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Unexpected Things that are Peoplepanlegal expressions of personhood 2025-11-7 6:05pm Gold Takes Ben Goldhaber 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-10 4:51pm
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The Ofcom Files, Part 2: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety ActA follow up to The Ofcom Files. Some notes on Ofcom's strategy to date. As many of you know, I represent the U.S. website 4chan, pro bono, in its U.S. federal lawsuit against the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, together with my co-counsel Ron Coleman. The suit seeks to defend 4chan from the UK’s attempts to censor that… 2025-11-6 4:20pm Preston Byrne 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-8 4:38pm
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What Hallucinogens Will Make You See8 ways psychedelics distort our vision. 2023-6-1 5:56pm Nautilus Kristen French 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-8 4:21pm
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The Great Decoupling of Labor and CapitalA programming note: I initially wanted to cover Microsoft’s earnings today, but I am changing the schedule a bit as I felt more inspired to write today’s piece. Almost two decades ago, Hewlett-Packard (HP) was the first tech company to exceed $100 Billion annual revenue threshold in 2007. At that time, HP had 172k employees. The very next year, IBM joined the club, but IBM had almost 400k employees. Today’s megacap tech companies all exhibit a common characteristics: their growth is pretty muc 2025-11-2 7:43am MBI Deep Dives 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-8 10:49am
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The right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained. #Elon Musk #Peter Thiel 2025-10-31 8:20am Yahoo News Constance Grady 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-6 8:11pm
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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says. 2025-11-3 4:00am Ars Technica Ashley Belanger 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-5 1:54pm
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Why Solarpunk is already happening in AfricaOr: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past 2025-11-4 8:06am Climate Drift Skander Garroum 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-5 1:42pm
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Programming Proverbs in 1975 and 2025 – Noel Rappin Writes HereI just write here noelrappin.com Noel Rappin 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-5 12:23pm
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Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk – Noel Rappin Writes HereI just write here noelrappin.com Noel Rappin 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-5 12:18pm
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My Truck Desk by Bud SmithOctober 29, 2025 – “Now that I had my Truck Desk, that vehicle was my very own rolling cubicle.” 2025-10-29 7:00am The Paris Review Bud Smith 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-4 8:22am
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Scrolling ThroughJack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road 2025-9-18 9:01pm The American Scholar Gerald Howard 6,000 words Rated 2025-10-31 10:18pm
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ICE and the Smartphone PanopticonA new wave of digital tools has emerged to help citizens monitor Trump’s crackdown. But internet surveillance can also be used against you. #Deportation #Surveillance 2025-10-29 2:59pm The New Yorker Kyle Chayka 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-30 8:12pm
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Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney80% of the people only need 20% of the features. danieldelaney.net Daniel De Laney 500 words Rated 2025-10-30 8:06pm
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We Spent the Night Shift With the Repo Man, Who Is Busier Than Ever - WSJRated 2025-10-29 3:26pm
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10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs. 2025-10-27 4:00am Ars Technica Nate Anderson 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-27 7:46pm
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Harnessing America’s Heat Pump MomentThe tech works. The policy’s in place. So why are heat pumps still a hard sell? What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps? #Climate Change #Home #Technology 2025-10-10 11:52am Heat Pumped Joseph DeNatale 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-25 4:43pm
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Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefallValve's most recent update to Counter-Strike pushed its cosmetics economy in freefall, with billions evaporating overnight. 2025-10-23 11:23am Polygon Austin Manchester, Johnny Yu 500 words Rated 2025-10-24 7:17am
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Walnut Creek: Electric Vehicle Fire Sparks Shelter-In-Place Wednesday EveningCrews extinguished a car fire in a parking garage in Walnut Creek on Wednesday evening and vapors from the fire prompted the county to issue a shelter-in-place for people near the garage. 2025-10-22 11:54am SFGATE 200 words Rated 2025-10-23 7:31pm
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the timeI've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection. 2025-10-21 5:00pm evanhahn.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-22 10:06pm
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Rivian’s first e-bike is unlike anything you’ve ever seenRivian’s Also announces TM-B Class 3 e-bike starting at $4,000, TM-Q pedal-assisted four-wheeler, and the Alpha Wave connected helmet. #Transportation 2025-10-22 10:30am The Verge Thomas Ricker 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-22 2:15pm
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The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend EngineerOn AI, Creativity, and Craft hojberg.xyz 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-22 7:40am
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Novo Nordisk's Canadian MistakeNovo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake Science Advances 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-19 7:37pm
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How this runner did a marathon and Tour de France stage every day for a monthSpanish ultrarunner Kilian Jornet has been challenging himself to ascend and connect all of USA’s Fourteeners — mountains at least 14,000 feet high — in the lower 48 states. #Sports 2025-10-8 3:23pm AccuWeather Amy Woodyatt, CNN 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-18 8:49pm
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Ruby BlocksHow to start really getting Ruby, especially blocks. #ruby 2025-10-14 5:47am Stonecharioteer on Tech 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-18 8:41am
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You did no fact checking, and I must screamI'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't take much effort to determine if something is likely to be true. There are brilliant tools like reverse Image Search which give you a good indicator of when an image first appeared on the web, and… 2025-10-5 4:34am Terence Eden’s Blog Terence Eden 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-17 7:39am
