Articles by perihelions
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Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate (nytimes.com)

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US drops plan to deport Chinese national who exposed Xinjiang abuses (apnews.com)

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Captive Scam Workers in Cambodia Couldn't Flee as Bombs Fell (wsj.com)

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China Delays Plans for Mass Production of Self-Driving Cars After Accident (nytimes.com)

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Intelligence agencies suspect Russia is developing anti-satellite weapon (pbs.org)

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Starlink Satellite 35956 is largely intact (twitter.com/michaelnicollsx)

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Evidence shows deadly Brown, MIT shootings may be linked, sources say (foxnews.com)

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Starlink 35956 suffered a failure with venting of the propulsion tank (bsky.app)

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Trump media group agrees $6B merger with Google-backed fusion energy company (ft.com)

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Rockstar Insists GTA 6 Devs Were Fired for Leaks, Not Unionizing (gamespot.com)

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Grand Theft Auto game creator sacked us for trying to unionise (bbc.com)

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Crypto Entrepreneur Do Kwon Gets 15-Year Prison Sentence (wsj.com)

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Executive order to reclassify marijuana as soon as Monday (cnbc.com)

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The Race to Run AI from Space (wsj.com)

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Reddit Sues Australian Government to Block Social Media Ban (nytimes.com)

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China's AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity from Biggest Grid (wsj.com)

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Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space (wsj.com)

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Chinese government circulated sexually explicit deepfakes of dissident Yao Zhang (cbc.ca)

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[flagged] Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz (forever-wars.com)

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U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe–Not Russia–As Villain in Security Policy (wsj.com)

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Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations' (theguardian.com)

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Sam Altman Has Explored Deal to Build Competitor to Elon Musk's SpaceX (wsj.com)

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'Chemtrails' Conspiracy Theory Dogging the Battle Against Drought (wsj.com)

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China's 1st reusable rocket explodes in fireball landing after reaching orbit (space.com)

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A Devastating Fire Has Fueled a National Security Crackdown in Hong Kong (nytimes.com)

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Zhuque-3 reaches orbit on test flight, first stage lost during landing attempt (spacenews.com)

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China's first reusable rocket Zhuque-3 makes maiden voyage but recovery fails (scmp.com)

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Google-backed fusion group moves to commercialise neutral-beam technology (ft.com)

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Zhuque-3: Stage 1 failure during the landing burn (twitter.com/dpoddolphinpro)

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LandSpace could become China's first company to land a reusable rocket (arstechnica.com)

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China's StarDetect raises Series A funding to expand on-orbit computing (spacenews.com)

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Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker (ft.com)

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The NaK Population: a 2019 Status [pdf] (nasa.gov)

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Chicago Data Center Overheated–and Shut Down Trade in Key Markets (wsj.com)

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Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor' (latimes.com)

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Eric Schmidt's ex-mistress sues former Google CEO over alleged stalking, abuse (nypost.com)

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Germany's Plan for War with Russia (wsj.com)

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Baikonur launch pad damaged after Russian Soyuz launch to Space Station (reuters.com)

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D.C. Shooting Suspect 'Could Not Tolerate' Violence of His CIA-Backed Unit (nytimes.com)

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Research in China: 1000 special drones could disconnect Taiwan from Starlink (heise.de)

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Chinese researchers simulate jamming Starlink in Taiwan conflict (taipeitimes.com)

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Skyscrapers engulfed in flames after fire spreads on bamboo scaffolding (metro.co.uk)

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Modder who put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at lawyers (gamesradar.com)

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Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. To Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say (nytimes.com)

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Hayli Gubbi Volcano (planet.com)

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DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping (theregister.com)

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Lecithin (wikipedia.org)

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Amazon's X-energy gets backing from Jane Street as investors bet big on nuclear (ft.com)

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Gordon Bell finalist team pushes scale of rocket simulation on El Capitan (llnl.gov)

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The Failed Crusade to Keep a Rare-Earths Mine Out of China's Hands (wsj.com)

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Newest Starship booster is significantly damaged during testing (arstechnica.com)

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A Tap-to-Pay Society Is Leaving New Yorkers Behind (nytimes.com)

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Researcher's Smuggling Arrest Casts Light on Dispute over Chinese Students (nytimes.com)

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Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks (theguardian.com)

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New rare earth crisis is brewing as yttrium shortages spread (reuters.com)

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Ex-Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity (theguardian.com)

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Wheel Running in the Wild (royalsocietypublishing.org)

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Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship with Woman He Called a Mentee (thecrimson.com)

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U.S. Congress considers ban on Chinese collaborations (science.org)

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Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try (techcrunch.com)

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Danish man given suspended sentence for sharing film scenes on Reddit (bbc.co.uk)

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Typesetting the "Begriffsschrift" by Gottlob Frege in Plain TeX [pdf] (tug.org)

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The AI Cold War (wsj.com)

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Kruskal's Tree Theorem (wikipedia.org)

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The seven virtues of simple type theory (2008) [pdf] (mcmaster.ca)

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Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük (2012) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Volapük Is a Constructed Language (wikipedia.org)

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Book Notes on Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics (logicmatters.net)

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Special counsel indicts ex-President Yoon on charges of aiding enemy (yna.co.kr)

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South Korea's ex-president Yoon indicted on new charges (dw.com)

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Beginning Mathematical Logic: A Study Guide (logicmatters.net)

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Deep Beneath Helsinki, the Playgrounds Are Bomb Shelters (nytimes.com)

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Rovina's Choice (newyorker.com)

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China reached out to NASA to avoid a potential satellite collision (space.com)

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Colonial spider community in Sulfur Cave sustained by chemoautotrophy (pensoft.net)

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China delays Shenzhou-20 crew return after suspected space debris impact (spacenews.com)

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Two videos captured meteorite impacts on the lunar surface (nytimes.com)

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Some Data from LeelaPieceOdds (lesswrong.com)

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Rome: Worker trapped and one injured after part of medieval tower collapses (theguardian.com)

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Nvidia Is Now Worth $5T as It Consolidates Power (nytimes.com)

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Volunteers Step in to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa (nytimes.com)

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Vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab (2022) (gavi.org)

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No radiation measured in Norway after missile allegedly flew 14,000 km (thebarentsobserver.com)

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Hurricane Melissa threatens Jamaica with worst-case scenario as Category 5 (washingtonpost.com)

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How to Use Zorn's Lemma (2008) (gowers.wordpress.com)

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Hurricane Melissa could strike Jamaica as a Category 5 before two more landfalls (washingtonpost.com)

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Arctic City Must Be Moved (wsj.com)

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DNA Identifies 2 Bacterial Killers That Stalked Napoleon's Army (nytimes.com)

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Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall (polygon.com)

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Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory (2020) (quantamagazine.org)

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Civilian Massacres Follow Syrian Leaders' Promises of Peace (nytimes.com)

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Chainsaw-wielding robbers flee Louvre with jewellery (france24.com)

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An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas (nytimes.com)

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How to Watch the International Chopin Piano Competition (nytimes.com)

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Eliezer Yudkowsky argues we should be afraid of A.I.'s existential risk (nytimes.com)

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AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants (wsj.com)

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Facebook suspends Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration's request (suntimes.com)

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Arson in Nepal Looked Like Spontaneous Rage. Evidence Suggests Otherwise (nytimes.com)

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[flagged] Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid (suntimes.com)

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years (miamiherald.com)