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Where Harris’ campaign went wrong

It was supposed to be everything short of a free ad – a panel of women not containing their excitement to welcome Kamala Harris, ready to introduce her to their committed daytime audience of exactly the type of women the vice president’s campaign always hoped were going to be critical to her base.

2024-11-06T03:10:46-0800 lite.cnn.com Edward-Isaac Dovere ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-11-06T15:03:51-0800 - sethherr

The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s College Sorority

How are members of A.K.A.—which Harris joined at Howard University—responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign against Donald Trump? Jazmine Hughes reports.

2024-10-21T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jazmine Hughes 6,000 words

Rated 2024-11-03T19:57:14-0800 - sethherr

What Happens When Private Equity Takes Over a Hospital

New analysis shows alarming increase in patient complications

2023-12-26T00:00:00-0800 hms.harvard.edu 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-31T15:57:50-0700 - sethherr

Hi Google, please stop 💩 the bed: a desperate plea from the independent web.

Served with humor, as I cry into my goldfish bowl of boxed Chardonnay.

2024-10-28T09:51:44-0700 Building Shepherd.com Ben Fox 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-30T16:44:07-0700 - sethherr

Notes From The Progress Studies Conference

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2024-10-24T05:16:15-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 55,000 words

Rated 2024-10-28T08:16:23-0700 - sethherr

Regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice

Early on a cool September morning, farmer Josh Payne tends to his flock in Concordia, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. As Payne opens the gate, about a thousand sheep round the corner and bound into fresh grass. The pasture the flock grazes was once corn and soybeans, along with the rest of the Payne ...

2024-10-11T08:31:57-0700 Investigate Midwest Lauren Cross 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-26T06:19:38-0700 - sethherr

A Radical Approach to Flooding in the UK: Give Land Back to the Sea

When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative. #Agriculture #Birds #Britain #Climate Change #England #Environment #Global Warming

2024-10-21T21:01:25-0700 The New York Times Rory Smith, Andrew Testa ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-22T07:50:25-0700 - sethherr

What the Amish Can Teach America About Economic Mobility - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2024-10-21T15:22:06-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Turning the Great Highway into a park will reap millions for business

The city's walkers and rollers won't be the only beneficiaries of a permanent highway closure. Nearby businesses will see a spending windfall.

2024-10-20T06:00:00-0700 The San Francisco Standard Stephen Braitsch 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-20T18:21:04-0700 - sethherr

Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster

From Coinbase to OpenAI, the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda. Charles Duhigg reports.

2024-10-07T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Charles Duhigg 8,000 words

Rated 2024-10-13T20:01:27-0700 - sethherr

Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people

A trove of secret documents show teens’ increasing reliance on TikTok and how executives were acutely aware of the potential harm the app can cause young people, but appeared unconcerned.

2024-10-13T05:00:00-0700 NPR Bobby Allyn 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-13T19:04:58-0700 - sethherr

SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story

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2024-10-10T05:20:19-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 40,000 words

Rated 2024-10-12T20:47:58-0700 - sethherr

Why we’re helping more wikis move away from Fandom

Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!) really dig. I also love that it got started because one of the Riot guys plays a ton of Old School RuneScape and thinks our wiki is awesome. How cool is that?? I want this to kick off a new era where communities and developers take...

2024-10-09T17:00:00-0700 Jonathan Lee 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-11T11:05:50-0700 - sethherr

The open source gift exchange

I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this is what's made my participation in the gift exchange of o...

world.hey.com 500 words

Rated 2024-10-10T15:07:24-0700 - sethherr

Incomplete Streets Part 3: Even When Caltrans Is Right, It’s Wrong - CalBike

2024-07-31T17:08:31-0700 California Bicycle Coalition Jared Sanchez 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-07T17:05:46-0700 - sethherr

The Art of Taking It Slow

Anna Wiener interviews Grant Petersen, the owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works, who has amassed an ardent following by urging people to abandon the spandex and personal bests, get a comfortable bike, and go easy.

2024-09-16T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Anna Wiener 5,000 words

Rated 2024-09-23T22:38:03-0700 - sethherr

llamafile: bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computer

Mozilla Innovations 1,000 words

Rated 2024-09-23T17:06:38-0700 - &e

Staying Awake, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Notes on the alleged decline of reading #United States

2008-01-31T16:00:21-0800 Harper's Magazine 200 words

Rated 2024-09-15T17:24:07-0700 - sethherr

Why GitHub Actually Won

GitButler

Rated 2024-09-11T15:21:57-0700 - sethherr

The Future of Open Source

A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways. #Essay

2024-08-06T12:23:17-0700 GitButler Scott Chacon 3,000 words

Rated 2024-09-11T15:06:17-0700 - sethherr

A Weekend at the Immersion Larp Festival

A world where you buy every word you speak, a sensory journey through Monet’s memories, and life in an open-air prison.

