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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it existsRated 2025-07-07T14:34:47-0700 - sethherr
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hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMshydrogen 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
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Tools: Code Is All You NeedThe 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
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Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health RisksRated 2025-07-01T20:56:50-0700 - sethherr
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Your Review: Alpha School... 2025-06-27T04:49:52-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:55:47-0700 - sethherr
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Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather datatext.npr.org 2,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:19:29-0700 - sethherr
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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
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The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much WorseA 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
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New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodonSummary 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
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How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary1. 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
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Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel LiberalismRated 2025-06-16T19:39:41-0700 - sethherr
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Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of ThisHow 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
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Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to SeeThe 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
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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
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All NutsMy smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding. Fly 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-02T16:13:47-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t KillPutin 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
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Figma Slides is a Beautiful DisasterSome highlights and lowlights. Allen Pike 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-01T07:10:32-0700 - sethherr
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Why I Broke Up with New YorkMost 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
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Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go ViralA 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
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The Who Cares Eradansinker.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-28T06:40:22-0700 - sethherr
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My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest companyPower 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
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Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreakCloudflare 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
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GitHub issues for notesGitHub 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
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Good WritingRated 2025-05-24T09:40:00-0700 - sethherr
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By Default, Signal Doesn't RecallSignal 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
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Biking Is TherapyDerek 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
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Public Bike Parks Saved My Soul – Travis EngelDoes 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
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SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain peoplei 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
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Opinion | George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla HaydenWhen 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
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Meet San Francisco’s ‘anti-profit’ bike shop, Scenic RoutesA 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
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DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreakFacing escalating DNS piracy blocking orders, major providers like OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google are adopting notably different responses. #Belgium #Google 2025-05-08T06:23:53-0700 TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-11T15:47:37-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | What People at Pornhub Were Thinking When It Shared Videos of Child RapeFive years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’ #Alabama #Child Abuse #Pornography #Rape #Social Media 2025-05-10T04:00:09-0700 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-10T16:59:56-0700 - sethherr
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The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | BlogA reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency. 2025-04-23T17:00:00-0700 NotAShelf 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-06T16:36:46-0700 - sethherr
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I'd rather read the promptI have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life. claytonwramsey.com Clayton Ramsey 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-04T21:48:19-0700 - sethherr
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The life-or-death case for self-driving carsNew research from Waymo shows self-driving cars hugely reduce crashes and injuries compared to human drivers. Robot vehicles may be the future of safer roads. #Artificial Intelligence #Google #Technology 2025-05-04T05:00:00-0700 Vox Bryan Walsh ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-04T10:16:35-0700 - sethherr
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How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects<p>The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual event that brings the global technical community together to connect and have technical discussions, hack on existing projects and ...</p>\n 2025-04-01T12:20:19-0700 Diff 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-02T06:02:05-0700 - sethherr
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A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App StoreThe Epic Games v. Apple judge banned Apple from collecting commissions on purchases made outside its App Store, finding the company in contempt of a 2021 ruling over its anticompetitive behavior. #Apple 2025-04-30T15:58:56-0700 The Verge Jay Peters 500 words Rated 2025-05-01T09:41:50-0700 - sethherr
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Runaway TrenHow a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela #Colorado #Donald Trump #Housing #Immigration #Real Estate #Venezuela 2025-04-24T05:30:00-0700 The American Prospect Maureen Tkacik 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-29T22:19:56-0700 - sethherr
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The One-Person Framework in practiceHow I built a seven-figure business with Rails bramjetten.dev 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-28T19:17:40-0700 - sethherr
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Flagellomania and Fatherhood: Roald Dahl, My Father, and MeI smacked my daughter once. The guilt still haunts me. #Culture #Literature #Memoir #Parenting #Psychology 2025-03-17T03:00:00-0700 The MIT Press Reader 3,000 words Rated 2025-04-27T21:06:18-0700 - sethherr
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How Private Equity Was BornPrivate equity, now a major presence in the US economic landscape, has been booming since the 2008 financial crisis. Its roots lie in the rise of the corporation at the turn of the century and the shareholder revolution of the 1980s. jacobin.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-22T21:06:23-0700 - sethherr
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How to win an argument with a toddlerYou can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat e… 2025-04-14T02:03:00-0700 Seth's Blog 500 words Rated 2025-04-15T12:33:22-0700 - sethherr
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But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotextBut what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext rakhim.exotext.com 500 words Rated 2025-04-11T06:43:57-0700 - sethherr
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Faced with measles, Texas healthcare workers confront ‘information warfare’For the first time in a decade, a US child has died of measles. What can doctors and nurses do to encourage vaccination? #Donald Trump #Politics #United States 2025-03-31T09:37:11-0700 Al Jazeera Tyler Hicks 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-07T17:33:18-0700 - sethherr
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Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit — LessWrongAbout nine months ago, I and three friends decided that AI had gotten good enough to monitor large codebases autonomously for security problems. We s… 2025-03-24T12:28:43-0700 lesswrong.com lc 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-06T14:27:06-0700 - sethherr
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What to DoRated 2025-03-30T13:33:27-0700 - sethherr
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Cottagecore Programmers: The Idealization of Farming by TechRated 2025-03-24T19:28:31-0700 - sethherr
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America’s “First Car-Free Neighborhood” Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?Since breaking ground in 2021, Culdesac Tempe has had its share of detractors and skeptics. But none of them live there. 2025-02-04T11:02:09-0800 Dwell Ben Ikenson 2,000 words Rated 2025-03-21T14:38:46-0700 - sethherr
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For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a SuperpowerIn the long run, e-bikes are cheaper than motorbikes. With financing help from start-ups like Guajira, many immigrant workers are making the switch. #Sustainability #Transportation #Work 2025-03-07T00:00:16-0800 Reasons to be Cheerful Mariel Lozada 2,000 words Rated 2025-03-19T06:29:11-0700 - sethherr
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Discworld RulesAnd LOTR is brain-rot for technologists 2025-03-07T18:34:39-0800 Contraptions Venkatesh Rao 7,000 words Rated 2025-03-15T09:06:54-0700 - sethherr
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