Russia is burning up its future
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Notes on conciseness
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“Between the hammer and the anvil” – The story behind the New York Times October 7 exposé
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Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market
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How parents' trauma leaves biological traces in children
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A professor claimed to be Native American. Did she know she wasn’t?
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The limits of the lunchbox moment
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The food of war and isolation - International influences on Russian sausage cuisine
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What happens when prosecutors offer contradictory versions of the truth?
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How Steward Health left Rockledge Regional Medical Center, a Space Coast community hospital, in a literal world of shit
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Ant geopolitics
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How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
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Starburst – Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power grid and communication systems. When the next big storm arrives, will we be prepared for it?
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Airfoil
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The Israeli settlers attacking their Palestinian neighbors – With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession
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An American education: Notes from UATX
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All aboard the bureaucracy train
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Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened
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Why isn’t solar scaling in Africa?
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The loneliness of Jodie Foster
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Compensating compassion | Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier to donate, but avoid the abuses that some fear from cash payments?
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How Google is killing independent sites like ours
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The uncharted world of emerging pathogens – In their quest to detect early outbreaks, virus hunters are sampling environmental DNA in water, dirt, and air
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How I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
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Exodus bitcoin wallet: $490K swindle
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A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam.
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Progress deferred: Lessons from mRNA vaccine development
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List of unusual units of measurement
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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
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Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block
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The price is wrong: How error-riddled scores get in the way of promoting music of marginalized composers
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The day I put $50,000 in a shoe box and handed it to a stranger
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Fake grass, real injuries? Dissecting the NFL’s artificial turf debate.
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The 2023 Hugo Awards: A report on censorship and exclusion
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Hugo voting data from Chengdu WorldCon raises suspicions of vote tampering and incorrect eligibility rulings
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Kristen Stewart ‘I want to do the gayest thing you’ve ever seen in your life’
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The Firehouse Five and the Cinderella surprise
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Twitter/X provides premium perks to Hezbollah, other US-sanctioned groups
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Interview: Kenta Cho (Japanese indie game developer)
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'I've never seen it this bad:' Game developers explain the huge layoffs hitting Riot, Epic, and more
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Interactive: The impacts of climate change at 1.5°C, 2°C and beyond
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT.
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How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
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Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
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‘Shōgun’: How a decade of false starts, endless translation debates and one star-turned-producer made a classic story relevant to a 21st century audience
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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
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No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?
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Ezra Klein Show: "What relationships would you want if you believed they were possible?"
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Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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