Why Everyone Loves Japan

Part III of my book on the Japanese economy.

2025-12-26T01:09:53-0800 Noahpinion Noah Smith 5,000 words

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What an unprocessed photo looks like: (Maurycy's blog)

maurycyz.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-12-28T16:26:51-0800 - sethherr

How We Lost Communication to Entertainment

How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

ploum.net 2,000 words

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Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations

Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

Natural History Museum of Utah 2,000 words

Rated 2025-12-27T16:04:14-0800 - sethherr

Building an AI agent inside a 7-year old Rails application

We run a multi-tenant Rails application with sensitive data and layered authorization. In this post, I walk through how I added the first AI agent tool using RubyLLM, Pundit policies, and our existing Algolia search, without introducing a parallel system or loosening constraints.

Catalin Ionescu 1,000 words

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