Articles by bryanrasmussen
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China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War (jstribune.com)

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Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Cortical Brain-LLM Semantic Mapping (letsdatascience.com)

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Noioaapps – our tools keep you informed (a dream) (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Conquest of Hip-Hop – pt. I (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Nature's Hardware Store: building the future with biology [video] (aeon.co)

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The Beatles – On Their Old Sound (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Earth's supervolcanoes are waking up. Here's what that means for the planet (sciencefocus.com)

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More Stupid Medium Stats Tricks (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Sykes-Picot and Balfour Still Haunt the Modern Middle East (thefridaytimes.com)

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Glacier-free topography reveals potential future lakes in ice-covered terrain (nature.com)

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GTGraffiti: The Robot That Paints Like a Human (gatech.edu)

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The Infinite Policeman – Preliminary Movement (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI (techpolicy.press)

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'The Dark Wizard' Deconstructs the Mythology of the Dirtbag Rebel (climbing.com)

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The Conquest of Hip-Hop – pt. I (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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The Conquest of Hip-Hop – pt. I (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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The Sad Wives of AI (wired.com)

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Why GPTZero is not reliable anymore. We Ran 100k Texts to prove it (ryne.ai)

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Review: A House of Dynamite (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Cartographic digital colonialism across Lebanon and Palestine (middleeastmonitor.com)

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A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)

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Channelized topography amplifies melt-sensitivity of cold Antarctic ice shelves (nature.com)

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Die Hard on ICE (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Refineshot: Rethink Cinematography with Foundational Skill Evaluation (techrxiv.org)

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Simplifying camera trap image analysis with AI (addaxdatascience.com)

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Global Energy Innovation Index (cfr.org)

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Ghost map: Europe's first glimpse of Tenochtitlan shows a city destroyed (bigthink.com)

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Hell Is Not Having Adequate Gear (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Savages of the Sun: The Vanished Race of Tampa Bay (usf.edu)

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From toroids to helical tubules: Kirigami-inspired programmable assembly (pnas.org)

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New satellite view of Tibet's tectonic clash (esa.int)

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Queen (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Mapping the dreamworld: inside Le Guin's unseen cartographies of myth and mind (designboom.com)

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Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans (nature.com)

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Pedal History Is in Danger – ChatGPT Is Rewriting Fact – and It's Getting Worse [video] (youtube.com)

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The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and ignominy of Todd Blanche (lawdork.com)

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TS Eliot's 20th-century nightmare (observer.co.uk)

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How to Wage Economic Warfare (engelsbergideas.com)

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Why Birds Were the Only Dinosaurs to Survive Mass Extinction (scientificamerican.com)

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Moon-joy: they should have sent a poet (so they did) (nothingbutawordbag.substack.com)

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Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)

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Unobtrusive inference of diurnal rhythms from smartphone data (nature.com)

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Hanlon's Razor (wikipedia.org)

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Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)

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About Influence (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow (ionathan.ch)

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Designated terrestrial protected areas in Europe (europa.eu)

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Insultable Dickens (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia, too (arstechnica.com)

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Oilfield Units: a Measurement System so Cursed it made me Change Career [video] (youtube.com)

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Conservationists teach young regent honeyeaters how to sing their unique song (abc.net.au)

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The Language After Its Collapse (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Population discontinuity in Paris Basin linked to evidence of Neolithic decline (nature.com)

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Rules for Ranking Music on the Hitmagist (medium.com/the-hitmagist)

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Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles (goethe.de)

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The Cataclysmic Song Michael Stipe Wrote After Waking from a State of REM (americansongwriter.com)

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Simpson's paradox demonstrates how counterintuitive statistics can be (scientificamerican.com)

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Humans only This website invites artists to animate anti-AI disclaimers (itsnicethat.com)

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Plague Ships (2020) (afloat.com.au)

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Ask HN: Analysis of credit card receipts to show one does not buy alcohol

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Cute Animal Heroic Interval (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Spatiotemporal scenarios of socioeconomic futures in Germany (frontiersin.org)

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Ultraviolet light illuminates biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries (nature.com)

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Beasts of the Southern Wild (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor from Space (nasa.gov)

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Emma Goldman and Voting (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Trump administration's campaign to counter content bans in Europe (washingtonpost.com)

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How Much a Dollar Cost? (thetechbubble.info)

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Cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce is charting a new way to see the world (nationalgeographic.com)

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Rando Sans solves the biggest problem with handwriting fonts (creativebloq.com)

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The Memetic Backdrop for American Collapse (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Da Vinci's Largest Collection of Drawings and Writings Digitized (mymodernmet.com)

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Scientists Discover Hidden Topological Universe Inside Entangled Light (scitechdaily.com)

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The Creator of Wordle Tries to Solve the Cryptic Crossword (newyorker.com)

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To Hunt the Wild Hat (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Sitka's excellent Gravity clock Eurorack module is now open source (cdm.link)

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Zeno's Paradox resolved by physics, not by math alone (bigthink.com)

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NOIRLab Astro Data Archive (noirlab.edu)

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Spider-Man and Hydra (medium.com/luminasticity)

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A Journey by Sail in Search of Zero-Emissions Cargo (noemamag.com)

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'The Potent Magic of Verisimilitude': Edgar Allan Poe Within the Mechanical Age (jstor.org)

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Interview with Marc Vilanova – hidden frequencies of embodied sound experiences (creativeapplications.net)

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Climate breakdown is putting the food in peril – in maps and charts (theguardian.com)

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AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans to Observe the Offline World (noemamag.com)

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ECAL–A Typographic Atlas: Mapping the Territory of Contemporary Type (printmag.com)

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CSUN Assistive Technology Conference 2026 files (daisy.org)

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The Best Liar (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Maps for Machines: A Paradigm Shift in Cartography (geoawesome.com)

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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets (nature.com)

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Attacking Russia's Center of Gravity: A Clausewitzian Answer (militarystrategymagazine.com)

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Beyond the "Post": Trauma, Temporality, and Psychiatric Categories in Kashmir (inversejournal.com)

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A playbook for the next century of progress (freethink.com)

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Goblin Supermarket – Closing Time (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Billionaires' Eugenics Project (thenerve.news)

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The Prince and the Widow and the Stone Soup (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Aegean Meets Europe: Two Ornaments with Solar Motifs (cambridge.org)

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Difficulties in reading recent Japanese names (2021) (nature.com)

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The First 103 Kanji [pdf] (uni-passau.de)

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Scientists find a way to plant ideas in dreams through sound cues (good.is)