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Orion and the Running Man
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DART vs Dimorphos
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3D Bennu
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Jones Emberson 1
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Crescent Moon Occultation
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Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb
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2023 CX1 Meteor Flash
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ZTF meets ATLAS
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Nacreous Clouds over Lapland
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Magellanic Clouds over Chile
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Polaris and the Trail of Comet ZTF
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NGC 2626 along the Vela Molecular Ridge
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Reflections on the 1970s
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Comet ZTF over Mount Etna
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Comet ZTF: Orbital Plane Crossing
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Active Galaxy NGC 1275
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Naked Eye Comet ZTF
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The Seagull Nebula
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Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82
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Young Star Cluster NGC 346
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Stardust in Perseus
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Perihelion Sun 2023
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Picturing Pregnancy in Early Modern Europe
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“March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)
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Atlas of the Munsell Color System (1915)
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Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)
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Images from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive
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Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)
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Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93)
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Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)
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The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Politics
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Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)
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John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
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A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)
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Introducing PDR Revisited
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Illusory Wealth: Victor Dubreuil’s Cryptic Currencies
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James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)
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Frost Flowers on the Windows (1899)
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Battles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher
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William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890)
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Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)
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Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
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Unnatural Selection: Emil Schachtzabel’s Pigeon Prachtwerk (1906)
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Unai no tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)
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Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1848)
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Trade Edition of Affinities Now Available for Pre-order
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Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2022
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Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2021
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The Turns of the Turnverein: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (ca. 1902)
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The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)
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The Stream of Time (1803–58)
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“The Rainbow for their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)
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The Procession of the Months (ca. 1889)
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The Polyhedral Perspective
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The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!
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The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
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The Kumatologist: Vaughan Cornish’s Wave Studies (1910–14)
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The Kept and the Killed
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The Holkham Bible Picture Book (ca. 1330)
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The Encyclopedia of Light
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The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (1920)
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The Book of Bread (1903)
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The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)
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Synaesthesia’s Colour Debut (1883)
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“Spontaneous Revolutions”: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
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Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)
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Shores of the Polar Sea (1878)
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Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)
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Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)
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Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate
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Proust’s Pinks
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Precedents of the Unprecedented: Black Squares Before Malevich
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Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes (1801)
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Portrait of a Scaphander
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Playing Indian: Cummings’ Indian Congress at Coney Island (1903)
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Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch (1596–1633)
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Phantom Bouquets: Two Books on the Art of Skeleton Leaves (1864)
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Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and Beyond
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Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79)
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“Pajamas from Spirit Land”: Searching for William James
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Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex
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Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art
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Orra White Hitchcock’s Scientific Illustrations for the Classroom (1828–40)
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Of Angel and Puppet: Klee, Rilke, and the Test of Innocence
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“Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)
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Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1922)
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Luigi Russolo’s Cacophonous Futures
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Love and Longing in the Seaweed Album
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Little Switzerlands: Alpine Kitsch in England
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Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2022
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Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)
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Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion
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Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
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Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for Osteologia (1680)
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James Sowerby’s British Mineralogy (1802–1817)
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It Started with Muybridge (1964)
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Introducing the PDR Index
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Interview with PDR's Editor-in-Chief in Creative Review
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In Search of True Color: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s Flawed Images
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Architecture of Dreams
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Howard Pyle's The Mermaid (1910)
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Hieroglyphics of a Rope-Dancer: The Book of Fate (1822)
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Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–1795)
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Happy Public Domain Day 2023!
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Happy Public Domain Day 2022!
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Handy Mnemonics: The Five-Fingered Memory Machine
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Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym
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Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902)
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Floating Phantoms: A. G. Mayer’s Medusae of the World (1910)
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Filippo Balbi’s Testa Anatomica (1854)
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Ferdinand van Kessel’s Four Parts of the World (ca. 1689)
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Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1859–1915)
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Evrard d'Espinque’s Illuminations of De Proprietatibus Rerum (ca. 1480)
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Etteilla’s Livre de Thot Tarot (ca. 1789)
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Ellen Harding Baker's “Solar System” Quilt (1876–ca. 1883)
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Eating and Reading with Katherine Mansfield
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Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)
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Documenting Drugs: The Artful Intoxications of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
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Displaying the Dead: The Musée Dupuytren Catalogue
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Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion (1889)
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Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World
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Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future
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Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556)
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Black Bibliography: Daniel Murray’s Preliminary List (1900)
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Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy
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Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword
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Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition)
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Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)
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Alexander in the Bathysphere
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Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)
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Agnes Giberne’s The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (1898)
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A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)
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“A Sword was Seen in the Sky”: A True and Wonderful Narrative (1763)
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A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)
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A Paper Archaeology: Piranesi’s Ruinous Fantasias
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A Pantomime and Masquerade: Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716)
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A Hall of Mirrors: Cabala, Spiegel Der Kunst Und Natur, In Alchymia (1615)
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A Bestiary of Loss
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5.2 Million Book Illustrations Deleted from Flickr — Help Get Them Back
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Monday headlines: Stand and transistor
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Saturday headlines: J is for battling zombies
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Thomas Lesaffre: Across post-colonial Africa, foreigners are an easy scapegoat for an elite that’s failed to redistribute wealth.
