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College English majors can't readThey have one job and they can't do it 2025-05-20T06:15:40-0700 Kitten 3,000 words Rated 2025-07-04T16:03:18-0700 - sethherr
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Your Review: SchoolFinalist #2 in the Review Contest 2025-07-04T06:01:37-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 8,000 words Rated 2025-07-04T15:49:39-0700 - sethherr
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hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMshydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of “creative writing” LLMsThis is a follow-up to my earlier brief rant about the new, unreleased OpenAI model that’s supposed “good at creative writing.” It... 2025-03-14T17:18:08-0700 nostalgebraist.tumblr.com nostalgebraist 200 words Rated 2025-07-03T20:58:47-0700 - sethherr
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Tools: Code Is All You NeedThe solution to agentic flows was code all along. 2025-07-03T00:00:00-0700 Armin Ronacher 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-03T16:56:26-0700 - sethherr
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COROS Confirms Substantial Watch Security Vulnerablity: Says Fixes Are ComingA German IT security firm has published a list of 8 different security bugs found in all COROS watches that give essentially full access to not only the user's watch, but also their COROS account. This includes everything from 2025-06-30T03:20:40-0700 DC Rainmaker 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-03T13:40:27-0700 - sethherr
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Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By DefaultRated 2025-07-02T07:22:17-0700 - sethherr
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Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health RisksRated 2025-07-01T20:56:50-0700 - sethherr
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The cheapest cars aren't cheap anymoremedia.hubspot.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-30T07:55:51-0700 - sethherr
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Your Review: Alpha School... 2025-06-27T04:49:52-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:55:47-0700 - sethherr
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Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather datatext.npr.org 2,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:19:29-0700 - sethherr
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Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered 2025-06-28T07:27:10-0700 The Guardian Eric Holthaus 2,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:00:33-0700 - sethherr
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Woman in custody after car hits bicyclist on closed OpenStreetsPGH course in North Point BreezePolice took a woman into custody after witnesses said a car drove through a barricade and onto streets that had been closed for OpenStreetsPGH, striking at least one person on a bicycle. 2025-06-29T05:51:30-0700 WESA Rachel McDevitt, Julia Maruca 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T16:13:35-0700 - sethherr
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The Claude Bliss Attractor... 2025-06-12T18:33:35-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T07:18:53-0700 - sethherr
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The effect of noise on sleepUsing Apple Watch Empirical Health 500 words Rated 2025-06-27T07:24:30-0700 - sethherr
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Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS" 2025-06-25T06:57:24-0700 The Bill, Please Finn 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-25T21:14:13-0700 - sethherr
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The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much WorseA bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to... 2025-06-23T12:39:42-0700 Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-24T17:56:28-0700 - sethherr
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Guess I’m A Rationalist NowA week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I've known for years---Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman---as well as people I've known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves. The conference was at Lighthaven, a… 2025-06-09T18:02:03-0700 Shtetl-Optimized 10,000 words Rated 2025-06-20T07:12:21-0700 - sethherr
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New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodonSummary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon announced effective July 1 there will be a ... 2025-06-17T15:40:04-0700 GitHub mcclure 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-18T21:39:09-0700 - sethherr
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How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary1. Tilson // 2. Myrie // 3. Adams // 4. Lander* // 5. Cuomo // (X) Not Mamdani 2025-06-16T10:19:50-0700 Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 5,000 words Rated 2025-06-16T19:42:36-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel LiberalismRated 2025-06-16T19:39:41-0700 - sethherr
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Call it Blue TapeDown with anti-government sentiment in blue states // Interstate praise of the federal system 2025-03-30T15:16:23-0700 Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 2,000 words Rated 2025-06-16T19:26:03-0700 - sethherr
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Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried WoodAre they different to saw, chisel and plane? Does it matter? 2025-06-08T03:00:53-0700 The American Peasant Christopher Schwarz, Kara Gebhart Uhl ($) 6,000 words Rated 2025-06-12T07:47:50-0700 - sethherr
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Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of ThisHow the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else 2025-06-07T04:55:12-0700 My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-10T20:57:05-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to SeeThe Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics 2025-06-08T03:00:12-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-10T20:18:44-0700 - sethherr
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The Men Who Fix Manhattan's Symbolic Shabbat BoundariesEvery Thursday and Friday morning, Rabbi Moshe Tauber leaves his home in Rockland County, New York, at about 3:30 a.m. He arrives in Manhattan an hour later... #Border #Law #Religion 2017-10-16T15:07:00-0700 Atlas Obscura Michael Inscoe 2,000 words Rated 2025-06-08T19:55:13-0700 - sethherr
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Claude’s System Prompt Changes Reveal Anthropic’s PrioritiesReviewing the few changes in the Claude 4.0 system prompts, we get a sense for how system prompts program chatbot applications. 2025-06-03T13:04:00-0700 Drew Breunig 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-04T20:28:54-0700 - sethherr
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Direct File on GitHubPersonal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself. chrisgiven.com 500 words Rated 2025-06-04T16:51:18-0700 - sethherr
