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How Long Til We’re All on Ozempic?—Asterisk

Over 100 million Americans, and possibly many more, could benefit from GLP-1 drugs. When can they expect to get them?

asteriskmag.com 4,000 words

Rated 2024-10-12T09:10:26-0700 - sethherr

How to Make an Information Super Weapon

A Technical Deep Dive into the Components of a Trust Assembly

2024-06-17T22:49:31-0700 Extelligence Some Guy 9,000 words

Rated 2024-10-11T15:26:18-0700 - sethherr

This Chatbot Pulls People Away From Conspiracy Theories

In a new study, many people doubted or abandoned false beliefs after a short conversation with the DebunkBot. #Artificial Intelligence #Conspiracy Theory #Psychology

2024-09-12T11:30:55-0700 The New York Times Teddy Rosenbluth ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-11T15:22:14-0700 - sethherr Rated 2024-09-23T17:10:31-0700 - &e

Gay bathhouses could come again. For once, no one is moaning

There have been no gay bathhouses in San Francisco since 1987. In large part that’s because red tape is less a bondage prop and more a fact of life for the city. #LGBTQ+

2024-10-04T08:00:00-0700 The San Francisco Standard Kevin Truong 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-10T15:32:31-0700 - sethherr

How the Online Right Fell Apart

Behind the scenes, the online Right is just as divided as the Left—and it’s adopted many of its pathologies too. Are we facing a fascist coup, or just a collapse into political confusion? #Christianity #Internet

2024-08-21T05:20:47-0700 Damage Sam Kriss 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-07T18:19:45-0700 - 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

How to Pull the Perfect Shot of Espresso

Finally, an all-in-one guide to help you master that elusive perfect espresso shot at home. We lay it out in this easy, six-minute step-by-step walkthrough with tips, tricks, and even our signature espresso recipe. What's the difference between dose and yield? What size dose should you be using based on your basket? Grab a pen and notebook, and stop head-scratching whenever your espresso turns out differently. You'll thank us later. Recipe An espresso recipe consists of dose, yield, and...

Clive Coffee 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-07T09:01:25-0700 - sethherr

What We're Getting Wrong About Ethical Eating

When it comes to ethical eating, the journey is not as simple as "eat more plants." We have to think about the whole system and our place in it.

2020-01-07T06:17:43-0800 Greatist Leigh Huggins 3,000 words

Rated 2024-09-23T17:19:29-0700 - &e

A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

2024-09-18T02:00:00-0700 The Washington Post Pranshu Verma, Shelly Tan ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-09-23T17:02:13-0700 - &e

The Thin Purple Line, by Jasper Craven

The dubious rise of the private-security industry #9/11 #Crime #New York City #Surveillance

2024-07-23T12:22:18-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words

Rated 2024-09-15T17:06:27-0700 - 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

Your Book Review: The Pale King

Finalist #12 in the Book Review Contest

2024-09-06T08:47:37-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 30,000 words

Rated 2024-09-09T19:59:57-0700 - sethherr

Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser

The future of entertainment is here – but we weren’t prepared for it.

2023-08-07T08:08:00-0700 mssv + Have You Played 10,000 words

Rated 2024-08-28T04:47:24-0700 - 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

How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche

More than 100 million people visit the retailer for their groceries — and gas and TVs and gold bars and pet coffins — but saving money may not be the only motive.

2024-08-20T13:46:25-0700 The New York Times Ben Ryder Howe ($) 4,000 words

Rated 2024-08-24T22:16:53-0700 - sethherr

Britannica_x_Pendleton.pdf

pendleton-usa.com

Rated 2024-08-13T10:35:58-0700 - 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

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

Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago

The Atlantic

Rated 2024-07-30T11:00:32-0700 - 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

Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones)

The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two big political news items of this week—the happenings of the Republican National Convention and the desperate attempts of many Democrats to replace their candidate before their own convention next month—reflect these asymmetries. Nevertheless, many discussions of American politics assume…

2024-07-20T12:56:55-0700 The Scholar's Stage 5,000 words

Rated 2024-07-27T21:59:57-0700 - sethherr

How to Do Politics: The Political Capital Savings Plan

Get capital, do politics

2023-03-22T10:56:03-0700 Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 4,000 words

