Articles by momentmaker
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The American sports plutocracy (derekthompson.org)

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Japan has recorded its ten most popular baby names every year since 1912 (jivx.com)

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Traditions are habits somebody else paid for (pilgrima.ge)

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The Creator Economy Has a New Middle Class (bloomberg.com)

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The Art of Life [video] (youtube.com)

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The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It's Making America Miserable (bloomberg.com)

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Are the Enhanced Games an existential threat to fairness or a cure for death? (newyorker.com)

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Nobody catches themselves envying – the cover story arrives first (pilgrima.ge)

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Overload and insight look identical from the outside (pilgrima.ge)

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The Human Worker as Civilizational Nexus (lukeburgis.com)

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NASA Never Said Sanskrit Was the Best Programming Language (medium.com/datavector)

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Landscape of Consciousness (closertotruth.com)

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A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese (jivx.com)

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Rubber ducking is a mirror that says nothing (pilgrima.ge)

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Four Day Work Week Statistics 2026: What the Data Shows (stealthagents.com)

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What's Behind the Recent Legal Challenges to Costco's Iconic Rotisserie Chicken (kavout.com)

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What is Hassha Merodii? Why every train station in Japan has its own melody (indulgexpress.com)

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Scan Scam: Criminals Redirect China's Public QR Codes to Porn (sixthtone.com)

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Brain Chemistry Changes After Just Three Days of Silence (bgr.com)

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One Piece as Modern Scripture (pilgrimsage.substack.com)

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Over 140k maps of all kinds (davidrumsey.com)

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Cory Doctorow on the Right – and Wrong – Way to Criticize AI (jacobin.com)

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America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report (derekthompson.org)

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Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work (sciencedirect.com)

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You're Weirder Than You Think (atvbt.com)

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Japan has 72 micro-seasons. In 2021 it stopped officially watching most of them (jivx.com)

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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8M Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans (gadgetreview.com)

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The (real) dead economy theory (pluralistic.net)

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The oracle problem is three thousand years old (pilgrima.ge)

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The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI (techcrunch.com)

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A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck near Iwate Pref Japan (nhk.or.jp)

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Find an open source alternative to anything (opensource.builders)

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WikiHouse is a modular system for high performance, zero-carbon buildings (wikihouse.cc)

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The quietest places in the loudest cities (earth.fm)

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The fastest search engine for award travel (seats.aero)

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Walkable Neighborhoods Finder (close.city)

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Save Wisdom Questions (savewisdom.org)

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Elon's iPhone (elonsiphone.com)

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Collection of easy-to-understand science, technology, and how-it-works articles (explainthatstuff.com)

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KCRW's all-music channel blending the collected talents and tastes (kcrw.com)

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Command-line tool to customize Spotify client (spicetify.app)

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Money Is Middleware (pilgrimsage.substack.com)

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1,700 free online courses from top universities (openculture.com)

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An imperfect tool for drawing and exploring symmetrical patterns and designs (eschersket.ch)

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A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers (pgs.sh)

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Robots will replace 700k delivery workers 'sooner or later' warns JD.com boss (ft.com)

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About Those "Hackquisitions" (spyglass.org)

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AryStinger botnet infected D-Link routers worldwide (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Becoming a dad changes men's brains (scientificamerican.com)

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I make good money. Why do I still feel like this? (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)

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[flagged] Smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism (worksinprogress.co)

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Creativity in the form of archived web pages from the dawn of the internet (cameronsworld.net)

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Where the sun stood at the 2026 summer solstice (pilgrimapp.org)

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America's Founders helped create a world they were not yet ready to live in (reason.com)

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How the Fifth Lateran Council unlocked financial theory (sebastiangarren.com)

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We record because we have forgotten how to remember (pilgrimsage.substack.com)

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Americans have never been healthier or more alone. Might these things be related (derekthompson.org)

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OpenAI spending hit $34B last year ahead of planned IPO (ft.com)

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Anxiety around AI is materially triggered and existentially experienced (michaellwy.substack.com)

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Grasping Exponentialism, Efficient AI, Talent Density, & the Pursuit of Together (implications.com)

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Meta’s chaotic AI strategy (wired.com)

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Barnes and Noble Became Private Equity's Most Radical Retail Experiment (bloomberg.com)

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If you can't get a job today, it's your fault (auren.substack.com)

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LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous) (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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You cannot control the mind, and that is not the problem (pilgrima.ge)

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Build an 'Artificial General Engineer' (nytimes.com)

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The Bricks and Mini-Figs Investigation by Coffeezilla [video] (youtube.com)

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Sharper context. Fewer tokens. Open-source middleware for Claude Code (github.com/cytostack)

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All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026) (jivx.com)

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Claude Fable 5 feels less like a launch and more like a preview of AI inequality (reddit.com)

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'Unbelievable how accurate': How paid influencers hype Polymarket's odds (politico.com)

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The future is controlled by companies who control the physical bottlenecks of AI (silicon-frontier.com)

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Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data (nature.com)

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Tokugawa Japan kept 260 warlords from war for 250 years (jivx.com)

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What We Believe Happened: A Summary Timeline of Bricks and Minifigs Store (bricksandminifigs.com)

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Show HN: Meditate-CLI – breathe with your terminal (github.com/walktalkmeditate)

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China's Robotics Dream Began in 1972 (chinatalk.media)

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Dating apps were never built to deliver you to anyone (pilgrimsage.substack.com)

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Red went from the #1 to the #5 colour for Japanese schoolgirls' backpacks (jivx.com)

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Tokyo rent map: ¥70k gap between cheapest and priciest 1K (May 2026 data) (housingassist.com)

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The AI Superstars Who Say a 'Vibe Slop' Crisis Is Coming (wsj.com)

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Scam calls hunt the lonely, not the gullible (pilgrimsage.substack.com)

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From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy (p3institute.substack.com)

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How to Start a Career When AI Is Doing Your Entry-Level Job (every.to/working-overtime)

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[flagged] The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think (derekthompson.org)

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Microsoft AI CEO forecasts human-level AI in 18 months (twitter.com/kimmonismus)

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Ken Griffin says Citadel AI agents finish PhD tasks in days (twitter.com/tftc21)

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We refrigerated our way out of needing each other (pilgrima.ge)

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Will A.I. Make College Obsolete? (newyorker.com)

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50 Years of Text Games by Aaron Reed (thepsmiths.com)

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Drag a slider to read the moon and tide at any coordinate, ±5k years (pilgrimapp.org)

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Paper introduces Positive Alignment framework for AI (twitter.com/rubenlaukkonen)

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Music for Mushrooms – Award-Winning Documentary [video] (youtube.com)

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GitHub project reproduces 58 Schmidhuber papers with AI assistant (twitter.com/hardmaru)

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Opus 4.7 and DeepSeek V4-Pro select Buddhism as preferred religion (twitter.com/tszzl)

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Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI (lesswrong.com)

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He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame? (wired.com)

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The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

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In the Age of Total War – You Will Not Find the Answer Online (wrongalot.substack.com)

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EU accused of wasting €20B on AI computing dreams (politico.eu)