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ssh-agent broken in tmux? I've got you! A re-introduction of the ssh-agent-switcher tool and its recent changes

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A re-introduction of the ssh-agent-switcher tool and its recent changes

Jeff Geerling's Blog

Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points Dell sent me two of their GB10 mini...

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Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points Dell sent me two of their GB10 mini workstations to test: In this blog post, I'll cover the base system, just one of the two nodes. Cluster testing is ongoing, and I'll cover things like AI model training and...

The Verge

LG teases a new chore-completing home robot LG is getting ready to take the wraps off a new robot it claims is capable of performing a "wide...

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LG is getting ready to take the wraps off a new robot it claims is capable of performing a "wide range" of household chores. The robot, called LG CLOiD, will make its debut at CES next month, featuring two articulated arms and five individually actuated fingers on each...

Marcus on AI

The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue You must leave now, take what you need you think will last.

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You must leave now, take what you need you think will last.

The Deleted Scenes

New and Old #246 Fear of sidewalks, urban disorder, video rental lives, and a Catholic sort-of case for Mormonism

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Fear of sidewalks, urban disorder, video rental lives, and a Catholic sort-of case for Mormonism

Birchtree

What if we ended the "podcast"? Andru Marino writing for The Verge: It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’ In 2026, instead...

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Andru Marino writing for The Verge: It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’ In 2026, instead of trying to define what a podcast is, I think we need to stop using the word altogether. “Podcast” is becoming an outdated or even a

Don't Worry About...

Childhood and Education #16: Letting Kids Be Kids The Revolution of Rising Requirements has many elements.

2 hours ago

The Revolution of Rising Requirements has many elements.

Arduino Blog

A super-sized set of digital calipers for giants Every year, some of YouTube’s most prolific makers get together to coordinate a Secret Santa...

2 hours ago

Every year, some of YouTube’s most prolific makers get together to coordinate a Secret Santa exchange among themselves, then post videos of the results. The only rule is that they have to create the gifts. This year, Matty Benedetto (Unnecessary Inventions) got Austin Bradley in...

Can We Still Govern?

Exploring the Knives Out Universe Are they just entertaining murder mysteries or something more?

3 hours ago

Are they just entertaining murder mysteries or something more?

Flashbak

Gorgeous Illustrations from Pantheon in Egyptien by Jean-Francois Champollion and Léon-Jean-Joseph... With illustrations by Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois (1780-1846), we see walking snakes and other gods of...

4 hours ago

With illustrations by Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois (1780-1846), we see walking snakes and other gods of ancient Egypt in the 1823 book Pantheon in egyptien: collection des personnages mythologiques de l’ancienne Egypte, d’apres les monuments, avec un texte explicatif (Egyptian...

Old Structures...

Later Tonight The New York Public Library gives the date of this photos as “1890 (Questionable)” but that seems...

4 hours ago

The New York Public Library gives the date of this photos as “1890 (Questionable)” but that seems roughly correct. It’s a view of the foot of Fifth Avenue, where it ends at Washington Square. It’s snowing, and there’s a reasonable amount of fresh snow on the tree branches, but...

TASTE

This Is TASTE 707: Behind the Scenes at America’s Test Kitchen with Dan Souza Dan is the chief content officer of ⁠America’s Test Kitchen⁠ and the former editor in chief of Cooks...

4 hours ago

Dan is the chief content officer of ⁠America’s Test Kitchen⁠ and the former editor in chief of Cooks Illustrated. The post This Is TASTE 707: Behind the Scenes at America’s Test Kitchen with Dan Souza appeared first on TASTE.

NPR Programs:...

More rain expected in Southern California after flooding, mudslides batter region Heavy rain is expected to return to Southern California Friday after flash flooding, power outages...

6 hours ago

Heavy rain is expected to return to Southern California Friday after flash flooding, power outages and mudslides pummeled the region during the week.

Noahpinion

Why Everyone Loves Japan Part III of my book on the Japanese economy.

7 hours ago

Part III of my book on the Japanese economy.

Londonist

The Top Exhibitions To See In London: January 2026 Mental health, migration and mythical realms.

