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Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy

It 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

Part 2: The Door Has Opened

A 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

Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse

What 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

The national masculinity conversation continues to devolve

Read 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

Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into “junk insurance” (25 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net 2,000 words

Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:56-0800 - sethherr

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality

The New York Times

Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:35-0800 - sethherr

Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net 3,000 words

Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:07-0800 - sethherr

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most

Childhood 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

Ticker: Don’t Die of Heart Disease

by Jared Hecht (blog, linkedin, twitter)

Ticker: Don’t Die of Heart Disease 9,000 words

Rated 2025-11-16T14:38:12-0800 - sethherr

A Soiree into Symbols in Ruby

A 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

‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately

One 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

The CIA and Modern Art : r/badhistory

reddit.com 3,000 words

Rated 2025-11-14T19:49:06-0800 - sethherr

What I Saw And Heard In Washington

Groyperism'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

I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam Brownie

The 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

Does momentum exist in prediction markets? A short analysis

A 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

I Want You to Understand Chicago

aphyr.com

Rated 2025-11-10T19:51:09-0800 - sethherr

The Ofcom Files, Part 2: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act

A 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

What Hallucinogens Will Make You See

8 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

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

Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa

Or: 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

Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk – Noel Rappin Writes Here

I just write here

noelrappin.com Noel Rappin 3,000 words

Rated 2025-11-05T12:18:31-0800 - sethherr

Scrolling Through

Jack 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

Harnessing America’s Heat Pump Moment

The 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

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

I'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

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

Science Advances 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-19T19:37:54-0700 - sethherr

Ruby Blocks

How 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

You did no fact checking, and I must scream

I'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

Meet the Nutmaxxers Obsessed With Shooting Bigger Loads

Both 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

How remigration became a buzzword for global far right

Electoral 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

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag

Make 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

Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco

We 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

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

anthropic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-09T21:39:42-0700 - sethherr

What really happened at Basecamp

Basecamp 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

How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer

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seangoedecke.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700 - sethherr

How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

Israel’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

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

Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing

If you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In a video which demonstrates that [Everyday Dave] is truly…

2025-09-25T19:00:58-0700 Hackaday 5,000 words

Rated 2025-09-29T18:14:34-0700 - sethherr

matduggan.com

It's JSON all the way down

2025-09-27T01:56:13-0700 matduggan.com 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-28T08:42:42-0700 - sethherr

The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop

Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters #Culture

2025-07-25T23:00:59-0700 The Londoner Andrew Kersley 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-27T18:39:33-0700 - sethherr

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #Politics

2025-09-25T03:00:00-0700 WIRED Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, Vittoria Elliott, Makena Kelly, ... 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-25T19:11:19-0700 - sethherr

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Yehuda). I also didn’t work on the first six months worth of prototypes. That was all Carl and Yehuda together, back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3.

2025-09-24T22:16:51-0700 André.Arko.net André Arko 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-25T07:32:38-0700 - sethherr

Together: The Merb Story

I'll never forget the day that I became a member of the Rails core team. For all of 2008 (and the better part of 2007), I was working on a competitor to Ruby on Rails called Merb. I loved Merb, and was excited to share it with anyone who'd listen, so when I attended RailsConf in 2008, I signed up to give a nighttime Birds of a Feather session about Merb. To be honest, I expected only a handful of people to show up, but I was too excited to let that stop me. When the time for the...

2020-02-19T11:29:04-0800 Katz Got Your Tongue Yehuda Katz 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-23T20:15:26-0700 - sethherr

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

joel.drapper.me 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-23T17:13:38-0700 - sethherr

Global politics happens on Discord now

Read to the end for some good footage of the DC occupation #Politics #Technology

2025-09-17T12:11:12-0700 Garbage Day Ryan Broderick 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-22T19:23:45-0700 - sethherr

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence #Politics #Technology

2025-09-12T11:31:56-0700 Garbage Day Ryan Broderick 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-22T19:13:59-0700 - sethherr

In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking notice

Forty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's why Maine's approach to education and work in prison is making waves in the world of corrections.

2025-08-29T10:12:00-0700 WMEH Susan Sharon 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-22T18:02:49-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Can Jay Bhattacharya Save Science?

Can Jay Bhattacharya save science? #Science #US Politics

2025-09-22T02:00:16-0700 The New York Times Ari Schulman ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-22T17:55:10-0700 - sethherr

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

2025-09-21T03:09:43-0700 The Guardian Michael Savage 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-21T08:12:37-0700 - sethherr

Davis, The American Amsterdam: A Pioneering Cycling Town In Northern California

History | Cycling Cities | Davis, California

2025-01-29T03:08:23-0800 Urban Cycling Institute Urban Cycling Institute, Louise Raclet 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-17T11:33:00-0700 - sethherr

Apple Photos App Corrupts Images

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos...

2025-09-16T16:59:23-0700 Tenderlove Making 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-17T06:41:51-0700 - sethherr