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UX Collective

Keep making (AI will not save you) Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Scarlet Ink

The Easiest Way to Get a Yes at Work Why most career asks fail (if you even ask) and how making your requests smaller, clearer, and...

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Why most career asks fail (if you even ask) and how making your requests smaller, clearer, and time-bound dramatically increases your odds of getting a good response.

The Diff

Get Ready for Many More Prodigies Plus! Optimization; Scarcity; Property Rights; Incremental Margins; Data and Product

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Plus! Optimization; Scarcity; Property Rights; Incremental Margins; Data and Product

Sean Carroll

Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue...

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Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn't […]

Common Edge

You’re Not Antisocial, But Your Neighborhood Might Be When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public...

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When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement doesn't need to be engineered; it emerges.

Wrong Side of...

Running towards danger The heroes who defy terror

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The heroes who defy terror

Seth's Blog

The Spiderman inversion Uncle Ben told Peter Parker, “with great power comes great responsibility.” Some people, hoping to...

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Uncle Ben told Peter Parker, “with great power comes great responsibility.” Some people, hoping to avoid responsibility, insist that they don’t have great power. That’s a choice, but it might undermine what we’re capable of. [Also worth a thought: with great responsibility often...

Paul Cudenec

A strange kind of happiness They’re closing the schools

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They’re closing the schools

Rare Historical...

Merry and Creepy Christmas: Vintage Santa Claus Photos That Are Genuinely Unsettling Christmas is usually associated with comfort and cheer, but these images tell a very different...

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Christmas is usually associated with comfort and cheer, but these images tell a very different story. Far from the warm and jolly figure known today, vintage photographs reveal a version of Santa Claus that feels unsettling, awkward, and sometimes outright disturbing. Stiff...

Awkward Zombie

Awkward Zombie - Paving the Day New comic! Today's News: That's fine. That's what I wanted.

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New comic! Today's News: That's fine. That's what I wanted.

Salish Wolf

#67 Blayne Prowse on Project Quiver Blayne Prowse is a fletcher, spoon carver, and bowyer located in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia....

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Blayne Prowse is a fletcher, spoon carver, and bowyer located in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. After dabbling in the craft of bow making, he made a connection with a gentleman on Haida Gwaii who was milling his own arrow shafts. Pleased to continue crafting with his hands,...

Naz Hamid

Music In 2025 Less was more this year. I listened to less, but found more that I loved. I spent a lot of time...

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Less was more this year. I listened to less, but found more that I loved. I spent a lot of time revisiting old albums, listening with intent. Drumming also took a lot of my time, and rekindling my study drove me to those older albums. But, these new releases were on heavy...

TokyoDev

Overtime in Japan Explained: Laws, Pay Rates, and Fixed Overtime (みなし残業) For international developers, one often confusing aspect of Japanese employment is their company’s...

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For international developers, one often confusing aspect of Japanese employment is their company’s overtime policy. Overtime is tightly regulated in Japan, with new laws introduced in 2019 to reduce the overall number of overtime hours worked. In addition to regular overtime,...

matt.sh

Opsmas 2025 Day 12: carrier-db & carrier-cache Opsmas 2025 Day 12: carrier-db & carrier-cache carrier db & carrier cache We’re back here...

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Opsmas 2025 Day 12: carrier-db & carrier-cache carrier db & carrier cache We’re back here again. what happens if you have the world’s most efficient in-memory database system, but nobody notices? carrier db (a redis-protocol-compatible optimized concurrent data storage and...

Rubenerd

The Silver-Breasted Broadbill It’s been a while since we’ve had a featured bird post here. This delightful friend appeared on...

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It’s been a while since we’ve had a featured bird post here. This delightful friend appeared on Wikipedia’s main page yesterday: The silver-breasted broadbill (Serilophus lunatus) is a species of bird in the broadbill family, Eurylaimidae that is found in parts of Southeast Asia....

Letters of Note

The anguish must be borne A letter of condolence from George Eliot

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A letter of condolence from George Eliot

Noahpinion

America has to feel fair If people don't believe that anti-discrimination law protects them, they will turn to racial bloc...

7 hours ago

If people don't believe that anti-discrimination law protects them, they will turn to racial bloc politics.

charity.wtf

2025 was for AI what 2010 was for cloud (xpost) The satellite, experimental technology has become the mainstream, foundational tech. (At least in...

7 hours ago

The satellite, experimental technology has become the mainstream, foundational tech. (At least in developer tools.) (xposted from new home) I was at my very first job, Linden Lab, when EC2 and S3 came out in 2006. We were running Second Life out of three datacenters, where we...

Engineer’s Codex

Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.

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Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.

So Into That

cook christmas strata with me! I had so much fun cooking the Christmas Strata live with so many of you this morning! I love that...

9 hours ago

I had so much fun cooking the Christmas Strata live with so many of you this morning! I love that we’ve all knocked out Christmas breakfast and now have it ready in the fridge — phew! One thing off the list. If you missed it, you can still cook along with us with following along...

Max Woolf's Blog

Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.

9 hours ago

The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.

Charlie Becker

Let me hand-write and mail you something. | #99 Collaborate with me on the next thing I publish here.

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Collaborate with me on the next thing I publish here.

Computer Ads from...

Plus Post: Integrated Micro Applications LTD's Keystar Keystar puts editing on Wordstar into plain language.

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Keystar puts editing on Wordstar into plain language.

Ed Zitron's Where's...

Premium - How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026 Hello and welcome to the final premium edition of Where's Your Ed At for the year. Since kicking off...

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Hello and welcome to the final premium edition of Where's Your Ed At for the year. Since kicking off premium, we've had some incredible bangers that I recommend you revisit (or subscribe and read in the meantime!): The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA, a comprehensive

The Works in...

The first cancer vaccine Watch now | Hepatitis B is a tiny virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths from liver...

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Watch now | Hepatitis B is a tiny virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths from liver disease and cancer each year. The vaccine against it became the first of many milestones.

The Beauty of...

