Articles by nafnlj
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Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why (james-zhan.com)

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Despite confusion, NFL players can use own smelling salts (espn.com)

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Paratyphoid Fever and Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever Decimated Napoleon's Army (labrujulaverde.com)

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Historical Performances of Vingegaard and Pogacar on Mont Ventoux (lanternerouge.com)

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I Created a Play-by-Play Dataset for the 2007 College Football Season (thespade.substack.com)

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Putin's Police State Increasingly a State Without Enough Police (jamestown.org)

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List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)

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Reasons for Cannabis Use Among Youths at Ultra High Risk for Psychosis (2013) (nih.gov)

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You Can't Recycle Bowling Balls – But People Keep Trying (2021) (curbed.com)

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Windows Telemetry (sizeof.cat)

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Proposal could let Army, Navy play 13th regular season game (cbssports.com)

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A Stink over 'Odoriferous' (grammarphobia.com)

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Solicitor General Redacted the Word "Plenary" from a SCOTUS Brief with Marker (reason.com)

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Argentine rodents are Dubai oasis' newest residents (apnews.com)

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Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware (citizenlab.ca)

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Yakuza Mine – Samurai, Ronin, Kabuki-Mono: The Crazy Ones (gangstersinc.org)

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Marine pilot loses command after ejecting from F-35B that kept flying (marinecorpstimes.com)

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The Private Train Car Edition (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)

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Getting a Japanese CERO age rating for your game costs extra per platform (automaton-media.com)

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Turkish Journalists Are Now 'Telling the Xinjiang Story Well' for Beijing (jamestown.org)

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The Grounded Worldview of the Losing Heroines: Makeine Production Notes (sakugabooru.com)

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In Belarus, the native language is vanishing as Russian takes prominence (washingtontimes.com)

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Tajikistan: New Law Bans Muslim Clothing and Limits Religious Celebrations (loc.gov)

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Collecting Pokémon Cards Again (johto.substack.com)

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A Language of Beautiful Impurity (edwest.co.uk)

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Interview with Joe Merrick (Serebii.net) (johto.substack.com)

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Wait, you can still send telegrams in Japan? (soranews24.com)

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Temu's ad spend soars as it embarks on a marketing blitz (modernretail.co)

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"Bicycle Chicken" Blues: Why Burkina Faso Is Losing Taste for Its Local Birds (worldcrunch.com)

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Kenya strikes 'large deposits' of Coltan, mineral used in phones (nation.africa)

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Logitech Unveils Washable K310 Keyboard (2012) (logitech.com)

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The Life Changing Linguistics of Nigerian Scam Emails (2019) (jstor.org)

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Kyrgyzstan's new flag raised to a chorus of anger, confusion, threats (eurasianet.org)

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One of the Most Obscure Consoles, the Casio Loopy, Gets Its Own Flash Cart (timeextension.com)

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Studio Troyca's 10th Anniversary Work That Embodies Their Evolution: Overtake (sakugabooru.com)

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The Intriguing Story of How Yemen Got F-5E Tiger II Fighters (thedrive.com)

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A Brief History of Uzbekistan's Plov (smithsonianmag.com)

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RSS Parrot – Service that creates Mastodon accounts for feeds (rss-parrot.net)

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NanoPi R2S Plus is a tiny RK3328 router board with dual Ethernet ports for $30 (liliputing.com)

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Hallucinating Josh Blackman (reason.com)

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NYC councilwoman-elect admits to using AI to communicate with the public (nypost.com)

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Interactive Fiction Engine List (ifwiki.org)

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Beet Make-Up (themoscowtimes.com)

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NYC Manhole Covers: History and How They're Made (untappedcities.com)

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App Defaults (Collection of blogger-submitted default app lists) (rknight.me)

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How did the Pink Pigeon bounce back from just nine birds? (2019) (birdlife.org)

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The Mysterious Norwegian Art of Painting on Dead Fish (atlasobscura.com)

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The Virtual Boy Fan Making New Tech and Games for Nintendo's Console Curio (nintendolife.com)

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Who Are the Three US SCOTUS Justices to Use the Word “Baubles” in an Opinion? (reason.com)

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The longest word you can type on the first row (rubenerd.com)

