Articles by MaysonL
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Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020) (openculture.com)

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Costco and Safeway are getting housing built where others fail (governance.fyi)

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RAGtime [a vibecoded database of Trump-2 era federal litigation+] (lawfaremedia.org)

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Cabel Sasser "Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman" (panic.com)

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Tofersen, a New Treatment for ALS, Reverses Symptoms for Some (nytimes.com)

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Is Ukraine winning the war? [audio] (podcasts.apple.com)

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An "Observatory" for a Shy Super AI? (robreid.substack.com)

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AI researchers want AI to fake "thinking" – by Mike Elgan (machinesociety.ai)

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LAcon V Announces 2026 Hugo Awards Finalists (file770.com)

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The 'unregistered Americans': because of their parents, they do not exist (theguardian.com)

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Chinese Electrotech Is the Big Winner in the Iran War (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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Sleeping sickness drug simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication (science.org)

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The sheep farmer turned a 1-800 call to coal giant AGL into a solar grazing deal (reneweconomy.com.au)

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California Regulator Says Tesla's 'Robotaxis' Are More Like a Limo in the Law (gizmodo.com)

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Gas Town by Kilo (kilo.ai)

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Whole Brain Emulation Achieved: Scientists Run a Fruit Fly Brain in Simulation (rathbiotaclan.com)

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Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper (retractionwatch.com)

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The Arrogance of Ignorance. – By James Fallows (fallows.substack.com)

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What a Week of Freedom Can Do for a Lab Mouse (defector.com)

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Ecological Imperialism (kschroeder.substack.com)

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Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds (newscientist.com)

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What Happened in El Paso? – By James Fallows (fallows.substack.com)

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Building an End-to-End Developer Salary Prediction App (medium.com/data-and-beyond)

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Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE (techcrunch.com)

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Smallpox killed 300M people last century. One man helped stop it (vox.com)

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The Beauty of Slag (uchicago.edu)

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Science at the Edge of the World (fightforthehuman.com)

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Why Tech (&) Media is complicated – Om (om.co)

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What ICE did to Alex Pretti is somehow worse than we thought (esquire.com)

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Where did southern Australia's record-breaking heatwave come from? (theconversation.com)

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mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say (arstechnica.com)

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Detained MN women help ICE agent having a seizure (startribune.com)

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Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI (windows.com)

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Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex (arxiv.org)

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How Much Is Eight Dollars? (defector.com)

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Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (2025) (phys.org)

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Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity: Managing the Risks [pdf] (stanford.edu)

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Bad Science, Good Politics (shaemclaughlin.substack.com)

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In the Time of the Mad King (fallows.substack.com)

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Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling (mitpress.mit.edu)

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US to slash routine vaccine recommendations for children in major change (theguardian.com)

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2026: The Year AI Will Break Something Big (medium.com/thought-thinkers)

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'Blind into Caracas' – By James Fallows (fallows.substack.com)

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New at the Nursery: Tomato and Potato = TomTato (theatlantic.com)

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Willie Nelson Sees America (newyorker.com)

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Quadratrix of Hippias (wikipedia.org)

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'60 Minutes' Report on Cecot That Bari Weiss Censored Is Now Internet Contraband (daringfireball.net)

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Advancing Low-Light Raw Enhancement by Retasking Diffusion Models for Camera ISP (arxiv.org)

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With Apple's help, storytellers are figuring out Vision Pro (fastcompany.com)

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The Great Emu War: How Flightless Birds Beat the Australian Army (historyhit.com)

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Montreal's New Rail Line Is the Future – Macleans.ca (macleans.ca)

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A woman who discovered black holes (newhumanist.org.uk)

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"They're not designed for that": An ocean robot's lucky Antarctic discoveries (reportearth.substack.com)

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Phreeli: The Privacy-by-Design Mobile Carrier You Can Trust (yahoo.com)

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Double Blind Armadillo: Cryptographic Architecture for Anonymous Phone Service [pdf] (phreeli.com)

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Flight Ready brings immersive F-18 fighter pilot footage to Apple Vision Pro (9to5mac.com)

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A jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)

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Shell climate change report – 28 November 1985 (workingclasshistory.com)

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Strandbeest Evolution 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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An oral history of Bank Python (calpaterson.com)

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AI Friends Too Cheap to Meter (jasmi.news)

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Multilingualism and Extending Healthspan – By Eric Topol (erictopol.substack.com)

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A 400-Year-Old Ring That Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens (openculture.com)

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Life After Cars (lifeaftercars.com)

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I want to learn Quantum Computing, and I'm not a Physicist (alex-daubois.medium.com)

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Apple reaches groundbreaking deal for Women's Superleague football (applemust.com)

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Apple and Formula 1 ink five-year US streaming deal, bringing races to Apple TV (techcrunch.com)

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California's solar and battery combo packs a transformational punch (reuters.com)

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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time (theguardian.com)

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Verizon buys the not-quite-5G wireless ISP Starry to expand wireless broadband (theverge.com)

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Ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear bunker survived for years (2019) (sciencealert.com)

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They Pump So Much Stuff into Those Beautiful Little Babies – McSweeney's (mcsweeneys.net)

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Washington Monthly's 2025 College Guide and Rankings – Washington Monthly (washingtonmonthly.com)

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China's Electrification Gambit – Canada's National Observer: Climate News (nationalobserver.com)

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America Against China Against America (jasmi.news)

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The Technium: Everything I Know about Self-Publishing (kk.org)

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The biggest frogs build their own ponds (science.org)

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Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls (science.org)

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Odd this day. 17 August 1942 (mulberryhall.medium.com)

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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky – early 20th century color photographer (wikipedia.org)

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Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune (cfa.harvard.edu)

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Baltimore's Extraordinary Year (popular.info)

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Razor, Gun, Fence – Kieranhealy.org (kieranhealy.org)

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Scientists discover giant 3k-year-old trees never seen before (earth.com)

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Scripting News: I hate CSS (scripting.com)

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An emulation of a 30-qubit quantum computer (quokkacomputing.com)

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I'm a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters (csferrie.medium.com)

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Chronic Denial (openmindmag.org)

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How Maglev Trains Work (howstuffworks.com)

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The American Dream Is Broken. This $50M Bet Could Help Rebuild It (denver-frederick.com)

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Robotic Heart Transplant Marks Surgical Breakthrough – Neuroscience News (neurosciencenews.com)

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Crewless ship is defending Denmark's and NATO's waters (euronews.com)

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Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art (nytimes.com)

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Building a WordPress MCP server for Claude (val.demar.in)

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Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals (joanwestenberg.com)

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Australia's guerilla rewilders skirt rules and take conservation into own hands (abc.net.au)

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What I've learned from non-linear narratives (writingslowly.com)

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"The Echo Chamber": How I Helped an AI Write the First AI-Authored Novel (github.com/brian-naughton)

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One Drug's Supply Chain, in Detail (science.org)

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Scientists discover class of crystals with properties that may be revolutionary (nanotechnologyworld.org)