Union Flag Blues: the Branding of Great British Railways In a blaze of publicity, the branding for Great British Railways, state-owned future operator of...

11 hours ago

In a blaze of publicity, the branding for Great British Railways, state-owned future operator of some of the privatised British railway network, was unexpectedly launched earlier this month, a mere four years after Great British Railways was first announced. In typical British...

Classical Wisdom

Was Jesus a Stoic? The Ancient Philosophy Behind Christmas and Christianity

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The Ancient Philosophy Behind Christmas and Christianity

Jeff Geerling's Blog

NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut If you were 5 microseconds late...

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NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut If you were 5 microseconds late today, blame it on NIST. Their facility in Boulder Colorado just had its power cut for multiple days. After a backup generator failed, their main ensemble clock lost track of UTC, or...

Some Bits: Nelson's...

Spotify's pirate founding Music streaming service was started with unlicensed MP3s

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Music streaming service was started with unlicensed MP3s

Cheese and Biscuits

Kokin, Stratford Lots of potentially very well-respected global cuisines have an unenviable, constant uphill battle...

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Lots of potentially very well-respected global cuisines have an unenviable, constant uphill battle against the enshittification of their brand by High Street UK. If your only exposure to Mexican food is Las Iguanas, or Zizzi's for pasta, or Domino's for pizza, or Nando's for......

Scope of Work

Five Books for 2025 It's a time for reflection.

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It's a time for reflection.

Archinect

World’s best brick buildings honored at 2025 Brick in Architecture Awards The Brick Industry Association has unveiled the winners of the 2025 Brick in Architecture Awards....

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The Brick Industry Association has unveiled the winners of the 2025 Brick in Architecture Awards. The latest edition of the awards honored 42 projects from 120 entries, placed in Best In Class, Gold, Silver, and Bronze across nine categories. In addition, one project received an...

YaleNews Articles

Yale’s top innovation stories of 2025 As the year comes to a close, Yale Ventures reflects on the incredible momentum across the...

14 hours ago

As the year comes to a close, Yale Ventures reflects on the incredible momentum across the university’s innovation community. Every day, discoveries at Yale are moving from lab to launch, from campus to community, and from New Haven to the world.

Don't Worry About...

The Revolution of Rising Expectations Internet arguments like the $140,000 Question incident keep happening.

14 hours ago

Internet arguments like the $140,000 Question incident keep happening.

Arduino Blog

CES 2026 presents the future of tech – and Arduino makes it accessible to all!  We’re starting the new year with a big event: the Arduino team will be in Las Vegas for CES 2026...

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We’re starting the new year with a big event: the Arduino team will be in Las Vegas for CES 2026 (January 6-9), ready to demonstrate a selection of advanced applications based on the new Arduino UNO Q board. Come by Qualcomm’s booth #5001 in the West Hall to check them out, ask...

IEEE Spectrum

Ultrasound Treatment Takes on Cancer’s Toughest Tumors For many years, doctors and technicians who performed medical ultrasound procedures viewed bubbles...

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For many years, doctors and technicians who performed medical ultrasound procedures viewed bubbles with wary concern. The phenomenon of cavitation—the formation and collapse of tiny gas bubbles due to changes in pressure—was considered an undesirable and largely uncontrollable...

The Verge

The best books we read in 2025 These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games,...

15 hours ago

These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today's troubled world. We polled the staff of The...

TASTE

This Is TASTE 705: The Year in Los Angeles Restaurants with Jenn Harris of the Los Angeles Times &... Los Angeles is a city that always inspires with new openings and truly singular legendary spots. The...

15 hours ago

Los Angeles is a city that always inspires with new openings and truly singular legendary spots. The post This Is TASTE 705: The Year in Los Angeles Restaurants with Jenn Harris of the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> & Jordan Okun and Max Shapiro of Air Jordan appeared first on TASTE.

Can We Still Govern?

What have we learned about child poverty in America? Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights

15 hours ago

Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights

Jakob Nielsen on UX

UX Roundup: 2025 Predictions Revisited | AI Paradigm Shifts | AI and Doctor Burnout | Useful AI... Predictions for UX in 2025 revisited | 2025 saw major paradigm changes in AI | Simple AI reduces...

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Predictions for UX in 2025 revisited | 2025 saw major paradigm changes in AI | Simple AI reduces doctors’ burnout | Fast sales growth for providers of useful AI services

Old Structures...

EBC Update I previously discussed the proposed New York City Existing Building Code, and it’s time for an...

16 hours ago

I previously discussed the proposed New York City Existing Building Code, and it’s time for an update. When I wrote the previous blog post, in September, we were waiting for the proposed legislation to make it to debate and voting by the City Council, so everything was...

Slow Boring

The case for progressive austerity Lower inflation and lower interest rates can be achieved.

17 hours ago

Lower inflation and lower interest rates can be achieved.

Cal Newport

On Paperbacks and TikTok In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket...

17 hours ago

In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 ... Read more The post On Paperbacks and TikTok appeared first on Cal Newport.

Stratechery by Ben...

Winter Break: December 22nd to January 2nd Stratechery is on holiday from December 22, 2025 to January 2, 2026; the next Stratechery Update...

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Stratechery is on holiday from December 22, 2025 to January 2, 2026; the next Stratechery Update will be on Monday, January 5. In addition, Sharp Tech, Sharp China, and Dithering will all return the week of January 5. Greatest of All Talk and Asianometry will post through the...

Vittles

The Real ‘Life in the UK’ Test Vitoria Croda examines Britain's obsession with the meal deal.

18 hours ago

Vitoria Croda examines Britain's obsession with the meal deal.

NPR Programs:...

Epstein survivor reacts to the Justice Department's release of the Epstein files Jeffrey Epstein accuser Annie Farmer tells NPR's Leila Fadel how survivors of his abuse are reacting...

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Jeffrey Epstein accuser Annie Farmer tells NPR's Leila Fadel how survivors of his abuse are reacting to the Justice Department's file dump, which included her sister's 1996 FBI complaint.

