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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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The Age of Extremophiles

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-age-of-extremophiles-331674257/

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The Ten Year Affair, by Erin Somers

https://www.erinsomers.com/books

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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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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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A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to

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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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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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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, by Belle Burden

https://www.belleburden.com/books

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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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Life at the end of the metaverse

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

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

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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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AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining

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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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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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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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Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus - Dissent Magazine

https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-joan-didion/

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.

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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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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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Deciphering Glyph :: Adversarial Communication

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Terry Pratchett - Charlie's Diary