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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
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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Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science - Behind the Bastards | iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-robert-maxwell-how-ghislaine-274165028/
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rsync and outrage
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/
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How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi: A case study in self-sabotage
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/uk-productivity-economy-reform-party/687303/
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Life at the end of the metaverse
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/73949/life-at-the-end-of-the-metaverse
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What if It’s Not the Phones?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/
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You're Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype
https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/
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Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study says | PBS News
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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Part One: Jimmy Savile: Britain's Unending Nightmare
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-jimmy-savile-britains-unending-330154698/
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I'm Still Skeptical Because You Keep Using Faith in AI to Extrapolate | Josh Reed
https://jriddy.com/posts/skeptical-faith-ai-extrapolate/
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The last continent: how deadly bird flu travelled the world before landing on a remote Australian beach | Bird flu | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/28/bird-flu-travelled-world-remote-australian-beach?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Seeing Other People, by Diana Reid
https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/seeing-other-people-by-diana-reid/9781761151705
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The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html
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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
https://andyweirauthor.com/#project-hail-mary
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White winters across regional NSW towns now a fading memory
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/blue-mountains-snow-drought-reaches-record-four-years/106982612
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
https://dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to-be-able-to-buy-things
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What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yzdr4ygdno
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The stubborn scarcity of female breadwinners
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/13/the-stubborn-scarcity-of-female-breadwinners
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Bit Rot Doesn't Always Increase Entropy – A Story from the Archives - Google Bug Hunters
https://bughunters.google.com/blog/bit-rot-doesnt-always-increase-entropy
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Part One: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism - Behind the Bastards | iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-carl-schmitt-the-mind-276486999/
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Skill nostalgia
https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand
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