Articles by rwmj
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If AIs can feel pain, what is our responsibility towards them? (aeon.co)

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UK tax system steers anyone living off capital to becoming an eccentric laird (thetontineengine.substack.com)

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Comparing genuine and fake Casio F91-W watches (burningimage.net)

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The 30-foot sea cow quickly hunted to extinction because of its tasty meat (nationalgeographic.com)

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Organisations can learn from the record fine over Capita's ransomware incident (doublepulsar.com)

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Parasitic queen ant tricks workers into killing their mother (nationalgeographic.com)

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How many 'bragawatts' have the hyperscalers announced so far? (ft.com)

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We Fly a B-2 Stealth Bomber (popularmechanics.com)

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The AI divide roiling video-game giant Electronic Arts (businessinsider.com)

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The slender-billed curlew has been officially declared extinct (independent.co.uk)

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Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43 (lwn.net)

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FIFA's 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape (theguardian.com)

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Every country needs to master the Electric Tech Stack (noahpinion.blog)

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The Strange Tale of the Hotchkiss (edrdg.org)

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The Untold Story of Mike Lynch's Tragic Boat Sinking (wired.com)

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The Crash of 2026 (crookedtimber.org)

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Parents of teenager who died sue OpenAI (bbc.co.uk)

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The billionaire developer closing London's pubs (the-londoner.co.uk)

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Book Review: After the Spike (crookedtimber.org)

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What Would the Aftermath of the AI Bust Look Like? (thediff.co)

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US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible (uscg.mil)

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Will data centers crash the economy? (noahpinion.blog)

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What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs? (ft.com)

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Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK (bbc.co.uk)

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The radical 1960s experiment that left thousands of children unable to spell (theguardian.com)

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Police cars could get facial recognition cameras (bbc.co.uk)

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Why HS2 cost so much (martinrobbins.substack.com)

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Fedora 43 proposal: Drop i686 support (fedoraproject.org)

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Sourcery.ai is wrong, and when told it is wrong, refuses to admit it three times (hachyderm.io)

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Ukraine's Operation "Spider's Web" Redefines Asymmetric Warfare (csis.org)

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The UK doesn't have a Productivity Puzzle (ft.com)

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PID360 (detertech.com)

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Did the financial panic of 33 AD actually happen? (2024) (mankind.substack.com)

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Red Hat announces RHEL 10 (redhat.com)

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Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet (devclass.com)

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In Our Time – The Evolution of Copyright (bbc.co.uk)

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Command Line Assistant (command-line-assistant.readthedocs.io)

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Playing 'whack-a-mole' with Meta over my fraudulent avatars (ft.com)

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How the UK Tax Code got in such a mess (ft.com)

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Why is the M&S [UK store] cyber attack chaos taking so long to resolve? (bbc.co.uk)

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The many fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will' (platforms.substack.com)

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Interview with Owen Le Blanc, creator of the first Linux distribution (lwn.net)

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ATM Networking from the 1990s [video] (youtube.com)

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How to learn a new language like a baby (theconversation.com)

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Token Ring over PCMCIA cards [video] (youtube.com)

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USAID project to set up the East African Community Electronic Single Window (crookedtimber.org)

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Elon Musk sparks crisis talks at UK's elite Royal Society (bbc.co.uk)

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Whatthecommit: Git Commit Message Generator (whatthecommit.com)

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Why I'd never apply for a job online again (hottakes.space)

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The end of El Salvador's Bitcoin payments experiment (jpkoning.blogspot.com)

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Token Ring Networking [video] (youtube.com)

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Drones are now launching drones to attack other drones in Ukraine (arstechnica.com)

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Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg (theguardian.com)

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Colourful roundabout redesign divides village (bbc.co.uk)

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Norway's wealth fund now worth $319,900 per citizen (sherwood.news)

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VHS mechanisms are complicated and intricate [video] (youtube.com)

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V.35 Cables and T1 [video] (youtube.com)

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Community plans to fork Puppet, unhappy with Perforce changes (devclass.com)

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More than half of bank transfer scams [in the UK] originate on Meta (which.co.uk)

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Computer scientist who falsely claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto avoids jail (dailymail.co.uk)

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How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain (theguardian.com)

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Facing the Git commit-ID collision catastrophe (lwn.net)

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Astroscale's Adras-J Achieves Historic 15-Meter Approach to Space Debris (astroscale.com)

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What happened to Lion Air 610? (First Boeing 737MAX accident) [video] (youtube.com)

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Does YouTube have a future if its creators have to make money elsewhere? (sherwood.news)

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Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, & Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age (thepsmiths.com)

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Star Wars Project 4K77 (thestarwarstrilogy.com)

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Americans want a second passport and are willing to pay (sherwood.news)

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Pricing the anonymity of banknotes (jpkoning.blogspot.com)

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What I learned from 130 hours in a Waymo (mattbell.us)

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Product Security Bad Practices (cisa.gov)

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Limitations of frame pointer unwinding (redhat.com)

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Russia fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,... (bbc.co.uk)

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Five nature wins that have worked to reverse biodiversity loss (bbc.com)

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Asteroid 314159 has been named after Matt Parker [video] (youtube.com)

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"Zakkyo" – A better way to build a downtown (noahpinion.blog)

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Open source Synthstrom Deluge to be sold through retail dealers (synthstrom.com)

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The Year Is 2149 (technologyreview.com)

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New Cambridge cell therapy lab aims to boost cancer treatment (bbc.co.uk)

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Working from home is powering productivity (imf.org)

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Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone? (wired.com)

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Everyone Got Lost in Netflix's Endless Library (nytimes.com)

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An 'abomination' of a sub – and the boss convinced Titan was safe (bbc.co.uk)

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Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy (arstechnica.com)

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Presentations from KVM Forum 2024 (youtube.com)

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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: The ZX Spectrum Film (Trailer) (bfi.org.uk)

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Genetic ghosts suggest Covid's market origins (bbc.co.uk)

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How a hydraulic simulation changed economic history (ft.com)

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Meta showcases RISC-V cores that will power recommendations (techradar.com)

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The Mysterious, Meteoric Rise of Shein (msn.com)

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Billionaire takes off for first ever private spacewalk (bbc.co.uk)

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What happens if Nvidia employees hit their "number?" (sherwood.news)

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When the Bitcoin Scammers Came for Me (theatlantic.com)

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End of an era as physical Stamp Duty presses decommissioned by UK gov (2021) (gov.uk)

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A SpamAssassin Surprise (lwn.net)

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UKELELE: Replacing event loops with direct calls (pretalx.com)

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Perplexing the Web, One Probability Puzzle at a Time (quantamagazine.org)

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The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov (thepsmiths.com)

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We shot a YouTube video about film formats on 35mm film (youtube.com)

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The C.R.A.P. framework for dealing with workplace bullshit (klementoninvesting.substack.com)