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How to Do Politics: The Political Capital Savings PlanGet capital, do politics 2023-03-22 Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 4,000 words Rated 2024-07-18
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Advantages of incompetent managementRated 2024-07-17
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(20) TracingWoodgrains on X: "In conversations about intelligence, people often take the @charlesmurray approach of emphasizing that intelligence doesn't determine a person's worth. I find myself a bit dissatisfied when I chew on this. It's true, but I suspect it's a bit too easy. Specifically: while I https://t.co/jzo9YEsWRX" / Xx.com 1,000 words Rated 2024-07-16
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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the MediaGideon Lewis-Kraus writes about the tension between Scott Alexander, of the rationalist blog Slate Star Codex, and the New York Times. #Journalism #New York Times #Silicon Valley #Social Media 2020-07-09 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 5,000 words Rated 2024-07-16
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Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public RecordThe feud between basilisk-obsessed Wikipedia admin David Gerard and everyone from heterodox news sources to the right wing to rationalists, 2024-07-10 Tracing Woodgrains 15,000 words Rated 2024-07-16
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I Ate Poison Oak To Try to Gain Immunity. Here’s What Happened. - WSJRated 2024-07-09
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I Ate Poison Oak To Try to Gain Immunity. Here’s What Happened. - WSJRated 2024-07-09
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Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon GasThe more you learn about xenon gas the stranger it gets. 2023-07-13 Tripsitter Tripsitter, Justin Cooke 🍄 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-27
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Opinion | I Study Homelessness. I Wish More Places Looked Like This Shelter.Matthew Desmond takes you to a shelter designed with residents in mind. #Homelessness #Jobs #Pennsylvania #Poverty 2024-06-26 The New York Times Matthew Desmond, Jillian Weinberger ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-06-27
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It’s Time for Progressives to Recommit to Academic FreedomThe same justifications we’ve used to restrict conservative speech are being used to silence us on Palestine. We need a different approach. 2024-06-25 The Nation Tascha Shahriari-Parsa ($) 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-27
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Social. Private. Open. Pick three. – Jake ZimmermanRated 2024-06-25
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UUID Benchmark WarThis month's PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let's have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have decided to orchestrate a benchmark war between four different methods of storing a primary key: use a text field to store… 2024-02-03 Ardent Performance Computing 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-25
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Opinion | What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes. #California #Homelessness #Mental Health #Oregon #Politics 2024-06-15 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-21
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An Unexpected Turn in the Evangelical Culture WarsA proposal to ban Southern Baptist women from serving as pastors failed a two-thirds-majority vote, signalling that the far right has not yet consolidated its control of the Church. #Christianity #Religion 2024-06-12 The New Yorker Eliza Griswold 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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Not Your Childhood LibraryPaige Williams writes that an ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space. #Homelessness #Libraries #Minnesota 2024-05-23 The New Yorker Paige Williams 4,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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What Does an "Analyst" Do?Rated 2024-06-15
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Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental IllnessTwo major problems with a review in Nature 2024-04-09 After Babel Jon Haidt 4,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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How to be More AgenticOn a supposedly difficult thing 2024-01-10 Useful Fictions Cate Hall 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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Can Turning Office Towers Into Apartments Save Downtowns?Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles. D. T. Max reports. 2024-04-29 The New Yorker D. T. Max 5,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now?Across the internet and in gyms everywhere, body-modifying drug use has become ubiquitous, effective and... normal. Can this really be a good thing? 2024-06-05 GQ Rosecrans Baldwin 5,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder LiquidityAsk most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE A BIG MOVE!!!" And then you'll ask, "but why are you yelling?” The narrative of the founder's risk is a cornerstone of Silicon Valley's mythology. Founders are celebrated for leaving stable jobs... 2024-06-09 Stefan Theard 1,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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#AskTamara: Which mugs are Lead-free? How can I tell if my mug has unsafe levels of Lead? Which mugs do you use?For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method ... Read More about #AskTamara: Which mugs are Lead-free? How can I tell if my mug has unsafe levels of Lead? Which mugs do... 2019-12-28 Lead Safe Mama, LLC Tamara 10,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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Why I retired from the tech crusadesWhen Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the unenlightened masses by the edge of a pointed argument. And for a l... world.hey.com 1,000 words Rated 2024-06-15 |
How Online Privacy Is Like FishingNews that Microsoft caught hackers using its generative AI tools prompted security experts to guess that it was spying on users. Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan argue that the gradual erosion of expectations of privacy has a lot in common with the gradual destruction of fish populations in the ocean. #Microsoft #Privacy 2024-06-03 IEEE Spectrum Barath Raghavan, Bruce Schneier 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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Parable of the Sofaongoing by Tim Bray 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in ScienceThe most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works 2024-05-25 Scientific American Jack Murtagh ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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UI DensityI speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math. matthewstrom.com 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-15