7 hours ago

Mental health, migration and mythical realms.

Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic

Showdown, p29 The post Showdown, p29 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.

8 hours ago

The post Showdown, p29 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.

Miguel Carranza

My role as a founder CTO: Year Eight 2025. What a year it has been. If a normal year as a startup founder already feels like four or five...

9 hours ago

2025. What a year it has been. If a normal year as a startup founder already feels like four or five regular years, this one felt closer to a full decade. The pace of change in our industry has been wild. The concept of vibe coding is not even a year old. Apple was forced, for...

Anecdotal Evidence

'The Happy Morning Is Over' “Well, so that is that.”  W.H. Auden captures the hangover, alcoholic or otherwise, of the day after...

10 hours ago

“Well, so that is that.”  W.H. Auden captures the hangover, alcoholic or otherwise, of the day after Christmas. As I’ve gotten older the holiday’s passing is no longer so profoundly disappointing, but as a kid disappointment inevitably followed on disproportionate expectations....

Yale E360

As U.S. Pulls Support for Clean Tech, Manufacturing Takes a Hit This year saw U.S. clean tech companies abandon dozens of manufacturing projects as the Trump...

10 hours ago

This year saw U.S. clean tech companies abandon dozens of manufacturing projects as the Trump administration slashed support for renewable energy. Read more on E360 →

Mark Manson

4 Simple Steps to Change Your Life If you want to change your life—like really, seriously, no bullshit, actually change your life—do...

11 hours ago

If you want to change your life—like really, seriously, no bullshit, actually change your life—do this: Step 1: Write down everything you care about. People make this mistake of setting new goals every January 1st, but forget that goals are the path, not the destination. Your...

Least I Could Do

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity The post The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity appeared first on Least I Could Do.

11 hours ago

The post The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity appeared first on Least I Could Do.

Dreams of Space -...

Spaceman Discovers Christmas (1958) Happy holidays and Merry Christmas! I am doing this post back in June 2025 so I am hoping the world...

15 hours ago

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas! I am doing this post back in June 2025 so I am hoping the world is a happier and safer place in December 2025. It has been a little while since I found a book worth of a Christmas post. This one does not have a lot of spaceships or rockets. It...

Craig Mod — Writer +...

[RODEN] Tokyo TBOT Event, Selling a House, 2026 in Brooklyn? Roden Readers — Hi there from Sweatpantsland, population: me. Merry Christmas! I almost forgot it...

16 hours ago

Roden Readers — Hi there from Sweatpantsland, population: me. Merry Christmas! I almost forgot it was Christmas. This is emblematic of my recent days, and maybe even my recent years — a disembodiedness in which, if not reminded, I seem to fall out from the flow of time. It’s...

Tony Finch's blog

doubly dual shuffles Here’s a pearlescent winter holiday gift for you! There are four variants of the algorithm for...

16 hours ago

Here’s a pearlescent winter holiday gift for you! There are four variants of the algorithm for shuffling an array, arising from two independent choices: whether to swap elements in the higher or lower parts of the array whether the boundary between the parts moves upwards or...

Rubenerd

We had a White Xmas (cough)! We have Christmas in summer down south here, but it was still a huge relief to have a cooler break...

18 hours ago

We have Christmas in summer down south here, but it was still a huge relief to have a cooler break after a week of very hot days. We even had a white one this year, on account of some very overcast weather. Does that count? This was always the most important day of the year for...

TheCollector

7 Most Important Works by Titian Tiziano Vecellio, who is remembered in the history of art as Titian, was born in the final decade of...

22 hours ago

Tiziano Vecellio, who is remembered in the history of art as Titian, was born in the final decade of the 15th century in the Republic of Venice. His family was of privileged status, and thus, he had an opportunity to receive quality artistic education after discovering his...

LessWrong

Call for Science of Eval Awareness (+ Research Directions) Published on December 25, 2025 5:26 PM GMT Thanks to Jordan Taylor and Sohaib Imran for helping to...

