Articles by nickcotter
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Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference (scientificamerican.com)

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Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source, tests reveal (theguardian.com)

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Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (amazon.com)

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Fearless frogs feast on deadly hornets (kobe-u.ac.jp)

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Deep-sea mining tests impact over a third of seabed animals (bbc.co.uk)

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Deep generative classification of blood cell morphology (nature.com)

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Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy (nature.com)

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Pornography company fined £1M by Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks (theguardian.com)

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Trump: Pro-Crypto or Pro-Crime? (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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Cultural Death in the Age of the Excessive Choice (apocalypse-confidential.com)

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All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets (theguardian.com)

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As carbon markets collapse, what happens to forests they promised to protect? (theguardian.com)

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The last voyage of the Scandies Rose (theguardian.com)

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AI might be creating underclass, but makers of tech bubble are replaceable (theguardian.com)

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ICE in Chicago Are Wearing Meta AI Ray-Ban Glasses (bsky.app)

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All Hail the Technocracy (wired.com)

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Trump hikes H-1B visa cost to $100k a year (theguardian.com)

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I lived underwater for 100 days (theguardian.com)

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Johnson and Cummings' secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed (theguardian.com)

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Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming 'Climate Extremist Agenda' (desmog.com)

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The 'big church move': Swedish town begins to roll historic building 5km (theguardian.com)

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Proposal: Mark/punish AI imagery (Lobsters) (lobste.rs)

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Climate scientists criticise Ireland over new 'temperature neutrality' proposal (irishtimes.com)

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The Puzzle of Low Data Center Utilization Rates (powerpolicy.net)

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The zone zero secret: how ultra-low-stress exercise can change your life (theguardian.com)

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U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country (pbs.org)

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The history and future of societal collapse (theguardian.com)

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Y Combinator is looking for DOGE-related startups for its next cohort (businessinsider.com)

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Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil (theguardian.com)

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Physicists disagree on what quantum mechanics says about reality (nature.com)

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The IPCC: Can it regain its credibility? (meer.com)

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Slow Ways National Walking Network (slowways.org)

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[flagged] Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing (theguardian.com)

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The world of Voronoi diagrams (2021) (fbellelli.com)

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Stalled funding, canceled grants: How the NIH crisis is affecting Duke (dukechronicle.com)

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Climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield (theguardian.com)

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San Francisco's Billboards Aren't for You (bayareacurrent.com)

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AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members (nationalobserver.com)

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Baked Alaska in State's First Heat Alert (thinc.blog)

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The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home (theguardian.com)

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Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries (thelancet.com)

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Restoring Gold Standard Science (whitehouse.gov)

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Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing (ft.com)

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ChatGPT may be polite, but it's not cooperating with you (theguardian.com)

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The Hobo Handbook (theparisreview.org)

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Pakistan set to break temperature record (semafor.com)

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How to Measure an Apocalypse (jonn.substack.com)

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Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest, study suggests (theguardian.com)

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Clean energy manufacturers cancel projects as Trump-era policies take hold (manufacturingdive.com)

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Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status over Alleged 'Propaganda' (gizmodo.com)

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[flagged] New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable (archaeologymag.com)

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PhD Timeline (xkcd.com)

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The new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety (theguardian.com)

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Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700B Gov Payments (propublica.org)

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The "De" in "Decentralization" Stands for "Democracy" (techdirt.com)

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ICE-snitching app is promoting a meme coin (theverge.com)

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FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirements (fda.gov)

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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows (theguardian.com)

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How to respond when biomed science and global health is under existential threat (nature.com)

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Call for expansion of Royal Navy surveillance after Kremlin spy devices found (theguardian.com)

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We're Committing Cultural Suicide (coreyrobin.com)

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[flagged] I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled (theguardian.com)

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Flying Saucers: An Opening Salvo of the Cold War? (tandfonline.com)

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Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows (theguardian.com)

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Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential (eenews.net)

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YouTube's Weird World of Fake Movie Trailers (deadline.com)

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US warns French companies they must comply with Trump's diversity ban (reuters.com)

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No Great Shakes (kityates.substack.com)

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Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores (christinapagel.substack.com)

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Trump's 'climate' purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it (theguardian.com)

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Don't Get Scammed Tips for Spotting AI-Generated Fake Products Online (bellingcat.com)

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You Deserve a Tech Union (ethanmarcotte.com)

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Trump team 'survey' for overseas researchers prompts foreign interference fears (nature.com)

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Britain Issues Travel Warning for US (newsweek.com)

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Bill Gates' Climate Group Lays Off US and Europe Policy Teams (bloomberg.com)

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Umass is rescinding all grad positions for this year (via Bluesky) (bsky.app)

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Signal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats, official says (therecord.media)

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NASA eliminates chief scientist role, other offices (axios.com)

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Cascading extreme weather events unleash billions in damages globally (japantimes.co.jp)

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Hiring in 2025 vs. 2021 (YouTube) (youtube.com)

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WaPo columnist quits and accuses publisher of killing op-ed critical of Bezos (independent.co.uk)

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Dad of detained tourist urges care on US visa rules (bbc.co.uk)

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Spotify's biggest sin? Its algos pushed artists to make joyless, toothless music (theguardian.com)

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You are witnessing the death of American capitalism (YouTube) (youtube.com)

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Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way (sfchronicle.com)

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Billionaire Politicians: A Global Perspective (2023) (cambridge.org)

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In Severance, Office Perks Couldn't Be More Sinister (theoffcut.substack.com)

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[flagged] The End of Weather Forecasting (thinc.blog)

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Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists (theguardian.com)

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DeepSeek releases powerful new open-source Fire-Flyer File System (tomshardware.com)

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Meta must face lawsuit claiming it prefers cheaper foreign workers (reuters.com)

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New powers planned to search homes for stolen phones (bbc.co.uk)

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Google gives up on data voids (platformer.news)

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UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump admin (theguardian.com)

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Elon Musk's private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service (cnn.com)

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Shopify lays off team supporting Black, Indigenous and women entrepreneurs (thelogic.co)

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Probationary employees fired across Dept of Energy, impacting grid improvement (datacenterdynamics.com)

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Researching climate change like standing in the path of an approaching train (nature.com)

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Chernobyl reactor shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says (bbc.com)

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Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk's fellowship (nature.com)