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Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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Nvidia suppliers halt H200 output after China blocks chip (www.ft.com)
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China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers (www.bloomberg.com)
Artisanal Code (sunnyamrat.com)
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy to step down (www.latimes.com)
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Myths we tell ourselves about software engineering (medium.com)
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Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Engine-Bench: Benchmarking Coding Agents on TCG Game Engine Tasks (github.com)
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Babyfiend.net (babyfiend.net)
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IETF@40 (www.ietf.org)
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SkipCV (www.skipcv.com)
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US says Canada will regret decision to allow Chinese EVs into their market (www.reuters.com)
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I''m not a good enough engineer to code with LLMs (kian.wtf)
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''Dilbert'' Was Always MAGA (www.nytimes.com)
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Squishy Go (puyogo.app)
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Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson''s America, Dies (www.nytimes.com)
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The Toxic Modernity Narrative (www.theargumentmag.com)
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OpenAI to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers (xcancel.com)
Chinese Fishing Boats Form Sea Barriers (www.nytimes.com)
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Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant (www.esa.int)
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OpenAI to Test Targeted Ads in ChatGPT (www.bloomberg.com)
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OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S. (www.cnbc.com)
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American Invasion of Greenland (2029) (falloutfanfic.fandom.com)
AI and Copyright Law (www.sfchronicle.com)
Is This Billionaire a Financial Genius or a Fraudster? (www.nytimes.com)
Terminalai – Turn natural language into shell commands (www.terminalai.app)
Partly AI-generated folk-pop hit barred from Sweden''s official charts (www.theguardian.com)
Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years (sherwood.news)
STFU (github.com)
Semantic highlight model to cut token cost for RAG (huggingface.co)
Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness (web3.arxiv.org)
Future-as-Label: Scalable Supervision from Real-World Outcomes (arxiv.org)
ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights (apnews.com)
Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Supreme Court System (news.bloomberglaw.com)
Game Poems (www.gamepoems.com)
Fake cases, real consequences: The AI crisis facing UK law firms (vinciworks.com)
Crystal 1.19.0 Is Released (crystal-lang.org)
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Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (www.dell.com)
ClickHouse Acquires Langfuse (clickhouse.com)
Bloom Filters (arpitbhayani.me)
Succinate Modulation Associated with Intermittent Fasting in Obesity (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir: 2025 Update (pikdum.dev)
Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump (www.bbc.com)
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Monty Hall Project Management: When to switch plans for better outcomes (davidlemayian.com)
Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% (electrek.co)
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Trump Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With (www.propublica.org)
Designated Initializers, the best feature of C20 (mropert.github.io)
Google Search Engine (www.google.com)
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Canada, China slash EV, canola tariffs in reset of ties (www.reuters.com)
Google AI Studio''s API key protection is as exposed as the key itself (github.com)
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Poor''s Man Shaders (nullonerror.org)
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AI Weiwei: ''You in the West Can''t Compete with China'' (www.thetimes.com)
Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 – 2026 (blog.emojipedia.org)
High Contrast-ish Gruvbox theme for VS Code (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
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