23 hours ago

Published on December 25, 2025 5:26 PM GMT Thanks to Jordan Taylor and Sohaib Imran for helping to make this post better. If you are a researcher who wants to work on one of the directions or a funder who wants to fund one, feel free to reach out to me. I've been thinking for a...

IEEE Spectrum

How to Stay Ahead of AI as an Early-Career Engineer “AI is not going to take your job. The person who uses AI is going to take your job.” This is an...

23 hours ago

“AI is not going to take your job. The person who uses AI is going to take your job.” This is an idea that has become a refrain for, among others, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has publicly made the prediction several times since October 2023. Meanwhile, other AI developers and...

Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Butterfly Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It may not be the explanation, but it is an...

yesterday

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It may not be the explanation, but it is an explanation. Today's News:

Farnam Street

The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success What do some of the greatest outliers in business history have in common? For the past year, I’ve...

yesterday

What do some of the greatest outliers in business history have in common? For the past year, I’ve been sharing the stories of history’s greatest outliers like James Dyson, Harvey Firestone, Rose Blumkin, Henry Singleton, Sol Price, and Les Schwab. These are names that deserve to...

Seth's Blog

All bananas are the same Not just similar. Cavendish bananas (the usual kind here in the US) are all clones, each from a tree...

yesterday

Not just similar. Cavendish bananas (the usual kind here in the US) are all clones, each from a tree grafted from a tree grafted, all the way back, from the first tree of the species in the UK. There are problems with this. Sure, the banana is the most reliable fruit. The banana...

Herbert Lui

The point of writing every day isn’t to write every day Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for....

2 days ago

Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for. Except, sometimes, he’s late.  A couple of days ago, he published the one for 2024—the year before this one. As I dove into his archives, I noticed he’d aggregated some years—one...

Explosm.net

Comic for 2025.12.24 - Billy The Artist New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

2 days ago

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Odds and Ends of...

It's time to reboot Back to the Future What's a re-run? You'll find out.

3 days ago

What's a re-run? You'll find out.

Common Edge

The Overlooked Charms and Underappreciated Glories of “Flyover Country” Wonderful things can be found in the towns and cities between the coasts—but only if you’re willing...

3 days ago

Wonderful things can be found in the towns and cities between the coasts—but only if you’re willing to keep your eyes and mind open.

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...

4 days ago

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.

UX Collective

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

4 days ago

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Commoncog

Stop Worrying About Survivorship Bias With This One Weird Trick Why successful investors and businesspeople tell you to learn from business history — and what they...

a week ago

Why successful investors and businesspeople tell you to learn from business history — and what they do so survivorship bias isn’t a problem.

The Honest Broker

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

a week ago

22 books for turbulent times

Atoms vs Bits

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

a week 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...

a week 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?

charity.wtf

Moving from WordPress to Substack Well, shit. I wrote my first blog post in this space on December 27th, 2015 — almost exactly a...

a week ago

Well, shit. I wrote my first blog post in this space on December 27th, 2015 — almost exactly a decade ago. “Hello, world.” I had just left Facebook, hadn’t yet formally incorporated Honeycomb, and it just felt like it was time, long past time for me to put something up and start...

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

2 weeks 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...

2 weeks 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”?

2 weeks ago

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

Vittles

The 99 Best Restaurants in London, Part 4: No 10–2 The end is nigh. By Jonathan Nunn.

2 weeks ago

The end is nigh. By Jonathan Nunn.

Matt Mullenweg

Dries OSS A more accurate framing would be that Fizzy is source available. You can read it, run it, and modify...

2 weeks ago

A more accurate framing would be that Fizzy is source available. You can read it, run it, and modify it. But DHH’s company is keeping the SaaS rights because they want to be able to build a sustainable business. That is defensible and generous, but it is not open source. Dries...

Contraption Co.

Introducing the print edition Contraption essays delivered by mail

2 weeks ago

Contraption essays delivered by mail

Some Bits: Nelson's...

Burkhard Mangold Swiss Poster artist from the 1910s

2 weeks ago

Swiss Poster artist from the 1910s

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

The Diff

Longreads + Open Thread YouTube, Breaking Bad, Vibecession, Excel, AI Adoption, Efficiency, Buffett Indicator

2 weeks ago

YouTube, Breaking Bad, Vibecession, Excel, AI Adoption, Efficiency, Buffett Indicator

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.

