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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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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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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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The Ability To Play As Bowser Has Made Our Society More Evil – Clickhole
https://www.clickhole.com/2015/01/05/the-ability-to-play-as-bowser-has-made-our-society-more-1825123963/
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Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?
https://19thnews.org/2026/07/revolutionizing-gynecology-iud-pain/
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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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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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rsync and outrage
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
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/
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/
AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining
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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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The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html
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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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, by Belle Burden
https://www.belleburden.com/books
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
https://andyweirauthor.com/#project-hail-mary
Andy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.
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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Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Scolyer-Brainstorm-9781761471490
Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer
No, 1 in 6 People Do Not Have Long COVID
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/no-1-in-6-people-do-not-have-long
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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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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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What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yzdr4ygdno
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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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