Permanent Style

Should all black tie be ‘creative’ black tie? Here’s a slightly controversial idea. I think there’s an argument that all black-tie events should...

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Here’s a slightly controversial idea. I think there’s an argument that all black-tie events should be ‘creative’ or ‘alternative’ black tie - ones that actively encourage variations on the classic dress code, rather than sticking with the tr... > Read more

Londonist

The No Trousers Tube Ride Returns To London In January 2026 It's January. Let's get half-naked on public transport.

20 hours ago

It's January. Let's get half-naked on public transport.

Retail Design Blog

DANNONG Store by LUO studio The orthogonal timber frame has long been the primary structural prototype for nearly all functional...

20 hours ago

The orthogonal timber frame has long been the primary structural prototype for nearly all functional building types in the East—from...

Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic

Showdown, p28 The post Showdown, p28 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.

20 hours ago

The post Showdown, p28 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.

Better than Random

Do you really need a lead scoring model? Why lead scoring only works when there is a real cost to going broad

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Why lead scoring only works when there is a real cost to going broad

TheCollector

The Monroe Doctrine, a Cornerstone of American Foreign Policy On December 2, 1823, US President James Monroe held his annual message to Congress. In his speech,...

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On December 2, 1823, US President James Monroe held his annual message to Congress. In his speech, he announced that the Western Hemisphere would be closed to further colonization by European powers. In exchange, the US would adopt a policy of non-intervention in the Old World’s...

Odds and Ends of...

The Abundance Christmas Quiz! With Andrew Hunter Murray and CityEd!

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With Andrew Hunter Murray and CityEd!

diamond geezer

Unblogged December 1985 31 unblogged things I did in December 1985 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago,...

21 hours ago

31 unblogged things I did in December 1985 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago, so here are 31 things I didn't digitally publish at the time. To help you get your bearings I was 20 and December was in the middle of my third year at university. I apologise for...

Yale E360

Drought Is Fueling an Air Pollution Crisis in Iran Iran is being choked by deadly air pollution, another consequence of one of the worst droughts in...

22 hours ago

Iran is being choked by deadly air pollution, another consequence of one of the worst droughts in decades. Read more on E360 →

LessWrong

AIXI with general utility functions: "Value under ignorance in UAI" Published on December 22, 2025 5:46 AM GMT This updated version of my AGI 2025 paper with Marcus...

22 hours ago

Published on December 22, 2025 5:46 AM GMT This updated version of my AGI 2025 paper with Marcus Hutter, "Value under ignorance in universal artificial intelligence," studies general utility functions for AIXI. Surprisingly, the (hyper)computability properties have connections...

The American Scholar

Lisa Jarrett Tenderness and strength The post Lisa Jarrett appeared first on The American Scholar.

23 hours ago

Tenderness and strength The post Lisa Jarrett appeared first on The American Scholar.

Least I Could Do

Thank you for being a friend The post Thank you for being a friend appeared first on Least I Could Do.

23 hours ago

The post Thank you for being a friend appeared first on Least I Could Do.

the singularity is...

The opinion that pisses everyone off I got a lot weird hate for saying Tesla is 8 years away from solving self driving. I stand by that...

23 hours ago

I got a lot weird hate for saying Tesla is 8 years away from solving self driving. I stand by that statement. I also think Tesla will solve it first. At least FSD is real AI that you can evalulate the honest progress of, unlike remote control cars that break when the power goes...

Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Where Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We could build this NOW. The future of damaging...

5 days ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We could build this NOW. The future of damaging children is HERE. Today's News:

Anecdotal Evidence

'What Mattered Most to Him Was Writing' A friend wrote first thing Wednesday morning telling me Norman Podhoretz had died at age...

5 days ago

A friend wrote first thing Wednesday morning telling me Norman Podhoretz had died at age ninety-five. It was like hearing the last sequoia had fallen. “I read him religiously for 50 years,” my friend added. My observance of Podhoretz’s work was more secular but at least as...

The Honest Broker

A Reading List for the End of Civilization 22 books for turbulent times

6 days ago

22 books for turbulent times

The Deleted Scenes

The First Of Toys 'R' Us What Do You Think You're Looking At? #245

6 days ago

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #245

Atoms vs Bits

Six Thoughts About Poetry You might ask why. Here’s why. Poetry.

6 days ago

You might ask why. Here’s why. Poetry.

Matt Mullenweg

Beware Unearned Wisdom One of Carl Jung’s famous quotes is to “Beware unearned wisdom.” Sometimes it’s brought up in the...

6 days ago

One of Carl Jung’s famous quotes is to “Beware unearned wisdom.” Sometimes it’s brought up in the context of psychedelics. From LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher Bache: Psychedelics give us temporary access to realities beyond our pay grade, allowing us to...

Daniel Bourke

There's always going to be something You’ve tweaked your back and now you can’t workout. You’ve got two kids under 3 and now every time...

a week ago

You’ve tweaked your back and now you can’t workout. You’ve got two kids under 3 and now every time someone asks you to hang out you can’t because you’re tired. You can’t go to all the events that

Balancing Act

Liar's Valuation What early employees should know before signing

a week ago

What early employees should know before signing

oftwominds-Charles...

The Wile E. Coyote Insight: What We "Know" Is More Dangerous Than the Unknown This is why "knowledge is power": those who define what is "knowable" and "known" shape the reality...

a week ago

This is why "knowledge is power": those who define what is "knowable" and "known" shape the reality of everyone in the model / system. Oh crikey, is this another boring post trying to make philosophy relevant? No, it's a post about survival of the fittest, as what we "know"...

The Elysian

What Victor Hugo taught me about writing during political upheaval I'd been struggling to write during this political moment, so I turned to Hugo for guidance.

a week ago

I'd been struggling to write during this political moment, so I turned to Hugo for guidance.

The Convivial...

Manufactured Inevitability and the Need for Courage The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 3

a week ago

The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 3

Looking Through the...