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PDF Format History: Where Our Future History Lies (2018) (tedium.co)

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Introducing Bodhi Linux 7.0, Built on Ubuntu 22.04 (bodhilinux.com)

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How to Properly Store Your Game Boy Cartridges (brainbaking.com)

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Remains of an underwater hospital and cemetery at Dry Tortugas (nps.gov)

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Disabling Intel E-Cores CPU Nets 50% Better Performance in Atlas Fallen (wccftech.com)

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America’s Beloved Meyer Lemon Caused a Mid-Century Citrus Panic (atlasobscura.com)

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On the brink: Namibia’s wild desert horses (africageographic.com)

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Google Revises New Driver for Stadia Controller Rumble Support on Linux (phoronix.com)

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Blocking 2 High-Ranking Pages with Robots.txt (ahrefs.com)

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NBA Draft: Is Being 7 Feet Tall the Fastest Way to Get Rich in America (2013) (forbes.com/sites/dandiamond)

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Nostr Verify: WordPress plugin for Nostr verification using NIP-05 (github.com/jeherve)

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Nostr: Verify your name on your WordPress site (jeremy.hu)

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Japan's Switch Sales in June Were Reportedly a Record High for the Console (nintendolife.com)

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Using FreshRSS to “Like” blog posts via Webmention (2019) (ruk.ca)

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An elegant new orchid is found hiding in plain sight (phys.org)

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Nex: A little internet protocol inspired by Gemini and Gopher (nightfall.city)

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Finding a way out of Japan's 30-year housing cycle (metropolisjapan.com)

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The Gulf War Game Boy Says Goodbye to Nintendo New York Store (siliconera.com)

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Briar Desktop now supports MacOS (briarproject.org)

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DeltaTouch, a community created client for Ubuntu Touch (delta.chat)

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Not-So-Awesome Bing Search Bans and De-Indexing (github.com/nafnlj)

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Beepers and Pagers: A Technology for More Than Drug Dealers (tedium.co)

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Metadata for Image Search and Discovery (jstor.org)

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The Age Barrier, and Its Costs (instapundit.substack.com)

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A map of NYC’s park benches could help save them, thanks to these CUNY students (gothamist.com)

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XiMatrix: Request filter inspired by uMatrix (FF extension) (github.com/xi)

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The Worst Coronations in History (edwest.substack.com)

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Trees said to be planted by first Tokugawa shogun bear fruit used for sweets (soranews24.com)

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uBlock Origin 1.49.2 Available as Thunderbird Add-On (github.com/gorhill)

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Kazakhstan Establishes Legal Framework for Digital Assets and Cryptomining (loc.gov)

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Jaleco – 2011 Developer Interview (shmuplations.com)

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U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers (kare11.com)

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PocketBook InkPad Color 2 brings faster processor, IPX8 rating, and more storage (liliputing.com)

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What does “high degree of freedom” mean in video games? (automaton-media.com)

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The Arc of the “Public Intellectual” (reason.com)

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Auspicious Machine: Modular Handheld Linux PC with a BlackBerry-Style Keyboard (liliputing.com)

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The mysterious textInput RSS field (rubenerd.com)

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Uganda: Computer Misuse (Amendment) Act Enacted (loc.gov)

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The meaning of the Mandarin and 6 other Japanese New Year traditions explained (soranews24.com)

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Haiti's Cherished Soup Joumou (smithsonianmag.com)

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Lesotho: High Court Nullifies Declaration of State of Emergency (loc.gov)

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Father of contemporary Christmas John Pintard (1998) (deseret.com)

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Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? (Poem) (loc.gov)

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Why do seats at some Japanese station platforms face away from the trains? (soranews24.com)

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New Law Allows Egyptian Expats to Import Personal Cars with No Customs Duties (loc.gov)

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Can Hall Effect Sensors Stop Drift Forever? (ifixit.com)

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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet use the same RNG seed under certain battle conditions (automaton-media.com)

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NYC landlords must post FDNY safety bulletin warning of e-bike battery fires (nypost.com)

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Curation and decentralization is better than millions of apps (f-droid.org)

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How the famous “comfy shorts” quote worked in Japanese Pokémon (2018) (legendsoflocalization.com)