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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 ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:01:15-0800 - sethherr
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Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal EnergyIt used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland, Rivka Galchen writes. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. 2025-11-17T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:00:30-0800 - sethherr
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Part 2: The Door Has OpenedA discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time 2025-11-30T10:13:40-0800 Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green Michael W. Green ($) 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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How this runner did a marathon and Tour de France stage every day for a monthSpanish ultrarunner Kilian Jornet has been challenging himself to ascend and connect all of USA’s Fourteeners — mountains at least 14,000 feet high — in the lower 48 states. #Sports 2025-10-08T15:23:59-0700 AccuWeather Amy Woodyatt, CNN 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-18T20:49:54-0700 - sethherr
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Ruby BlocksHow to start really getting Ruby, especially blocks. #ruby 2025-10-14T05:47:51-0700 Stonecharioteer on Tech 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-18T08:41:32-0700 - sethherr
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You did no fact checking, and I must screamI'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't take much effort to determine if something is likely to be true. There are brilliant tools like reverse Image Search which give you a good indicator of when an image first appeared on the web, and… 2025-10-05T04:34:23-0700 Terence Eden’s Blog Terence Eden 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-17T07:39:34-0700 - sethherr
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Meet the Nutmaxxers Obsessed With Shooting Bigger LoadsBoth porn and a growing interest in self-optimization are leading men on a quest for enhanced ejaculations. 2025-10-14T07:00:00-0700 GQ Charlie Sosnick 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-16T23:05:17-0700 - sethherr
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How remigration became a buzzword for global far rightElectoral success of parties in Germany and Austria backing mass deportation linked to the term’s growing use by mainstream politicians, say experts 2024-10-03T06:36:24-0700 The Guardian Ashifa Kassam 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-16T22:54:18-0700 - sethherr
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HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output TagMake your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot. 2025-09-30T17:00:00-0700 Den Odell 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-11T09:30:13-0700 - sethherr
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Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiascoWe are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not. This debate… justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/about 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-09T22:03:16-0700 - sethherr
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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any sizeAnthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-09T21:39:42-0700 - sethherr
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What really happened at BasecampBasecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy. #Labor 2021-04-27T17:00:00-0700 The Verge Casey Newton ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-09T21:06:49-0700 - sethherr
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California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharingThe California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use. The Record 500 words Rated 2025-10-08T21:27:09-0700 - sethherr
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How Bari Weiss of The Free Press Won the Top Job at CBS NewsAt The Free Press, she battled “wokeness” and buddied up with billionaires. Now she’s the editor in chief of CBS News. #US Politics 2025-10-06T06:37:26-0700 The New York Times Jessica Testa ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-06T12:36:57-0700 - sethherr
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How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer-- seangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700 - sethherr
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Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns. 2025-10-01T22:02:25-0700 BBC News Tom Edwards 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-03T10:51:45-0700 - sethherr
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How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualizedIsrael’s war in Gaza led to more than half a million Palestinians being stuck in a cycle of ‘starvation, destitution and death,’ a UN-backed initiative said. Five charts explain how. 2025-10-01T23:11:26-0700 CNN Sana Noor Haq, Rachel Wilson, Soph Warnes, Lou Robinson, Henrik Pettersson ... ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-02T19:05:03-0700 - sethherr
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China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers. - Freakonomics 2025-09-19T06:14:09-0700 Freakonomics 200 words Rated 2025-10-02T08:57:04-0700 - sethherr
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How to Choose a Node.js FrameworkThe popularity of Node means we have lots of framework options. Dig in and learn how to choose between the most common Node.js frameworks. judoscale.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-30T17:00:29-0700 - sethherr
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