The Lost Valley Was the damming of Hetch Hetchy a crime against nature or a necessity?

a week ago

Was the damming of Hetch Hetchy a crime against nature or a necessity?

Marcus on AI

The core misconception that is driving American AI policy Why is President Trump, a man who barely knows how to use a laptop, taking such a big risk ramming...

a week ago

Why is President Trump, a man who barely knows how to use a laptop, taking such a big risk ramming through an AI policy that almost nobody, even in his own party, wants?

iDiallo.com

Do I Leave the Laptop at the Office? A few years back, I worked at an AI startup as the first hired engineer. All of us could fit in a...

a week ago

A few years back, I worked at an AI startup as the first hired engineer. All of us could fit in a four-space cubicle, sharing an office with multiple startups. As you can imagine, when you're trying to get a startup off the ground, you have to put in the hours. Every day I would...

benn.substack

The vibes and the noise The post-empirical generation.

a week ago

The post-empirical generation.

Infinite Scroll

Worst Tweets of 2025 - Preliminary Voting Vote on the absolute worst posts on X

a week ago

Vote on the absolute worst posts on X

Platformer

OpenAI is a normal company now A decade years in, what started as a sci-fi lab is now focused on engagement and growth. What does...

a week ago

A decade years in, what started as a sci-fi lab is now focused on engagement and growth. What does that mean for building AI safely?

Overcoming Bias

Wealth, Reason Weaken Culture What could cause rich healthy peaceful societies like ours to so consistently become “decadent”?

a week ago

What could cause rich healthy peaceful societies like ours to so consistently become “decadent”?

Contraption Co.

Introducing the print edition Contraption essays delivered by mail

a week ago

Contraption essays delivered by mail

Herbert Lui

Streaks are fragile, practices are anti fragile Streaks are useful for keeping a behavior going. When you’re on a streak, the momentum and fear of...

a week ago

Streaks are useful for keeping a behavior going. When you’re on a streak, the momentum and fear of breaking the streak carries you through to repeating a behavior. If you’ve worked out three times a week for 100 weeks straight, you want to do the same next week to keep the streak...

Stat Significant

The Stat Significant Dataset Hub A growing library of curated datasets, updated with new additions every week.

2 weeks ago

A growing library of curated datasets, updated with new additions every week.

Build In Public...

ICYMI: I joined Netlify to continue my life's work Some of you saw this on socials but sharing the story for the newsletter audience

2 weeks ago

Some of you saw this on socials but sharing the story for the newsletter audience

benn.substack

Will there ever be a worse time to start a startup? Today's frontier is tomorrow's tech debt.

2 weeks ago

Today's frontier is tomorrow's tech debt.

Adventures In...

Make this spiral globe ornament please! Ah the winter season is a time when we can slow down and appreciate the things that really matter. A...

2 weeks ago

Ah the winter season is a time when we can slow down and appreciate the things that really matter. A chance to take stock of lasting joy. Clearly I’m talking about the opportunity to print out this paper craft ornament template, cut out the component globe gore panels, and...

Weighty Thoughts

The Boring Phase of AI Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful

2 weeks ago

Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful

Win Vector LLC

Text as a “Market for Lemons” I would like to write a bit about text. That is: technical writing, legal briefs, or even an opinion...

3 weeks ago

I would like to write a bit about text. That is: technical writing, legal briefs, or even an opinion piece such as this note. Such writings make up much of our society and form a “marketplace of ideas.” Texts are now very cheap to produce using large language models (LLMs). […]

Platformer

How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics....

3 weeks ago

A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts

./techtipsy

Oops, I accidentally built a Steam Machine I like the Steam Deck. It’s what convinced me that gaming on Linux is actually viable now. But after...

3 weeks ago

I like the Steam Deck. It’s what convinced me that gaming on Linux is actually viable now. But after playing through games like God of War Ragnarök1, I felt like I needed an upgrade. I love playing with the Steam Deck, but what I love more is playing without having to worry about...

ntietz.com blog -...

A new system for organizing my writing and projects Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different...

3 weeks ago

Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different organizational systems. Sometimes I have to change them due to actual life circumstances changing; other times, due to the old one just wearing off[1]. Well, my life circumstances...

Both Are True

forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing a new holiday (year three)

3 weeks ago

a new holiday (year three)

Overcoming Bias

The Male Gender-War Advantage Each (of the main two) gender has things that it honestly wants from the other, and also things that...

3 weeks ago

Each (of the main two) gender has things that it honestly wants from the other, and also things that it is reluctant to give up to them.

I am BARRY HESS

No Socials November Fin It’s been thirty days since I departed socials. (Well, more like forty-five days, but who’s...

3 weeks ago

It’s been thirty days since I departed socials. (Well, more like forty-five days, but who’s counting?) I must say that I continue to feel good about stepping away. The daily baseline of anxiety that I feel from  the big world and the small worlds I live in is much lower than...

The Intimate Mirror

Defering the Descent How Technology Industrializes the Avoidance of Transformation

3 weeks ago

How Technology Industrializes the Avoidance of Transformation

FIRE v London

2025 Budget: Damage assessment The big news in the UK this week was the latest Budget by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The scare...

3 weeks ago

The big news in the UK this week was the latest Budget by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The scare story in the budget runup All UK readers of this blog will know that the rumours and counter-rumours in the run-up to this budget exceeded anything we have seen before. There were...

Looking Through the...

Wonderland, Incorporated Marketing the national parks

3 weeks ago

Marketing the national parks

Steven Scrawls

Sunday Scrawl #1: Learning Not to Know Sunday Scrawl #1: Learning Not to Know When my parents sat me down in the living room the night...

3 weeks ago

Sunday Scrawl #1: Learning Not to Know When my parents sat me down in the living room the night before I was supposed to leave for college, I thought they were going to tell me they were getting a divorce. At the time, it was the most terrifying upheaval I could imagine. Instead,...

Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course Week 48: Borges I’m excited that we’re almost at the end of the year. I started this journey to explore our...