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The Missionary in the KitchenI longed for purpose, meaning, the sense of being found. Then, one summer, I sort of was, Clare Sestanovich writes. #College #Religion 2024-06-01 The New Yorker Clare Sestanovich 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-06
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Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building ThemThe state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. #Climate Change #Colorado #Global Warming #Transportation 2024-05-31 The New York Times Megan Kimble 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-02
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How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals3M found that many of its products, including Scotchgard and Scotchban, leached toxic chemicals called PFAS. Sharon Lerner reports on why the company kept making them. 2024-05-20 The New Yorker Sharon Lerner 7,000 words Rated 2024-05-30
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The Trials and Tribulations of the BoymomRated 2024-05-29
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Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?Anthony Lane writes about Blinkist, one of a number of phone apps that aim to boil down entire books into synopses lasting as little as ten minutes. 2024-05-20 The New Yorker Anthony Lane 4,000 words Rated 2024-05-29
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The Lunacy of ArtemisFor the first time since the 1960's, it looks doubtful whether the US space agency is even capable of getting us to the Moon. idlewords.com 8,000 words Rated 2024-05-20
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DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and DumbOnce a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great. #Art #Artificial Intelligence #Internet #Law 2024-05-16 Slate Nitish Pahwa 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-20
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Third Time: a better way to work — LessWrongHOW CAN you be more productive? Instead of half-working all day, it’s better to work in focused stints, with breaks in between to recover. … 2022-01-07 lesswrong.com bfinn 7,000 words Rated 2024-05-20
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Scrabble, Anonymous“As was the case with alcohol, my first and last thoughts of the day are usually Scrabble related (RELATED anagrams: ALTERED, REDEALT, ALERTED, TREADLE).” 2024-05-15 The Paris Review Brad Phillips 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-20
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How to get 7th graders to smokeOR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable" 2024-05-14 Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 4,000 words Rated 2024-05-15
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Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer ProductivityDesigning Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity. Learn how Shopify took its code base from monolith to modular monolith. Shopify 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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Think of emails as views delivered through SMTP (DHH)Rated 2024-05-14
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Rails is Not Your ApplicationBackground: The Beginnings of My Obsession with Application Architecture and Domain Modelling Last year I was involved in my most complex Ru... blog.firsthand.ca 1,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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Spontaneous PneumothoraxSpontaneous pneumothorax refers to the abnormal collection of gas in the pleural space between the lungs and the chest wall. Spontaneous pneumothorax occurs without an obvious etiology such as trauma or iatrogenic causes. Spontaneous pneumothorax can be classified as either primary or secondary. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) occurs when the patient does not have a history of the underlying pulmonary disease, whereas secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) is associated with a... 2023-07-24 PubMed Central (PMC) 2,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train—AsteriskThe United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world. That’s because we refuse to learn from experts, other countries, and our own history. asteriskmag.com 5,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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Is Justin Timberlake the pop star anyone wants?Justin Timberlake’s resurfaced scandals involving Janet Jackson and Britney Spears have soured his image. Can he pull off a comeback with Everything I Thought It Was? #Culture #Music 2024-03-14 Vox Kyndall Cunningham 2,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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A Social History of Jell-O SaladShaped by the rise of home economics, the industrialization of the food system, World War II, and changing expectations about women's labor, the Jell-O salad—the wobbling jewel of domestic achievement—can teach us about U.S. life in the 20th century as few foods can. 2015-08-19 Serious Eats Sarah Grey 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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The Berkeley Software DistributionUNIX is always litigious 2024-02-05 Abort Retry Fail Bradford Morgan White 7,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in KagiRated 2024-05-14
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The Hidden-Pregnancy ExperimentJia Tolentino on an experiment in which she tried to hide her pregnancy from her phone and on how we are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. #Parenthood #Pregnancy #Surveillance 2024-05-04 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 2,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'Plus: animation news. 2024-05-06 Animation Obsessive Animation Obsessive Staff 4,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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Plea deal for driver accused of DUI crash that killed cyclist is unjustThe proposed one-year sentence for a driver accused of killing SF cyclist Ethan Boyes in a DUI crash is a shocking injustice, writes Gabriella Wong. #Vision zero 2024-03-15 SFGATE Gabriella Wong 1,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably IndigenousIn B.C., Indigenous nations are reclaiming power and wealth for their own citizens—no matter what the neighbours think #Real Estate 2024-03-11 St. Joseph Media Jadine Ngan 2,000 words Rated 2024-05-14
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