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US Military Signs Contract to Put Facial Recognition on Drones (vice.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | vice.com | newest

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Plutonium: The most dangerous substance known to man? (worksinprogress.co)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | worksinprogress.co | best

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The first-ever artificial intelligence editor at the Financial Times (niemanlab.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | niemanlab.org | newest

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Future Library Project (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | wikipedia.org | newest

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Future Library Project (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | wikipedia.org | newest

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What a Sixty-Five-Year-Old Book Teaches Us About A.I (newyorker.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | newyorker.com | frontpage

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People only want their technology to do three things (shkspr.mobi)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Watching Paint Dry (edconway.substack.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | substack.com | newest

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The West Tried to Isolate Russia. It Didn’t Work (nytimes.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Open Circuits Book (opencircuitsbook.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | opencircuitsbook.com | newest

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Paul Berg, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Genetic Engineering, Is Dead at 96 (nytimes.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Taiwanese Chip Giant, a U.S. Expansion Stokes Tensions (nytimes.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | nytimes.com | newest

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The Reaction Economy (lrb.co.uk)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | lrb.co.uk | best

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Earth's Inner Core May Have an Inner Core (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | scientificamerican.com | newest

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The Morioka Experience (craigmod.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | craigmod.com | newest

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Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge to NSA mass surveillance (wikimedia.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | wikimedia.org | best

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See how many all-cash buyers snagged houses in your neighborhood (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | washingtonpost.com | newest

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New Space Radar Will Hunt Planet-Threatening Asteroids (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | scientificamerican.com | newest

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Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next month (theverge.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | theverge.com | best

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Intel: Pat Gelsinger’s Struggles (mondaynote.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | mondaynote.com | newest

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How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth? (malwarwickonbooks.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | malwarwickonbooks.com | newest

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Is Artificial Light Poisoning the Planet? (newyorker.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | newyorker.com | newest

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I talked about Bing and tried to explain language models on live TV (simonwillison.net)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | simonwillison.net | newest

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A Spiritual Successor to Emacs (vivekhaldar.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | vivekhaldar.com | best

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Sips: Scriptable Image Processing System (simonwillison.net)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | simonwillison.net | best

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Neglecting the scrollbar: a costly trend in UI design (blakewatson.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | blakewatson.com | newest

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HarperCollins union approves contract, ends 3-month strike (apnews.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | apnews.com | newest

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These Radically Simple Changes Helped Lawmakers Get Things Done (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | washingtonpost.com | newest

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A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets (knowingmachines.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | knowingmachines.org | best

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What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles? (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | quantamagazine.org | best

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The Oral History of Raccacoonie, from 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (inverse.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | inverse.com | newest

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Git Security Vulnerabilities Announced (github.blog)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | github.blog | newest

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Gasoline Car Review (greer.fm)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | greer.fm | newest

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The Anatomy of Visually-Hidden (tpgi.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | tpgi.com | newest

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Mirror Fever (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | laphamsquarterly.org | newest

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On Code Coverage Tools (chelseatroy.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | chelseatroy.com | newest

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Closing the NASA Loop (haxx.se)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | haxx.se | newest

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Also Italian (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | laphamsquarterly.org | best

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Ending the Covid emergency will complicate student-loan forgiveness (scotusblog.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | scotusblog.com | newest

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The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession (stratechery.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | stratechery.com | best

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Polari (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | wikipedia.org | newest

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Tracking the asteroids that fly near Earth (reuters.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | reuters.com | newest

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When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | pluralistic.net | frontpage

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Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm (ericwbailey.website)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | ericwbailey.website | newest

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End-to-End Tests with Content Blockers? (chriscoyier.net)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | chriscoyier.net | newest

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Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low (cartercenter.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | cartercenter.org | best

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Jupiter's moon count jumps to 92 (apnews.com)

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Archiving in the time of streaming (textfiles.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | textfiles.com | best

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The Great Construction Mystery (nytimes.com)

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Bob Born, Who Brought Marshmallow Peeps to the Masses, Dies at 98 (nytimes.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | nytimes.com | newest

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Types of email you should never send (timharford.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | timharford.com | newest

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Showering at the South Pole (brr.fyi)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | brr.fyi | best

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Who invented knitting? The plot thickens (eukaryotewritesblog.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | eukaryotewritesblog.com | newest

