Month: September 2022
September 16, 2022
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How dating apps sold us an unromantic, dehumanising idea of romance
“OPINION Why does a system that offers you more romantic prospects than all your ancestors combined leave so many of us feeling so alone? 16.9.22 I downloaded…”
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“People walk past a truck bearing a flag calling for Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre to become Prime Minister in Ottawa, on Feb. 16, 2022. Justin Tang/The…”
September 15, 2022
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Why aren’t medical breakthroughs in obesity a bigger deal?
“Back in the fraught winter of 2020 when covid vaccines were first authorized but not yet widely available, I found myself as a guest on the “Joe Rogan…”
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“Maybe you’ve heard that people are mad about Black actors being cast in Lord of the Rings . Or Game of Thrones . Or maybe it was Star Wars . Or perhaps Thor .…”
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“PROVO, Utah — On June 1, David Leavitt, the prosecuting attorney for Utah County, stood behind a lectern in his windowless Provo office before a gaggle of…”
September 13, 2022
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“My first job was as a paper boy: The job was remarkably analog: a bundle of newspapers would be dropped off at my house, I would wrap them in rubber-bands (or…”
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Just Like That, We’re Making Oxygen on Mars
“Millions of miles away on Mars, in a barren crater just north of the equator, a rover is wandering around, carrying a gold-coated gadget the size of a toaster.…”
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“Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant at Buckingham Palace in London on June 5. Frank Augstein/The Associated Press Please…”
September 9, 2022
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It didn’t start with Trump: The decades-long saga of how the GOP went crazy
“Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In May, during an Aspen Institute conference, House…”
September 8, 2022
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Apple Watch’s Evolving Pillars
“September 8, 2022 / Ben Bajarin Industry Insights Before I dig into a few product-specific observations about Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch Ultra, I want…”
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“W e hear all the time that the simplest explanations are usually the right ones. This truth-testing idea—known as Ockham’s razor , after the English medieval…”
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‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
“I n the plans that exist for the death of the Queen – and there are many versions, held by Buckingham Palace, the government and the BBC – most envisage that…”
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Physicists Struggle to Unite Around Future Plans
“Researchers recently gathered in Seattle for the latest iteration of the “Snowmass” process, a once-a-decade exercise meant to plan the future of U.S. particle…”
September 6, 2022
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The Marketing Veterans Leading a New Campaign to Defund the Right
“Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Jon McMorran “We got Yahoo to kill their Glenn Beck ads,” Nandini Jammi announced during a private video call in…”
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“Every so often I encounter the argument that owner-occupied housing isn’t a form of wealth . This would come as news to economists like Emmanuel Saez and…”
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Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life
“My electric bike sings, emits a nearly imperceptible hum from its tiny motor. I love its song. A song of peace and magic. Has money ever bought as much delight…”
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4.2 Gigabytes, or: How to Draw Anything
“In our world, we can do anything that we want to do here. Any old thing. – Bob Ross, The Joy Of Painting Season 29 Episode 1 Watching a vibrant Seattle sunset…”
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With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again
“What comes next If historical trends in computing are any suggestion, odds are high that what now takes a beefy GPU will eventually be possible on a pocket…”
September 3, 2022
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How To Stay Out Of The Right-Wing Outrage Machine | Defector
“On Monday, at around 10:30 a.m., Slate courts and law reporter Mark Joseph Stern tweeted a link to a document concerning an upcoming Supreme Court case. In a…”
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‘Date Me’ Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love
“The tweet landed like a burp on a first date: a little awkward, potentially endearing, maybe a good story to tell later. Chris Olah, a neural network engineer…”