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Opinion | A Cloud Forest in Ecuador Is Crying for Help

Ecuador’s ecological progress is threatened by a series of reforms steamrolled by its young populist president, Daniel Noboa. #Ecuador #Environment #Mining #Politics

2025-08-14T22:00:05-0700 The New York Times César Rodríguez-Garavito, Robert Macfarlane ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-16T14:51:58-0700 - sethherr

ADHD drug treatment and risk of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, accidental injuries, transport accidents, and criminality: emulation of target trials

Objective To examine the effects of drug treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, accidental injuries, transport accidents, and criminality. Design Emulation of target trials. Setting Linkage of national registers in Sweden, 2007-20. Participants People aged 6-64 years with a new diagnosis of ADHD, who either started or did not start drug treatment for ADHD within three months of diagnosis. Main outcome measures First and...

2025-08-13T00:00:00-0700 The BMJ 8,000 words

Rated 2025-08-16T08:38:40-0700 - sethherr

Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way

2025-08-14T00:00:28-0700 The Guardian Guardian staff reporter 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-15T07:05:21-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court.

Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution. #Congress #Donald Trump #Elections

2025-08-14T02:02:17-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd, Raina Raskin ($) 20,000 words

Rated 2025-08-14T19:51:54-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | America’s New Segregation

To be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change. #College #Donald Trump

2025-08-14T14:00:06-0700 The New York Times David Brooks ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-14T18:32:18-0700 - sethherr

Substack promotes a Nazi

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com 500 words

Rated 2025-08-08T21:09:43-0700 - sethherr

What’s wrong with the JSON gem API?

As I mentioned at the start of my Optimizing Ruby’s JSON series of posts, performance isn’t why I candidated to be the new gem’s maintainer.

2025-08-02T02:03:51-0700 byroot’s blog 3,000 words

Rated 2025-08-05T16:30:08-0700 - 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

6 Weeks of Claude Code

It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability to instantly create a whole scene instead of...

2025-07-29T16:53:23-0700 blog.puzzmo.com Puzzmo Blog 5,000 words

Rated 2025-08-03T21:19:44-0700 - sethherr

fast | catherine jue

#San Francisco

catherinejue.com catherine jue 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-30T16:14:52-0700 - sethherr

‘The Interview’: Robert Reich Thinks the Baby Boomers Blew It

The former U.S. Labor Secretary on how complacency and corporate ties created a “bully in chief.” #Barack Obama #Bill Clinton #College #Donald Trump #US Politics

2025-07-26T02:15:06-0700 The New York Times David Marchese ($) 4,000 words

Rated 2025-07-27T14:04:06-0700 - sethherr

When We Get Komooted

Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities... #Travel

2025-07-25T04:20:02-0700 BIKEPACKING.com Josh Meissner 4,000 words

Rated 2025-07-27T11:14:31-0700 - sethherr

Developing our position on AI - Blog

This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC. #New York City #programming

Recurse Center 4,000 words

Rated 2025-07-26T08:32:19-0700 - sethherr

Do not download the app, use the website

The 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. "Mobile-first" was the buzzword, much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest social media giants to your local pizza parlor, seemed

Ibrahim Diallo Blog 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-25T21:14:58-0700 - sethherr

Revisiting Moneyball

The book was published in 2003, and the movie was released in 2011. It feels silly to rehash, except the whole thing fascinates fans two decades later. Why? On the one hand, it is loved because it…

2025-07-24T01:24:34-0700 djpardis.medium.com Pardis Noorzad 3,000 words

Rated 2025-07-24T20:54:02-0700 - 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

My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment

What I really want to know is: What benefit would I get from making my diet better?

2025-07-10T09:03:03-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-19T12:14:34-0700 - sethherr

Let Your Kid Climb That Tree

It could actually make them safer.

2025-07-12T05:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Henry Abbott ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-14T19:22:44-0700 - sethherr

How I build software quickly

Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.

2025-07-07T17:00:00-0700 evanhahn.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-14T10:04:29-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Have Christians Finally Had It With Trump?

