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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

Cosmic radiation comes from space. Only a small amount reaches the Earth's surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes.

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Elon Musk alone isn’t responsible for Belfast's racist pogrom

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/elon-musk-belfast-pogrom-lee-hurley

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

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Added 2 months ago

Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard, by Amy Remeikis

https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Where-It-All-Went-Wrong/Amy-Remeikis/9781761822117

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Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox

https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Scolyer-Brainstorm-9781761471490

Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

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rsync and outrage

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

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The Ten Year Affair, by Erin Somers

https://www.erinsomers.com/books

BOOKS

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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/

By Lee Vinsel

I'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'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some

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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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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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Added 3 weeks ago

Skill nostalgia

https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand

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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

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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How effective are vaccines at stopping deadly bird flu from spreading? - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-06-25/avian-influenza-h5n1-vaccine-effectiveness/106831626

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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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Life at the end of the metaverse

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/73949/life-at-the-end-of-the-metaverse