3 weeks ago

I’m excited that we’re almost at the end of the year. I started this journey to explore our culture’s foundations. By now, we’ve left the lower levels and have moved into the antechambers. On week 48, Gioia recommended three familiar works: Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis,...

Explosm.net

Comic for 2025.11.30 - Come Inside New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

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New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Ian Betteridge

Ten Blue Links “Orion rising, EV prices falling and ads arriving” edition 1. Lawyers, assemble! Authors v OpenAI part 273. A judge has ordered disclosure of internal...

3 weeks ago

1. Lawyers, assemble! Authors v OpenAI part 273. A judge has ordered disclosure of internal communications about dataset deletions. This sounds incredibly dull, but it matters fin determining whether there was willfulness in OpenAI’s blatant theft, and that, in turn, determines...

The Deleted Scenes

The Map In Your Mind (?) And did technology make us worse mental mappers?

3 weeks ago

And did technology make us worse mental mappers?

Wuthering...

What I Read in October 2025 – What a simple daily pleasure. October was so long ago.  It is almost December.  Why do I write these. MARLOWE AND SO ON The...

3 weeks ago

October was so long ago.  It is almost December.  Why do I write these. MARLOWE AND SO ON The Famous Victories of Henry V (1580s?), ??? – Some notes over here. Tamburlaine, Pt. II (1587?), Christopher Marlowe – Righthere and also here. The Spanish Tragedy (1587?), Thomas Kyd –...

Patterns in Humanity

How northwest Europe attained modern homicide rates already by 1750 The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime

3 weeks ago

The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime

Works in Progress...

The logical triumph of English English prose has become much easier to read. But shorter sentences had little to with it.

3 weeks ago

English prose has become much easier to read. But shorter sentences had little to with it.

Build In Public...

Stay in the driver's seat (AI as co-pilot, not autopilot) Meet Raydian, a full-stack AI platform that keeps you in control while bringing ideas to life

3 weeks ago

Meet Raydian, a full-stack AI platform that keeps you in control while bringing ideas to life

The Deleted Scenes

How Do We Know What's History? The passage of time is key to looking back

3 weeks ago

The passage of time is key to looking back

Platformer

Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?

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What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?

Buttondown's blog

What the hell is ActivityPub? Making social networking more like email.

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Making social networking more like email.

Quentin Santos

Fixing the RP2350-USB-A not working as USB host tl;dr: you need to desolder R13, the resistor closest the pin 6 of the board, as indicated by the...

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tl;dr: you need to desolder R13, the resistor closest the pin 6 of the board, as indicated by the red arrow in the cover picture of this article Context I am currently toying around with emulating a USB device. However, I also wanted to be able to plug a keyboard in, so I needed...

SatPost by Trung...

Dishoom's $400m Restaurant Playbook How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining...

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How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining business to $180m in sales and a $400m valuation.

Explosm.net

Comic for 2025.11.19 - Dinosaur Bone New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

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New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Artificial Ignorance

Gemini 3 and Google’s Antigravity Trajectory Google's simultaneous releases in models, research, and developer tools.

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Google's simultaneous releases in models, research, and developer tools.

Pluralistic: Daily...

Pluralistic: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025) Today's links The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury: Amnesia is video games'...

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Today's links The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury: Amnesia is video games' default state. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Sony DRM nonpology; Misprinted prefab houses; Canada's repair law can't be fixed; BNL's USB-stick release;...

NeuroLogica Blog

Superfoods Are Bunk The popularity of the acai berry as a so-called “superfood” is a triumph of marketing over reality....

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The popularity of the acai berry as a so-called “superfood” is a triumph of marketing over reality. This is a berry from the Amazon that was eaten by local people – because it was available – but was then marketed by a company called Sambazon and became an international...

iDiallo.com

Is 30% of Microsoft's Code Really AI-Generated? A few months back, news outlets were buzzing with reports that Satya Nadella claimed 30% of the code...

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A few months back, news outlets were buzzing with reports that Satya Nadella claimed 30% of the code in Microsoft's repositories was AI-generated. This fueled the hype around tools like Copilot and Cursor. The implication seemed clear: if Microsoft's developers were now "vibe...

Hidden History

Scotland’s Failed Darien Colony In the last years of the 17th century, Scotland embarked on an ambitious plan for colonial...

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In the last years of the 17th century, Scotland embarked on an ambitious plan for colonial expansion, which failed in disaster and helped end its existence as an independent nation. In 1690, Scotland was in trouble. At this time, Scotland was in a strange and confusing political...

Winnie Lim

my strange relationship with drawing This morning I was watching a youtube video on a famous comic artist’s sketchbook, and I caught...

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This morning I was watching a youtube video on a famous comic artist’s sketchbook, and I caught myself thinking that I have such a weird relationship to drawing. Here I was: fascinated...

lcamtuf’s thing

What's the deal with Euler's identity? Untangling a cursed formula from 1748.

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Untangling a cursed formula from 1748.

Tech and Tea

Building Community Tech Three recent community tech builds, lessons from vibe coding, and rediscovering the joy of building

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Three recent community tech builds, lessons from vibe coding, and rediscovering the joy of building

nanoscale views

Vortices everywhere The 2026 APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize in condensed matter physics was announced this week, and it's a...

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The 2026 APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize in condensed matter physics was announced this week, and it's a really interesting combination of topics that, to a lay person, may seem to be completely unrelated.   Fig. 1 from this follow-up PRB. On the one hand, John Reppy (at age 94!)...

Herbert Lui

Fill in stories with realistic details One of my favorite authors was hired by a prestigious media platform to do a travel show. He hired...

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One of my favorite authors was hired by a prestigious media platform to do a travel show. He hired one of his favorite rappers to record the theme song. He got paid to travel. He went on adventures, gained notoriety, and grew the community of people who followed him. It all...

Pluralistic: Daily...

Pluralistic: Facebook's fraud files (08 Nov 2025) Today's links Facebook's fraud files: 10% of gross ad revenue coming from fraudulent ads. Hey look...

