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Bad shape
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
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Shop — Ruby Pilven
https://www.rubypilven.com/shop
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The assault on DEI? It's aimed at resegregation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/06/dei-gop-segregation/
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XX- Risk: What's more threatening - autonomous AI, or autonomous women?
https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/xx-risk
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Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/68918/gisele-pelicot-person-of-the-year
By insisting that her mass rape trial was held in the open, Pelicot has gifted others with real hope for change
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I adore my children. I’m also scared that one day my son will kill me | Femicide | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/08/i-adore-my-children-im-also-scared-that-one-day-my-son-will-kill-me
In the UK, more than 170 women have been murdered by their sons in the past 15 years. An anonymous mother reveals what it is like to be frightened of your child while desperately wanting to support him
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, by Adam Higginbotham
https://www.adamhigginbotham.com/
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Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-tech-bros-overestimate-ai-s-creative-abilities
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Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-calment-the-oldest-person-who-ever-lived-or-a-fraud
Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian, Lauren Collins writes.
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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? - The Pragmatic Engineer
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-making-stackoverflow-irrelevant/
Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’ time.
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This Man is a Coward.
https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-coward/
This man is a coward. And no amount of corporate jargon or performative masculinity can make that stain go away.
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Let's Get Real: I'm going to use the F-word and the C-word
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/lets-get-real
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The A.I. backlash backlash: Against "A.G.I."
https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-ai-backlash-backlash
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The Most Unsettling Inscription I've Ever Found on the Inside Cover of a Used Book, Bar None
https://thechatner.com/p/the-most-unsettling-inscription-ive
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The Bleak Spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial
https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/the-bleak-spectacle-of-the-amber
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Faster than Usain Bolt at the same age: The Ipswich schoolboy turned $6 million man
https://www.smh.com.au/national/faster-than-usain-bolt-at-the-same-age-the-ipswich-schoolboy-turned-6-million-man-20250116-p5l4xq.html
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The Management Singularity
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-management-singularity
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Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear, by Seanan McGuire
https://torpublishinggroup.com/adrift-in-currents-clean-and-clear/
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Claiming the summit without reaching the top
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/sports/tallest-mountain-summit.html
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Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723828/buried-deep-and-other-stories-by-naomi-novik/
A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance trilogy, including a...
The Great Resegregation - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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The End of Children | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/the-population-implosion
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports.
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What Happened Here: It's Very Simple Dialectics
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f
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