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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

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

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

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

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

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

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality

The New York Times

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

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

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

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

Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

Some 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

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

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

‘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

The CIA and Modern Art : r/badhistory

reddit.com 3,000 words

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

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

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

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

I Want You to Understand Chicago

aphyr.com

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

Unexpected Things that are People

panlegal expressions of personhood

2025-11-07T18:05:36-0800 Gold Takes Ben Goldhaber 1,000 words

Rated 2025-11-10T16:51:11-0800

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

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

The Great Decoupling of Labor and Capital

A 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall

Valve'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

Walnut Creek: Electric Vehicle Fire Sparks Shelter-In-Place Wednesday Evening

Crews 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

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

Rivian’s first e-bike is unlike anything you’ve ever seen

Rivian’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

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

Science Advances 1,000 words

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

How this runner did a marathon and Tour de France stage every day for a month

Spanish 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing

The 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

How Bari Weiss of The Free Press Won the Top Job at CBS News

At 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

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

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

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

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

How to Choose a Node.js Framework

The 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