Articles by cainxinth
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Infamous Front-Running Crypto Bot Gets Tricked and Drained for $7.5M (gizmodo.com)

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The Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (nytimes.com)

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Wordle's Hard Mode Is Easier, 730M Games Show (nytimes.com)

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How trust funds made the modern world (springbett.substack.com)

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You Can Make Free Money on Polymarket. If You Know Math (nytimes.com)

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The Measured Listener (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Humans vs. Bots – Who Does the Em Dash Better? (nytimes.com)

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The Loneliness of the Competitive Quizzer (thebaffler.com)

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Still Out of Control (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Mathematics Is Out There (aeon.co)

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World Railway Map [pdf] (zhaoxusui.github.io)

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Fish Sleep a Lot Like Us. (They Even Nap.) (nytimes.com)

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Why Would Someone Publicly Burn $8M Worth of Bitcoin? (gizmodo.com)

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NBA to use AI for automatic out-of-bounds calls, Silver says (reuters.com)

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Constant Pressure System (wikipedia.org)

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Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing (jilltxt.net)

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GOES16 – Water World [video] (youtube.com)

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Dead Metaphor (wikipedia.org)

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Why banning the recycling logo is progress in the fight against plastic waste (washingtonpost.com)

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Ban Non-Compete Clauses (democracyjournal.org)

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Could This Fish Be a Notebook? (reasonstobecheerful.world)

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Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI (apnews.com)

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Bliss (Photograph) (wikipedia.org)

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The One Dollar Counterfeiter (amusingplanet.com)

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They don't look like me (niccolorastrelli.com)

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The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)

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RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both (gizmodo.com)

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AI data centers appear to be creating their own microclimates (sfgate.com)

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The 'Gates to Hell' Are Dimming. That May Not Be a Good Thing (nytimes.com)

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The Cartoon That Shut Down Boston (nowiknow.com)

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Outline of Thought (wikipedia.org)

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Humanity on the Page (commonwealmagazine.org)

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Lina Lapelytė Fills Hamburger Bahnhof with 400k Blocks for Communal Building (thisiscolossal.com)

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The Simpsons reference that refutes one of history's greatest mathematicians (scientificamerican.com)

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Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem (nytimes.com)

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HVD Bodedo (2007) (hvdfonts.com)

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The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)

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Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries (lpeproject.org)

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Delete Act (wikipedia.org)

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The Melbourne project turning used tennis balls into shoes (abc.net.au)

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They Were YouTube's First Stars. Here's What They Wish They'd Known (nytimes.com)

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China's Parallel Web Behind the Wall (vale.rocks)

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You Too Could Found a Nation and Become Its President (mostly.substack.com)

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An Interview with Alan Moore (2013) (thebeliever.net)

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Guitar Tuning Nightmares Explained (endino.com)

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'Survivor' Style Corporate Retreat Descends into Hellish Nightmare (thedailybeast.com)

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Is my writing too wet? (samkriss.substack.com)

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The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won (thewalrus.ca)

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Getting to Know the Know-It-Alls: On a new history of pedantry (hedgehogreview.com)

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Longitude Rewards (wikipedia.org)

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Dance Your PhD (wikipedia.org)

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There's a reason you don't know (wikipedia.org)

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A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Russian Internet Restrictions and Evasion (nytimes.com)

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The autism spectrum isn't a sliding scale; 39 traits show the complexity (yahoo.com)

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How Fast Do Our Journalists Type? (nytimes.com)

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Game Devs Reveal All Their Ugly Placeholder Assets Made Without AI (kotaku.com)

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Is it a pint? (isitapint.com)

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A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022) (nippon.com)

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Gait Analysis (wikipedia.org)

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People Are Making Money Betting on Pretaped 'Survivor' Episodes (nytimes.com)

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William Gibson vs. Margaret Thatcher (pluralistic.net)

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Stop Killing Games (wikipedia.org)

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Tournament of Books (tournamentofbooks.com)

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The First Compact Disc Player: Sony's 1982 CDP-101 (obsoletesony.substack.com)

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A college student's perspective on using AI in class (npr.org)

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The Early Principles That Guided the Makers of Lego (2017) (longreads.com)

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I Hired a Lab to Counterfeit-Test a Dozen Suspicious Beauty Products (nytimes.com)

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We may soon have 70M boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop (lloydalter.substack.com)

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SCOTUS declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material (reuters.com)

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We the Bacteria. Notes Toward Biotic Architecture (we-make-money-not-art.com)

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Which piece of speculative fiction had the greatest one-day stock market impact? (ft.com)

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Luxury's Overexposure Is Biting (matterbymatter.substack.com)

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Can A.I. Detection Tools Spot Fake Images? (nytimes.com)

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Nicki Minaj's social media propped up by bots, analysis finds (politico.com)

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Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History Interviews Gwern (2025) (gwern.net)

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Test Your Color Memory (dialed.gg)

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It must be hard to publish null results (osf.io)

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AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions (theatlantic.com)

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I Quit My Job at OpenAI (nytimes.com)

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London's most controversial cyclist (the-londoner.co.uk)

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What Happens in a Performer's Brain While Playing Music? (nytimes.com)

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Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom (apnews.com)

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From Fishing Nets to Furniture: Turning Ocean Plastic into Usable Products (nytimes.com)

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KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings (irishtimes.com)

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Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 (gizmodo.com)

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The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025) (ejpe.org)

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Did A.I. Take Your Job? Or Was Your Employer 'A.I.-Washing'? (nytimes.com)

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The Shakers' Utopian World Sees a Surge of Modern Interest (nytimes.com)

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What is a loot box and why is there one at The Pentagon? (taskandpurpose.com)

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Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift (themarginalian.org)

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Polar Amplification (wikipedia.org)

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How to Speak Davosian – For Beginners (swissinfo.ch)

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Hallucination Stations: Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models (2025) (arxiv.org)

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Gore Verbinski Discusses Why CGI No Longer Looks Good (butwhytho.net)

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Infinite pancakes, anyone? (nytimes.com)

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Major plumbing headache haunts $13B U.S. aircraft carrier (npr.org)

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Wikipedia: Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you (wikipedia.org)

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Gradient.horse (gradient.horse)

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Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left (pcgamer.com)

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Trying Out Every Exoskeleton at CES (lifehacker.com)