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Sendowl raised my monthly fee from $39 to >$200, more than 100% of my margin (mamot.fr)

a day ago | dredmorbius | mamot.fr | frontpage

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Do you approve of the state of the software industry? (floss.social)

3 days ago | dredmorbius | floss.social | newest

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Kent State Shootings (wikipedia.org)

5 days ago | dredmorbius | wikipedia.org | newest

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I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt (huffpost.com)

5 days ago | dredmorbius | huffpost.com | best

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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On (propublica.org)

a week ago | dredmorbius | propublica.org | newest

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An interesting day in Barcelona it was (infosec.exchange)

a week ago | dredmorbius | infosec.exchange | newest

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Spain is still struggling to honour historical memory (2017) (theconversation.com)

a week ago | dredmorbius | theconversation.com | newest

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Michael Tilson Thomas takes his final bow with San Francisco Symphony (sfchronicle.com)

a week ago | dredmorbius | sfchronicle.com | newest

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Kosmos 482 Descent Craft reentry forecasts (sattrackcam.blogspot.com)

a week ago | dredmorbius | blogspot.com | newest

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Reports of surge in phone checks at the US border [audio] (abc.net.au)

2 weeks ago | dredmorbius | abc.net.au | newest

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Have you ever thought "I wish that I could read online news like a newspaper?" (toot.cat)

3 weeks ago | dredmorbius | toot.cat | newest

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Have you ever asked "I wish that I could read online news like a newspaper?" (toot.cat)

3 weeks ago | dredmorbius | toot.cat | frontpage

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ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser (flausch.social)

3 weeks ago | dredmorbius | flausch.social | best

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How Pebbles Form Planets (nautil.us)

a month ago | dredmorbius | nautil.us | newest

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Nonsense: Forms thereof, falsifiability, pseudoscience, and bullshit (2014) (archive.org)

a month ago | dredmorbius | archive.org | newest

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Scientist in France got briefing on what to do when traveling to the US (oftrolls.com)

a month ago | dredmorbius | oftrolls.com | frontpage

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Torrenting to seed US Government scientific datasets (aus.social)

a month ago | dredmorbius | aus.social | frontpage

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USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug 'resistant to everything we have' (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | frontpage

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OPEC, Petrodollars, and the 1980s Homeless Crisis (2017) (archive.org)

2 months ago | dredmorbius | archive.org | newest

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The Demise of Diasp.org (ncf.ca)

2 months ago | dredmorbius | ncf.ca | newest

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Weather and climate data shown on this website and others are at risk (nullschool.net)

2 months ago | dredmorbius | nullschool.net | newest

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Stone Soup AI (2024) (simons.berkeley.edu)

3 months ago | dredmorbius | berkeley.edu | frontpage

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Power Law in Popular Media (2018) (michaeltauberg.medium.com)

3 months ago | dredmorbius | medium.com | newest

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Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them (bloomberg.com)

4 months ago | dredmorbius | bloomberg.com | newest

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The comp.risks Digest SSL cert expired nearly a year ago (ncl.ac.uk)

4 months ago | dredmorbius | ncl.ac.uk | newest

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Adult literacy, numeracy skills declining or stagnating in most OECD countries (oecd.org)

4 months ago | dredmorbius | oecd.org | newest

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Big five publishers have abandoned literary fiction, putting it on life support (persuasion.community)

5 months ago | dredmorbius | persuasion.community | frontpage

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Intellectual Property: The attack on public access to culture (2001) (archive.org)

5 months ago | dredmorbius | archive.org | newest

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Social Media Accounts – Bankruptcy Court Ruling Sets Precedent (2015) (abfjournal.com)

5 months ago | dredmorbius | abfjournal.com | newest

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Newspapers Fact Sheet (2023) (pewresearch.org)

5 months ago | dredmorbius | pewresearch.org | newest

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Propaganda of the Deed (wikipedia.org)

5 months ago | dredmorbius | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Rapid intensification, extreme rapid intensification–and then Hurricane Milton (thebulletin.org)

7 months ago | dredmorbius | thebulletin.org | newest

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Our whindex status maps reflect our closures as of 2pm today (poast.org)

7 months ago | dredmorbius | poast.org | newest

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The Verge of a Paywall (status.news)

7 months ago | dredmorbius | status.news | newest

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An Update on the Future of the Web Foundation [pdf] (webfoundation.org)

7 months ago | dredmorbius | webfoundation.org | newest

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1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (wikipedia.org)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | wikipedia.org | newest

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Kyshtym Disaster (wikipedia.org)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | wikipedia.org | newest

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What We Know About Hurricane Helene's Destruction So Far (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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There Are 89,004 Local Governments in the United States (2012) (census.gov)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | census.gov | newest

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Philanthropy steps in to rescue local journalism, for now (chicagobusiness.com)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | chicagobusiness.com | newest

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Google search monopoly US case remedies to come by December (reuters.com)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | reuters.com | newest

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Sergio Mendes, 83, Dies; Brought Brazilian Rhythms to the U.S. Pop Charts (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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Shoe Fitting X-Ray Device (2015) (museumofquackery.com)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | museumofquackery.com | newest

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Empty Boeing Starliner is set to return next week, while its crew stays in space (npr.org)

8 months ago | dredmorbius | npr.org | newest

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What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide? (2022) (homerdixon.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | homerdixon.com | newest