The irreconcilable difference between Trumpian politics and Christianity. #Christianity #Donald Trump #Poverty #US Politics

2025-07-11T02:01:26-0700 The New York Times Esau McCaulley ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-11T16:29:49-0700 - sethherr

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

holovaty.com

Rated 2025-07-07T14:34:47-0700 - sethherr

hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMs

hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of “creative writing” LLMsThis is a follow-up to my earlier brief rant about the new, unreleased OpenAI model that’s supposed “good at creative writing.” It...

2025-03-14T17:18:08-0700 nostalgebraist.tumblr.com nostalgebraist 200 words

Rated 2025-07-03T20:58:47-0700 - sethherr

Tools: Code Is All You Need

The solution to agentic flows was code all along.

2025-07-03T00:00:00-0700 Armin Ronacher 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-03T16:56:26-0700 - sethherr

Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health Risks

archive.is

Rated 2025-07-01T20:56:50-0700 - sethherr

Your Review: Alpha School

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2025-06-27T04:49:52-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated 2025-06-29T20:55:47-0700 - sethherr

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data

text.npr.org 2,000 words

Rated 2025-06-29T20:19:29-0700 - sethherr

Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?

The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"

2025-06-25T06:57:24-0700 The Bill, Please Finn 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-25T21:14:13-0700 - sethherr

The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much Worse

A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to...

2025-06-23T12:39:42-0700 Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-24T17:56:28-0700 - 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

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

Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism

The New York Times

Rated 2025-06-16T19:39:41-0700 - 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

Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to See

The Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics

2025-06-08T03:00:12-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-10T20:18:44-0700 - sethherr

What Do We Do With All This Consumer Rage?

When a Complaint Isn't Really A Complaint

2025-05-14T04:35:22-0700 Culture Study Anne Helen Petersen 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-06T15:38:20-0700 - &e

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

Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t Kill

Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash

2025-06-02T02:01:30-0700 The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T16:02:01-0700 - sethherr

Figma Slides is a Beautiful Disaster

Some highlights and lowlights.

Allen Pike 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-01T07:10:32-0700 - sethherr

Why I Broke Up with New York

Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took Lena Dunham several decades to realize that she could go her own way.

2025-05-05T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Lena Dunham 3,000 words

Rated 2025-05-30T21:44:30-0700 - sethherr

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology

2025-05-28T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words

Rated 2025-05-29T08:05:51-0700 - sethherr

The Who Cares Era

dansinker.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-28T06:40:22-0700 - sethherr

My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest company

Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.

2025-05-26T13:30:21-0700 Gordon Wintrob 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-26T20:39:01-0700 - sethherr

Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.

2025-05-25T23:27:27-0700 TF Publishing Andy Maxwell 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-26T08:27:41-0700 - sethherr

GitHub issues for notes

GitHub issues is *almost* the best notebook in the world. Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes. Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus …

Simon Willison’s Weblog Simon Willison 500 words

Rated 2025-05-26T07:29:51-0700 - sethherr

Good Writing

paulgraham.com

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

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...

Signal Messenger 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-21T15:17:43-0700 - sethherr

Biking Is Therapy

Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t go into detail. But for a number of rea

kottke.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-20T10:21:15-0700 - sethherr

Public Bike Parks Saved My Soul – Travis Engel

Does seeing a nice, tall curb-cut ever remind you of the first time you got both wheels off the ground? Travis had been chasing that dragon for decades until a leg injury brought him swiftly down to earth. But then he found an unlikely path back to dirt jumping when it finally became possible to find a really good public bike park. I don’t skate, but I understand how a skateboard works. That’s why I’m so confused when I see bad skateparks. It should be obvious that a 3-foot quarter...

2025-05-15T02:00:56-0700 The Radavist Travis Engel 2,000 words

Rated 2025-05-16T18:54:42-0700 - sethherr

SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

i have a friend -- she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's be...

2025-05-14T05:51:04-0700 stillgreenmoss 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-14T07:12:28-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla Hayden

When a ship is sinking, there’s value in knowing how fast, and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto. #Books #Donald Trump #US Politics

2025-05-13T02:02:07-0700 The New York Times George Saunders ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-13T07:18:14-0700 - sethherr

Meet San Francisco’s ‘anti-profit’ bike shop, Scenic Routes

A bike shop at 521 Balboa St. in the Inner Richmond was born out of a pandemic-era, quarantine-addled Twitter joke.

2025-05-04T11:02:00-0700 Mission Local Nicholas David 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-12T19:55:37-0700 - sethherr