Erotic art (an overview of centuries of philosophical arguments)
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The making of Community Notes
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There is no safe word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades
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It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
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A note on Worm - A review of John McCrae's Worm
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Why skyscrapers became glass boxes
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Rewilding - the rogue conservation efforts to reintroduce fauna to Europe
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A pixel parable
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Do our dogs have something to tell the world?
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Game Programming Patterns - State
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An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms
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Coinage and the tyranny of fantasy ‘gold’
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How elite backlash to the populist reforms of the Gracchi brothers presaged the violent collapse of the Roman Republic
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Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security
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Geoengineering: a case study in fallibilism
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My doctor emailed me back - Abigail Thorn
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After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed
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The Wicked movie that almost was: Imagine no songs, Demi Moore or Whoopi Goldberg as Elphaba—and it came out twenty-five years ago
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How the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics
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What is wrong with our thoughts? A neo-positivist credo.
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The ghosts in the machine, Spotify and production music
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Never forgive them - On digital platforms vs users
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How opioid giant Endo escaped a $7 billion US federal penalty
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Moon
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The Just World Cultural License—a copyleft license to make the world a better place
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How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die
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Magic: the Gathering banned and restricted announcement – December 16, 2024
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Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?
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It's time to break up Big Medicine in the US
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The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
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Debanking (and debunking?)
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How Madrid built its metro cheaply
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Inside the war against excessive headlight brightness
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A critical look at CASPer (post-secondary admission test)
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Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work
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The gossip trap - How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it
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Authors choose books to give as gifts this Christmas - 2024 book list and discussion
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The confusing reality of AI friends
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A Man of Parts and Learning - The story behind a portrait of a black intellectual from the 1700s
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How can it take 3GHz to emulate a Super Nintendo? One man’s quest to build a perfect SNES emulator. (2011)
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Inside the hidden history of secretaries and stenographers at Princeton
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Dream logic: An essay on belief, superstition, and love
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Looking back at the Future of Humanity Institute
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History is in the making - It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
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We built our house for LAN parties
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How to be a wise optimist about science and technology?
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Global value of music copyright soars to $45.5bn, now worth more than cinema
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Power creep and the collapse of the Roman Republic
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Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms)
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“Solidarity is the only thing that can save us”: An interview with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
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