive Animation Obsessive Staff 4,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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Plea deal for driver accused of DUI crash that killed cyclist is unjustThe proposed one-year sentence for a driver accused of killing SF cyclist Ethan Boyes in a DUI crash is a shocking injustice, writes Gabriella Wong. #Vision zero 2024-03-15 SFGATE Gabriella Wong 1,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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Scientists Like Me Knew There Was Something Amiss With Andrew Huberman’s Wildly Popular PodcastHe recommends supplements. He’s iffy on the flu shot. And more. #Health Care #Science 2024-03-27 Slate Andrea Love 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-14 - sethherr
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The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound - Audio Academy Audio LegendsWhile modern improvements in technologies have the benefit of being far more powerful and lightweight, the Wall of Sound remains unparalleled. 2019-02-02 Audio Academy 1,000 words Rated 2024-05-08 - sethherr
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Opinion | The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t KnowThree terms in, she’s exiting her political adolescence and coming into her own as a veteran operator. #Congress #Joe Biden #US Politics 2024-05-04 The New York Times Gaby Del Valle ($) 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-06 - sethherr
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPTdanluu.com 20,000 words Rated 2024-04-24 - sethherr
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Thoughts on seed oilDon't get distracted. 2024-04-18 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 5,000 words Rated 2024-04-18 - sethherr
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This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten program. Test scores fell even furtherThis Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten. Test scores fell even further #LGBTQ+ #Maryland #San Francisco 2024-02-03 San Francisco Chronicle Jill Tucker 1,000 words Rated 2024-04-18 - sethherr
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(1) Prof. Ian Walker on X: "And this is where we saw the big win-win: there's a clear negative relationship between water pressure and consumption. More powerful showers used less water overall. A LOVELY TINGLY SHOWER MIGHT BE *BETTER* FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THAN A WEAK DRIBBLE. I know, right? https://t.co/dVCWHgb7JO" / XX (formerly Twitter) 500 words Rated 2024-04-18 - sethherr
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12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9The Map Happenings series on the hugely impactful events that forever changed our world. This week: the story of a little known company called 'Etak'. I think you'll find it a fascinating read... 2024-04-11 Map Happenings 4,000 words Rated 2024-04-17 - sethherr
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This is a teenagerRated 2024-04-17 - sethherr
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The Ex-N.Y.P.D. Offcial Trying to Tame New York’s TrashThe city has lived in filth for decades. Can the commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, a scion of one of the country’s richest families, finally clean up the streets? Eric Lach reports. 2024-04-08 The New Yorker Eric Lach 6,000 words Rated 2024-04-14 - sethherr
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How the Alt Right wona Retrospective from Walt Bismarck 2024-01-27 The Walt Right Walt Bismarck 15,000 words Rated 2024-04-09 - sethherr
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The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated ItThe sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of the US went to year-round daylight saving time beginning on January 6. "It was jet black" outside when 2022-03-15 Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com/author/abeaujon/#author ... 1,000 words Rated 2024-04-08 - sethherr
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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, and issues including Brexit, the N.H.S., inflation, housing, and the economy. 2024-03-25 The New Yorker Sam Knight 8,000 words Rated 2024-04-06 - sethherr
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Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak DebateI watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should! 2024-03-28 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 105,000 words Rated 2024-03-31 - sethherr
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The asbestos timesAsbestos was a miracle material, virtually impervious to fire. But as we fixed city fires in other ways, we came to learn about its horrific downsides. 2023-11-15 Works in Progress 3,000 words Rated 2024-03-21 - sethherr
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How Israel turned homeowners into YIMBYsHomeowners are often the biggest opponents of building new homes. An Israeli reform reversed this by making homeowners the main beneficiaries of development. 2024-02-16 Works in Progress 6,000 words Rated 2024-03-20 - sethherr
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Using axis lines for good or eviladd them only if they mean something 2024-02-29 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 1,000 words Rated 2024-03-20 - sethherr
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Vaclav Smil and the Value of DoubtDavid Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science 2024-02-20 The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words Rated 2024-03-20 - sethherr
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TinyLetter had a big momentOn February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s. 2024-02-29 The Verge Kevin Nguyen 3,000 words Rated 2024-03-20 - sethherr
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