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The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing

Steve Marche on Sudowrite, an application that harnesses the artificial-intelligence program GPT-3 to generate text and even mimic the literary style of writers such as Franz Kafka. #Artificial Intelligence #Literature #Technology #Writing

2021-04-30T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Stephen Marche 3,000 words

Rated 2023-05-26T09:32:10-0700 - elll

Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Power to Address Water Pollution

The justices ruled that discharges into some wetlands are not covered by the Clean Water Act. #Water

2023-05-25T07:30:46-0700 The New York Times Adam Liptak ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-25T10:19:24-0700 - sethherr

Microbes take the ‘forever’ out of ‘forever chemicals’

Nature - Bacteria that snip fluorine–carbon bonds can degrade certain kinds of PFAS, a class of environmental pollutant.

2023-05-24T00:00:00-0700 Nature 500 words

Rated 2023-05-24T10:42:54-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-05-24T05:18:43-0700 - Jaog

Microbes may play a key role in unleashing 'forever chemicals' from recycled-waste fertilizer

"Forever chemicals" are everywhere—water, soil, crops, animals, the blood of 97% of Americans—researchers from Drexel University's College of Engineering are trying to figure out how they got there. Their recent findings suggest that the microbes that help break down biodegradable materials and other waste are likely complicit in the release of the notorious per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the environment.

2023-02-15T12:09:21-0800 Phys.org Science X 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-24T10:41:50-0700 - sethherr

Me and My Girls (Published 2008)

What if I told you I was a fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke? Now what if I said that I was a recovered crack addict who got custody of my twin girls, got us off welfare and raised them? Both are the story of my life. #Writer

2008-07-19T21:00:00-0700 The New York Times David Carr ($) 8,000 words

Rated 2023-05-24T10:21:52-0700 - elll

How Tokyo Became an Anti-Car Paradise

The world’s biggest, most functional city might also be the most pedestrian-friendly. That’s not a coincidence.

2023-04-11T04:45:01-0700 Heatmap News Daniel Knowles 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-22T23:39:08-0700 - sethherr

Where Living With Friends Is Still Technically Illegal

Across America, some places still outlaw living with people who aren’t your relatives. #Domestic Violence #Family #High School #Law #New Hampshire

2023-05-22T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Michael Waters ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-22T14:23:21-0700 - sethherr

Load Balancing

A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.

samwho.dev 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-22T10:00:59-0700 - elll Rated 2023-05-22T09:49:17-0700 - sethherr

Memory Allocation

A visual introduction to memory allocation.

samwho.dev 3,000 words

Rated 2023-05-22T09:29:08-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | The model city for transforming downtowns? It’s in Canada.

It was in danger of becoming the next Detroit. Instead, Calgary became a shining example.

2023-05-18T07:56:18-0700 The Washington Post Editorial Board ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2023-05-21T17:03:20-0700 - sethherr

Anti-Fascist. Armed to the Teeth

Hateful rhetoric is leading to armed protests from the far right. But now, they’re not the only ones with weapons

2023-05-18T06:00:00-0700 Rolling Stone Jack Crosbie 200 words

Rated 2023-05-20T12:01:30-0700 - sethherr

Silicon Valley’s Civil War

Tech’s leadership is splitting into two elites—and the battle between them will shape America’s future

2023-05-14T18:30:00-0700 Tablet Magazine Nadia Asparouhova 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-20T11:38:01-0700 - sethherr

Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug?

People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting. #Drugs

2023-05-19T07:37:59-0700 The Atlantic Sarah Zhang ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-19T16:53:16-0700 - sethherr

Writing Is My Main Freedom. One Day My Work Disappeared.

A software change in my prison-issued electronic tablet ate up my drafts and eliminated basic writing tools. That may sound minor, but try sending a poem to your kid without line breaks. #Michigan

2021-12-16T19:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Demetrius Buckley 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-19T11:44:44-0700 - sethherr

The Driver’s Seat

Adam Gopnik reached middle age and still didn’t know how to drive. How hard could it be?

2015-01-25T16:00:50-0800 The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 6,000 words

Rated 2023-05-19T11:38:22-0700 - sethherr

How to Quit Cars

Adam Gopnik reviews “Carmageddon,” by Daniel Knowles, and “Paved Paradise,” by Henry Grabar, and considers the shortsighted history of transportation and the possibilities for its future. #Books

2023-05-15T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-19T07:28:42-0700 - sethherr

The Regenerating Power of Big Basin’s Redwoods

The Regenerating Power of Big Basin’s Redwoods By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Up in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the former homelands of the Cotoni and Quiroste tribes sits the oldest state park in California, Big Basin Redwoods State Park. It was formed in 1902 after long, exhausting efforts to preserve...

2023-04-21T12:52:58-0700 World Sensorium / Conservancy 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-17T11:15:28-0700 - sethherr

The First Year of AI College Ends in Ruin

There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing. #Middle East #Work

2023-05-16T10:28:26-0700 The Atlantic Ian Bogost ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-17T08:02:40-0700 - sethherr

Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

Common environmental contaminant increased rate of neurodegenerative affliction in one population by 70%

science.org 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-16T10:02:34-0700 - sethherr

The Billion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme That Hooked Warren Buffett and the U.S. Treasury

How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a green-energy breakthrough pulled off a massive scam #High School

2023-05-08T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Ariel Sabar 9,000 words

Rated 2023-05-16T01:06:14-0700 - sethherr

Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture?

Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting. #Agriculture #Barack Obama #Fast Food #Food & drink

2016-10-05T01:55:45-0700 The New York Times Michael Pollan ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2023-05-15T22:27:38-0700 - sethherr

Vice Files for Chapter 11 in Shift of Fortune for Media Upstart

Vice Media LLC filed for bankruptcy protection and struck a deal to sell itself to creditors, a precipitous fall for the company that once boasted a $5.7 billion valuation. #Media #New York

2023-05-14T22:50:37-0700 Bloomberg Amelia Pollard, Graham Starr 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-15T07:28:40-0700 - sethherr

Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine

Translator and proofreader’s note: There are large parts of this document that don’t parse well either from Chinese or from Naomi’s written English into more fluent English. In trying to do so, some…

2018-08-05T18:56:42-0700 Medium Naomi 'SexyCyborg' Wu 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-15T07:22:36-0700 - sethherr

Our crazy farm subsidies, explained

The US offers farm subsidies pretty heavily for some crops, but what began as a temporary measure gradually became more permanent. #Technology

2015-04-20T02:00:23-0700 Grist Amelia Urry 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-14T22:58:24-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-05-12T19:36:26-0700 - cindy

The Biden Administration Will Pay Farmers More Money Not to Farm

The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s environmental impact.

2021-05-01T00:00:00-0700 Governing 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-14T22:53:10-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-05-12T20:18:53-0700 - cindy

Analysis | Trump supporters are neither underrecognized nor half the country

Of all the excuses for airing Trump's unfiltered commentary on a news channel, the idea that his views are otherwise unheard is among the worst.

2023-05-12T07:40:43-0700 The Washington Post Philip Bump ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-13T08:25:04-0700 - cindy

Into Thin AirPods | Defector

I’d like the record to show that I resisted getting AirPods for a long time. Within weeks of their 2016 release, I began spotting them (to my semi-surprise, considering their price) in the ear canals of lots of people on public transit–a reliable barometer of how popular a new tech product will turn out to ...

2023-05-08T10:16:37-0700 defector.com 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-13T06:30:01-0700 - sethherr

Taco Bell’s Innovation Kitchen, the Front Line in the Stunt-Food Wars

Antonia Hitchens writes about how the chain outdid Burger King’s Bacon Sundae, Pizza Hut’s hot-dog-stuffed crust, and KFC’s fried-chicken-flavored nail polish.

2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Antonia Hitchens 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-12T22:14:26-0700 - sethherr

Are U.S. Farm Subsidies Corporate Welfare or National Necessities?

Farm subsidies are considered a prime area for budget cutbacks, but these are opposed by powerful farm lobbyists and members of Congress.

2011-05-17T15:29:43-0700 ThoughtCo Deborah White 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-12T19:42:33-0700 - cindy

The Supreme Court rediscovers humility — in a case about pigs

The justices just did something very unusual: They didn’t try to make themselves even more powerful. #Politics #Supreme Court

2023-05-11T10:55:00-0700 Vox Ian Millhiser 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-11T22:59:32-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-05-11T19:07:08-0700 - Jaog

The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”

ProPublica

Rated 2023-05-11T22:16:37-0700 - sethherr

Nora Ephron: On Maintenance

She knows time marches on, she just doesn't want it marching on her. How far will one woman go to keep up appearences? Nora Ephron shares her own maintenance routine. #Writer

2011-04-29T03:55:00-0700 Oprah.com By Nora Ephron 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-11T17:48:08-0700 - elll

These Intimate Photos Capture a Family Farm’s Bittersweet Final Years

Photographer Ellen Harasimowicz has chronicled New England’s Willard Farm in its final harvests #Agriculture #Arts & Culture #Farming #Photography

2023-05-09T05:00:00-0700 Smithsonian Magazine Jeff Campagna 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-09T22:27:11-0700 - sethherr

We’ve Had a Cheaper, More Potent Ozempic Alternative for Decades

New weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity. #Individual People #Obesity #Surgery

2023-04-25T14:21:00-0700 The Atlantic Yasmin Tayag ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-09T07:29:05-0700 - sethherr

9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth (Published 2022)

A fortune of $172 billion is almost impossible to fathom. For the magazine’s Money Issue, the artist Mona Chalabi came up with some extremely original comparisons.

2022-04-07T06:21:21-0700 The New York Times Mona Chalabi ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-08T21:04:56-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-05-08T17:17:07-0700 - jim

Planning Commission Approves Legislation to Support Future of Downtown and Union Square | San Francisco

sf.gov 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-08T09:06:50-0700 - elll

15 Minute Cities

15 Minute Cities

datasecretslox.com 45,000 words

Rated 2023-05-07T12:23:48-0700 - sethherr

‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees

Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon

2023-05-07T00:00:16-0700 The Guardian Anna Fazackerley 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-07T12:11:43-0700 - sethherr

Remote work is turning America into a 'suburban nation,' a massive millennial survey by BofA finds

Millennials are looking to get out of cities and into Dodge (the suburbs).

2023-05-05T11:00:30-0700 Fortune Chloe Berger ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-06T07:51:05-0700 - sethherr

I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough

Bill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower. #Nuclear power

2023-05-05T04:00:00-0700 gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-06T07:43:05-0700 - sethherr

The Painter Who Inspired a New Ballet

For Christopher Wheeldon’s return to New York City Ballet, he asked the artist Kylie Manning not just for backdrops and costumes but to, as he says, “form a dance within her world.”

2023-05-03T11:31:35-0700 The New York Times Ella Riley-Adams ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T18:42:33-0700 - cindy

A few words on Ruby's type annotations state

...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words

zverok.space 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T14:45:30-0700 - sethherr

Why has nuclear power been a flop?

Nuclear is expensive, but it should be cheap #Nuclear power

2021-04-16T02:18:28-0700 The Roots of Progress 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T14:06:16-0700 - sethherr

Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill

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2023-04-11T17:08:25-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T13:38:34-0700 - sethherr