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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
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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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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The Last Ditch Mask Fight: What Are The Risks of COVID-19 in 2026?
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/the-last-ditch-mask-fight-what-are
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The Pundit’s Trilemma: Authoritative, general, prolific, pick any two.
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-pundits-trilemma
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Time Travel for Beginners, by Jaclyn Moriarty
https://jaclynmoriarty.com/books/time-travel-for-beginners/
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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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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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Why I Am No Longer A Green | Wayne Myers
https://wayne.conniptions.org/2026/10/05/why-i-am-no-longer-a-green.html
I joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2014.
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Why the French Riot
https://claireberlinski.substack.com/p/why-the-french-riot-f71
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Women are more emotionally intelligent than men, and that’s a problem – landmark study
https://theconversation.com/women-are-more-emotionally-intelligent-than-men-and-thats-a-problem-landmark-study-293385
New research - it’s one of the largest studies of emotional intelligence to date
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You Will Not Be The Exception
https://taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/you-will-not-be-the-exception
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You Won’t Win the Revolution
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/you-wont-win-the-revolution/
The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.
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