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Battery costs declined 99% in 3 decades, making electric transport a reality (ourworldindata.org)

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To ace exams, get better at the easy questions (2022) (predr.ag)

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Loving the Community Center (pgadey.ca)

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Through the Blind Hole (2022) (apocalypse-confidential.com)

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Open Funk Re:Mix: The Open-Source Blender Big Brands Don't Want [video] (youtube.com)

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How Culture Is Made (metalabel.com)

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Hong Kong Disneyland Speedrun Guide (geohot.github.io)

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Consider sending a list of everything you did to your coworkers everyday (aelerinya.substack.com)

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Scientists Develop "Molecular Scissors" Alternative to Cas9 (humanprogress.org)

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Rejoice: A concatenative multiset language built on Fractran-like primitives (xxiivv.com)

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How should you change your life if we are being watched by alien drone probes? (marginalrevolution.com)

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White House Works to Give US Agencies Anthropic Mythos AI (bloomberg.com)

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Love Affairs and Differential Equations (1988) [pdf] (stanford.edu)

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Graupel (wikipedia.org)

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Wordle as a Two-Player Game (emi-h.com)

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3D-Printing a Trombone (unnamed.website)

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Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously [video] (youtube.com)

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The Quest for Oral GLP-1s (asimov.press)

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Saving Us from Ourselves? (leancrew.com)

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Epicycles All the Way Down (strangeloopcanon.com)

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Synchronous Programming for Kids: A Manifesto [video] (youtube.com)

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The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)

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Use Humor (reinvent.science)

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Cuttle (2005) (pagat.com)

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The Most Dangerous Intersection in Massachusetts [video] (youtube.com)

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Knitout and Kniterate 3 (agnescameron.info)

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AI cybersecurity is not proof of work (antirez.com)

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Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all (openai.com)

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Borrow a Drill, Save the World (shareable.net)

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Groningen Fixed Traffic [video] (youtube.com)

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And yet Surely, Culture Matters (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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The optimized self and the life that got away (joanwestenberg.com)

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It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)

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VisionOS Dev: Taylor's Opinionated and Already-Outdated Guide (2024) (taylor.town)

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Easter in Mathematica (leancrew.com)

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Carving Text at Its Joints: A New Perspective on Writing and Computers [video] (youtube.com)

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Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense (openai.com)

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Lithium Yay (slimemoldtimemold.com)

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Notes on Beautiful Nonfiction (jenn.site)

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Age of Invention: Just Kiln Time (ageofinvention.xyz)

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Lacatrala (tumblr.com)

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Time for Scrutiny: Getting to the Bottom of Daylight Saving Time and Time Zones (fixdst.com)

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JSON-complete data formats and programming languages (lemire.me)

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Noise (homosabiens.substack.com)

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Which of these two arcades is the "world largest" (arstechnica.com)

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Amazon rolls out 1-hour, 3-hour delivery (cnbc.com)

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Algebrica: A Mathematical Knowledge Base (algebrica.org)

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Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy (palladiummag.com)

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Conflict is the art of checking underneath the rocks (avabear.xyz)

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Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies (andymatuschak.org)

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Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI (openai.com)

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More Legal Systems Different from Ours: Video-Game Law (freumh.org)

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I Quit Drinking for a Year (dynomight.net)

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Painting Was Hanging Upside Down in a Museum and No One Noticed for Decades (zmescience.com)

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A Man in the Room (nataliercargill.substack.com)

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Rental Harmony (cynablog.substack.com)

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Thick Coins by Theodore Nichols (thick-coins.net)

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The Utopia of the Family Computer (mudmapmagazine.com)

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The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation (drive.google.com)

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How to fundraise one million million dollars, part 1 (nataliercargill.substack.com)

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Hatter: Native Haskell Mobile Apps (jappie.me)

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Notes on Hong Kong (strangeloopcanon.com)

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"Ben Lost Everything" [video] (youtube.com)

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AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing (thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com)

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You Do Need to Understand Mythos [video] (youtube.com)

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I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to (substack.com)

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中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron (kevinzwu.com)

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Our response to the Axios developer tool compromise (openai.com)

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Applications of AI at OpenAI (openai.com)

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Responsible and Safe Use of AI (openai.com)

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An open letter to 21 people I know who died (laylahughes.substack.com)

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"Love, Mum" – What AIs can't see about abuse (nataliercargill.substack.com)

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Covfefe (2017) (wikipedia.org)

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The Myth of the Autism Epidemic (humanprogress.org)

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CyberAgent moves faster with ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex (openai.com)

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Paul Erdős: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998) [video] (youtube.com)

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I Am a Cross-Cutting Concern (scottlawsonbc.com)

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I Solved Connect 4 [video] (youtube.com)

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The phenomenology of being hungry while pregnant (substack.com)

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PGLite Evangelism (substack.com)

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How Passive Radar Works (passiveradar.com)

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Open Letter to One Person (tumblr.com)

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Most people can't juggle one ball (lesswrong.com)

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie doesn't care about rehabilitative justice (justinkuiper.substack.com)

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OpenAI Full Fan Mode Contest: Terms and Conditions (openai.com)

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Why the Dark Forest Hypothesis Probably Isn't True (jehanazad.com)

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Two Flags for Our Species (pharker.substack.com)

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Is Salt Salty? (vilf.org)

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Parsing IP addresses quickly (portably, without SIMD magic) (lemire.me)

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Why Have Sentence Lengths Decreased? (arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

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Ms. Rachel (gomakethings.com)

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Kiki: Array Programming DSL (smallandnearlysilent.com)

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Exploring the Design Space for Runtime Enforcement of Dynamic Capabilities [video] (youtube.com)

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They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)

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Why LLMs Are Bad Writers but Good Editors (jasmi.news)

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Why I'm a Quaker (thingofthings.substack.com)

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Read Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill via Earlymoderntexts.com (arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

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OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019) (slate.com)

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DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video] (youtube.com)

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TideScript: A Domain Specific Language for Peptide Chemistry [video] (youtube.com)