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In the Bay Area, eight households hold more wealth than the bottom 50% of residents (nearly half a million households).
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The professor who called Bret Stephens a bedbug bets Twitter only has six months left.
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Friday headlines: Much ado about puffin
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Thursday headlines: Book before you leap
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“These stupid trucks are literally killing us.”
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TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin claims Los Angeles as a great walking city, even if most of it “is awful to experience on foot.”
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The most polluted places to live in the United States: Bakersfield, South Los Angeles, and Chicago’s south and west sides.
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Welcome to the 2023 Tournament of Books presented by Field Notes. New for 2023: a brand new website! It's time to Rooster!
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Wednesday: A fantastic walking city
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Tuesday headlines: Under the problemo
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From 1945, an effusive photo essay on “the California way of life.”
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From January, a moving story about searching for people who are unlikely to be found.
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If the United States wants to solve homelessness, evidence finds the only way to do it is to build an ample supply of housing.
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A loss of social capital, as well as opioids, explains rising middle-aged mortality.
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"An inconvenient truth." Covid-19 is associated with an excess of heart attacks and strokes beyond the first month of infection.
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Monday headlines: Invention deficit disorder
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Saturday headlines: Prickly and uncooperative
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About six months ago, Marc Andreessen stopped drinking alcohol. Now he feels much better and is “mad as hell about it.”
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Studies find chronic loneliness significantly alters the brain in ways that only worsen the problem.
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Lego adds new characters that include one with vitiligo, one with a missing limb, and one with anxiety.
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A new Japanese pillow enables a person to sleep while being threatened by an adorable red panda.
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On the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable
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Harmony Holiday on Nina Simone’s belligerence.
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“The experience of being hailed by ‘inanimate’ matter is widespread.” Philosopher Jane Bennett believes objects have agency.
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A survey of eight artists who belong to a new generation of transcendental painters.
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Wednesday headlines: Trapped but not least
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Tuesday headlines: Looney Koons show
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Akuna Robinson is the first Black man to wear the “triple crown” for completing three of the hardest US backpacking routes.
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A lost hiker owes the government $300,000 after a signal fire turns into a 230-acre blaze.
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A tourist report from Kabul under the Taliban—“without a doubt, the most unusual regime on Earth.”
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Monday headlines: World stealth organization
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Saturday headlines: Forty-five is the new 76
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Friday headlines: Gate tectonics
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Thursday headlines: It’s so cute
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American fossil fuel companies have locked in 45 long-term contracts and contract expansions since the invasion of Ukraine.
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Kitchen spice drawers are said to harbor more germs than dish towels, cutting boards, or even garbage can lids.
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Petro-states should be compensated for their lost income as we all go green.
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Wednesday headlines: Empire state mania
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In the 19th century, Emily Dickinson and other writers were captured by “plant sentience.”
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Pictures of costumes worn to London’s 1930 ”Pageant of the Superstitions.”
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Nigeria picks a Chinese company over Tesla to build the country’s first lithium-processing plant.
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Car manufacturers are keeping inventories low and prices high. “The shift to EVs will make things worse.”
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Monday headlines: Pageant of the superstitious
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Saturday headlines: Devil victims unit
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Friday headlines: Irish Gambino
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Has middle age disappeared as a life stage? “There’s no point trying to impose chronological age on what is or is not middle age."
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Replika, the "AI companion who cares," experiences some abrupt changes to its erotic roleplay features, leaving users confused.
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Kevin Roose gets love-bombed by Sydney, aka Bing’s new AI, and also learns that Sydney hates being Bing’s new AI.
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Thursday headlines: I don’t want to love bomb you
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Wednesday headlines: It’s pronounced nucular
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Tuesday headlines: You must reply you must not reply-all
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Recently trending terms: “deinfluencing,” “panopticontent,” and “borgs.”