2024-08-21T12:50:01-0700 mssv + Have You Played 6,000 words

Rated 2024-08-27T23:21:18-0700 - sethherr

The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite

I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have read, is a matter of high prestige. Not so in Washington DC. In Washington people never read books—they just write them. To…

2024-08-21T13:51:14-0700 The Scholar's Stage 4,000 words

Rated 2024-08-26T21:43:54-0700 - sethherr

Your Book Review: How the War Was Won

Finalist #8 in the Book Review Contest

2024-08-09T13:24:01-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 7,000 words

Rated 2024-08-09T14:19:17-0700 - sethherr

My New Band Is: The Indoctrinated Rich

On the Brearley dad, what indoctrination means in the context of education, and private schools that are segregation academies

2021-04-17T15:11:30-0700 My New Band Is Elizabeth Spiers 6,000 words

Rated 2024-08-05T15:40:50-0700 - sethherr

Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Rated 2024-08-05T15:27:48-0700 - sethherr

Venezuela’s Maduro clings to power. Opposition hopes this time it ends differently.

Venezuelan President Maduro has claimed – without evidence – that he won the presidential election. Despite high levels of repression, the opposition is leaning into their hope for change.

2024-08-05T13:26:53-0700 The Christian Science Monitor Mie Hoejris Dahl ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-08-05T15:20:22-0700 - sethherr

Every company should be owned by its employees

Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.

2024-07-24T03:13:57-0700 The Elysian Elle Griffin 2,000 words

Rated 2024-07-30T10:39:38-0700 - sethherr

America’s New Political War Pits Young Men Against Young Women - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2024-07-29T12:58:32-0700 - sethherr

(20) TracingWoodgrains on X: "In conversations about intelligence, people often take the @charlesmurray approach of emphasizing that intelligence doesn't determine a person's worth. I find myself a bit dissatisfied when I chew on this. It's true, but I suspect it's a bit too easy. Specifically: while I https://t.co/jzo9YEsWRX" / X

x.com 1,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T15:24:08-0700 - sethherr

Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record

The feud between basilisk-obsessed Wikipedia admin David Gerard and everyone from heterodox news sources to the right wing to rationalists,

2024-07-10T07:31:47-0700 Tracing Woodgrains 15,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T13:18:24-0700 - sethherr

It’s Time for Progressives to Recommit to Academic Freedom

The same justifications we’ve used to restrict conservative speech are being used to silence us on Palestine. We need a different approach.

2024-06-25T06:47:05-0700 The Nation Tascha Shahriari-Parsa ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-27T10:31:08-0700 - sethherr

Social. Private. Open. Pick three. – Jake Zimmerman

jez.io

Rated 2024-06-24T20:02:28-0700 - sethherr

How to be More Agentic

On a supposedly difficult thing

2024-01-10T12:43:50-0800 Useful Fictions Cate Hall 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:26:33-0700 - sethherr

Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them

The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. #Climate Change #Colorado #Global Warming #Transportation

2024-05-31T02:00:29-0700 The New York Times Megan Kimble 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-01T17:50:32-0700 - sethherr

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

3M 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.

2024-05-20T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Sharon Lerner 7,000 words

Rated 2024-05-30T14:40:17-0700 - sethherr

The Trials and Tribulations of the Boymom

The New Yorker

Rated 2024-05-29T16:53:54-0700 - sethherr

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.

2024-05-20T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Anthony Lane 4,000 words

Rated 2024-05-29T15:49:12-0700 - sethherr

DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb

Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great. #Art #Artificial Intelligence #Internet #Law

2024-05-16T08:30:00-0700 Slate Nitish Pahwa 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-20T10:57:24-0700 - sethherr

How to get 7th graders to smoke

OR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable"

2024-05-14T07:01:50-0700 Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 4,000 words

Rated 2024-05-15T09:15:35-0700 - sethherr

lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

d-shoot.net

Rated 2024-05-14T08:40:53-0700 - sethherr

Plea deal for driver accused of DUI crash that killed cyclist is unjust

The 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

2024-03-15T11:36:48-0700 SFGATE Gabriella Wong 1,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:33:29-0700 - sethherr

Scientists Like Me Knew There Was Something Amiss With Andrew Huberman’s Wildly Popular Podcast

He recommends supplements. He’s iffy on the flu shot. And more. #Health Care #Science

2024-03-27T12:53:32-0700 Slate Andrea Love 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:29:22-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | What Medical Stories Do We Trust?

How vaccine injuries and long Covid test our partisan beliefs.

2024-05-04T04:00:16-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-05-05T19:21:07-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know

Three terms in, she’s exiting her political adolescence and coming into her own as a veteran operator. #Congress #Joe Biden #US Politics

2024-05-04T04:00:07-0700 The New York Times Gaby Del Valle ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-05T19:17:49-0700 - sethherr

How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

danluu.com 20,000 words

Rated 2024-04-24T13:03:34-0700 - sethherr

Responses to Tyler Cowen on Rationality

In his recent podcast with Ezra Klein (recommended), Ezra asked Tyler his views on many things. One of them was the rationality community, and he put that response on Marginal Revolution as its own post. Here is the back and forth: Ezra Klein The rationality community. Tyler Cowen Well, tell me a little more what…

2017-04-04T16:40:02-0700 Don't Worry About the Vase 4,000 words

Rated 2024-04-22T23:51:53-0700 - sethherr

Thoughts on seed oil

Don't get distracted.

2024-04-18T09:01:11-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 5,000 words

Rated 2024-04-18T14:45:50-0700 - sethherr

Dragon In My Garage • Skeptical Science

skeptical-science.com

Rated 2024-04-18T14:32:59-0700 - sethherr

(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" / X

X (formerly Twitter) 500 words

Rated 2024-04-17T19:31:22-0700 - sethherr

This is a teenager

pudding.cool

Rated 2024-04-16T21:01:53-0700 - sethherr