Articles by rmason
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We Used To Build Things. What Happened? (garryslist.org)

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How to know if you're an engineer? (3 min video/comedy) (youtube.com)

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Nuke Map (nuclearsecrecy.com)

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The Singularity Is Always Near (2006) (kk.org)

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Statue of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace unveiled in Hinckley (bbc.com)

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People keep probing my static site for WordPress stuff. Built them a login page (twitter.com/mattrothenberg)

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Why a hot drone startup ditched California for Detroit (usatoday.com)

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Lawnchair Larry's Flight over Los Angeles (wikipedia.org)

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Factify Raises $73M to Create AI Infrastructure for Documents (forbes.com/sites/gilpress)

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Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech (cnbc.com)

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A short video from KIMI AI founder, Zhilin Yang (youtube.com)

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Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a 'battle for the soul' of the internet (theguardian.com)

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Major US city (LA) takes bold decision to ban single-use printer cartridges (techradar.com)

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'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 HR (theregister.com)

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SF Microclimates (solofounders.com)

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Software Design Principles That Matter (francofernando.com)

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Tim O'Reilly – AI and the Next Economy (oreilly.com)

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Tiny Sand Grains May Solve 5k-Year-Old Stonehenge Mystery (studyfinds.org)

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Texas tech executive is newest owner of Detroit's largest mansion (crainsdetroit.com)

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Drivers divided on 'American Autobahn' plan to pull speed limits of highways (the-sun.com)

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How a Norwegian weather rocket almost sparked a nuclear war (bbc.com)

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Are 'tech dense' farms the future of farming? (bbc.com)

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The world of Japanese snack bars (bbc.com)

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There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers (howtogeek.com)

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University student vibe-codes an operating system from scratch (mybroadband.co.za)

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Detroit's streetlights are becoming EV chargers (fastcompany.com)

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Former USDS Leaders Launch Tech Reform Project to Fix What DOGE Broke (wired.com)

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Ammobia says it has reinvented a century-old technology (techcrunch.com)

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A16Z: The Power Brokers (notboring.co)

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The Golden Thread (roe.dev)

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First 'dark factory' where robots build the car tipped to open by 2030 (autonews.com)

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U.S. has been testing device linked to Havana Syndrome, sources say (12M video) (sashaingber.substack.com)

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How a record-breaking drive on a frozen Lake helped create Ford Motor Company (clickondetroit.com)

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Sergei Fedorov's Escape from Soviet Union Helped Save Red Wings (2020) (freep.com)

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Ford Will Debut Eyes-Off Autonomous Driving on Its Upcoming $30K EV (caranddriver.com)

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Snow Melt System (City of Holland, MI) (cityofholland.com)

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Flint Confirms Biodegradable Paper Batteries Are Now in Production (audioxpress.com)

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Om Malik – Who decides what's real in the age of AI? Instagram does (om.co)

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Google co-founder (Larry Page) leaves California amid wealth tax fears (telegraph.co.uk)

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Water Heater Mines Bitcoin. It Could Help Solve AI's Energy Problem (cnet.com)

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Startup develops inflatable fall-protection pants to prevent hip fractures (ctvnews.ca)

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My Venezuela experience as head of trading in the region for Cargill (twitter.com/agrisacademy)

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Fred Wilson – What Will Happen in 2026 (avc.xyz)

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LuCli – Run Lucee, manage servers, and execute CFML – all from your terminal (lucli.dev)

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BoxLang: A Dynamic Renaissance – From Zero to Release in 21 Months (javapro.io)

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Meet The cowboy who never clocks out (thehustle.co)

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Inside China's AI coders' 'village' (2 min video) (youtube.com)

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Om Malik – What DeepSeek Means for Everyone (crazystupidtech.com)

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Om Malik – China's EV Boom Is Bad for U.S..Tech (crazystupidtech.com)

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A Man Who Was Supposed to Kill Martin Luther King Jr (slate.com)

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25 Lessons from the first year of Solo Founders (twitter.com/julianweisser)

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Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina (bbc.com)

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100K-Watt Iron Beam laser becomes first drone defense zapper to be deployed (tomshardware.com)

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Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years (popularmechanics.com)

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Two strangers. A terrorist bomb. An extraordinary tale of courage (bungalow-magazine.com)

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Meet The South Pacific Ponzi King with a Bogus Bank – and a Global Fan Club (occrp.org)

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Trump to hire 1k specialists for 'Tech Force' to build AI, finance projects (cnbc.com)

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The battle to stop clever people betting (economist.com)

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Plane makes safe emergency landing with first use of Autoland system (2M video) (youtube.com)

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Making complex web apps faster (windows.com)

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How I Bought A Car Factory at 34, Explained (13 min video) (youtube.com)

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Humanoid Robots for War and Work: Startup Plans to Build 50K by End of 2027 (forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier)

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More than 100 rally against data centers at Michigan Capitol (lansingstatejournal.com)

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Sloot Digital Coding System (wikipedia.org)

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21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google (addyo.substack.com)

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Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads (forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel)

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Can a slow-release bolus crack methane reduction for pasture raised cattle? (agfundernews.com)

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Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool for Designers (wired.com)

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Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme, original UI designer explains why (pcgamer.com)

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SpaceX Installs Starlink Vending Machine in Iowa (pcmag.com)

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Tech In the D: MOT MOT (3 min video) (blacktechsaturdays.com)

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How A Pantry Staple Helped Scientists Turn Water into Wine (foodandwine.com)

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Mitch Albom's notes from a book tour: America still turning its pages (freep.com)

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Solar Neighborhoods (In Detroit) (detroitmi.gov)

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NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace (8 hrs in 4K) [video] (youtube.com)

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The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed (steve-blank.com)

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Inside NY Time's Hoax Factory (twitter.com/davidsacks)

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Write Your Own Obituary – Then live up to it (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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AWS-Lambda-Roadmap (github.com/aws)

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Is Your Car Spying on You? Here's how (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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Secrets in unlisted GitHub gists are reported to secret scanning partners (github.blog)

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Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Multiple Runtimes- 2025 (chrisebert.net)

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Testing MCP Servers with MCP Inspector (chrisebert.net)

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Anthropicnews.com (anthropicnews.com)

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Locker 247 (twitter.com/mrpitbull07)

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Microsoft Doesn't Want You to Know This.. (3 Min Video) (youtube.com)

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Founder of Cincinnati tech firm Rumby admits defrauding investors, repay $7M (usatoday.com)

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SEO Community Reacts to Adobe's Semrush Acquisition (searchenginejournal.com)

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The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Painful and Healthy (ceodinner.substack.com)

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Robert Moses's unfinished business should be Mamdani's priority (eatingpolicy.com)

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Can AI tell when someone's lying? MSU study says not yet (msu.edu)

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The Complete Claude Code CLI Guide (github.com/cranot)

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Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat 'for generations' (theguardian.com)

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Tim O'Reilly – Why It's Better for Us to Think of AI as a Tool Than as a Worker (oreilly.com)

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Detroit Tech Fellowship (makemymove.com)

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Sam Altman apparently subpoenaed moments into SF talk with Steve Kerr (sfgate.com)

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[flagged] Man spent 200 days building a solar-powered explorer yacht that can run forever (supercarblondie.com)

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The True Tale of Seattle's Sherlock Holmes (seattlemet.com)

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These Men dove to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck decades ago. Their stories (freep.com)

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GM's top software leader leaves company, prompting tech dept overhaul (freep.com)