Some Bits: Nelson's...

Migrations between US states Visualizations of census data. Texans stay put more than any other state.

3 weeks ago

Visualizations of census data. Texans stay put more than any other state.

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...

3 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

3 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

Better than Random

On risk taking The real risk takers are not who you think they are

3 weeks ago

The real risk takers are not who you think they are

./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,...

The Honest Broker

The New Anxiety of Our Time Is Now on TV Pluribus, Severance and other sci-fi shows reveal our hidden fear

3 weeks ago

Pluribus, Severance and other sci-fi shows reveal our hidden fear

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...

4 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

4 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.

a month 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

a month 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

a month 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?

a month ago

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

Matt Mullenweg

Vogelstein on AI Fred Vogelstein writes on Crazy Stupid Tech: Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different?...

a month ago

Fred Vogelstein writes on Crazy Stupid Tech: Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different? “To us what’s happening is obvious. We both covered the internet bubble 25 years ago. We’ve been writing about – and in Om’s case investing in – technology since then. We can both...

The Diff

Longreads + Open Thread Trump, Conscious AI, Victorians, Galbraith, Prediction Markets, Taxes, Rates, Booms, Antitrust

a month ago

Trump, Conscious AI, Victorians, Galbraith, Prediction Markets, Taxes, Rates, Booms, Antitrust

Buttondown's blog

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

a month ago

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...

a month ago

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...

a month ago

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.

The Honest Broker

How Technology Tears Us Apart An Interview with Nicholas Carr

a month ago

An Interview with Nicholas Carr

Artificial Ignorance

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

a month ago

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

Archinect

Office renovation, Paris. by Nicola Spinetto Architectes Transformation of a former commercial unit into contemporary offices. The façade was redesigned with...

a month ago

Transformation of a former commercial unit into contemporary offices. The façade was redesigned with rust-colored metal carpentry and large windows filtering views while maximizing natural light. The layout includes 4 offices, a 40 m2 open space, a 17 m2 kitchen, and a 20 m2...

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'...

a month ago

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....

a month ago

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...

Stratechery by Ben...

ChatGPT Group Chats, Meta and the Encryption Trade-off, Network Effects and Ad Models ChatGPT is getting group chats, a long-standing Stratechery feature request. It's also a clear...

a month ago

ChatGPT is getting group chats, a long-standing Stratechery feature request. It's also a clear attach against Meta, who can't respond because of encryption, while Google looms.

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...

a month ago

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...

a month ago

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...

The Diff

When Prices Peak Before Fundamentals Plus! Negotiations; Top-Down AI Deployment; The Nostalgia Economy; Full-Stack AI; Tariff Dividends

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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...

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Untangling a cursed formula from 1748.

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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

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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!)...

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

The Honest Broker

The Man Who Cured Himself with Laughter Norman Cousins recovered from a terminal illness with comedy—and helped launch the holistic healing...

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Norman Cousins recovered from a terminal illness with comedy—and helped launch the holistic healing movement

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Where Is OpenAI's Money Going? Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a...

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Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed. A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s revenues were “well more” than $13bn in 2025

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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...

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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...

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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

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A space with material expressivity. Kalebodur at Cersaie2025 A structure made of hundreds of ceramic slabs, in fading hues, defines the project’s aim. It stands...

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A structure made of hundreds of ceramic slabs, in fading hues, defines the project’s aim. It stands as an open,...

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

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

Retail Design Blog

From the street to the room – the afterlife of a discarded phone booth At the beginning these colorful iron works of art looked cool and unique. As the mobile became the...

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At the beginning these colorful iron works of art looked cool and unique. As the mobile became the new standard,...

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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...

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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...

Retail Design Blog

Groupama Skybox Redesign The Groupama Skybox at Groupama Stadium, home to Ferencváros (FTC), has been completely redesigned...

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The Groupama Skybox at Groupama Stadium, home to Ferencváros (FTC), has been completely redesigned to create a multifunctional, premium interior...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?

