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You Don't Need It (moq.dev)

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Singing the Gospel of Collective Efficacy (interconnected.org)

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So I Got an EEG (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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SAC of Enshittification (digitalsorceress.com)

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The Perfect Device (sometimes.digital)

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FWD: Re: radioactive fungus email from grandma (2024) (taylor.town)

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The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead (joanwestenberg.com)

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Musicals use motifs to tell stories (pudding.cool)

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Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish? (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Can a Single Screenshot Predict a Game's Success? [video] (youtube.com)

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John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds (plover.com)

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The Impact of Housing Affordability on Consumption, Work Effort, and Investment (ssrn.com)

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Friendship Maintenance (avabear.xyz)

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Concat Arrays with SQL Aggregate Functions (2024) (taylor.town)

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The Three Year Myth (spacedino.net)

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The Blurry Boundaries Between Programming and Direct Use (joshuahhh.com)

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Taylor's Media Criticism System (2023) (taylor.town)

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Stellarium Web Online Star Map (2021) (stellarium-web.org)

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My Internet Yardsale (departure.blog)

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The Coherence Premium (joanwestenberg.com)

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Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck (motherduck.com)

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Struggling Towards an Algebraic Theory of Music (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

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To be well-calibrated is to be punctual (lesswrong.com)

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Making Money on OnlyFans Is a Lot Harder Than You Think (2020) (vice.com)

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Crocker's Rules (sl4.org)

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Shades of Halftone (maximeheckel.com)

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Blockchain Is a Galactic Algorithm (shakeddown.substack.com)

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AI After Drug Development (asteriskmag.com)

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We Just Discovered Why Light Does This [video] (youtube.com)

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Downgrade your phone to a limited data plan (practicalbetterments.com)

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Self-Assembling Space Structures [video] (youtube.com)

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Case Study: Agape (supernuclear.substack.com)

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Apple should acquire Wolfram Research (2023) (taylor.town)

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Never name a new species of an existing dinosaur genus (svpow.com)

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Do Metaprojects (taylor.town)

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Pick Practical Principles (2022) (taylor.town)

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Introduction to radix (best cognate-tree grower, pre-α, dormant) (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

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No Time to Back Down: A Game of Resolve (alexanderbjoy.com)

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Barcode Experiments (grantcuster.com)

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90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry (interconnected.org)

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Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Digital Signals Theory (brianmcfee.net)

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Put Your Reputation on the Deadline (2023) (taylor.town)

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Wolbachia bacteria could help us tackle neglected tropical diseases (ourworldindata.org)

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Travel to Cheap Destinations (nomagicpill.substack.com)

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Speed up responses with fast mode (claude.com)

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Bang bang he murdered math {the musical } (2024) (taylor.town)

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OldMapsOnline (oldmapsonline.org)

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What It's Like to Be a Worm (asimov.press)

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Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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iPhone Easter Egg: Back Tap (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Kolakoski Sequence: Links Between Recurrence, Symmetry and Limit Density (2020) (arxiv.org)

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Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place (eukaryotewritesblog.com)

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The Only Way to Make Money (2022) (taylor.town)

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Building Brains on a Computer (asimov.press)

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JJ's Razor (2019) (sonyaellenmann.com)

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100M CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon (taylor.town)

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My bird has a pet hamster (brooke.substack.com)

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The Gap Between Machines and Citizens (foaster.ai)

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Chinese Text Project (ctext.org)

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The Paperwork Reduction Act Doesn't Reduce Paperwork (factorysettings.org)

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Animated Engines (animatedengines.com)

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What Is Ruliology? (stephenwolfram.com)

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Draft Emoji List for 2026/2027 (emojipedia.org)

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Free WordArt Generator – Create 90s Text Effects Online (makewordart.com)

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There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring (2024) (owlposting.com)

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Emergent Task Timer for Lawyers (dsriseah.com)

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Cooking with glasses (macwright.com)

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She Had 13 Children. Then Came the Felony Charges (2025) (nytimes.com)

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Mechanical Movements (507movements.com)

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Culture Isn't Stagnating, You Guys Are Just Old (jenn.site)

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History of UHF Television: TV Above Channel 13 (2024) (uhfhistory.com)

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Megaprocessor (2020) (megaprocessor.com)

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Case Study: Life at Selgars (supernuclear.substack.com)

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Little zines can make a big difference (improvesomething.today)

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Should States Reduce Teacher Licensing Requirements? (nber.org)

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I need to get better at email (chrishannah.me)

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Life and Supercontinents (szupie.github.io)

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How to Accelerate the American Scientific Enterprise (ifp.org)

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A Parametric Mannequin for FreeCAD (incoherency.co.uk)

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BigBotherLinux: An annoying, yet functional Linux distribution (github.com/bigbotherlinux)

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Tessellation Kit (2016) (sciencevsmagic.net)

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Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)

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Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal (asimov.press)

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Good Old Days: Classic games and more (goodolddays.net)

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Tractor (incoherency.co.uk)

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The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents (nber.org)

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Infinite Flowers Zoomquilt (infiniteflowers.net)

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Quantifying Multi-Track Novels (kaleidoscopemind.substack.com)

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Disneyland History and Other Disney Park History (yesterland.com)

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Taking AI Doom Seriously for 62 Minutes [video] (youtube.com)

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Protect Human Subjects, Not Bureaucracy (ifp.org)

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1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? (waspdev.com)

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Next.js Sucks; or Why I Wrote My Own SSG (pcmaffey.com)

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Maybe I shouldn't be validating my kids so much (joannabregan.substack.com)

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FM Synthesizer Knobs Web Demo (lynn.github.io)

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Omniglot – the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages (omniglot.com)

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The Bitsavers Main Page (bitsavers.org)

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Understanding Neural Network, Visually (visualrambling.space)