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Meet the Nutmaxxers Obsessed With Shooting Bigger LoadsBoth porn and a growing interest in self-optimization are leading men on a quest for enhanced ejaculations. 2025-10-14 7:00am GQ Charlie Sosnick 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-16 11:05pm
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How remigration became a buzzword for global far rightElectoral success of parties in Germany and Austria backing mass deportation linked to the term’s growing use by mainstream politicians, say experts 2024-10-3 6:36am The Guardian Ashifa Kassam 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-16 10:54pm
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Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching OffTons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What do they do? And more importantly, why should anyone (outside of universities) care? (Unfortunately, you won't see answers to these questions in… 2025-10-13 6:00am Steve Blank 6,000 words Rated 2025-10-15 8:18am
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HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output TagMake your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot. 2025-9-30 5:00pm Den Odell 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-11 9:30am
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Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiascoWe are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not. This debate… justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/about 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-9 10:03pm
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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any sizeAnthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-9 9:39pm
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What really happened at BasecampBasecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy. #Labor 2021-4-27 5:00pm The Verge Casey Newton ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-9 9:06pm
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California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharingThe California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use. The Record 500 words Rated 2025-10-8 9:27pm
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On Being Blocked From Contributing to lodashMy Github account was blocked from contributing security improvements to the project. This was my first open source work in a while, and unfortunately, it a... crtns 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-6 8:35pm
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How Bari Weiss of The Free Press Won the Top Job at CBS NewsAt The Free Press, she battled “wokeness” and buddied up with billionaires. Now she’s the editor in chief of CBS News. #US Politics 2025-10-6 6:37am The New York Times Jessica Testa ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-6 12:36pm
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Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine MalikThis unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 2025-9-28 10:00pm The Guardian Nesrine Malik 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-5 5:30pm
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How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer-- seangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-4 2:08pm
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Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns. 2025-10-1 10:02pm BBC News Tom Edwards 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-3 10:51am
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How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualizedIsrael’s war in Gaza led to more than half a million Palestinians being stuck in a cycle of ‘starvation, destitution and death,’ a UN-backed initiative said. Five charts explain how. 2025-10-1 11:11pm CNN Sana Noor Haq, Rachel Wilson, Soph Warnes, Lou Robinson, Henrik Pettersson ... ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-2 7:05pm
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Increasing your practice surface areaThe difference between being good and being great isn’t talent or formal training, but the invisible practice that happens when you're just living life. 2025-10-1 9:21am Indie Hackers Channing Allen 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-2 6:55pm
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China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers. - Freakonomics 2025-9-19 6:14am Freakonomics 200 words Rated 2025-10-2 8:57am
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How to Choose a Node.js FrameworkThe popularity of Node means we have lots of framework options. Dig in and learn how to choose between the most common Node.js frameworks. judoscale.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-30 5:00pm
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Vertical Solar Panels Are Out StandingIf you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In a video which demonstrates that [Everyday Dave] is truly… 2025-9-25 7:00pm Hackaday 5,000 words Rated 2025-9-29 6:14pm
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Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA MoonlanderMechanical keyboards, the nerd equivalent of obsessing over ferrule weights in golf clubs, are wildly popular, and for a good reason. I've owned and used a ZSA Moonlander for some years now, and here are my thoughts on it and why I think you should literally buy any mechanical keyboard you can get your hands on with programmable firmware. Your fingers will thank you. Mastering Emacs Mickey Petersen 3,000 words Rated 2025-9-29 4:36pm
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What is "good taste" in software engineering?-- seangoedecke.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-29 7:49am
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matduggan.comIt's JSON all the way down 2025-9-27 1:56am matduggan.com 3,000 words Rated 2025-9-28 8:42am
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The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshopClogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters #Culture 2025-7-25 11:00pm The Londoner Andrew Kersley 3,000 words Rated 2025-9-27 6:39pm
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal WorkersWIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #Politics 2025-9-25 3:00am WIRED Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, Vittoria Elliott, Makena Kelly, ... 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-25 7:11pm
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Bundler belongs to the Ruby communityI’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Yehuda). I also didn’t work on the first six months worth of prototypes. That was all Carl and Yehuda together, back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3. 2025-9-24 10:16pm André.Arko.net André Arko 1,000 words Rated 2025-9-25 7:32am
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That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogusIt's just normal crime 2025-9-23 3:02pm Cybersect Robert Graham 1,000 words Rated 2025-9-24 7:48am
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