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The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements

The Roots of Progress

Rated 2023-04-21T16:42:40-0700 - sethherr

‘I’ve Never Hired A Writer Better Than ChatGPT’: How AI Is Upending The Freelance World

Forbes

Rated 2023-04-21T19:48:27-0700 - elll

My Breakfast With a Cranky Chris Christie

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-22T07:15:37-0700 - Jaog

Explosions Are Great, Actually. - by areoform - 1517 Fund

1517.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-22T15:36:20-0700 - sethherr

Why it's so hard to mass produce houses in factories : Planet Money

NPR

Rated 2023-04-22T17:05:10-0700 - Jaog

Why We Keep Guns in the House

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-22T22:38:10-0700 - Jaog

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Rated 2023-04-23T08:30:01-0700 - &e

Sacklers Gave Millions to Institution That Advises on Opioid Policy

The New York Times

Rated 2023-04-23T05:52:47-0700 - cindy

#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia | Charlotte Gauthier | The Critic Magazine

thecritic.co.uk

Rated 2023-04-23T07:27:58-0700 - sethherr

Searching for Friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

nymag.com

Escorts are the ER Doctors of Relationships

aella.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-23T08:32:51-0700 - &e

Rated 2023-04-19T07:41:19-0700 - sethherr

$uper$tar Ke$ha Top$ Chart$

NPR

Rated 2023-04-23T09:06:20-0700 - &e

The big business campaign that has shaped 40 years of Republican rhetoric

The Washington Post

Rated 2023-04-23T10:01:44-0700 - cindy

Foundation for Government Accountability behind child labor law rollbacks, emails show

The Washington Post

Rated 2023-04-23T16:41:03-0700 - Jaog

Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul.

The Ringer

Rated 2023-04-24T09:49:19-0700 - sethherr

Fox News Is Bigger Than Any Host

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-24T11:30:24-0700 - Jaog

Rated 2023-04-24T22:16:52-0700 - sethherr

Kesha: Animal Album Review

Pitchfork

Rated 2023-04-24T22:44:45-0700 - sethherr

How Would You Run a 10,000-Year Endowment?

The Diff

Rated 2023-04-24T23:18:09-0700 - sethherr

Alcohol healthy: the flip-flop on whether it's good for you is to understand—if you know who's behind it.

Slate

Rated 2023-04-25T05:05:47-0700 - cindy

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Is owning pets ethical? Here’s the truth about pet happiness.

Vox

Rated 2023-04-25T20:31:45-0700 - elll

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T00:03:53-0700 - sethherr

Rated 2023-04-27T05:48:45-0700 - cindy

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T05:53:14-0700 - Jaog

Rated 2023-04-26T07:28:14-0700 - sethherr

Google contractors vote to unionize in historic landslide election

Google-contracted employees of Cognizant voted 41-0 to form a union Wednesday, forming a bargaining unit they hope will negotiate with both companies.

2023-04-26T14:07:53-0700 SFGATE Stephen Council 1,000 words

We Need To Decommodify Mental Health Care

noemamag.com

Rated 2023-04-26T22:22:32-0700 - sethherr

Behind Pornhub’s decade-old moderation problems

The Verge

Rated 2023-04-26T22:56:57-0700 - sethherr

The Endless Battle to Remove Girls Do Porn Videos From Pornhub

vice.com

Rated 2023-04-26T23:07:40-0700 - sethherr

Advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)

Department of energy

Rated 2023-04-27T05:55:41-0700 - cindy

Advanced Small Modular Reactors

Advanced small modular reactors (SMRs) offer advantages such as relatively small size, reduced capital investment, ability to be sited in locations not possible for larger nuclear plants, and provisions for incremental power additions.

2019-05-14T08:27:40-0700 INL 2,000 words

Rated 2023-04-27T05:57:46-0700 - cindy

Rated 2023-04-30T21:39:24-0700 - sethherr

Small modular reactors produce high levels of nuclear waste

Small modular reactors, long touted as the future of nuclear energy, will actually generate more radioactive waste than conventional nuclear power plants, according to research from Stanford and the University of British Columbia. #Climate Change #Infrastructure

2022-05-30T12:00:11-0700 Stanford News Stanford University 1,000 words

Rated 2023-04-27T10:28:12-0700 - cindy

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https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2018/11/f57/Examination%20of%20Federal%20Financial%20Assistance%20in%20the%20Renewable%20Energy%20Mark..._1.pdf

Department of energy

Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message

The New York Times

Rated 2023-04-27T22:09:11-0700 - elll

Rated 2023-04-28T05:35:52-0700 - cindy

Wrong door, wrong driveway: How US got to shoot first, ask later

The Christian Science Monitor

Rated 2023-04-28T07:44:35-0700 - sethherr

Fed Slams Its Own Oversight of Silicon Valley Bank in Post-Mortem

The Federal Reserve released hundreds of pages documenting how bank supervision and regulation failed to prevent the lender’s painful collapse. The F.D.I.C. released a separate report on Signature Bank’s failure.

2023-04-28T02:00:15-0700 The New York Times Jeanna Smialek ($) 4,000 words

The Real Difference Between European and American Butter

epicurious

Rated 2023-04-28T14:38:16-0700 - sethherr

Tim Federle - Wikipedia

2009-05-19T01:04:49-0700 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 3,000 words

Rated 2023-04-28T18:35:17-0700 - testerios

Nuclear Power Today | Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association

Nuclear energy provides about 30% of the world's low carbon electricity. There are about 450 commercial nuclear power reactors operable in 30 countries. #Nuclear power

world nuclear 3,000 words

Rated 2023-04-28T23:06:20-0700 - sam

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Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why. (Published 2018)

Women have more options, for one. But a new poll also shows that financial insecurity is altering a generation’s choices.

2018-07-05T02:00:08-0700 The New York Times Claire Cain Miller ($) 8,000 words

Rated 2023-04-29T17:26:20-0700 - elll

The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now

The internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit.

2022-02-04T08:19:58-0800 The Atlantic Ian Bogost ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T07:21:13-0700 - sethherr

Meditations On Moloch

I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u…

2014-07-29T21:00:06-0700 Slate Star Codex 90,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T12:53:41-0700 - pypurvis

It's Not Intelligent If It Always Halts: A Critical Perspective on Current Approaches to AGI

Intelligence requires the ability to explore "trains of thought" that are potentially never-ending. Most current approaches fail at this.

2023-04-05T21:06:49-0700 Life Is Computation 4,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:09:01-0700 - sethherr

How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?

Carina Chocano on the company’s founder, Luis von Ahn, who believes that artificial intelligence is going to make computers better teachers than humans.

2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Carina Chocano 6,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:45:37-0700 - sethherr