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Today's links Facebook's fraud files: 10% of gross ad revenue coming from fraudulent ads. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: FOIA for Theresa May; Paid patriotism; Antiusurpation. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've...

Building Optimism

The Aesthetic Urbanist Taxonomy Toward a hierarchy of Urban Comfort

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Toward a hierarchy of Urban Comfort

latest projects -...

Stainless Infinity Cube [Hardware] Chromium is better!

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[Hardware] Chromium is better!

Flashbak

All The Saints From The Book of Hours by Louis de Laval, France c. 1480 All the Saints appear in the French book Heurs of Louis de Laval (Hours of Louis de Leval),...

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All the Saints appear in the French book Heurs of Louis de Laval (Hours of Louis de Leval), published in 1480. Louis de Laval, an aristocrat and politician who served the French King Louis XI of France (1423–83), commissioned Jean de Colombe (c. 1430 – c. 1493) and other artists...

The Ruffian

Are Parents Too Close To Their Children? A Question Inspired by the New John Lewis Christmas Ad

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A Question Inspired by the New John Lewis Christmas Ad

Wuthering...

History before Shakespeare - The Famous Victories of Henry V - he hath taken the great raze of... The establishment in the 1570s of permanent theaters just outside of the walls of London led to a...

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The establishment in the 1570s of permanent theaters just outside of the walls of London led to a massive increase in the demand for new plays.  Every available source of stories was looted.  English history proved to be especially popular or at least easy to adapt to the...

Dreams of Space -...

To The Moon By Rocket Ship (1940) A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they...

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A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they called "To the Moon by Rocket Ship." It was a program for adults and children describing the science of what it would be like to go to the Moon. It also explored the formation of...

A Collection of...

Fireside Friday, November 7, 2025 (On the Roman Strategy Debate) Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over...

a month ago

Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over othismos) ready for this week, but it’s not quite done, so I am shifting that to next week. So instead this week I want to outline another debate in ancient military history, the...

Scott DeLong

Menards Teardown: The Masterclass Behind A Midwest Hardware Store Despite Lowe's and Home Depot, the simplicity of Menards has made it a staple in the Midwest. The...

a month ago

Despite Lowe's and Home Depot, the simplicity of Menards has made it a staple in the Midwest. The post Menards Teardown: The Masterclass Behind A Midwest Hardware Store appeared first on Scott DeLong.

Citation Needed

Issue 96 – Redefining solvency Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks

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Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks

Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Down The Atomic Rabbit Hole Over the years, I’ve been chewing on media related to nuclear weapons. This is my high-level,...

a month ago

Over the years, I’ve been chewing on media related to nuclear weapons. This is my high-level, non-exhaustive documentation of my consumption — with links! 📖 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. This is one of those definitive histories (it’s close to 1,000 pages and...

Twelve Mile Circle –...

Interior Alaska, Part 7 (Richardson Highway & More) Next we explored the one remaining direction outward from Fairbanks that we hadn’t seen before,...

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Next we explored the one remaining direction outward from Fairbanks that we hadn’t seen before, heading towards the southeast on the Richardson Highway. This day-trip took us about a hundred miles down to Delta Junction, where we turned around and came back. I’ll describe points...

Pluralistic: Daily...

Pluralistic: The enshittification of labor (07 Nov 2025) Today's links The enshittification of labor: Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my...

a month ago

Today's links The enshittification of labor: Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3D printing with tape-guns; TPP is the worst; HP ends customers' lives. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me....

Quanta Magazine

Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical...

a month ago

Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry. The post Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Weighty Thoughts

No, AI Power Requirements Aren't Intractable AI’s Electricity Appetite is Big, But Our Wallets are Bigger

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AI’s Electricity Appetite is Big, But Our Wallets are Bigger

The Elysian

Are newsletter subscriptions over? Maybe we don’t want this many emails. Maybe we want to reclaim our attention.

a month ago

Maybe we don’t want this many emails. Maybe we want to reclaim our attention.

Open Culture

The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization from which the modern...

a month ago

Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization from which the modern West descends. That’s especially true if you happen to be looking in Europe, though echoes of Latin make themselves heard in major languages used all over the world. Take, for...

Flashbak

‘Musically Incompetent’: A 17-Year-Old Morrissey Reviews The Ramones in 1976 “The Ramones have absolutely nothing to add that is of relevance or importance and should be rightly...

a month ago

“The Ramones have absolutely nothing to add that is of relevance or importance and should be rightly filed and forgotten” – Morrissey, letter to Melody Maker, 1976     Steve Morrissey (born 22 May 1959) was age 17 when he wrote a letter to Melody Maker magazine damning The...

Explosm.net

Comic for 2025.11.07 New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

a month ago

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

mtlynch.io

Refactoring English: Month 11 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m...

a month ago

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are...

fast.ai

A Guide to Solveit Features An overview of the features of the Solveit platform, which is designed to make exploration and...

a month ago

An overview of the features of the Solveit platform, which is designed to make exploration and iterative development easier and faster.

Res Obscura

Can automation help make the humanities more human? Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more...

a month ago

Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more important today than ever before in history

Musings on Markets

A Golden Year (2025): Gold's Price Surge - The Signal in the Noise! I grew up in India in a time where if you had wealth, your investment options were limited. A stock...

a month ago

I grew up in India in a time where if you had wealth, your investment options were limited. A stock market with sparse listings, accompanied by a lack of trust in financial assets, led investors to put their wealth into tangible assets. Real estate was the most common choice but...

Both Are True

lets talk about substack how are we feeling about it?

a month ago

how are we feeling about it?

Flashbak

Cruising Through the Ramble in New York’s Central Park, 1969 “I had been using the Ramble for my own private cruising grounds in a way over the years. One day I...

a month ago

“I had been using the Ramble for my own private cruising grounds in a way over the years. One day I just thought it would make an interesting little sociological study on its own. I brought the camera, and some of the photographs of people just walking around were taken a little...