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Cleaning up after WWII (2017) (wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | wordpress.com | best

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In Russia's War on Ukraine, Effective Satellites Are Few and Far Between (2022) (rferl.org)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | rferl.org | newest

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Using a JSON feed for self-published indexes (alexschroeder.ch)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | alexschroeder.ch | newest

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A Reminder of Precedents in Subsidizing Newspapers (2010) (nytimes.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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Why won't some people pay for news? (2022) (glasswings.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | glasswings.com | best

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The Grimy Residue of the AI Bubble (buttondown.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | buttondown.com | newest

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Nearly everyone working on Nova Launcher has been laid off (theverge.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | theverge.com | newest

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The growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | newest

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'Massive disinformation campaign' is slowing global transition to green energy (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Mary Wings Has Died (nytimes.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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'Traditional TV is dying': can networks pivot and survive? (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | newest

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Two X flares launched from the sun, may spark Northern Lights (mlive.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | mlive.com | newest

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How not to say the wrong thing (2013) (latimes.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | latimes.com | best

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97 (npr.org)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | npr.org | frontpage

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Silicon Valley's Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | newest

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The Sonar War (1998) (nytimes.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency (theregister.com)

9 months ago | dredmorbius | theregister.com | frontpage

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Boeing names Robert 'Kelly' Ortberg as new president and CEO (theguardian.com)

10 months ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | frontpage

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William Calley, Convicted of Mass Murder in My Lai Massacre, Dies at 80 (nytimes.com)

10 months ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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Russia and China pounce on rally shooting to undermine U.S. (washingtonpost.com)

10 months ago | dredmorbius | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Wildfire Emergencies Declared in Russia's Far East Republics of Tyva, Sakha (themoscowtimes.com)

10 months ago | dredmorbius | themoscowtimes.com | newest

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Autonomous Weapons Enter the Battlefield (theguardian.com)

10 months ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | newest

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Danger in Plain Sight: The Risk of Triggering a Contingent Election (2023) (lawfaremedia.org)

10 months ago | dredmorbius | lawfaremedia.org | frontpage

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Is a Sandwich a Taco (etymonline.com)

10 months ago | dredmorbius | etymonline.com | newest

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A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites (trilobites.info)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | trilobites.info | newest

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To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun” (lareviewofbooks.org)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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Evolution of the Scrollbar (2019) (matoseb.com)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | matoseb.com | newest

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Archives as Commons (searls.com)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | searls.com | newest

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Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) (archive.org)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | archive.org | newest

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Gen Xers projected to see higher cancer rates than Boomers (npr.org)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | npr.org | frontpage

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Edward Stone, 88, Physicist Who Oversaw Voyager Missions, Is Dead (nytimes.com)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The scientist who sees our chaotic future (newstatesman.com)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | newstatesman.com | newest

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Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition (2021) (chemistry.berkeley.edu)

11 months ago | dredmorbius | berkeley.edu | best

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The overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil's floods (theguardian.com)

12 months ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | newest

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How to Be Obscene (1927) (newyorker.com)

12 months ago | dredmorbius | newyorker.com | best

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May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans, and We Are Blowing It (nytimes.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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Moving from Individual Change to Societal Change (2013) [pdf] (pfree.co.uk)

a year ago | dredmorbius | pfree.co.uk | newest

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The Future of Humanity Institute closed this week (theguardian.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | theguardian.com | newest

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The End of the Future of Humanity Institute (dailynous.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | dailynous.com | newest

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OpenSSF and OpenJS Issue Alert for Takeovers of Open Source Projects (openjsf.org)

a year ago | dredmorbius | openjsf.org | newest

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Investor buys distressed office building near Willis Tower at fire-sale price (chicagobusiness.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | chicagobusiness.com | newest

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From a Tiny Island in Maine, He Serves Up Fresh Media Gossip (nytimes.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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Why BART uses a nonstandard broad gauge (2022) (bart.gov)

a year ago | dredmorbius | bart.gov | newest

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Starting the Journey (2022) (decafbad.net)

a year ago | dredmorbius | decafbad.net | frontpage

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Craig Maloney Has Died (octodon.social)

a year ago | dredmorbius | octodon.social | newest

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Ukrainians intercept advanced Russian kamikaze drone with unique design (essanews.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | essanews.com | frontpage

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Laurent de Brunhoff has died (nytimes.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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Interview: Vernor Vinge (2008) (lwn.net)

a year ago | dredmorbius | lwn.net | newest

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Intramotev CEO on the company's autonomous electric rail freight solution (nridigital.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | nridigital.com | newest

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CNJ No. 1000 (2021) (borail.org)

a year ago | dredmorbius | borail.org | newest

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What Liberal Arts Education Is For (innig.net)

a year ago | dredmorbius | innig.net | newest

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To all Fedi Admins currently being hit with a spam wave (mastodon.de)

a year ago | dredmorbius | mastodon.de | newest

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California Tried to Ban Plastic Grocery Bags (nytimes.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | nytimes.com | newest

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In Memory of Robert Underwood Ayres (2023) (iiasa.ac.at)

a year ago | dredmorbius | iiasa.ac.at | newest

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What can physics tell us about ourselves? [audio] (podcasts.apple.com)

a year ago | dredmorbius | apple.com | newest