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Not Paying Attention in Class? China’s “Smart Eye” Will Snitch on You (2018) (futurism.com)

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1987 Nuclear Mars Mission (graphicsnickstevens.substack.com)

a year ago | perihelions | substack.com | newest

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Ex-congressman convicted of insider trading before T-Mobile merger with Sprint (nbcnews.com)

a year ago | perihelions | nbcnews.com | best

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Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | perihelions | arstechnica.com | newest

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Luneburg lens radar reflectors make stealth aircraft visible on radar screens (theaviationgeekclub.com)

a year ago | perihelions | theaviationgeekclub.com | newest

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Which of the World’s Hundreds of Thousands of Aging Dams Will Be Next to Burst? (nytimes.com)

a year ago | perihelions | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Friday Facts #375 – Quality (factorio.com)

a year ago | perihelions | factorio.com | newest

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Project: ICE cube thruster (imperial.ac.uk)

a year ago | perihelions | imperial.ac.uk | frontpage

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Illegal Mopeds and Fake Names: Migrants Scrape by in Underground Economy (nytimes.com)

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‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20k (theguardian.com)

a year ago | perihelions | theguardian.com | best

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Mapping Where Floods Have Devastated a Libyan Port City (nytimes.com)

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Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | perihelions | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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More Than 5,000 Dead in Libya as Dam Collapses Deepen Flood Disaster (nytimes.com)

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A probable koala from the Oligocene of central Australia (nature.com)

a year ago | perihelions | nature.com | newest

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Thousands missing and feared dead after floods submerge eastern Libya (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Libya floods wipe out quarter of city, 10k feared missing (reuters.com)

a year ago | perihelions | reuters.com | frontpage

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Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight [pdf] (stanford.edu)

a year ago | perihelions | stanford.edu | newest

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What Are the Risks of Skiplagging? (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Euclid’s two instruments have captured their first test images (esa.int)

a year ago | perihelions | esa.int | newest

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Why Hurricane Lee is alarming even if it doesn’t make landfall (nbcnews.com)

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KarTrak (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | perihelions | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Hoàng Xuân Sính's Thesis: Categorifying Group Theory (arxiv.org)

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It's Hoàng Xuân Sính’s 90th birthday today (mathstodon.xyz)

a year ago | perihelions | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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Appeals court rules White House likely overstepped 1st Amendment on social media (nytimes.com)

a year ago | perihelions | nytimes.com | best

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Elon Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over lost X revenue (theguardian.com)

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Scientists finally know why Germany’s wild boar are surprisingly radioactive (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Hawaii wildfire offered insights into wireless alert system relies on cellphones (nytimes.com)

a year ago | perihelions | nytimes.com | newest

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New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocks San Francisco Ambulance (sfstandard.com)

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[dupe] A federal judge strikes down a Texas law requiring age verification to view porn (apnews.com)

a year ago | perihelions | apnews.com | frontpage

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Flicker Noises in Astronomy And Elsewhere (1978) [pdf] (lanl.gov)

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France to spend €200M on destroying excess wine as demand falls (theguardian.com)

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Fears UK’s cashless society will leave more than just the vulnerable behind (theguardian.com)

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How the Offspring’s Lead Singer Went from Punk to PhD (2022) (vice.com)

a year ago | perihelions | vice.com | frontpage

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Newly discovered black hole 'speed limit' hints at new laws of physics (livescience.com)

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Monster hunters descend on Scotland for biggest Loch Ness search in 50 years (washingtonpost.com)

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A win for bad reviews: Luxury homeowner drops bid to unmask Airbnb guests (theage.com.au)

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Compiling Functional Languages (2002) [pdf] (xavierleroy.org)

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The Memory Disorder Unit (nytimes.com)

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Rock ’N’ Roll According to the Chinese Communist Party (nytimes.com)

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Simon & Schuster sold to private equity firm KKR for $1.62B (theguardian.com)

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The ordeal started with an automated facial recognition search (nytimes.com)

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The EPA approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic (theguardian.com)

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No Starship launch soon, FAA says, as investigations are still incomplete (expressnews.com)

a year ago | perihelions | expressnews.com | newest

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Backpage Founder James Larkin Has Died (reason.com)

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Agence France-Presse pursues copyright case against X, formerly known as Twitter (independent.co.uk)

a year ago | perihelions | independent.co.uk | newest

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Arizona driver says he was 'trapped' in hot Tesla after battery died (abc15.com)

