Articles by leephillips
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Fourth Circuit: Border Agents Can Search Your Phone by Hand, No Suspicion Needed (eff.org)

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Vatican silent on Jewish villains in U.S. Catholic church pageants (forward.com)

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"Try quickly typing 1+2+3. I bet you won't get 6." (aresluna.org)

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AliExpress gets record €550M fine from EU for allowing sale of illegal products (bbc.com)

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Hearts and Minds: An Ambivalent Review of "Project Hail Mary" (rifters.com)

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Kitty Chases the Mouse (lwn.net)

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Flexible Metaprogramming with Rhombus (lwn.net)

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Primed for Malware: Stop Selling Compromised Android Devices (eff.org)

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Vulgar Materialism (borretti.me)

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Gregory Williams, Academic with an Uncommon Perspective on Race, Dies at 81 (nytimes.com)

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Numerical Hints for Dyon Condensation at θ=2π (arxiv.org)

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Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump (arstechnica.com)

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A Human in Control (haxx.se)

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Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered (bbc.com)

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More Molly Guards (aresluna.org)

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</> Htmx – Code is Cheap(er) (htmx.org)

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NASA's Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy (nasa.gov)

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The Filamentary Funnels That Form Stars (universetoday.com)

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Why Julia's GPU Accelerated Ode Solvers Are 20x-100x Faster Than Jax and PyTorch (stochasticlifestyle.com)

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Yes, scientists can be hostile to new ideas. So should you (bigthink.com)

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Why the Physics Underlying Life Is Fundamental and Computation Is Not (longnow.org)

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More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, More (eff.org)

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A CS researcher's unusually high h-index exposes an expansive citation network (retractionwatch.com)

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Modern passport systems leave little room for bureaucratic heroism (reason.com)

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Dr. Demento, the DJ Who Brought America Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, and Cows with Guns (reason.com)

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See the clouds streaming and vanishing around this planet – 690 light years away (nature.com)

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What makes a good variable naming convention (benharrap.com)

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To My Editors and Publishers (lee-phillips.org)

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'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes (retractionwatch.com)

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New rule in Peru restricts authors with retractions from getting special bonuses (retractionwatch.com)

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Julia Stability vs. Rust for Scientific Computing (julialang.org)

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Al-Khwarizmi didn't in any way originate, invent or create the algorithm (thonyc.wordpress.com)

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You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough (tjll.net)

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New study bridges the worlds of classical and quantum physics (news.mit.edu)

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Cool Makie Papers: Science Visualized with Makie.jl (makie.org)

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Slow Software (inkandswitch.com)

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JustEat and Autotrader among firms investigated in fake reviews probe (bbc.com)

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Pandoc: A Workhorse for Document Conversion (lwn.net)

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Don't Trust, Verify (haxx.se)

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Daniel Stenberg – Emails (haxx.se)

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Antimatter has been transported for the first time (nature.com)

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Set intersection and difference at the command line (johndcook.com)

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Take the Anti-Slop Pledge (lee-phillips.org)

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Details That Make Interfaces Feel Better (jakub.kr)

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The web is bearable with RSS (pluralistic.net)

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My Doctors Almost Got a Heart Attack When They Saw My Cholesterol (machielreyneke.com)

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A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator [video] (youtube.com)

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Human Made: The Pledge (lee-phillips.org)

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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes (bbc.com)

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Deplatform Yourself (pluralistic.net)

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EFF's Policy on LLM-Assisted Contributions to Our Open-Source Projects (eff.org)

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The Promptware Kill Chain (schneier.com)

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Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer (nytimes.com)

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Luxury Kafka (pluralistic.net)

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Nasal spray could prevent infections from any flu strain (newscientist.com)

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Medical journal publishes a letter on AI with a fake reference to itself (retractionwatch.com)

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Pillbugs Are Getting Top Dollar Online. Poachers Have Noticed (nytimes.com)

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Cop-assisted extortion of DWI arrestees in New Mexico include getting them drunk (reason.com)

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How to Preserve Your Writing for a Hundred Years (idiallo.com)

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Why Julia's GPU Accelerated Ode Solvers Are 20x-100x Faster Than Jax and PyTorch (stochasticlifestyle.com)

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What's algorithmic coercion, and why is it making things we buy more expensive? (wtop.com)

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Emmy Noether Can't Get a Break (lee-phillips.org)

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Digital microwaves show an example of good UI doing what you wanted (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Polyglot Jet Finding (arxiv.org)

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The importance of free software to science (lwn.net)

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Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence? (merionwest.com)

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The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now has 400 entries (retractionwatch.com)

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Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil (arstechnica.com)

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Creating Web Applications with Julia (digitalocean.com)

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Columbia University Faculty Behaving Badly (reason.com)

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Catching the moon at the right time with Julia (jonathanbieler.github.io)

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Generalized Worley Noise (ianthehenry.com)

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Klein Bottles and Nuclear Fusion (lee-phillips.org)

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The lost cause of the Lisp machines (tfeb.org)

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Disney Lost Roger Rabbit (pluralistic.net)

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Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more (lwn.net)

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Automated PDF Generation with Typst (typst.app)

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The NYC Transportation Crew Helping Preserve Its Cobblestone Streets (nytimes.com)

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War Photographer Breaks Down His Essential Camera Kit [video] (youtube.com)

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I Drew the Julia Logo Using an MRI Machine (cncastillo.github.io)

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Papers retracted for using a copyrighted questionnaire (lee-phillips.org)

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Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more (lwn.net)

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</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening (htmx.org)

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Klein Bottles and Nuclear Fusion (lee-phillips.org)

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Is now the best time ever for Linux laptops? (neilzone.co.uk)

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How to create accessible PDFs from the start (typst.app)

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Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq (retractionwatch.com)

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Modern Linux filesystem mounts are rather complex things (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Lying Lawyers (reason.com)

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Sxmo: Simple X Mobile (sxmo.org)

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Emmy Noether Can't Get a Break (lee-phillips.org)

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Out of Many, One by President George W. Bush (bushcenter.org)

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A Royal Gold Medal (haxx.se)

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What do we do if SETI is successful? (universetoday.com)

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Iraqi university forcing students to cite its journals to graduate (retractionwatch.com)

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Typst 0.14 just entered its final testing period (typst.app)

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The esoteric programming language Velato uses music as its source code (futilitycloset.com)

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Creating Web Applications with Julia (digitalocean.com)

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Coattails (adactio.com)

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Julia and Python: Slowly Converging (lee-phillips.org)