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Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness

Two major problems with a review in Nature

2024-04-09T07:55:25-0700 After Babel Jon Haidt 4,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:26:50-0700 - sethherr

Rails is Not Your Application

Background: 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 2024-05-14T11:14:36-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?

Revisiting Michael Crichton’s prophecy of cultural stagnation. #1990s #Artificial Intelligence #China

2024-04-19T10:25:07-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-04-23T00:00:11-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | The ‘Blood Bath’ Battle and the Electric Car War

Does President Biden expect to win on a Jan. 6 strategy alone? #Donald Trump #Joe Biden #US Politics

2024-03-23T04:00:22-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-04-22T23:55:55-0700 - sethherr

Stop being mean to slutty women

It codes as low status and doesn't accomplish anything

2024-03-23T06:39:58-0700 The Walt Right Walt Bismarck 6,000 words

Rated 2024-04-08T18:44:12-0700 - sethherr

How the Alt Right won

a Retrospective from Walt Bismarck

2024-01-26T16:54:31-0800 The Walt Right Walt Bismarck 15,000 words

Rated 2024-04-08T17:59:30-0700 - sethherr

Why You Should Be a Luddite

Tech columnist Brian Merchant takes us back to the 19th century to see who the Luddites really were and what they fought for. Luddism, he says, is about “questioning who machinery serves.”

Current Affairs 6,000 words

Rated 2024-01-31T21:27:05-0800 - sethherr

RAG to Riches

Today I will be regaling you with tales of marvelous cherry-picked new developments in AI, from Sam Altman's recent Uno Reverse incident to bear spraying job-hungry engineers.

Sourcegraph 5,000 words

Rated 2023-12-16T10:30:24-0800 - sethherr

We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary

antipope.org 6,000 words

Rated 2023-11-10T15:41:05-0800 - sethherr

Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer ★ The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought

I'm beginning to wonder if he's constructed an entire system of moral philosophy around the effects of the loyalty mod—a prospect that makes me distinctly uneasy. It would hardly be the first time a victim of mental illness has responded to their affliction that way—but it would certainly …

unremediatedgender.space Zack M. Davis 25,000 words

Rated 2023-09-12T15:16:00-0700 - sethherr

Social Security Fact Report: Insolvent In 2035

Every day, we voters and the government have the chance to free our children from this burden. #Social security

2023-07-31T04:00:00-0700 Forbes David John Marotta 1,000 words

Rated 2023-08-01T11:10:02-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-07-31T05:42:50-0700 - Jaog

An invitation to a secret society

Or: why you should be a lizard

2023-07-20T08:03:53-0700 Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 3,000 words

Rated 2023-07-20T21:37:31-0700 - Jaog

Reclaiming Real American Patriotism

This Fourth of July, let’s rescue our love of country from those who have hijacked it. #New Hampshire #New York #West Virginia

2023-07-04T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Tom Nichols ($) 500 words

Rated 2023-07-05T07:48:26-0700 - sethherr

Regulating AI in the practice of law

What's going to happen, and what should we do about it?

2023-06-11T16:47:11-0700 Adam's Legal Newsletter Adam Unikowsky 5,000 words

Rated 2023-06-20T22:53:56-0700 - sethherr

'Anti-dopamine parenting' can curb a kid's craving for screens or sweets

Dopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior. #Dopamine #Parenting

2023-06-12T02:00:32-0700 NPR Michaeleen Doucleff 3,000 words

Rated 2023-06-20T17:36:05-0700 - &e

Cancer drug shortages should have patients rioting in the streets

Cisplatin and carboplatin are the backbone for lung cancer regimens because they work. And now they are largely unavailable. #Cancer

2023-06-19T01:30:26-0700 STAT Kristen Rice 1,000 words

Rated 2023-06-19T06:15:33-0700 - Jaog

The Stupidity of "Buy American"

The case against economic protectionism

2011-11-03T04:00:00-0700 Reason Magazine John Stossel 1,000 words

Rated 2023-06-09T19:06:07-0700 - sethherr

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

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

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

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

We Need To Decommodify Mental Health Care

noemamag.com

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

Why We Keep Guns in the House

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-25T23:12:39-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-04-22T22:38:10-0700 - Jaog

The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith

noahpinion.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-20T18:16:38-0700 - sethherr

About – make-sunsets

#Solar Geoengineering

makesunsets.com

Rated 2023-04-04T08:57:42-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-04-03T06:54:05-0700 - cindy

Why Forgive Student Debt?

#Student Loan Forgiveness

Urban Institute

Rated 2023-03-31T18:01:59-0700 - sethherr

DC Statehood Is a Fool's Errand

#DC Statehood

Cato Institute

Rated 2023-03-29T13:44:31-0700 - sethherr

An Anxious Asia Arms for a War It Hopes to Prevent

The New York Times

Rated 2023-03-28T12:28:40-0700 - sethherr

Habitat Chronicles: You can't tell people anything

habitatchronicles.com

Rated 2023-03-23T21:11:44-0700 - sethherr

What is the best cost-benefit analysis of cycling investments?

Marginal Revolution

Rated 2023-03-22T22:49:16-0700 - sethherr

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/admin/2021/Press/DC%20Statehood%20letter%20as%20sent%20(02539672xD2C78)%20(002).pdf

#DC Statehood

texasattorneygeneral.gov

Rated 2023-03-21T18:17:08-0700 - jim

Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose D.C. statehood

Politico

Rated 2023-03-21T14:20:42-0700 - cindy

Self-Admitted Technical Debt · It Will Never Work in Theory

neverworkintheory.org

Rated 2023-03-19T07:23:44-0700 - sethherr

Ron DeSantis blames Silicon Valley Bank's collapse on DEI

floridapolitics.com

Rated 2023-03-17T08:18:09-0700 - sethherr

Technology Is Good Actually - Napkin Math - Every

every.to

Rated 2023-03-16T21:26:53-0700 - sethherr

J. D. Vance, Ron DeSantis, and the G.O.P’s Diverging Paths

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-16T17:35:01-0700 - sethherr

The privacy loophole in your doorbell

Politico

Rated 2023-03-13T12:47:37-0700 - sethherr

Do Non-profits Drive Social Change?

Comment Magazine

Rated 2023-03-12T07:34:26-0700 - sethherr

OpenAI's "Planning For AGI And Beyond" - by Scott Alexander

Astral Codex Ten

Rated 2023-03-10T08:04:12-0800 - sethherr

Ukraine Claims Bakhmut Battle Is Wagner’s ‘Last Stand’

The New York Times

Rated 2023-03-07T18:40:12-0800 - sethherr

China: Xi Jinping wirft USA und Westen »Unterdrückung« Chinas vor - DER SPIEGEL

spiegel.de

Rated 2023-03-07T01:55:55-0800 - artest