GeoCurrents

Longitude Is Not Like Latitude At first glance, latitude and longitude seem like equivalent concepts. On any local-scale map, lines...

a month ago

At first glance, latitude and longitude seem like equivalent concepts. On any local-scale map, lines of latitude (parallels) and longitude (meridians) form a grid, with the two sets of lines intersecting at 90° angles. On such maps, lines of longitude as well as those of latitude...

Artificial Ignorance

Is a CS Degree Still Worth It? The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.

a month ago

The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.

This Space

The crisis of narration and the future of the novel, part two Byung-Chul Han says in The Crisis of Narration that modernity "is animated by a belief in progress"...

a month ago

Byung-Chul Han says in The Crisis of Narration that modernity "is animated by a belief in progress" and its narratives "radiate an aura because the future is a phenomenon of distance". This is evident in our reverence for the monuments of modernism, a reverence formed by wonder...

Construction Physics

Strap Rail The early history of the United States runs along with the first years of the railroad.

a month ago

The early history of the United States runs along with the first years of the railroad.

Pluralistic: Daily...

Pluralistic: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world (06 Nov... Today's links The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world: If...

a month ago

Today's links The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world: If reality doesn't fit the theory, ignore reality. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: The Master Switch; Dueling useless machines; Chrome delists Symantec;...

Open Culture

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Inventions Rendered in 3D Animation: Helicopters, Robotic Knights, The... To imagine ourselves into the time of Leonardo da Vinci, we must first imagine a world without such...

a month ago

To imagine ourselves into the time of Leonardo da Vinci, we must first imagine a world without such things as helicopters, parachutes, tanks, diving suits, robots. Yet those all existed for Leonardo himself — or rather, they existed in his imagination. What he didn’t build in...

Open Culture

A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens Rings with a discreet dual purpose have been in use since before the common era, when Hannibal,...

a month ago

Rings with a discreet dual purpose have been in use since before the common era, when Hannibal, facing extradition, allegedly ingested the poison he kept secreted behind a gemstone on his finger. (More recently, poison rings gave rise to a popular Game of Thrones fan theory…)...

History Today...

How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books JamesHoare Thu, 11/06/2025 - 08:15

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How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books JamesHoare Thu, 11/06/2025 - 08:15

./techtipsy

The day IPv6 went away I take pride in hosting my blog on a 13-year old ThinkPad acting as a home server, but sometimes...

a month ago

I take pride in hosting my blog on a 13-year old ThinkPad acting as a home server, but sometimes it’s kind of a pain. It’s only fair that I cover the downsides of this setup in contrast to all the positives. Yesterday, I happened to notice that a connection to a backup endpoint...

Handprinted - Blog

Staining a Block with Sumi Ink When carving traditional lino it can be difficult to see your lines. Staining the block first can...

a month ago

When carving traditional lino it can be difficult to see your lines. Staining the block first can enable you to have more visibility, and therefore a more accurate design. Sumi Ink is a great option for block staining, and it's simple and quick. Brush some Sumi ink onto your...

The Marginalian

Words: Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Language “Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer… feed...

a month ago

“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer… feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote. Words are the invisible hands with which we touch each other, feel the shape of the world, hold our own...

Explosm.net

Comic for 2025.11.05 - In Your Heart New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

a month ago

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Trying to Understand...

An Apology, An Apologia And an Actual Example. All I can manage this week, sorry.

a month ago

All I can manage this week, sorry.

Pluralistic: Daily...

Pluralistic: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works" (05 Nov 2025) Today's links "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works": Steampunk dinosaurs...

a month ago

Today's links "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works": Steampunk dinosaurs scratch-build a pressurized air-based, Turing complete, universal von Neumann machine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Google Print vs Great Ormond; Lincolnbot;...

Quanta Magazine

How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity...

a month ago

A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory. The post How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Weighty Thoughts

Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else

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Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else

The Elysian

Help us choose our next projects and writers! What topics should we write about? Which writers should participate? What communities should we...

a month ago

What topics should we write about? Which writers should participate? What communities should we collab with?

Rest of World -...

Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say... Big figures floated by Chile, and tech giants promise economy-wide impact, as permits show fewer...

a month ago

Big figures floated by Chile, and tech giants promise economy-wide impact, as permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.

Open Culture

Discover the Oldest Book of the Americas: A Close Look at the Astronomical Maya Codex of Mexico From the mighty Maya civilization, which dominated Mesoamerica for more than three and a half...

a month ago

From the mighty Maya civilization, which dominated Mesoamerica for more than three and a half millennia, we have exactly four books. Only one of them predates the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century: the Códice Maya de México, or Maya Codex of Mexico, which...

Flashbak

Conversations in the Combat Zone – Strippers and Showgirls in Boston, 1976 (NSFW) “You can tell showgirls from strippers, sometimes, by their stage names: Jeri, Deirdre, Melanie,...

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“You can tell showgirls from strippers, sometimes, by their stage names: Jeri, Deirdre, Melanie, Coty Lee; on the other hand, Devil’s Delight, Satan’s Angel, Blaze Starr, Tempest Storm, Honeysuckle Devine. The effects they are calculated for are miles apart.” –  Roswell Angier in...

History Today...

‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review ‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review JamesHoare Wed, 11/05/2025 - 09:03

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‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review JamesHoare Wed, 11/05/2025 - 09:03

Open Culture

Inside the Making of the Alien Suit: How H. R. Giger’s Dark Vision Came to Life in Ridley Scott’s... In the whole of Alien, the titular entity only appears on screen for about three minutes. That’s one...

a month ago

In the whole of Alien, the titular entity only appears on screen for about three minutes. That’s one reason the movie holds up so well against the other creature features of its era: in glimpses, you never get a chance to register signs of the alien’s being an artificial...

elementary Blog

Who Monitors The Monitor? Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...

a month ago

Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...