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.hm Domains Borked (2019) (theregister.com)

a year ago | perihelions | theregister.com | newest

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How Oppenheimer weighed the odds of an atomic bomb test ending Earth (washingtonpost.com)

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Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds (nytimes.com)

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Scientist in Covid Origin Controversy Misled Congress on $8.9M NIH Grant (theintercept.com)

a year ago | perihelions | theintercept.com | frontpage

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Galaxy has no dark matter (cosmosmagazine.com)

a year ago | perihelions | cosmosmagazine.com | newest

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The Tallest Atrium (2019) (world-architects.com)

a year ago | perihelions | world-architects.com | best

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Interview with Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis (chessbase.in)

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Florida kept disabled kids in institutions. A judge is sending them home (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Meta Unveils a More Powerful A.I. and Isn’t Fretting over Who Uses It (nytimes.com)

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Growing prospect of another genocide in Darfur (washingtonpost.com)

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Whitespace Character (wikipedia.org)

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A power outage amid a heat wave could kill thousands in this Southwest city (washingtonpost.com)

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Viasat stock plunges after company discloses malfunction in new satellite (cnbc.com)

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Russian submarine commander shot dead on morning run 'tracked on Strava app' (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | perihelions | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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The engagement on Twitter, Threads and Mastodon for my last post (threads.net)

a year ago | perihelions | threads.net | newest

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You can say no to a TSA face scan. But even a senator had trouble (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Private Copying Levy (wikipedia.org)

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Indonesia’s new high-speed train completes first trial run (straitstimes.com)

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Defecting from North Korea is now harder (nytimes.com)

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U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal (nytimes.com)

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Federal Judge Limits Biden Officials’ Contacts with Social Media Sites (nytimes.com)

a year ago | perihelions | nytimes.com | frontpage

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A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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I tried consulting GPT4 on a question I found on MathOverflow (mathstodon.xyz)

a year ago | perihelions | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too (nytimes.com)

a year ago | perihelions | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Here Comes Euclid, the Telescope That Will Search for Dark Energy (wired.com)

a year ago | perihelions | wired.com | newest

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Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Supreme Court Clarifies “True Threats” First Amendment Exception (popehat.substack.com)

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UCSF Issues Report, Apologizes for Unethical 1960-70’s Prison Research (ucsf.edu)

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The race to extract an Indigenous language from its last lucid speaker (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Advocates say land at Hunters Point contains dangerous levels of strontium-90 (theguardian.com)

a year ago | perihelions | theguardian.com | newest

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SpaceX changing Starship stage separation ahead of next launch (spacenews.com)

a year ago | perihelions | spacenews.com | frontpage

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Florida county under quarantine after giant African land snail spotted (cbsnews.com)

a year ago | perihelions | cbsnews.com | frontpage

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Impact Site of the Hakuto-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander (asu.edu)

a year ago | perihelions | asu.edu | newest

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Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued to Protest (pcmag.com)

a year ago | perihelions | pcmag.com | best

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4 Die in Fire That Began at E-Bike Shop Near Chinatown (nytimes.com)

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Cut cable causes internet and cellphone outages in Arctic Alaska (alaskapublic.org)

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Sponge spicule (wikipedia.org)

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How A.I. Is Helping Architects Change Workplace Design (nytimes.com)

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Physicians find ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically (nytimes.com)

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Geofence Warrants and Reverse Keyword Warrants Are Invasive (eff.org)

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Why have many Reddit communities gone private? The blackout, explained (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | newest

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In scramble for EV metals, health threat to workers often goes unaddressed (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | perihelions | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Autonomous Waymo car runs over dog in San Francisco (arstechnica.com)

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Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've been waiting for (theregister.com)

a year ago | perihelions | theregister.com | best

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AI cameras will spot motorway litter louts and enhance issuing of fines (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | perihelions | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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Knight vs. Snail (2013) (blogs.bl.uk)

a year ago | perihelions | bl.uk | frontpage

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‘Computer glitch’ changed inspection record for collapsed Davenport building (independent.co.uk)

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IAEA Director General Statement to the IAEA Board of Governors (iaea.org)

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The AI firm that conducted ‘state surveillance’ of your social media posts (telegraph.co.uk)

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Why North Korea’s Latest Nuclear Claims Are Raising Alarms (nytimes.com)

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$528B plan to clean up 54M gallons of radioactive bombmaking waste (nytimes.com)

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North Korean Rocket Triggers ‘False Alarm’ Evacuation Alert in South Korea (nytimes.com)

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Demolition of Collapsed Building Is Put on Hold as People Remain Missing (nytimes.com)

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