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Dancing with the Stairs: From Vaudeville to TikTok (nytimes.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | nytimes.com | newest

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Humans Need Play (allenpike.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | allenpike.com | newest

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The hero(ine) who invented Lorem Ipsum may never be known (slate.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | slate.com | newest

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Projection Connections: A Nerdy Poster (somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | wordpress.com | newest

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Mapping Medieval History with Broken Pots (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | leidenmedievalistsblog.nl | newest

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Fairy Tale as MFA Antidote (countercraft.substack.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | substack.com | newest

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In 2023, humanity moved closer than ever to self-destruction (qz.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | qz.com | newest

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King Charles III's Coronation Jewels Will Be Worth Nearly $4B (instyle.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | instyle.com | newest

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Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy (2022) (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | scientificamerican.com | newest

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Picture This: The Periodic Table (pioneerworks.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | pioneerworks.org | newest

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Colors Available to Emacs (raebear.net)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | raebear.net | newest

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The Bookstore of My Dreams Is Not What I Would Have Imagined (nytimes.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | nytimes.com | newest

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Pickup trucks have gotten bigger, higher-tech – and more dangerous (axios.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | axios.com | frontpage

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How to Respect a Mummy (defector.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | defector.com | newest

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Did Ancient Egypt Have a Pigeon Problem? (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | atlasobscura.com | newest

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The rockets NASA and SpaceX plan to send to the moon (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Design of Emacs in Rust (coredumped.dev)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | coredumped.dev | newest

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State Department to phase out Times New Roman font, adopt Calibri (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | washingtonpost.com | newest

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The Battle over Bike Lanes Needs a Mindset Shift (wired.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | wired.com | frontpage

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Steamships, Part I: Crossing the Atlantic (technicshistory.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | technicshistory.com | newest

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What did Shakespeare mean when he wrote “let’s kill all the lawyers?” M (lithub.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | lithub.com | newest

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Average Pregnancy Length Shorter in the US Than European Countries (technologynetworks.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | technologynetworks.com | newest

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International domain names: where does https://meßagefactory.ca lead you? (lemire.me)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | lemire.me | best

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Regexp Delimiters (perl.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | perl.org | newest

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Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (c82.net)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | c82.net | newest

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Wonders of Street View (neal.fun)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | neal.fun | best

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Border officials are seeing a spike in egg-smugglers at the U.S. (npr.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | npr.org | newest

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Drake Equation Calculator (spacecentre.nz)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | spacecentre.nz | newest

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Bringing GitHub Actions to GitHub Mobile (github.blog)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | github.blog | newest

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IKEA’s Doomed Quest to Design a Couch You Can Carry in Your Hands (2017) (fastcompany.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | fastcompany.com | newest

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When bees get a taste for dead things (2021) (ucr.edu)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | ucr.edu | frontpage

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Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder? (eclecticlight.co)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | eclecticlight.co | newest

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Origin and Development of a Snowflake Map (usgs.gov)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | usgs.gov | frontpage

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The Tyranny of the Churn Equation (david-smith.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | david-smith.org | newest

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The Book Cover Review (bookcoverreview.co.uk)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | bookcoverreview.co.uk | newest

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The FBI Won't Say Whether It Hacked Dark Web Isis Site (vice.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | vice.com | newest

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The awardees for our $150M Regranting Challenge (openphilanthropy.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | openphilanthropy.org | newest

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The Tyranny of the Churn Equation (david-smith.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | david-smith.org | newest

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The Alien Grave of Aurora, Texas (burialsandbeyond.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | burialsandbeyond.com | best

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The Page with No Code (danq.me)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | danq.me | newest

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A Bank of Her Own (jstor.org)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | jstor.org | newest

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Stage Manager for the unimpressed: 1 Getting started (eclecticlight.co)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | eclecticlight.co | newest

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We Don’t Trade with Ants (worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | worldspiritsockpuppet.com | newest

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A Pokemon Case Study: Objects vs. Names (2019) (otterstack.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | otterstack.com | newest

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Living with Wolves (catapult.co)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | catapult.co | newest

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India will become the world’s most populous country in 2023 (economist.com)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | economist.com | newest

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Ray Tracer Construction Kit (matklad.github.io)

a year ago | Amorymeltzer | github.io | newest