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All NutsMy smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding. Fly 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-02T16:13:47-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t KillPutin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash 2025-06-02T02:01:30-0700 The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words Rated 2025-06-02T16:02:01-0700 - sethherr
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Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To KnowRated 2025-06-01T11:03:14-0700 - sethherr
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Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instrumentsPhotographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings. 2025-05-22T17:00:00-0700 DPReview Abby Ferguson 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-31T06:07:23-0700 - sethherr
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Salsa Cutthroat Build - Brakes - 180mm flat-mount - Hike Bike CakeDuring the Salsa Cutthroat build we discover its unique design for the front brake mount - a flat-mount caliper that is able to take a 180mm rotor. 2020-04-23T16:18:29-0700 HikeBikeCake kaitatari.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-27T17:23:39-0700 - sethherr
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After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Boarddanvk.org Dan Vanderkam 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-26T07:28:41-0700 - sethherr
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how to cheat at settlers by loading the diceizbicki.me 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-22T12:21:54-0700 - sethherr
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How do you find the positive integer solutions to \frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?Answer by Alon Amit (אלון עמית), PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler. Quora 4,000 words Rated 2025-05-20T10:11:21-0700 - sethherr
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Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values 2025-05-09T06:00:00-0700 Scientific American Cody Cottier ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-20T08:42:44-0700 - sethherr
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The Fall of RoamI don’t use Roam anymore. Why? 2022-02-12T00:00:00-0800 every.to Dan Shipper 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-18T18:06:35-0700 - sethherr
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Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routesStudies have shown that many people don't commute by bike due mainly to a fear of being hit by cars. A new bike-mounted proximity sensor has been designed to help such folks, by objectively telling them which streets are the safest for cyclists. 2025-05-12T10:23:03-0700 New Atlas https://newatlas.com/author/ben-coxworth/ 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-17T19:29:23-0700 - sethherr
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Public Bike Parks Saved My Soul – Travis EngelDoes seeing a nice, tall curb-cut ever remind you of the first time you got both wheels off the ground? Travis had been chasing that dragon for decades until a leg injury brought him swiftly down to earth. But then he found an unlikely path back to dirt jumping when it finally became possible to find a really good public bike park. I don’t skate, but I understand how a skateboard works. That’s why I’m so confused when I see bad skateparks. It should be obvious that a 3-foot quarter... 2025-05-15T02:00:56-0700 The Radavist Travis Engel 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-16T18:54:42-0700 - sethherr
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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing TreatmentThe technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. #Babies 2025-05-15T10:00:14-0700 The New York Times Gina Kolata ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-16T07:14:49-0700 - sethherr
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Sending Threaded Emails Using Rails ActionMailerAt Flexport, we communicate with our customers — and their software — in many ways. API and EDI integrations are ideal because they allow structured data to flow seamlessly with no humans involved… 2020-07-28T07:21:11-0700 Flexport Engineering Kyle Kinsey 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-15T13:50:48-0700 - sethherr
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How The Economics of Multitenancy WorkWith millions of jobs running monthly on our bare-metal fleet, we've seen the economics of multitenancy hold up — here's a peek behind the curtain of how the math works. blacksmith.sh 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-14T07:07:56-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | What People at Pornhub Were Thinking When It Shared Videos of Child RapeFive years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’ #Alabama #Child Abuse #Pornography #Rape #Social Media 2025-05-10T04:00:09-0700 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-10T16:59:56-0700 - sethherr
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Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax – Jake ZimmermanA discussion of how Sorbet's type syntax came to be, the problems it solves, and how it could improve. blog.jez.io Jake Zimmerman 4,000 words Rated 2025-05-09T14:15:56-0700 - sethherr
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So much bloodbut how much exactly? 2025-05-04T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-07T06:48:01-0700 - sethherr
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TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials💡Update May 3, 2025: I have posted a follow-up, Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials. Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar with Waltz, he's most well known for inviting The... 2025-05-02T14:34:09-0700 micahflee Micah Lee 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-06T06:59:55-0700 - sethherr
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"You Wouldn’t Steal a Car”... But Would You Pirate a Font? * TorrentFreakThe statement "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" launched one of the most iconic anti-piracy campaigns. But did the campaign use a pirated font? 2025-04-24T06:28:46-0700 TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-04T13:15:31-0700 - sethherr
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Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt ReferralJudge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down. 2025-04-30T20:11:22-0700 BIG by Matt Stoller Matt Stoller 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-02T18:21:07-0700 - sethherr
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Runaway TrenHow a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela #Colorado #Donald Trump #Housing #Immigration #Real Estate #Venezuela 2025-04-24T05:30:00-0700 The American Prospect Maureen Tkacik 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-29T22:19:56-0700 - sethherr
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An end to all this prostate trouble?yarchive.net 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-26T20:05:25-0700 - sethherr
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