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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

Why we’re helping more wikis move away from Fandom

Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!) really dig. I also love that it got started because one of the Riot guys plays a ton of Old School RuneScape and thinks our wiki is awesome. How cool is that?? I want this to kick off a new era where communities and developers take...

2024-10-09T17:00:00-0700 Jonathan Lee 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-11T11:05:50-0700 - sethherr

The open source gift exchange

I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this is what's made my participation in the gift exchange of o...

world.hey.com 500 words

Rated 2024-10-10T15:07:24-0700 - sethherr

The scourge of stolen bikes in Britain

economist.com

Rated 2024-10-09T14:59:40-0700 - 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

I kind of like rebasing

People tend to get pretty passionate about Git workflows on different online forums. Some like to rebase, while others prefer to keep the disorganized records. Some dislike the extra merge commit, while others love to preserve all the historical artifacts. There’s merit to both sides of the discussion. That being said, I kind of like rebasing because I’m a messy committer who: Usually doesn’t care for keeping atomic commits1. Creates a lot of short commits with messages like “fix” or...

2024-06-17T17:00:00-0700 Redowan's Reflections Redowan Delowar 2,000 words

Rated 2024-09-24T13:59:17-0700 - sethherr

The Art of Taking It Slow

Anna Wiener interviews Grant Petersen, the owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works, who has amassed an ardent following by urging people to abandon the spandex and personal bests, get a comfortable bike, and go easy.

2024-09-16T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Anna Wiener 5,000 words

Rated 2024-09-23T22:38:03-0700 - sethherr

llamafile: bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computer

Mozilla Innovations 1,000 words

Rated 2024-09-23T17:06:38-0700 - &e

Staying Awake, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Notes on the alleged decline of reading #United States

2008-01-31T16:00:21-0800 Harper's Magazine 200 words

Rated 2024-09-15T17:24:07-0700 - sethherr

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

The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite

I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have read, is a matter of high prestige. Not so in Washington DC. In Washington people never read books—they just write them. To…

2024-08-21T13:51:14-0700 The Scholar's Stage 4,000 words

Rated 2024-08-26T21:43:54-0700 - 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

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

My New Band Is: The Indoctrinated Rich

On the Brearley dad, what indoctrination means in the context of education, and private schools that are segregation academies

2021-04-17T15:11:30-0700 My New Band Is Elizabeth Spiers 6,000 words

Rated 2024-08-05T15:40:50-0700 - 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

Monetization & Monopolies: How The Internet You Loved Died

Or Why Tech Monopolies Are Actually Good For Society. A defence of “Big Tech” on the principles of progress. Hold on! Stow the pitchforks! Hear me out...

2024-07-25T07:31:11-0700 Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 10,000 words

Rated 2024-07-30T10:36:42-0700 - 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

Advantages of incompetent management

yosefk.com

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

(20) TracingWoodgrains on X: "In conversations about intelligence, people often take the @charlesmurray approach of emphasizing that intelligence doesn't determine a person's worth. I find myself a bit dissatisfied when I chew on this. It's true, but I suspect it's a bit too easy. Specifically: while I https://t.co/jzo9YEsWRX" / X

x.com 1,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T15:24:08-0700 - 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

It’s Time for Progressives to Recommit to Academic Freedom

The same justifications we’ve used to restrict conservative speech are being used to silence us on Palestine. We need a different approach.

2024-06-25T06:47:05-0700 The Nation Tascha Shahriari-Parsa ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-27T10:31:08-0700 - sethherr

Social. Private. Open. Pick three. – Jake Zimmerman

jez.io

Rated 2024-06-24T20:02:28-0700 - 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

What Does an "Analyst" Do?

Capital Gains

Rated 2024-06-14T17:30:17-0700 - 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

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

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

The Missionary in the Kitchen

I longed for purpose, meaning, the sense of being found. Then, one summer, I sort of was, Clare Sestanovich writes. #College #Religion

2024-06-01T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Clare Sestanovich 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-05T21:09:42-0700 - 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

The Trials and Tribulations of the Boymom

The New Yorker

Rated 2024-05-29T16:53:54-0700 - 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