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Not Buying American Anymore
I feel like I need to first defuse any idea of antagonizing Americans themselves. The people are never to blame. This isn't a post criticizing the American people, it's criticizing the state of things that makes it impractical to have any sort of economical relation with the country if you are an average Joe like me.
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Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.
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Slow social media
How can we design better platforms?
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Should we drain the Everglades?
no pls dont
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Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats
Like so many past ephemera finds I’ve shared here, I bought these midcentury North American restaurant placemats at Brimfield Flea this July from a vendor who had around 500 in a big plastic tub. I bought 25 for $75 (a steal!) but I did have to talk myself out of asking how much it would be for the whole box. Most of…
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Europe is locking itself in to US LNG
The US energy secretary says the quiet part out loud: the tributary $750 billion in energy purchases the EU has promised in its Trump deal is meant to lock Europe into "long-term" energy dependence.
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Teen safety, freedom, and privacy
Explore OpenAI’s approach to balancing teen safety, freedom, and privacy in AI use.
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I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
A reaction and assorted observations about Apple's September 9 Awe-Dropping event.
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Ghost kitchens are dying
Ghost Kitchens Are Dying.
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Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose
A new study from South Dakota State University reveals how grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that is stronger than traditional plastic and will decompose in the environment in a relatively short amount of time.
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EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections
The move continues to expose communities across the country to toxic forever chemicals in tap water
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If my kids excel, will they move away?
I grew up on a farm outside of a rural town about an hour southeast of Columbus, Ohio. Like many small towns in America, my town knows “brain drain” – all of my friends from high school who went to college (~30% of my class) now live elsewhere, although most are pretty close by (e.g., several live in the suburbs of…
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EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...
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Legal win
Just got word that the court dismissed several of WP Engine and Silver Lake’s most serious claims — antitrust, monopolization, and extortion have been knocked out! These were by far the most signif…
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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
The highest court in the EU just reaffirmed that nuclear energy meets the scientific and environmental standards to be included in sustainable finance, and Greenpeace still refuses to budge.
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Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ
For a long time now fundamental theoretical physics has been suffering not just from a slowdown in progress, but from a sort of intellectual collapse (I wrote about this here a while back in the co…
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The effects of algorithms on the public discourse
Big Tech broke the internet, and this old man’s got a few things to say about it.
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DOOMscrolling: The Game
Can a game work where all you do is scroll?
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Introduction to GrapheneOS
In this blog post, you will learn about the security oriented smartphone operating system GrapheneOS
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Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
The researchers demonstrate that an engineered antibody improves a class of drugs that has struggled to make good on its early promise.
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Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
Trombone emoji skanking it's way into our hearts …
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We all dodged a bullet
That NPM attack could have been so much worse.
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently.
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Chat Control Must Be Stopped
Chat Control is back to undermine everyone's privacy. There's an important deadline on October 14th, 2025. We must act now to stop it!
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iPhone dumbphone
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!
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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads
The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.
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The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
The demo scene was recently proclaimed a UNESCO Living Cultural Heritage in Sweden, following several other European nations. As a scener, I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. It's amusing on some level, there's maybe even a bit of pride involved, but also fear that it might bring unwanted attention to a Good…