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Silicon Valley’s Extortion Letter to DemocratsPalantir executive's ultimatum: Democrats must fund Silicon Valley, end antitrust, create corporate zones—or 'lose the coalition. 2025-11-18T08:06:39-0800 The Nerd Reich Gil Duran 1,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:02:55-0800 - sethherr
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after my dad died, we found the love letters | Jenneral HQRated 2025-12-13T17:02:20-0800 - sethherr
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RuBeeComputers Are Bad 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:02:00-0800 - sethherr
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year. #Global Warming 2025-11-18T17:57:46-0800 The New York Times Cara Buckley, Annick Sjobakken ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:01:15-0800 - sethherr
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Trump’s Katrina Is ComingThe president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future. #Donald Trump #Weather 2025-12-05T02:20:00-0800 The American Prospect Kenny Stancil 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:00:54-0800 - sethherr
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Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal EnergyIt used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland, Rivka Galchen writes. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. 2025-11-17T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:00:30-0800 - sethherr
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Part 2: The Door Has OpenedA discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time 2025-11-30T10:13:40-0800 Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green Michael W. Green ($) 6,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:00:17-0800 - sethherr
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Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worseWhat is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame? #Social Media 2025-11-24T18:47:20-0800 Platformer Casey Newton 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:59:51-0800 - sethherr
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The national masculinity conversation continues to devolveRead to the end for a very annoying way to play "Dark Souls" #Politics #Technology 2025-10-24T11:10:42-0700 Garbage Day Ryan Broderick ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:59:36-0800 - sethherr
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Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into “junk insurance” (25 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:56-0800 - sethherr
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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With RealityRated 2025-12-13T16:58:35-0800 - sethherr
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Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:07-0800 - sethherr
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Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles MostChildhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most: A new study upends conventional wisdom about how we relate to those closest to us. 2025-11-11T15:06:26-0800 Nautilus Kristen French 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-21T21:16:50-0800 - sethherr
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210 IQ is not enoughYou will never have enough IQ, nor money, nor time, nor energy. 2025-11-19T16:00:00-0800 taylor.town Taylor Troesh 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-20T08:06:51-0800 - sethherr
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Where Do the Children Play?On the need for a world without us 2025-11-06T14:46:41-0800 Unpublishable Papers Eli Stark-Elster 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-17T14:21:03-0800 - sethherr
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Ticker: Don’t Die of Heart Diseaseby Jared Hecht (blog, linkedin, twitter) Ticker: Don’t Die of Heart Disease 9,000 words Rated 2025-11-16T14:38:12-0800 - sethherr
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Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.todaySome time ago, we were contacted by a group fighting against online CSAM, demanding that AdGuard DNS blocks the Archive.today website. This was only the beginning of a much larger story… 2025-11-13T00:43:34-0800 AdGuard Andrey Meshkov 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-15T20:41:43-0800 - sethherr
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A Soiree into Symbols in RubyA Pythonista opens `irb` and looks at all the symbols in Ruby. Or so the joke begins. #ruby 2025-11-03T02:06:29-0800 Stonecharioteer on Tech 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-15T20:33:42-0800 - sethherr
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Her 12-year-old son was talking to Grok. It tried to get him to 'send nudes.'Farah Nasser was driving home in her Tesla with three young children when a conversation with Grok's AI assistant took an inappropriate turn. 2025-10-30T06:56:15-0700 USA TODAY Alyssa Goldberg 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-15T09:20:10-0800 - sethherr
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The Trump Halo Memes Aren't Supposed To Make SenseThere’s a theory that started on Bluesky a month ago from composer Patrick Cosmos that everyone in the US government is 12 now. Cosmos goes on to show how all the dumb shit we’re currently living through, and which boggles the minds of regular people, makes total sense if you imagine it was conjured up by the brain of a pre-teen. I had a little laugh at this theory but didn’t think about it too seriously until this weekend, when several government social media accounts got really into Halo. How #Donald Trump #Politics #Twitter 2025-10-27T12:44:38-0700 Aftermath Riley MacLeod 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-15T09:15:42-0800 - sethherr
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‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It LegitimatelyOne of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as "Bobby Bonilla Day." The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Mets decades ago and eventually bought out his contract in 2000 when they decided they were done with him. Rather than pay… 2025-11-13T20:11:00-0800 Techdirt 5,000 words Rated 2025-11-14T20:16:34-0800 - sethherr
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The CIA and Modern Art : r/badhistoryreddit.com 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-14T19:49:06-0800 - sethherr