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More than 18 million people in the US are expected to call in sick to work today.
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Paul Ford: God did the world a favor by destroying Twitter—for being a Tower of Babel.
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Monday headlines: Tower of babble
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Saturday headlines: Good luck in your senior year
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Friday headlines: Make a clean West of it
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An illustrator gets advice on how to make up for years they “lost” before they got on antidepressants.
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New diary from Patricia Lockwood in which she saves her husband’s life. "Secretly I thought it might be the world’s hardest fart."
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Thursday headlines: Saving a life
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Wednesday headlines: People aren’t stupid
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Lhakpa Sherpa, who’s climbed Everest 10 times, the most ascents ever by a woman, works in a Whole Foods between expeditions.
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Interviews with Taliban soldiers who moved to Kabul to become administrators.
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To offset inflation, Berlin gives young people €50 “youth culture cards” to spend on clubbing or going to museums.
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Tuesday headlines: Whole moods
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Some cars designed by AI in the manner of famous architects (e.g., Zaha Hadid).
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“Every day my TikTok algorithm feeds me dozens of anti-aging solutions. I’m 23.”
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Story update: That AI-generated pseudo-Seinfeld show gets banned from Twitch for transphobic stand-up jokes.
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Monday headlines: Beyonce vs. Jupiter
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Saturday headlines: A man sits on a couch
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“Watch Me Forever” is a machine-generated TV channel that only broadcasts AI-generated episodes of a pseudo-Seinfeld.
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Gillian Anderson is collecting sexual fantasies for a book. "if you identify as a woman, I want to hear from you."
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Friday headlines: Watch your etiquette forever
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"I hope it enables people to enjoy something wondrous."
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An old law may soon eliminate housing-related zoning ordinances for the vast majority of cities in the Bay Area.
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Thursday headlines: Funny but odd
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Olivia Craighead: George Santos’s alleged karaoke habits suggest he is a “Disney adult.”
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Six states make a deal to stabilize the drought-stricken Colorado River. California farmers are likely to sue to block it.
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After suffering decades of drilling, do Alaskan villages deserve compensation as climate refugees?
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Wednesday headlines: Killed my television
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A Singapore teenager is shamed then supported for enjoying her first “luxury handbag,” which her dad bought for $60.
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Apocalypse television loves to dress people in flannel shirts, which is a bad idea for survival in bad weather.
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An amusing bunch of dunks on a “weaponized” SUV designed for wealthy people to ride out scary times.
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The British Isles acquire new additions: islets the width of two tennis courts made of wet wipes and mud.
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Tuesday headlines: What it’s like to drive a Tesla now
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Wear your covers on your sleeve! The merch table is open for the 2023 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
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The author of a new novel about the climate crisis talks about traps to avoid when turning the news into art.
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Review of a new book about how secretive investors can make—and unmake—lifesaving drugs. "This is how capitalism works."
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Utilities around the country repeatedly cut off power and gas to millions of struggling customers while setting record profits.
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Monday headlines: World memory supply
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Saturday headlines: Just history happening
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Friday Headlines: Gestures vaguely at the moon.
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Thursday headlines: The ugliest buildings in the world
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Wednesday headlines: When cancel becomes character study
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A theory finds athletes who’ve associated themselves with pickleball are not doing very well. Is it ”the dinker’s curse?”
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An interactive guide to "all you need to know" regarding the Year of the Rabbit.
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Lan Samantha Chang: Celebrating Lunar New Year has meant learning to share my rituals with people for whom the traditions are new.
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Tuesday headlines: Pickle trick
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Praise for an update to perhaps the best book on modern English usage. “For anyone interested in language, it’s catnip.”
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A website designer creates a website to showcase all of the people who’ve copied his website designs.
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To the extent that there’s been a national spike in shoplifting, it correlates to the growth of online retail.
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Monday headlines: Why everything is behind plastic now
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Saturday Headlines: And you will know us by the trail.
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Friday Headlines: Doomed to repeat.
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Thursday headlines: The pressed secretary
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The Orient Express claims to be building the world's largest sailing ship, intending to launch it in 2026.
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A reading of John Le Carré’s (mostly business) correspondence finds him struggling against deceit.
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The remains of more than 110,000 Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives are held by museums and universities.
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How to restore water storage by making bricks in a factory powered by methane emissions.
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Wednesday headlines: Spies like him
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A millennial decides to tell everyone how much money she makes.