Both Are True

an interview i did about weed and addiction and other things that are easy to talk about that title sounds too dramatic

a month ago

that title sounds too dramatic

GeoCurrents

As Can Be Seen on Old Maps, Latitude – Unlike Longitude – Has Long Been Easy to Measure Latitude, as we have seen, is closely connected to midday sun angles. Because of this relationship,...

a month ago

Latitude, as we have seen, is closely connected to midday sun angles. Because of this relationship, latitude has long been relatively simply to measure. Four hundred years ago, navigators could easily determine how far they were to the north or south of the Equator if the day was...

Flashbak

Floating Away In Michael Davydov’s Miniature Worlds Michael Davydov places his handmade tiny houses, trees, moons and barns in precarious worlds....

a month ago

Michael Davydov places his handmade tiny houses, trees, moons and barns in precarious worlds. Inspired by architecture and nature growing up in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod, he began to sketch and create little sculptures. He was soon making miniature worlds in which buildings and...

Adventures In...

Browser Hack: Gigantic Screenshots Ever feel like your beautiful web map is trapped in the confines of your monitor? Do you wish its...

a month ago

Ever feel like your beautiful web map is trapped in the confines of your monitor? Do you wish its bounty could spill out beyond the stifling domain of 1920×1080? Here’s how to trick a browser’s device emulation tools to capture enormous screenshots. Now you can export your screen...

Blog - Practical...

Concrete’s Greatest Weakness [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On March 2, 1973, the Skyline...

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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On March 2, 1973, the Skyline Plaza tower was under construction in a suburb of Washington, DC. Crews had just placed a portion of the floor slab for the 24th story, just two floors short of the project’s final...

Probably...

Think DSP second edition I have started work on a second edition of Think DSP! You can see the current draft here. I started...

a month ago

I have started work on a second edition of Think DSP! You can see the current draft here. I started this project in part because of this announcement: Once in a while, a few of the Scicloj friends will meet to learn about signal processing, following the Think DSP book by Allen...

NeuroLogica Blog

Human Tool Use Earlier Than We Thought When did our hominid ancestors first start using tools? This is a fascinating question of human...

a month ago

When did our hominid ancestors first start using tools? This is a fascinating question of human paleontology, and it is also difficult to answer definitively. There are two basic reasons for this difficulty. The first is generic to all paleontology – our knowledge of when...

Escaping Flatland

A list of books and essays that I love I’m purposefully not looking at my bookshelf to make sure I only pick books that I’ve thought about...

a month ago

I’m purposefully not looking at my bookshelf to make sure I only pick books that I’ve thought about so much that they immediately occur to me.

Rest of World -...

The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.

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For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.

Open Culture

How Marlon Brando Changed Acting: Inside a Scene from On the Waterfront Marlon Brando has now been gone for more than two decades, and so thoroughgoing was his impact on...

a month ago

Marlon Brando has now been gone for more than two decades, and so thoroughgoing was his impact on the art of film acting that younger generations of movie-lovers may have trouble pinning down what, exactly, he did so differently on screen. In the new video above, Evan...

latest projects -...

E-book Bellows [Concept] Dynamically deflatable

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[Concept] Dynamically deflatable

Open Culture

Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries Look up the word architecture in the dictionary, and though you won’t actually find a picture of...

a month ago

Look up the word architecture in the dictionary, and though you won’t actually find a picture of Frank Lloyd Wright, it may feel as if you should. Or at least it will feel that way if you’re looking in an American dictionary, given that Wright has been regarded as the...

History Today...

The Practical Mysticism of Evelyn Underhill The Practical Mysticism of Evelyn Underhill JamesHoare Tue, 11/04/2025 - 08:12

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The Practical Mysticism of Evelyn Underhill JamesHoare Tue, 11/04/2025 - 08:12

Probably...

It’s Levels A recent Reddit post asks “Amateur athletes of Reddit: what’s your ‘There’s levels to this shit’...

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A recent Reddit post asks “Amateur athletes of Reddit: what’s your ‘There’s levels to this shit’ experience from your sport?” Responses included: We have some good runners who can win local races … And then you realise that if you put them in a 5000m race with Olympic-level...

Citation Needed

Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by...

a month ago

President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.

Writing - Andreas...

Agents are commoditizing the complement Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code...

a month ago

Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.

Flashbak

Sex, Clubs And GIs in Kings Cross, Sydney 1970-71 (NSFW) “My photography legitimises my voyeuristic tendencies” – Rennie Ellis, King’s Cross     Australian...

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“My photography legitimises my voyeuristic tendencies” – Rennie Ellis, King’s Cross     Australian photographer Rennie Ellis (11 November 1940 – 19 August 2003) took these images in Sydney’s Kings Cross over a six month period during the summer of 1970-71. We see strippers,...

Explorations of an...

Dominican Republic, October 2025: Relaxing Days In Bayahibe The trip had been a whirlwind up to this point. We had experienced some long drives, short nights...

a month ago

The trip had been a whirlwind up to this point. We had experienced some long drives, short nights and early wake-ups. But we had done as well as could be expected given both the time of year, and the rainfall brought on by Hurricane Melissa. We had found all of the endemic birds...

GeoCurrents

The Geometrical Relationship Between Latitude and Sun Angles (This post is part of a long GeoCurrents series aimed at helping parents and teachers instruct...

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(This post is part of a long GeoCurrents series aimed at helping parents and teachers instruct students in basic geography. The material at the end of this post is most appropriate for students at the middle- and high-school levels.) Now that latitude and midday sun angles have...

Explorations of an...

Dominican Republic, October 2025: Outrunning The Rains To The East October 22, 2025 As Hurricane Melissa continued to strengthen southwest of Hispaniola, the bands of...

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October 22, 2025 As Hurricane Melissa continued to strengthen southwest of Hispaniola, the bands of rain finally reached us and it was evident in the morning that some rain had fallen overnight. Luckily for us, a gap in the rain at dawn allowed us a comfortable morning of birding...

Quanta Magazine

What Is a Manifold? In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces,...

a month ago

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. The post What Is a Manifold? first appeared on Quanta Magazine