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Dead Internet Theory (kudmitry.com)
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Authorization API 1.0 (openid.net)
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Megadroughts, Pt. 3: The Future (2021) (audio) (radiowest.kuer.org)
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Blue on X: "unrot your brain" (twitter.com)
Ljudmila (wiki.ljudmila.org)
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Artist''s Statement (1971) (www.emohr.com)
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I''m Alone and in the Dark (politicalemails.org)
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Kotlin''s Rich Errors: Native, Typed Errors Without Exceptions (cekrem.github.io)
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AI and Radiology: How, why, and when to explain black boxes (doi.org)
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OpenAI launches cheaper ChatGPT subscription, says ads are coming next (9to5mac.com)
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OpenSlopware deleted, forked, and revived – by me on El Reg (www.theregister.com)
It costs money to share the future (unpublishablepapers.substack.com)
AI Might Make Long Specs Cool Again (marcolacava.substack.com)
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Overlapping Markup (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Art of Thinking on Paper by Joanna Wiebe (www.youtube.com)
Half American, half Canadian: Take a ride in a car welded from two front ends (www.bbc.com)
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? (lucumr.pocoo.org)
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The Billion-Dollar Block (www.billingbird.io)
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Receiving Natural VLF Radio Signals (www.qsl.net)
EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal (www.dw.com)
List of Former Footlights Members (en.wikipedia.org)
ChaosBSD: FreeBSD drivers go to get beaten into shape before upstream (github.com)
ICE To be abolished under new proposed bill (vechron.com)
Optimizing for Agents: The End of the Ten Blue Links (pathak.ventures)
Scalability But at what COST? (2015) [pdf] (www.usenix.org)
Sed-bin: a sed to C translator written in sed (github.com)
Technical Practices That Drive Business Results (www.caimito.net)
ClickHouse vs. StarRocks vs. Presto vs. Trino vs. Apache Spark (www.onehouse.ai)
Consent-O-Matic (github.com)
Skill gives you power. Taste decides how you use it (www.alexscamp.com)
Pentagon readies 1,500 troops to possibly deploy to Minnesota, US media say (www.reuters.com)
A Social Filesystem (overreacted.io)
The Discourse Is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack (www.joanwestenberg.com)