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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7490</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[The famous limit of 150 friends a human brain can supposedly hold turns out to rest on a calculation whose own confidence interval runs from 2 to 520 — too wide to support any specific number, let alone the one everyone quotes - Silicon Canals]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://siliconcanals.com/n-the-famous-limit-of-150-friends-a-human-brain-can-supposedly-hold-turns-out-to-rest-on-a-calculation-whose-own-confidence-interval-runs-from-2-to-520-too-wide-to-support-any-specific-number/" />
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                <![CDATA[A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.]]>
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            <updated>2026-08-29T11:16:47+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7489</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study says | PBS News]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/flight-attendants-and-pilots-have-highest-risk-of-dying-from-radiation-linked-cancers-study-says" />
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                <![CDATA[Cosmic radiation comes from space. Only a small amount reaches the Earth&amp;#039;s surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes.]]>
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            <updated>2026-08-23T11:29:45+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7488</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[White winters across regional NSW towns now a fading memory]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/blue-mountains-snow-drought-reaches-record-four-years/106982612" />
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            <updated>2026-08-09T10:53:37+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7487</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html" />
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            <updated>2026-08-04T19:32:45+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7486</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[The Ability To Play As Bowser Has Made Our Society More Evil – Clickhole]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.clickhole.com/2015/01/05/the-ability-to-play-as-bowser-has-made-our-society-more-1825123963/" />
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            <updated>2026-08-04T10:33:54+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7485</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[We used to be able to buy things in this country]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to-be-able-to-buy-things" />
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            <updated>2026-07-25T12:24:02+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7484</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[The stubborn scarcity of female breadwinners]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/13/the-stubborn-scarcity-of-female-breadwinners" />
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            <updated>2026-07-20T01:17:51+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7483</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to" />
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            <updated>2026-07-18T04:52:27+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7482</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://19thnews.org/2026/07/revolutionizing-gynecology-iud-pain/" />
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            <updated>2026-07-13T12:42:06+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7481</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Part One: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism - Behind the Bastards | iHeart]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-carl-schmitt-the-mind-276486999/" />
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            <updated>2026-07-12T05:54:31+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7480</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell&amp;#039;s Dad Ruined Science - Behind the Bastards | iHeart]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-robert-maxwell-how-ghislaine-274165028/" />
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            <updated>2026-07-12T05:54:08+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7479</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://andyweirauthor.com/#project-hail-mary" />
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[Andy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.]]>
            </summary>
            <updated>2026-07-12T05:51:50+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7478</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[What if It’s Not the Phones?]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/" />
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            <updated>2026-07-12T03:01:25+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7477</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Skill nostalgia]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand" />
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            <updated>2026-07-09T10:58:57+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7476</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Seeing Other People, by Diana Reid]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/seeing-other-people-by-diana-reid/9781761151705" />
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            <updated>2026-07-05T05:14:12+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7475</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, by Belle Burden]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.belleburden.com/books" />
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            <updated>2026-07-04T01:38:23+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7474</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Deciphering Glyph :: Adversarial Communication]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html" />
            <link rel="via" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7474"/>
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.]]>
            </summary>
            <updated>2026-06-30T19:35:43+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7473</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Scolyer-Brainstorm-9781761471490" />
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer]]>
            </summary>
            <updated>2026-06-29T10:32:57+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7472</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[How effective are vaccines at stopping deadly bird flu from spreading? - ABC News]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-06-25/avian-influenza-h5n1-vaccine-effectiveness/106831626" />
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            <updated>2026-06-28T04:16:45+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7471</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[The last continent: how deadly bird flu travelled the world before landing on a remote Australian beach | Bird flu | The Guardian]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/28/bird-flu-travelled-world-remote-australian-beach?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" />
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?]]>
            </summary>
            <updated>2026-06-28T04:13:19+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7470</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Life at the end of the metaverse]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/73949/life-at-the-end-of-the-metaverse" />
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                <name><![CDATA[mary]]></name>
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake]]>
            </summary>
            <updated>2026-06-27T08:14:52+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7469</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Elon Musk alone isn’t responsible for Belfast&amp;#039;s racist pogrom]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/elon-musk-belfast-pogrom-lee-hurley" />
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.]]>
            </summary>
            <updated>2026-06-21T18:16:55+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7468</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[What one country&amp;#039;s experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yzdr4ygdno" />
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            <updated>2026-06-16T05:56:31+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7467</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Introducing — Autistic AF With Grace Tame]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/introducing-autistic-af-with-grace-tame/106723584" />
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            <updated>2026-06-14T16:00:52+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7466</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi: A case study in self-sabotage]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/uk-productivity-economy-reform-party/687303/" />
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            <updated>2026-06-13T22:00:39+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7465</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus - Dissent Magazine]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-joan-didion/" />
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion&amp;#039;s conservatism.]]>
            </summary>
            <updated>2026-06-13T18:48:26+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7464</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Part One: Jimmy Savile: Britain&amp;#039;s Unending Nightmare]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-jimmy-savile-britains-unending-330154698/" />
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            <updated>2026-06-13T18:47:22+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7463</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[The Age of Extremophiles]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-age-of-extremophiles-331674257/" />
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            <updated>2026-06-13T18:46:05+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7462</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[The Ten Year Affair, by Erin Somers]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.erinsomers.com/books" />
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                <name><![CDATA[mary]]></name>
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[BOOKS]]>
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            <updated>2026-06-09T00:34:28+00:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7461</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[You&amp;#039;re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/" />
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            <summary type="text">
                <![CDATA[By Lee Vinsel

I&amp;#039;m reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I&amp;#039;ll find a better, more durable solution soon. I&amp;#039;m reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some]]>
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            <updated>2026-06-07T19:40:20+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7460</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Bit Rot Doesn&amp;#039;t Always Increase Entropy – A Story from the Archives - Google Bug Hunters]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://bughunters.google.com/blog/bit-rot-doesnt-always-increase-entropy" />
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                <![CDATA[This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.]]>
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            <updated>2026-06-05T07:16:42+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7459</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[rsync and outrage]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0" />
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            <updated>2026-06-03T09:06:22+00:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7458</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Types of Fun]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.thechatner.com/p/types-of-fun" />
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            <updated>2026-06-02T11:06:39+00:00</updated>
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