May 20, 2022
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All Possible Views About Humanity’s Future Are Wild
“Audio also available by searching Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, etc. for “Cold Takes Audio” Summary: In a series of posts starting with this one, I’m…”
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How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer. | Quanta Magazine
“foundations of mathematics How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer. July 15, 2021 For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that…”
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Can the Southwest Survive With Less Water?
“July 18, 2021 Sometime next month, for the first time, the federal government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead. This vast turquoise reservoir,…”
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“The U.S. is in an information war with itself. The public sphere, where Americans discuss public issues, is broken . There’s little discussion – and lots of…”
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The online data that’s being deleted
“For years, we were encouraged to store our data online. But it’s become increasingly clear that this won’t last forever – and now the race is on to stop our…”
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Opinion | It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World Burn
“Ezra Klein It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World Burn July 15, 2021 Credit… Ian C. Bates for The New York Times Send any friend a story As a…”
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“The heat has come. In Portland, Oregon, it was hotter (108ºF) Saturday than it’s ever been there. . Yesterday, it was hotter still (114ºF). Records are dropping…”
May 19, 2022
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What I learned as a hired consultant for autodidact physicists | Aeon Ideas
“It began after I started as a teaching assistant at the department of physics. The first note was a classic – it proved Albert Einstein wrong. The second one…”
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GPT-4 Will Have 100 Trillion Parameters — 500x the Size of GPT-3
“ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | NEWS GPT-4 Will Have 100 Trillion Parameters — 500x the Size of GPT-3 Are there any limits to large neural networks? Photo by Sandro…”
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Spreadsheets Are Hot—and Cranking Out Complex Code
“For decades, the spreadsheet has been the least sexy form of consumer software. Necessary? Sure. Critical to the drudgery of running a business, doing your…”
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Should we stop having casual sex?
“In her new book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation , author and Washington Post columnist Christine Emba argues that consent is not enough — that love should be the…”
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Big Tech Is Pouring Nearly $1 Billion Into Carbon Removal
“The world’s biggest tech companies are getting serious about carbon removal, the still-nascent technology wherein humanity can pull heat-trapping carbon dioxide…”
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Preparing For An Unpredictable World
“Given the state of the world, should the United States increase, maintain, or cut military spending? Matt Yglesias and Noah Smith have debated that question,…”
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“I n her classic memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys , Viv Albertine recounts not only the time she spent as a punk during…”
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So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?
“Yesterday afternoon, I called the UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin to ask about the European outbreak of monkeypox—a rare but potentially severe viral illness…”
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Ending Roe v Wade is just the beginning | Thomas Zimmer
“T he supreme court is set to overturn Roe v Wade, this much has been clear since a draft opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked earlier this month.…”
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“Elon Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter’s board : I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I…”
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Think Bigger About Remote Work
“I’ve written — and I still believe — that the rise of remote work triggered by the Covid pandemic will end up changing the way we produce things in the modern…”
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How Pupil Size Can Reveal What Is—Or Isn’t—Happening in Your Mind
“One evening in 1960, the psychologist Eckhard Hess was at home, flipping through a book of “strikingly beautiful animal photographs.” His wife commented that…”
May 18, 2022
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We Don’t Need Corporate Social Media
“Elon Musk is just about the last person on earth (or Mars) you’d want in charge of communities, online or otherwise. He shares transphobic and anti-Semitic…”
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Analysis | Discussing the gaps in ’2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza
“Not many people spend time watching hearings hosted by state legislative committees, for obvious reasons. In March, though, the Wisconsin State Assembly’s…”
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Apple’s mixed reality headset project challenges explained
“Rendering by Antonia De Rosa Since beginning its efforts in 2015, Apple’s work on a mixed reality headset has been hit with a range of challenges that have…”
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How the Biden administration let right-wing attacks derail its disinformation efforts
“On the morning of April 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the first Disinformation Governance Board with the stated goal to…”
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Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
“Updated at 3:21 p.m. ET on December 9, 2021. Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on…”
May 17, 2022
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Prison, lawsuits and a glovebox of fake cash: the film the KLF didn’t want you to see
“I n 2009 my long suffering producer Ian Neil sent me a text: “You should really make a film about the KLF .” This enigmatic and brilliant band were a mainstay…”
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The Ed Sheeran problem, or, how the record industry got what it asked for
“A dog that caught the bus wheel. You might have seen Ed Sheeran’s triumphant statement about his victory in a copyright lawsuit that alleged he’d copied…”
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“I find office parks fascinating and creepy, and inherently off-putting; I feel the same about highways. Both of them go hand in hand as specific fabulations of…”
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‘I Figured We Were All In’: Ben Stiller on That Crazy ‘Severance’ Season 1 Ending
“This post contains spoilers for the finale of Season One of Severance , which is streaming now on Apple TV+. The notes I took on my first viewing of the…”
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Making Sense of the Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo
“On Saturday, a gunman murdered ten people and wounded three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The suspect, who is eighteen, used a weapon painted…”