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how are we feeling about it?

Archinect

Archinect City Guide: Discover Washington, DC, with Andrew Linn of BLDUS Archinect City Guide is back to explore the eclectic offerings in our nation's capital beyond the...

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Archinect City Guide is back to explore the eclectic offerings in our nation's capital beyond the well-known tourist attractions and symbols of government. Our host for Washington, DC, is architect Andrew Linn, co-founder of BLDUS and Visiting Professor of Practice at Virginia...

GeoCurrents

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

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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.

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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"...

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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...

The Works in...

The economics of the baby bust We talk with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on the latest episode of the Works in Progress podcast.

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We talk with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on the latest episode of the Works in Progress podcast.

Construction Physics

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

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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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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...

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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...

The Honest Broker

A Young Reader Asks for Help I recently received a letter from a young man—but what can I say to him?

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I recently received a letter from a young man—but what can I say to him?

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...

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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...

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“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...

Trying to Understand...

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

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All I can manage this week, sorry.

Archinect

Five Policies of Incoming NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani That Architects Should Know About On November 4th, Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race, completing a political upset...

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On November 4th, Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race, completing a political upset that saw the State Assemblyman beat former State Governor Andrew Cuomo to both the Democratic nomination and the mayoral office. The 34-year-old self-described democratic socialist...

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...

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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...

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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

The Works in...

Evolution under a microscope Generations of microbes evolve in hours, not millennia. By speeding up Darwin’s clock, scientists...

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Generations of microbes evolve in hours, not millennia. By speeding up Darwin’s clock, scientists have watched evolution happen in real time, and it’s changed how we understand natural selection.

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...

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

Retail Design Blog

Oleaster Olive by Irina Kim Oleaster is a line of Mediterranean olives inspired by the timeless legends of ancient Greece. Each...

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Oleaster is a line of Mediterranean olives inspired by the timeless legends of ancient Greece. Each flavour reinterprets a myth...

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...

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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...

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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...

Retail Design Blog

Sarnova headquarters by MA Design Sarnova’s new headquarters transformed a dated 1980s office building into a modern workplace that...

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Sarnova’s new headquarters transformed a dated 1980s office building into a modern workplace that reflects the company’s culture of innovation...

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A Deep Dive into Paypigs: Knowledge Paypigs The term”paypigs” has become a source of intrigue and curiosity in the context of specialty...

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The term”paypigs” has become a source of intrigue and curiosity in the context of specialty communities and online interactions. However,...

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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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...

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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...

Retail Design Blog

Incu store by Akin Atelier Founded in 2002 by siblings Brian and Vincent Wu, Incu has since gone leaps and bounds, becoming a...

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Founded in 2002 by siblings Brian and Vincent Wu, Incu has since gone leaps and bounds, becoming a leading multi-brand...

The American Scholar

The Sleeper The post The Sleeper appeared first on The American Scholar.

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The post The Sleeper appeared first on The American Scholar.

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...

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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

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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,...

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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...

Cheese and Biscuits

Elephant, Hackney I spent most of this month in Spain (see previous post) and although I'm happy enough to be back in...

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I spent most of this month in Spain (see previous post) and although I'm happy enough to be back in cold, wet London town (honest), as the evenings really closed in I was in dire need of a reminder of sunnier times and brighter places. And after scrolling through my holiday photo...

The Honest Broker

Derek Thompson on the Anti-Social Century Is technology turning into an "engine for the mass production of narcissism at scale"?

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Is technology turning into an "engine for the mass production of narcissism at scale"?

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

The Works in...

Readers from Canada, Australia and the EU can now subscribe to Works in Progress Our first print edition ships in two weeks.

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Our first print edition ships in two weeks.

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...

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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...

Retail Design Blog

ADAL CREATIVE PLACE OSAKA ADAL CREATIVE PLACE OSAKA is the Osaka branch and showroom for a Fukuoka-based furniture...

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ADAL CREATIVE PLACE OSAKA is the Osaka branch and showroom for a Fukuoka-based furniture manufacturer, situated in Osaka-Honmachi’s business district....

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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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[Concept] Dynamically deflatable