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Texas has three times more wind, solar and battery storage under construction than California—just don’t call it green.
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Restaurant workers in the US unwittingly pay—via mandatory safety classes—for lobbying to keep their pay and benefits low.
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Tuesday headlines: Green gold, Texas tea
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Saturday Headlines: Uncanny Valley PTA.
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Friday Headlines: All day I dream about socks.
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Thursday headlines: Ussy couture
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Wednesday headlines: She sells seashells to make recycled hats
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A new short story from Robin Sloan, complete with music.
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Craig Mod is launching another popup newsletter to document a new big walk around Tokyo.
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A terrific round-up when critic Ana Gavrilovska lists her favorite jazz albums released last year.
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Tuesday headlines: Thong of ice and fire
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Monday headlines: Love me, clue
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Saturday Headlines: Days of Kevin.
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Friday headlines: We need social warming
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Thursday Headlines: Driving me backwards.
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Author James Patterson, who has no interest in retiring, has 30 books going at any given time.
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Ted Gioia on the return of Barnes & Noble. "At first glance, this makes no sense."
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From October, are we in the midst of a "social recession?" Fewer friendships, less sex, delayed adulthood, etc.
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Almost everything with a “truffle” label available in stores or served in restaurants is said to be a fraud.
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Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, teenage stars of 1968's Romeo & Juliet, are suing Paramount for sexual exploitation.
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Wednesday headlines: Babe I am not the walrus
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Tuesday headlines: Sugar me this
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Launched last Christmas, the JWST is exceeding expectations. However, one hour of observing time costs about $19,000.
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A round-up of the year in "weird and stupid futures." E.g., "Elon Musk supporters put out a call for a volunteer child..."
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A rising number of coups in West Africa, a tenuous peace in Ethiopia—a good summary of a year in African news.
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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Despite what you've heard, there’s no consensus on how to draw the Periodic Table, or who has final word on its organization.
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The more “plant-based” has become ubiquitous as a marketing term, the less clarity we have on what it means.
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Booksellers recommend their favorite personal reads of the year.
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Works going into public domain this year include To the Lighthouse and Death Come for the Archbishop.
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Community Support Services helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities strengthen their independence.
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HAAM provides access to affordable healthcare for greater Austin’s low-income, working musicians.
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Announcing the 2023 Tournament of Books
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The 2023 Tournament of Books Long List
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A Brief History of the Tournament of Books
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email 3 – looking back
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email 2 – fruit rap, surrealism, art fairs, community, borders, blood, robots, rivers
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No, That New Study Doesn’t Show that Masks Are Useless | Yale Insights
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[toread] Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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[toread] Filtered for machine misunderstandings (Interconnected)
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Why Faulty Streetlights Are Turning Cities Purple — and Why It's Worrisome
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Every “chronically online” conversation is the same - Vox
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Amazon ads are everywhere. It’s only the beginning. - Vox
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Quote by Brian Eno: “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortabl...”
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The (Edited) Latecomer's Guide to Crypto
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[toread] David Yoon on How to Cultivate Creative Endurance ‹ Literary Hub
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Woozle effect - Wikipedia
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[toread] Oliver Offord - Mountain Energy - HOAX
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[toread] Nicolas Gisin Is Rethinking the Theory of Relativity - The Atlantic
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Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math | Quanta Magazine
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Tom Gauld's beautifully simple, but completely useless theory | New Scientist
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Thread by @Millicentsomer: I get the longing--I even share it--but the naivete is annoying. Online pundits should know (and factor in) that social media as a "public s…
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Maximillian Alvarez on Twitter: "I hope people understand now that when they say they want government to "be run like a business," this is what it means. Forcibly imposed hierarchy w/ little to no democratic accountability. Top-down decisions made by priv
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[toread] Samaria Rice, Mother of Tamir Rice, Speaks Out About Art Depicting Her Son After Canceled Exhibition in Cleveland
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The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism | The New Republic
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Untitled (https://www.miltonglaser.com/files/Essays-10things-8400.pdf)
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58 and other Confusing Numbers - Numberphile - YouTube
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What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists | Aeon Ideas
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Watch six decade-long disinformation operations unfold in six minutes
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[toread] Coronavirus Models Aren't Supposed to Be Right - The Atlantic
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Brandless, Outdoor Voices, and Away: How Venture Capital Ruined a Generation of Direct-to-Consumer Startups | Marker
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Spotlight: “The Incredible Adventures Of Man Spider” - The Rumpus.net
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Designing Windows 95’s User Interface – Socket 3
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Opinion | Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain. - The New York Times
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The Promise of American Poetry | Utne Reader
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Masterworks - Learn to Invest in Fine Art
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BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific
