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In a New Image, NASA Captures 16.5M Stars of the Cigar Galaxy (thisiscolossal.com)

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Stop Paying More for Less Transit (ifp.org)

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Hire Me (Taylor) via API (taylor.town)

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Auditing my local Python packages (alexwlchan.net)

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I Don't Maintain My Homelab (cleberg.net)

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"Energy Constraints and Tradeoffs" by Martin Picard [video] (youtube.com)

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Creating a Personalised Bin Calendar (alexwlchan.net)

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Zig and the Zig Guy (rosswintle.uk)

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Reduce Needless Bus Customization (ifp.org)

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Simply supported beam–Castigliano's method (leancrew.com)

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The Octopus Conundrum (ambrook.com)

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Farming is Why Humanity is Fucked (brennan.day)

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Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals (venkateshrao.com)

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Aerial Photographs (2017) (toronto.ca)

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All Logic, No Bite (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Blink If You're Human (dynomight.net)

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Learning from Nature with System Dynamics (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Type-checked non-empty strings (bellroy.com)

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Close America's Transit Automation Gap (ifp.org)

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Octonions and the Standard Model (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Fast-Track Democratically Approved Transit Projects (ifp.org)

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Outbreak (meltingasphalt.com)

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Add Animal Crossing events to your digital calendar (sethmlarson.dev)

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Freiman's Constant (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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How to Control What You Can't See [video] (youtube.com)

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How much "Super Mario" per year? (sethmlarson.dev)

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Bureaucracy Is Eating the World (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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Going Critical (meltingasphalt.com)

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Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync (drewdevault.com)

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From Pentagons to Pentagrams (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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8BBS: A Forgotten Primary Source (2017) (wrestlinggnon.com)

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A History of Menus Is a Menu of History (pudding.cool)

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Build Yourself Flowers (vickiboykis.com)

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Deciphering Basmala (plover.com)

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Mechanical Sympathy (vickiboykis.com)

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3D Rotations – From Zero to Geo 3.9 [video] (youtube.com)

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Formal Verification Benchmarks Are the Key to Ironclad Software Infrastructure (galois.com)

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1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis (hypertalking.com)

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Tagging my blog posts with BERTopic and LLMs (vickiboykis.com)

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Why the West stopped making land (worksinprogress.co)

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The Hotness Curve (how age changes a woman's appeal) (aella.substack.com)

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5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920 (pudding.cool)

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Cory's Cookies and The 92% Tax Rate (2018) (wrestlinggnon.com)

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The Standard Model Is Not a Coincidence (novaspivack.com)

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Fear in Four Dimensions (taylor.town)

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Augmented Augmented Reality (quarter--mile.com)

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The Seeds of Our Housing Crisis Were Planted in the Reagan Era (commonedge.org)

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Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video] (youtube.com)

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Is it more unusual to have written a book, or to have killed someone? (homosabiens.substack.com)

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The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated (dynomight.net)

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You Cannot Grow a Pumpkin (taylor.town)

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Human Beings Are Waterproof (autodidacts.io)

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Why American data centers can't plug in (worksinprogress.co)

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Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion (markdy.com)

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I sleep less when I exercise more (mdickens.me)

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The Economy Is Booming Just Not for You [video] (youtube.com)

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Nicolas nielsen designs self-driving HYVE beehive to pollinate cities (designboom.com)

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How the Space Program Has Influenced What We Carry (carryology.com)

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Vector Graphics in Lil (beyondloom.com)

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A Review of Grand Theft Auto Xxiiv (taylor.town)

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In Defense of the Marginal Baby (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum (svpow.com)

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You're in a computer literacy filter bubble (autodidacts.io)

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Let's Call 'Em "Aigents" (autodidacts.io)

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Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf] (foster77.co.uk)

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C.C. Filson: The Man, the Coat, and the Company He Left Behind (carryology.com)

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Artificial (inkandswitch.com)

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Dostoyevsky isn't difficult (autodidacts.io)

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The last Romans are still around (signoregalilei.com)

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An indie blog's directory of indie blog directories (autodidacts.io)

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Don't Talk to the Police (2012) [video] (youtube.com)

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My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 (plover.com)

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Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis (svpow.com)

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We should vaccinate wild animals (worksinprogress.co)

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Why European housing politics should be Americanized (worksinprogress.co)

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The Structural Return Argument Against Value Investing (mdickens.me)

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The Lego Natural History Museum, and the Question of Scale (svpow.com)

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The Escape of Europe's Smartest Criminal [video] (youtube.com)

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You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower [video] (youtube.com)

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Stargazing (futilitycloset.com)

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The 100k whys of AI (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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I still don't think you need to vacuum every week (kevinmunger.substack.com)

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Clark Barwick on Topological Quantum Field Theory and the Langlands Program [video] (youtube.com)

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Does your mom use AI? (handyai.substack.com)

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Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder (mssv.net)

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Leave a Trace (jakeworth.com)

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In Situ Syntax Highlighting in macOS Applications Like Keynote (meyerweb.com)

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Does it feel any different to be reverse-chiral life? (unstableontology.com)

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The failed plan to centralize the nukes (signoregalilei.com)

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The Underground Logic Shaping the Suburbs [video] (youtube.com)

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I'm building a drone for the DARPA lift challenge [video] (youtube.com)

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LLM Councils Show Groupthink (strangeloopcanon.com)

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Windows (davekrugman.com)

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Human Judgment as a Specification (brownplt.org)

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Cosmodial Sky Atlas (frankforce.com)

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The proposed rule changes to the administration of federal grants (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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Mental causation is not load-bearing (unstableontology.com)

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Get your fine, handcrafted artisanal essays right here (rootsofprogress.org)

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Where do migrants live, and where were they born? (ourworldindata.org)