Articles by mkmk
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Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant (nickcarr.com)

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Grafana Labs acquires Logline to accelerate needle-in-the-haystack log queries (grafana.com)

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New York Proposal to Tax QSBS Gains (pbwt.com)

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Meteorologist warns federal cuts are undermining weather forecasts nationwide (lehighvalleynews.com)

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Why the most predictable kind of renewable energy is also the hardest to use (jordanwtaylor2.substack.com)

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Shades of Meaning (2018) (uchicago.edu)

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Anthropic's Super Bowl Commercials Troll OpenAI (twitter.com/claudeai)

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Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space (nro.gov)

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A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019) (longnow.org)

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Project Athena Strategic Plan (Jared Isaacman, NASA Head Nominee) (drive.google.com)

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How the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Works (youtube.com)

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A new study sheds light on the moon's age and origin story (uchicago.edu)

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Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America, Now the State Fossil of MN (smithsonianmag.com)

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How the US and USSR Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate in the Space Race (smithsonianmag.com)

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Should Scientists Inject Saturn's Moon Enceladus with Life? (smithsonianmag.com)

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How the New Sqlite3_rsync Utility Works (nochlin.com)

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What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can? (reddit.com)

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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch (theverge.com)

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Black Market, Black Friday: What $20 gets you at the 16th Street BART plaza (sfstandard.com)

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Oddly-Specific Cleaning Products (aftermath.site)

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Digital "AVATAR" therapy for distressing voices in psychosis (nature.com)

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NSA releases internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm Grace Hopper (nsa.gov)

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes side-by-side cut of raw footage vs. final film (ew.com)

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NTSB Preliminary Report on Baltimore Bridge Collapse Released (gcaptain.com)

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The London street bollards that are old cannons (stephenliddell.co.uk)

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The Bone Marrow Transplant Revolution (theatlantic.com)

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Finding and Digitizing the Apollo 11 Moon Landing on NBC [video] (youtube.com)

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MIT Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls [video] (youtube.com)

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Google's Bard shows big leap on LLM performance leaderboard (twitter.com/lmsysorg)

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Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients (fda.gov)

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Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out (uchicago.edu)

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[flagged] US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea (apnews.com)

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Scalable and Transferable Black-Box Jailbreaks for LLMs via Persona Modulation (arxiv.org)

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Nat Friedman denies that GitHub Co-Pilot loses money (twitter.com/natfriedman)

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Guy in backyard makes contact with ISS Astronaut using handheld antenna [video] (youtube.com)

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ZZzzzz (Joke Line) (wikipedia.org)

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The FTC, 1health.io, and Genetic Data Privacy and Security (lawfaremedia.org)

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Insider trade on Splunk acquisition? (twitter.com/unusual_whales)

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Cisco Acquires Splunk for 28B (reuters.com)

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Causality and shared pathophysiology between depression and type 2 diabetes [pdf] (medrxiv.org)

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Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (wikipedia.org)

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A Time Capsule Appeared to Be Full of Dirt. Then, They Looked Closer (nytimes.com)

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West Point time capsule that appeared to be empty yields centuries-old coins (apnews.com)

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In a Decaying Queens Fortress, It’s One Man versus 47 Kinds of Mosquito (nytimes.com)

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$100B bet that a postindustrial US city can reinvent itself as a tech hub (technologyreview.com)

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As Militaries Adopt AI, Hype Becomes a Weapon (jstor.org)

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One Electron Universe (wikipedia.org)

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Kentucky man finds over 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield (livescience.com)

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New studies show solar panel efficiency threshold breakthrough (independent.co.uk)

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Titan Submersible analysis from SubBrief (20 year veteran of US Navy) [video] (youtube.com)

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Assault Allegations Plague a $1.4B Home Eldercare Startup (bloomberg.com)

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Couple Goes to Psychedelic Therapy Twice a Year (insider.com)

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The Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar (2017) (topic.com)

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Cape York Meteorite (wikipedia.org)

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[dupe] Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation (twitter.com/spacex)

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Fox News and Dominion settle election defamation lawsuit for $787.5M (cnbc.com)

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Babyagi: An example of an AI-powered task management system (github.com/yoheinakajima)

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Ancient Mummies from Mexico Might Be Infecting Humans (popularmechanics.com)

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Ukraine’s Battered Steel Industry Galvanized Its War Effort (nytimes.com)

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Franking (Postage) (wikipedia.org)

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Map of an Insect’s Brain (smithsonianmag.com)

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Rippling historically relied on SVB for payments rails for payroll (twitter.com/parkerconrad)

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129-year-old vessel still tethered to lifeboat found on floor of Lake Huron (smithsonianmag.com)

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FTC says online counseling service BetterHelp broke privacy promises (ftc.gov)

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Hindu and Indian State Senator condemns anti-caste-discrimination ordinance (twitter.com/nirajantani)

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Australians find missing radioactive device (nytimes.com)

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The myth of the 25-year-old brain (slate.com)

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Who is stealing speed cameras from Sweden’s roads? (nytimes.com)

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What makes a phone call 'scratchy'?