Articles by worik
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Our emotional pain became a product (theguardian.com)

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Pop Music Is Getting Darker (nautil.us)

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Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation (news.ycombinator.com)

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A $600 'poop' camera for your toilet (tomsguide.com)

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Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland–and that isn't good (insideclimatenews.org)

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MG5 electric car became dangerously out of control (theguardian.com)

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Why Cards Against Humanity does not print its game in the US (arstechnica.com)

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Tesla FSD gets worse at driving (arstechnica.com)

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Insurers balk at paying out settlements for claims against AI firms (arstechnica.com)

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New Zealand's Institute of IT Professionals Collapses (theregister.com)

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Universities must Comply with federal rules for funding (arstechnica.com)

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J-Link Compact USB-C Issues (alvarop.com)

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Tummy upset (bezoar) cured with Coca Cola (arstechnica.com)

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Phone spyware scandal in Greece goes to court (bbc.com)

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Three crashes in the first day:Tesla in Austin (arstechnica.com)

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A Fountain for Dog and Man (odt.co.nz)

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Some dogs can classify their toys by function (arstechnica.com)

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Fired for exercising free speech: irony (nzherald.co.nz)

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Do or die for America exploring the Solar System (arstechnica.com)

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Microsoft has become like an arsonist (arstechnica.com)

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Doge Entered Social Security (propublica.org)

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Students face new cellphone restrictions in 17 states as school year begins (apnews.com)

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Little old lady from the south pacific vs. street scammers in Croati (odt.co.nz)

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Joint Commitment to Strengthening Open Research Europe (fwf.ac.at)

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Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery (cleantechnica.com)

3

The German local government showing Microsoft the red card (raconteur.net)

1

Earth models can predict the planet's future but not their own (undark.org)

2

John Carmack, Upper Bound 2025 (youtube.com)

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Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers (brown.edu)

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Mexico's welfare policies helped 13.4M people out of poverty (theguardian.com)

3

The Cat (mwl.io)

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Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents (arstechnica.com)

1

The Kindness of Strangers (theguardian.com)

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[dupe] RFK Halts mRNA vaccine research (pbs.org)

6

Google loses app store antitrust appeal (arstechnica.com)

3

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death (yle.fi)

3

Getting Ridiculous Now (anarres.family)

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Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies (arstechnica.com)

2

Will AI take your job? (theconversation.com)

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DOJ investigates ex-ransomware negotiator over extortion kickbacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

1

I Made a Graph of Wikipedia This Is What I Found (youtube.com)

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Biocide overdose blunder suspected in A321 dual-engine incident (2020) (flightglobal.com)

3

Tesla Launches Robotaxi in Austin (arstechnica.com)

2

It does matter: I care (citationneeded.news)

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Kenyan software developer arrested for email tool (theguardian.com)

31

Starship: Dead End? (planetearthandbeyond.co)

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Photos taken inside musical instruments (dpreview.com)

2

M&S blames "third party" for hack (bbc.co.uk)

4

Humans vs. Robots (theguardian.com)

6

Microsoft workers fired over Gaza vigil (theguardian.com)

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Drones swarming sensitive national security sites (cbsnews.com)

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Tech workers resign to not dismantle critical public services (independent.co.uk)

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Trump Earned Millions from Trump Coin (rollingstone.com)

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Cybersecurity experts aghast: security failures in DOGE takeover (cyberscoop.com)

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Musk/Dodge Given Access to Federal Databases (theguardian.com)

2

DeepSeek R1 vs. OpenAI's best reasoning models (arstechnica.com)

4

The bare minimum Firefox configuration guide (sciops.net)

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David Hearst Analysis of Gaza War [video] (youtube.com)

2

Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster (404media.co)

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ICO Responds to Google Aĺowing Fingerprinting (ico.org.uk)

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Irony from Amazon (amazon.com)

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Social Media and Fire Exits (pluralistic.net)

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Century Scale Storage (law.harvard.edu)

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Zipcar outage: Complete app dependency (arstechnica.com)

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We have reached peak touchscreen (usermag.co)

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The Billionaire Is The Threat, not the Solution (404media.co)

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Russian coders removed from Linux maintainers list (arstechnica.com)

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How to Tax the Rich: Piketty (lemonde.fr)

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Guided by Vices (pxlnv.com)

4

Economics Has Its Big Tobacco Corruption Moment (thebignewsletter.com)

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Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair (404media.co)

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The Fruit Machine: Canada's 'gay purge' (2018) (cbc.ca)

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Cleantech Has an Enshittification Problem (pluralistic.net)

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Copyright Takedowns: A Cautionary Tale (pluralistic.net)

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RemedyFest [pdf] (ycombinator.com)

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Google accused of tracking drivers with disabilities (arstechnica.com)

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Utah's getting some of America's best broadband (pluralistic.net)

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Boeing faces criminal charge for violating deal over 737 MAX crashes (arstechnica.com)

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F.E.R.C. Adjusting Regs. To Increase Capacity (prospect.org)

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Three Ways to Green the Grid Without New Transmission (ilsr.org)

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Deficiencies in GCC's code generator and optimiser (hier-im-netz.de)

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How the "Frontier" Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI (jacobin.com)

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Hypothetical AI election disinformation risks vs. real AI harms (pluralistic.net)

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Apple Disables Web Apps in E.U (arstechnica.com)

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Designed by clowns supervised by monkeys: Internal Boeing messages (2020) (fortune.com)

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The Foolishness of Self Destruct Switches (pluralistic.net)

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Algorithmically finding miscarriages of justice: New Orleans (hrdag.org)

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No City on Mars (acityonmars.com)

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Allen Kay Interview (fastcompany.com)

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[dupe] What kind of bubble is AI? (pluralistic.net)

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Wam3 maintainers house blown up (github.com/wasm3)

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Privacy First a Better Way (eff.org)

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The Future Is Flutter (hixie.ch)

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Proof (almost noone) reads EULAs (techdirt.com)

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Out Rotary Engine (arstechnica.com)

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Heritage Algorithms (theconversation.com)

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Amazon bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss (pluralistic.net)

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Rocket Lab's latest launch fails, company postpones next mission (rnz.co.nz)

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Trapping Carbon in Soils (science.org)

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Talking about AI in human terms is natural–but wrong (economist.com)