Articles by Tomte
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Nancy Cartwright: Is It All a Big Lie? (zeit.de)

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Clear License (gitlab.com/newcopyleft)

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Neanderthals Were Adept Woodworkers Too (nautil.us)

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We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar (gizmodo.com)

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What is Codemode (pocoo.org)

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Picard 3.0 (metabrainz.org)

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Statutory Copyleft (thomas-huehn.com)

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Hell has more than 7 circles you guys (2022) (colinmorris.github.io)

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One of the worst scientific papers I've ever seen (columbia.edu)

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Gickup (github.com/cooperspencer)

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SmartGo One 3.0 (smartgo.blog)

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Why Economists Don't Listen: Tales from an Anthropology Spy in Economics (indevelopmentmag.substack.com)

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Newsletters should be the director's commentary of every creator (buttondown.com/blog)

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My Answer Is No (columbia.edu)

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NBA 2K27's new MyNBA Legacy mode sounds a lot like basketball Crusader Kings 3 (rockpapershotgun.com)

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Epic Games Store to get an official Linux version (pcguide.com)

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Court sanction for plaintiff's use of prompt-injection [pdf] (arstechnica.net)

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Germ Lisp (2024) (ngyro.com)

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Trusting-Trust Attack Against a Linux Distribution Through Binary Manipulation (arxiv.org)

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Frequentism for Bayesians (columbia.edu)

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Without a Theory of Intelligence (kk.org)

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The only known trebuchet casualty in history (arstechnica.com)

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Invasive beetle is spreading across the world. It's costing economies billions (cnn.com)

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Spectre on RISC-V Silicon [pdf] (lukasgerlach.me)

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Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations (nasa.gov)

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The curious case of Google's AlloyDB (boringsql.com)

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Don't Worry About Scratching Your iPhone Camera Lenses (daringfireball.net)

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Throwback attack: Contractor plants Siemens logic bomb to keep income flowing (controleng.com)

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Birds Are Shit (birdsareshit.com)

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What's New in SuperMemo 20? (supermemo.org)

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RIP Claude (randsinrepose.com)

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A Swarm of Blood Robots (craigmod.com)

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Incremental Learning (super-memory.com)

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Linear types can change the world (1990) [pdf] (ioc.ee)

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Learning 10000 pictures (1973) [pdf] (gwern.net)

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Graduate Student Proves the Fractal Uncertainty Principle (quantamagazine.org)

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The Egison Programming Language (egison.org)

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Welcome to Rubi, a Rule-Based Integrator (rulebasedintegration.org)

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Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps (calnewport.com)

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A "PC" for the apocalypse, works as long as I have fire (reddit.com)

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Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero (scalzi.com)

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Don't Classify. Hallucinate (softwaredoug.com)

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Negative-Interest Tech Debt (jesseduffield.com)

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A unique palaeolithic human ichnological record from Italy (Bàsura Cave) (elifesciences.org)

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The Aaronson Oracle: an interactive lesson in human predictability (aaronsonoracle.com)

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Different meanings of p-value (and how my thinking has changed) (2023) (columbia.edu)

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Tape scratching the "Peter Piper" routine, using a homemade tape loop [video] (youtube.com)

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Sneak peek of the ongoing Android support (Blender 3D) (xcancel.com)

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NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2's Science Mission (nasa.gov)

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Organ donation group trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown (arstechnica.com)

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East Frisian Tea: The German Tea Culture You've Never Heard of (2025) [video] (youtube.com)

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Fountain Codes and Covert Channels (2022) [pdf] (fernuni-hagen.de)

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Println Debugging Done Right (jetbrains.com)

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1980s Comic the Dark Knight Returns Transformed Batman (bbc.com)

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Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest (2017) (princeton.edu)

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IRC technology news from the first half of 2026 (ilmarilauhakangas.fi)

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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures (nasa.gov)

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Pulp Non-Fiction (2018) (princeton.edu)

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Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport (cnn.com)

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Bigger Displays Rumored for Next Year's iPhone Models (macrumors.com)

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Scilab: Open-source software for numerical computation (scilab.org)

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Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model (collectspace.com)

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I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven (2022) (phauer.com)

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The Vietnam of Computer Science (2006) [pdf] (odbms.org)

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Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Rust Maintenance (June-July 2026 Report) (kobzol.github.io)

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Pelles C (pellesc.se)

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Pulverised recycled glass helps boost farm productivity with benefits to soil (abc.net.au)

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Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)

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Large language models can predict the results of social science experiments (nature.com)

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Explosive donated to museum brings bomb squad to Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery (abc.net.au)

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BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens (theautopian.com)

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Fireside Friday, July 31, 2026 (On The Odyssey) (acoup.blog)

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Online Friends Are Real Friends (toska.bearblog.dev)

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Another Reason Not to Use "AI" for Your Writing (scalzi.com)

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Let's Make the Worst Htmx (zserge.com)

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Star Trek the Next Generation Series Bible (Season One) (1987) (archive.org)

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Studying AI in the Wild: Reflections from the AI Work Research Group (2025) (wiley.com)

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RimWorld's Code Defines Strict Gender Roles (2016) (rockpapershotgun.com)

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M64 – ModRetro (modretro.com)

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Origin of Life (hhu.de)

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Florentine monks find 19th century recipe for cola drink (dpa-international.com)

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Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ) (spoj.com)

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Apache Traffic Server (apache.org)

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Emacs-Gnosis – Knowledge System for GNU Emacs (thanosapollo.org)

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AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype (theregister.com)

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Hierarchical File Systems are Dead (2009) (dash.harvard.edu)

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College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure (arstechnica.com)

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When the Walls Came Down (scripting.com)

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Jason Arday (unherd.com)

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International Aerial Photographer of the Year (internationalaerialphotographer.com)

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Tory MP accuses French Navy of firing 'warning' shots near him in Channel (theguardian.com)

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When the Future Doesn't Need Us (borretti.me)

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Verso is a platform for writing documents, books, course materials, and websites (lean-lang.org)

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Most of Your Backfills Didn't Have to Happen (luminousmen.substack.com)

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Mango – Modern IRC Client for Mac, iPhone and iPad (mangoirc.chat)

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Prickly present: dancing cactus toy that raps in Polish about cocaine goes viral (theguardian.com)

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Japan Launches Domestically Produced Quantum Computer (quantumcomputingreport.com)

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We write code by hand: We use Natural Intelligence to build software (handcraftedcode.org)

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Repairing a "for parts" Canon 7D Mark II (boxfish.be)

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Berlin cancels CSD Pride parade after police incident (dw.com)