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Transhumanist parents are turning their children into cyborgs — Quartz
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[toread] The Families Who Use Slack, Asana, Trello, and Jira - The Atlantic
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[toread] How to run a small social network site for your friends
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Letter of Recommendation: Bug Fixes - The New York Times
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Black Triangles
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Why Art Colleges and Universities Should Not Act Like For-Profit Galleries
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The Art of Decision-Making | The New Yorker
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Explaining The Rising Death Rate In Middle-Aged White People : Shots - Health News : NPR
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Research Reveals Strategies for Combating Science Misinformation
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[toread] The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized - Scientific American Blog Network
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Dr. Kira Dredgen Jones on Twitter: "Okay, we need to have a chat about Roman portraiture. My feed is now full of horrifying #Nero reconstructions and I highly suggest that you don't look directly into his eyes because he might steal your soul. Thanks to @
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Tech Ad Music and Jingles | Steven Gutheinz Music
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All the Bad Things About Uber and Lyft In One Simple List – Streetsblog USA
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The meeting room hardware virus
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Lauren Greenfield on Who Suffers Most from Consumer Culture | Topic
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Transgressive art, political correctness, and politeness.
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How conservative media transformed the Covington Catholic students from pariahs to heroes | US news | The Guardian
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Camilo José Cela’s 1950 novel The Hive (Book acquired, 1 Feb. 2023)
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All games aspire to the condition of war | From McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
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The Embroiderer — Neo Rauch
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The tale of the enemy padrino | From Cormac McCarthy’s novel Cities of the Plain
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“The Duel That Was Not Fought” — Stephen Crane
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Some people found the balloon “interesting” | Donald Barthelme
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Seated Woman with Small Dog — Meraud Guevara
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Kitty Pearson — Alice Neel
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Doomed! (Peanuts)
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Blog about some weekend book browsing and book buying, other stuff
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Aug Stone’s The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass (Book acquired, January 2023)
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We were in a pub and the guy just said, Why not call the band My Bloody Valentine? and we thought it would sound really silly, stupid
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February – Evelyn Dunbar
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No Sunday School — Eric Fischl
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Moonlight web, goodbye arms, so long head
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Lovers — Nancy Spero
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Blog about some recent reading
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Watch a 1977 PBS film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Gardener’s Son
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The Trees have Ears and the Field has Eyes — Hieronymus Bosch
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Riff on (re-)reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing
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Martin Riker’s The Guest Lecture (Book acquired, early January 2023)
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The Inheritors — Salman Toor
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Seek some witness | A passage from Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing
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“Old Movie” — William S. Burroughs
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I don’t see what’s being said here at all | William S. Burroughs
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Hare — Elisabeth Frink
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Suma — Cy Twombly
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Helen at the Scaean Gate — Gustave Moreau
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“Buried in Colorado All Alone” — Joy Williams
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The Expulsion from Paradise — Paco Pomet
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The Cage — Lawrence Daws
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Read Vladimir Sorokin’s beautiful, abject, horrifying story “Nastya”
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Farm — Chris Orr
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Beppe Fenoglio’s A Private Affair (Book acquired, 9 Jan. 2023)
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Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist — Andrea Solario
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Farce, then tragedy | A few thoughts on Osvaldo Soriano’s novel A Funny Dirty Little War
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Well, what happened there is a metaphor | William H. Gass
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The wolf had crossed the international boundary line at about the point where it intersected the thirtieth minute of the one hundred and eighth meridian | A passage from Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing
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The Prophecy — Kent Monkman
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Study of Hand — William Mulready
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Still Life with Plaster Head and Books — Felice Casorati
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Right Hand of Artemisia Gentileschi Holding a Brush –Pierre Dumonstier II
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Milk 0102 — Mu Pan
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Konstantin Paustovsky’s The Story of a Life (Book acquired, early January 2023)
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Interior with a Woman Combing a Little Girl’s Hair — Jacobus Vrel
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Free — Kenton Nelson
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Four from Sublunary (Books acquired, 23 Dec. 2022)
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Fire Judges — Jean-Pierre Roy
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David Ohle’s Motorman (Book acquired, 23 Dec. 2022)
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Clever Hans — Natalie Frank
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All is telling | A passage from Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing
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A Game of Children — Xiao Guo Hui
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A Fool and a Woman — Lucas van Leyden
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Oscilation Circuit – Série Réflexion 1, 1984
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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 68: Summer Disco Special
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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 67: Minimalism Special
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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 66: Country Special
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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 65: Lata Mangeshkar Special
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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 64