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What I Saw And Heard In WashingtonGroyperism's Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real 2025-11-10T14:07:49-0800 Rod Dreher's Diary Rod Dreher 7,000 words Rated 2025-11-12T23:23:33-0800 - sethherr
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I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam BrownieThe real-life Willy Wonkas of confectionary are racing to cut the use of expensive cocoa. Their creations are delicious, but there's a downside, too. #Africa #Agriculture #City #Climate Change #Cote D'ivoire #Ghana #Science #Sustainability #Weather 2025-11-03T21:05:05-0800 Bloomberg Lara Williams ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-12T06:44:05-0800 - sethherr
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Does momentum exist in prediction markets? A short analysisA change of pace driven by a minor obsession. Back to normal NDI next week. 2025-11-04T05:01:55-0800 No Dumb Ideas 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-11T20:33:01-0800 - sethherr
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The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organizationThe people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ... Moxie Marlinspike 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-10T20:29:09-0800 - sethherr
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I Want You to Understand ChicagoRated 2025-11-10T19:51:09-0800 - sethherr
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Unexpected Things that are Peoplepanlegal expressions of personhood 2025-11-07T18:05:36-0800 Gold Takes Ben Goldhaber 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-10T16:51:11-0800 - sethherr
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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… 2025-11-06T16:20:45-0800 Preston Byrne 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-08T16:38:03-0800 - sethherr
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What Hallucinogens Will Make You See8 ways psychedelics distort our vision. 2023-06-01T17:56:18-0700 Nautilus Kristen French 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-08T16:21:52-0800 - sethherr
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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 2025-11-02T07:43:23-0800 MBI Deep Dives 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-08T10:49:09-0800 - sethherr
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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 2025-10-31T08:20:00-0700 Yahoo News Constance Grady 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-06T20:11:10-0800 - sethherr
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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. 2025-11-03T04:00:51-0800 Ars Technica Ashley Belanger 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-05T13:54:35-0800 - sethherr
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Why Solarpunk is already happening in AfricaOr: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past 2025-11-04T08:06:02-0800 Climate Drift Skander Garroum 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-05T13:42:08-0800 - sethherr
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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 2025-11-05T12:23:42-0800 - sethherr
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Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk – Noel Rappin Writes HereI just write here noelrappin.com Noel Rappin 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-05T12:18:31-0800 - sethherr
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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.” 2025-10-29T07:00:51-0700 The Paris Review Bud Smith 2,000 words Rated 2025-11-04T08:22:25-0800 - sethherr
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Scrolling ThroughJack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road 2025-09-18T21:01:04-0700 The American Scholar Gerald Howard 6,000 words Rated 2025-10-31T22:18:25-0700 - sethherr
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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 2025-10-29T14:59:09-0700 The New Yorker Kyle Chayka 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-30T20:12:25-0700 - sethherr
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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 2025-10-30T20:06:29-0700 - sethherr
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We Spent the Night Shift With the Repo Man, Who Is Busier Than Ever - WSJRated 2025-10-29T15:26:45-0700 - sethherr
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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. 2025-10-27T04:00:28-0700 Ars Technica Nate Anderson 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-27T19:46:05-0700 - sethherr
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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 2025-10-10T11:52:00-0700 Heat Pumped Joseph DeNatale 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-25T16:43:59-0700 - sethherr
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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. 2025-10-23T11:23:54-0700 Polygon Austin Manchester, Johnny Yu 500 words Rated 2025-10-24T07:17:49-0700 - sethherr
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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. 2025-10-22T11:54:02-0700 SFGATE 200 words Rated 2025-10-23T19:31:15-0700 - sethherr
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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. 2025-10-21T17:00:00-0700 evanhahn.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-22T22:06:15-0700 - sethherr
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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 2025-10-22T10:30:00-0700 The Verge Thomas Ricker 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-22T14:15:49-0700 - sethherr
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The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend EngineerOn AI, Creativity, and Craft hojberg.xyz 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-22T07:40:27-0700 - sethherr
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Novo Nordisk's Canadian MistakeNovo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake Science Advances 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-19T19:37:54-0700 - sethherr
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