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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/
A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.
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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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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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The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html
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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Solar Solves Everything*
https://sammatey.substack.com/p/solar-solves-everything
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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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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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What if It’s Not the Phones?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/
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Introducing — Autistic AF With Grace Tame
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/introducing-autistic-af-with-grace-tame/106723584
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Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Scolyer-Brainstorm-9781761471490
Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer
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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Skill nostalgia
https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand
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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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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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rsync and outrage
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
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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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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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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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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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.
Deciphering Glyph :: Adversarial Communication
https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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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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