Articles by dredmorbius
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I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station (reddit.com)

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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre (wikipedia.org)

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Yalda Hakim on the collapse of 'seeing is believing' (reuters.com)

4

Comments Owl for Hacker News (soitis.dev)

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We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech (disconnect.blog)

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Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie (2011) (mensjournal.com)

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New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings (reuters.com)

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In secret missile factory, Ukraine is ramping up its domestic arms industry (bbc.co.uk)

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Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales (theguardian.com)

2

Study links soybean oil to obesity (ucr.edu)

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Refutation of Metcalfe's Law revisited: network effects meet Sturgeon's Law (2014) (archive.org)

2

The Werewolf Game (codastory.com)

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Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests (seattletimes.com)

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Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses (scandasia.com)

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Removed (ericpickersgill.com)

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Wayback Machine's snapshots of news homepages plummet after a "breakdown" (niemanlab.org)

11

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97 (nytimes.com)

5

'Chinese room' philosopher John Searle dies (semafor.com)

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Ban Autonomous Systems (alexschroeder.ch)

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Sendowl raised my monthly fee from $39 to >$200, more than 100% of my margin (mamot.fr)

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Do you approve of the state of the software industry? (floss.social)

4

Kent State Shootings (wikipedia.org)

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I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt (huffpost.com)

3

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On (propublica.org)

2

An interesting day in Barcelona it was (infosec.exchange)

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Spain is still struggling to honour historical memory (2017) (theconversation.com)

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Michael Tilson Thomas takes his final bow with San Francisco Symphony (sfchronicle.com)

4

Kosmos 482 Descent Craft reentry forecasts (sattrackcam.blogspot.com)

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Reports of surge in phone checks at the US border [audio] (abc.net.au)

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Have you ever thought "I wish that I could read online news like a newspaper?" (toot.cat)

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Have you ever asked "I wish that I could read online news like a newspaper?" (toot.cat)

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ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser (flausch.social)

2

How Pebbles Form Planets (nautil.us)

2

Nonsense: Forms thereof, falsifiability, pseudoscience, and bullshit (2014) (archive.org)

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Scientist in France got briefing on what to do when traveling to the US (oftrolls.com)

10

Torrenting to seed US Government scientific datasets (aus.social)

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USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug 'resistant to everything we have' (theguardian.com)

2

OPEC, Petrodollars, and the 1980s Homeless Crisis (2017) (archive.org)

2

The Demise of Diasp.org (ncf.ca)

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Weather and climate data shown on this website and others are at risk (nullschool.net)

18

Stone Soup AI (2024) (simons.berkeley.edu)

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Power Law in Popular Media (2018) (michaeltauberg.medium.com)

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Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them (bloomberg.com)

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The comp.risks Digest SSL cert expired nearly a year ago (ncl.ac.uk)

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Adult literacy, numeracy skills declining or stagnating in most OECD countries (oecd.org)

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Big five publishers have abandoned literary fiction, putting it on life support (persuasion.community)

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Intellectual Property: The attack on public access to culture (2001) (archive.org)

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Social Media Accounts – Bankruptcy Court Ruling Sets Precedent (2015) (abfjournal.com)

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Newspapers Fact Sheet (2023) (pewresearch.org)

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Propaganda of the Deed (wikipedia.org)

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Rapid intensification, extreme rapid intensification–and then Hurricane Milton (thebulletin.org)

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Our whindex status maps reflect our closures as of 2pm today (poast.org)

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The Verge of a Paywall (status.news)

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An Update on the Future of the Web Foundation [pdf] (webfoundation.org)

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1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (wikipedia.org)

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Kyshtym Disaster (wikipedia.org)

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What We Know About Hurricane Helene's Destruction So Far (nytimes.com)

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There Are 89,004 Local Governments in the United States (2012) (census.gov)

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Philanthropy steps in to rescue local journalism, for now (chicagobusiness.com)

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Google search monopoly US case remedies to come by December (reuters.com)

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Sergio Mendes, 83, Dies; Brought Brazilian Rhythms to the U.S. Pop Charts (nytimes.com)

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Shoe Fitting X-Ray Device (2015) (museumofquackery.com)

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Empty Boeing Starliner is set to return next week, while its crew stays in space (npr.org)

2

What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide? (2022) (homerdixon.com)

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Cleaning up after WWII (2017) (wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com)

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In Russia's War on Ukraine, Effective Satellites Are Few and Far Between (2022) (rferl.org)

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Using a JSON feed for self-published indexes (alexschroeder.ch)

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A Reminder of Precedents in Subsidizing Newspapers (2010) (nytimes.com)

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Why won't some people pay for news? (2022) (glasswings.com)

3

The Grimy Residue of the AI Bubble (buttondown.com)

2

Nearly everyone working on Nova Launcher has been laid off (theverge.com)

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The growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet (theguardian.com)

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'Massive disinformation campaign' is slowing global transition to green energy (theguardian.com)

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Mary Wings Has Died (nytimes.com)

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'Traditional TV is dying': can networks pivot and survive? (theguardian.com)

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Two X flares launched from the sun, may spark Northern Lights (mlive.com)

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How not to say the wrong thing (2013) (latimes.com)

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97 (npr.org)

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Silicon Valley's Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy (theguardian.com)

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The Sonar War (1998) (nytimes.com)

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Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency (theregister.com)

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Boeing names Robert 'Kelly' Ortberg as new president and CEO (theguardian.com)

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William Calley, Convicted of Mass Murder in My Lai Massacre, Dies at 80 (nytimes.com)

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Russia and China pounce on rally shooting to undermine U.S. (washingtonpost.com)

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Wildfire Emergencies Declared in Russia's Far East Republics of Tyva, Sakha (themoscowtimes.com)

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Autonomous Weapons Enter the Battlefield (theguardian.com)

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Danger in Plain Sight: The Risk of Triggering a Contingent Election (2023) (lawfaremedia.org)

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Is a Sandwich a Taco (etymonline.com)

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A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites (trilobites.info)

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To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun” (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Evolution of the Scrollbar (2019) (matoseb.com)

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Archives as Commons (searls.com)

2

Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) (archive.org)

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Gen Xers projected to see higher cancer rates than Boomers (npr.org)

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Edward Stone, 88, Physicist Who Oversaw Voyager Missions, Is Dead (nytimes.com)

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The scientist who sees our chaotic future (newstatesman.com)

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Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition (2021) (chemistry.berkeley.edu)

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The overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil's floods (theguardian.com)

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How to Be Obscene (1927) (newyorker.com)

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May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans, and We Are Blowing It (nytimes.com)