Rated 2024-07-17T22:42:24-0700 - sethherr

Advantages of incompetent management

yosefk.com

Rated 2024-07-16T17:09:06-0700 - sethherr

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes about the tension between Scott Alexander, of the rationalist blog Slate Star Codex, and the New York Times. #Journalism #New York Times #Silicon Valley #Social Media

2020-07-09T08:10:18-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 5,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T14:10:04-0700 - 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

I Ate Poison Oak To Try to Gain Immunity. Here’s What Happened. - WSJ

archive.ph

Rated 2024-07-09T09:56:04-0700 - sethherr

I Ate Poison Oak To Try to Gain Immunity. Here’s What Happened. - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2024-07-09T09:53:27-0700 - sethherr

Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas

The more you learn about xenon gas the stranger it gets.

2023-07-13T08:55:45-0700 Tripsitter Tripsitter, Justin Cooke 🍄 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-27T10:31:40-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | I Study Homelessness. I Wish More Places Looked Like This Shelter.

Matthew Desmond takes you to a shelter designed with residents in mind. #Homelessness #Jobs #Pennsylvania #Poverty

2024-06-26T02:02:13-0700 The New York Times Matthew Desmond, Jillian Weinberger ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-06-27T10:31:23-0700 - sethherr

UUID Benchmark War

This month's PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let's have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have decided to orchestrate a benchmark war between four different methods of storing a primary key: use a text field to store…

2024-02-03T15:54:01-0800 Ardent Performance Computing 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-24T19:55:31-0700 - sethherr

An Unexpected Turn in the Evangelical Culture Wars

A proposal to ban Southern Baptist women from serving as pastors failed a two-thirds-majority vote, signalling that the far right has not yet consolidated its control of the Church. #Christianity #Religion

2024-06-12T13:52:49-0700 The New Yorker Eliza Griswold 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T18:02:02-0700 - sethherr

Not Your Childhood Library

Paige Williams writes that an ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space. #Homelessness #Libraries #Minnesota

2024-05-23T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Paige Williams 4,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:50:26-0700 - sethherr

Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness

Two major problems with a review in Nature

2024-04-09T07:55:25-0700 After Babel Jon Haidt 4,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:26:50-0700 - 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

Can Turning Office Towers Into Apartments Save Downtowns?

Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles. D. T. Max reports.

2024-04-29T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker D. T. Max 5,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:24:05-0700 - sethherr

Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now?

Across the internet and in gyms everywhere, body-modifying drug use has become ubiquitous, effective and... normal. Can this really be a good thing?

2024-06-05T05:00:00-0700 GQ Rosecrans Baldwin 5,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:23:39-0700 - sethherr

Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity

Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE A BIG MOVE!!!" And then you'll ask, "but why are you yelling?” The narrative of the founder's risk is a cornerstone of Silicon Valley's mythology. Founders are celebrated for leaving stable jobs...

2024-06-08T17:35:35-0700 Stefan Theard 1,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:22:26-0700 - sethherr

#AskTamara: Which mugs are Lead-free? How can I tell if my mug has unsafe levels of Lead? Which mugs do you use?

For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method ... Read More about #AskTamara: Which mugs are Lead-free? How can I tell if my mug has unsafe levels of Lead? Which mugs do...

2019-12-28T11:17:02-0800 Lead Safe Mama, LLC Tamara 10,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:22:16-0700 - sethherr

How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science

The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works

2024-05-25T05:00:00-0700 Scientific American Jack Murtagh ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:18:23-0700 - sethherr

UI Density

I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.

matthewstrom.com 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:17:49-0700 - 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

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

The Lunacy of Artemis

For the first time since the 1960's, it looks doubtful whether the US space agency is even capable of getting us to the Moon.

idlewords.com 8,000 words

Rated 2024-05-20T10:58:03-0700 - sethherr

Third Time: a better way to work — LessWrong

HOW CAN you be more productive? Instead of half-working all day, it’s better to work in focused stints, with breaks in between to recover. …

2022-01-07T13:15:57-0800 lesswrong.com bfinn 7,000 words

Rated 2024-05-20T10:25:53-0700 - sethherr

Scrabble, Anonymous

“As was the case with alcohol, my first and last thoughts of the day are usually Scrabble related (RELATED anagrams: ALTERED, REDEALT, ALERTED, TREADLE).”

2024-05-15T13:03:37-0700 The Paris Review Brad Phillips 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-20T10:24:34-0700 - sethherr