Articles by Balgair
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DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List (military.com)

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Alzheimer's drugs offer little benefit, major review finds (theconversation.com)

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MapTap – How good is your Geography? (maptap.gg)

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Economics of Curing Cancer (RoR of 1024%) (nber.org)

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Kevin Kelly – Some Contemporary Heresies (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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A National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence [pdf] (whitehouse.gov)

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A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next (2026) (digg.com)

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Spectre I, shuts down microphones nearby you (deveillance.com)

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" Tech debt is gone. Not that we solved it, but that AI made it irrelevant." (axios.com)

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Denver schools blocking ChatGPT over group chats, adult content (chalkbeat.org)

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RFK Jr.'S Tuskegee Experiment (pauloffit.substack.com)

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We're measuring AI benchmarks wrong. here's the right way (twitter.com/intuitmachine)

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010) (kalzumeus.com)

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My Issues with AI in the Creative Process – James Gurney (Dinotopia) (jamesgurney.substack.com)

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Best Case Scenario Fo AI (twitter.com/davidsacks)

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A Bicycle for the Mind (jamesgurney.substack.com)

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Phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs (nature.com)

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AI Titanic Content Is Out of Control [video] (youtube.com)

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About the 10k applicants 1 hire post (reddit.com)

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Tell HN: Ask your AI of choice for a review of your 2024

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Willow's Box [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: I'm remote and a coworker just died. Umm, now what?

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AI is forcing teachers to confront an existential question (washingtonpost.com)

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Why Are So Many Men Thinking About the Roman Empire? (digg.com)

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Marking 9/11 with memorial stair climbs in Denver [video] (youtube.com)

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Tell HN: You can view Twitter profiles again without logging in

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Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness (washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Happy July 4th What are some thing you like about the US

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[flagged] Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate (counterhate.com)

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Why Job Searches Suck (businessinsider.com)

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The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy (youtube.com)

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Elon Musk Picks NBC’s Linda Yaccarino as New Twitter CEO (washingtonpost.com)

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Musk's attempt to monetize Twitter has failed (boingboing.net)

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AI recreation of 500 pounds of pasta in the New Jersey woods (boingboing.net)

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Can the Capitol hold a much bigger House? Yes, here’s how it would look (washingtonpost.com)

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Elon Musk has had a wild week. Now he wants to start an AI company (washingtonpost.com)

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Fiscal crisis nears as McCarthy takes debt ceiling plan to Wall Street (washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: What are some important trends in technology besides AIs?

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My IUD tried to kill me (youtube.com)

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Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing (digitalnative.substack.com)

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NewsGPT (newsgpt.ai)

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Dishonor Code: What Happens When Cheating Becomes the Norm? (thefp.com)

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Twitter lays off another 10% of staff (cnn.com)

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Scientists have discovered a new core at the center of the Earth (washingtonpost.com)

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Tesla engineering HQ returning to California, Musk announces (ktla.com)

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Japan readies ‘last hope’ measures to stop falling births (ft.com)

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Tech’s Productivity Obsession Is Toxic (wired.co.uk)

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Putin says Russia will suspend role in New START nuclear accord with U.S. (washingtonpost.com)

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[flagged] Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival (washingtonpost.com)

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[dupe] CDC says teen girls are caught in an extreme wave of sadness and violence (nbcnews.com)

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Elon's tweets are now protected (twitter.com/elonmusk)

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[flagged] What’s the Matter with Men? (newyorker.com)

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Tips for a Better Life (lesswrong.com)

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The America trap: Why our enemies often underestimate us (washingtonpost.com)

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With $1.5B bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great (ft.com)

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Twitter to increase 280 character limit to 4k (indiatimes.com)

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Twitter Employees Escorted Out of Singapore Office (gizmodo.com)

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Twitter Coins (twitter.com/wongmjane)

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Ask Adam Savage: Unlikely Career Advice That Was Helpful (youtube.com)

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Musk ragequits Twitter Space meeting then shuts down Twitter Spaces (boingboing.net)

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Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue logo is perfectly awful (fastcompany.com)

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I’m a Boomer. Young People Don’t Have Much to Learn from Us (thedailybeast.com)

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Elon Musk cuts more of Twitter’s perks – home internet, training, daycare (theverge.com)

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Elon Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account (washingtonpost.com)

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Robin Wheeler, Twitter's Sales Head, has been fired (twitter.com/caseynewton)

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What We Learned from Elon Musk's Q&A on Twitter Spaces Today (digg.com)

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Ash HN: Should We Move the 'Whos Hiring' Thread up to Weekly temporarily?

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Musk blames Twitter's drop in revenue on “activists” instead of himself (boingboing.net)

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Musk's attempt at trolling AOC backfires (boingboing.net)

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Selling Blue Checks hits the reset button on Twitter's anointed elite (boingboing.net)

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I Played Facebook's VR Metaverse so you never have to (youtube.com)

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There May Be 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft Buzzing in Our Solar System (thedailybeast.com)

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The Secret Facebook Group Where Women Review Men They've Dated (glamour.com)

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Police use new app to track people without a warrant (salon.com)

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Study shows bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs (boingboing.net)

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Postdoctoral Research Scholar, the Interplanetary Initiative Fellowship (interfolio.com)

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Google partners with Acer, Lenovo, Asus on new cloud gaming Chromebooks (xda-developers.com)

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Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Parag Agrawal Cratered the Twitter Deal in Texts (theverge.com)

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Insurers force change on police departments long resistant to it

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Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk's $44B takeover deal

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Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Cuts Responsible Innovation Team

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O Block

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Meta's big problem: Everything about VR looks supremely uncool

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Quiet Quitting and the Death of Office Culture

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Russia’s spies misread Ukraine and misled Kremlin as war loomed

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Three cryptocurrencies that could be next to explode

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The Number of ‘Lonely, Single Men’ Is on the Rise Thanks to Higher Standards

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‘I didn’t learn anything’: Covid grads face college

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There’s a New, Chaotic Possibility in the Elon Musk/Twitter Trial

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Putin could give a Ukraine victory speech tomorrow