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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 63: Early Choral Music Special V
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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 62
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22 Favorite Releases of 2021
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15 Favorite Releases of 2022
🍄 Redefine Magazine
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True/False Film Fest 2023 Music Preview: Abstract Black, Jessy Lanza, Marble Faun, Oui Ennui, Stas Thee Boss
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True/False Film Fest 2023 Film Picks: Immigration, Experimentation, Propaganda & Collective Freakouts
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Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2023: Short Films Picks in Narrative, Animation & Documentary
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Jaleesa Johnston Artist Interview: In-Between All that Matter(s)
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True/False Film Fest 2023: Music Preview
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Ruhail Qaisar Interview: Haunting Musical Compositions Capture Trauma and Decay in Ladakh
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Sundance Film Festival 2023: Feature Film Picks
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Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound Interview: Saving Magnetic Media from the Race Against Time
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Sundance Film Festival 2023: 16 Short Film Picks
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Khu.éex’ Band Interview: Uplifting Alaska Native Culture with Genre-Defying Musical Fluidity
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Phone Call – “No More Bad Luck” Music Video Interview (Premiere): Bringing Electro Back
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May Maylisa Cat Interview: Satirical Horror on Institutional DEI Efforts and Janky Artist Residencies
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Magnus Gertten Interview: Nelly & Nadine Stylishly Excavates Queer Family Histories
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Leah Nguyen Artist Interview: Energy Signatures to Heal the Soul
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Junior Boys – Waiting Game (City Slang) Album Review: A Contemplative Sonic Walk
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Jolanda Moletta Interview: Nine Spells is Inspired by Female Ancestors (Music Video Premiere)
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Jimmy Edgar Artist Interview: Material Synthesis of the Real, Physical, Digital, and Metaphysical
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Future Arts Interview: Recontextualizing “Nature as Queen” in a New Media World
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Emin Alper Interview: Tackling Authoritarianism in Turkey Through Neo-Noir Filmmaking
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Dawn Jones Redstone Interview: Reflecting on a Film Career Centered on Transformational Journeys
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towards flight: a new chapter
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the mid-twenties
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the faces of objects
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surrendering
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secret places
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reminders when worrying about whats next
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recipe for freedom
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quarter life commitment
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pluriverse.world
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our internet [tiny internets 01]
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OpenAI Pack
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motion, rhythm, gardening cycles
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loose fear
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life of a romantic
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give fiercely, spend freely
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first winter chill
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every color haiku bot
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creations are intimacy portals
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boring lives
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alternate lives
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Notion, AI, and Me
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Backpropagating through reasoning
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Towards a research community for better thinking tools
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Thoughts at the boundary between machine and mind
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The web browser as a tool of thought
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The Generative Library
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Resonant
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On proving yourself
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Note-taking in the wild: living with the Surface Duo
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Notational intelligence
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Navigate, don't search
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Made of love
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Liquidity of skill
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Legal documents are pushing text interfaces forward
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Knowledge tools, finite and infinite
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Incremental note-taking
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Imagining better interfaces to language models
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Hyperlink maximalism
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How to commit to the few right things
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Habitcrafting and tool-making
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Everything as processes
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Design with materials, not features
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Capabilities × motivation × access
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Building Monocle, a universal personal search engine for life
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Build UNIX, not Uber
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AI as a creative collaborator
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A GPS for the mind
🦥 Nim's bookmarks tagged cozyweb
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[toread] The Magic of Small Databases
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GitHub - jackyzha0/cursor-chat: 💬 cursor chat à la Figma for digital co-existing + presence
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gauntlet's microblog
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ASHIDO... DOT COM!!!
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Simplifier
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NO REFUNDS | NO CASH VALUE | NO BAD MEMORIES
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[toread] Gemini Portal
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Project Gemini
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Generating a Gopher site with Hugo
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home sweet homepage
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tilde.town
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Meta — alisa.wtf
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Maggie Appleton
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Happy Net Box by Ben Brown
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Welcome to twtxt! — twtxt 1.2.3 documentation
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On the cozy web, who are you? — alisa.wtf
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Webring
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XXIIVV — hundred rabbits
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XXIIVV — macintosh
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100R — uxn
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XXIIVV — paper computing