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Gambling Is Bad

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Wheat superabundance proves Malthus wrong

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Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it

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Ralf Brown's Files (The x86 Interrupt List)

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Learn Multiplatform Z80 Assembly Programming with Vampires

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Use the Saw, Fear the Saw

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Making and Breaking Human Kinds

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Building a Historical Sense in Computing

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The Birth and Burial of Evolutionary Science in Australia

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Huel Is Fine

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Ghost

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When the AI says you're fine

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Atomic-Scale Protein Filters

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IA Notebook [video]

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Notes on New College

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How Common Is Accidental Invention?

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Negative Mass [video]

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The Done Line

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Allow me to introduce the two-sentence journal

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If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?

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Software Can Be Finished

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A Early History of Algebraic Data Types

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ASCII Theater

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Experiments as Performance Art

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A Bad Response

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Voyage of the Marigold – Author's Notes

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Xkcd 323 and Conscience Masturbation

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Dot Battle – A JavaScript Physics Toy

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What is the Funniest Number? An investigation of numerical humor

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Scam Cities

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Be More Impolite

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Automated Lean Proofs for Every Type

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I shop via print catalogs in 2025

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Winning Videos from Nikon's Small World in Motion Competition

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Brr: An Antarctica Blog

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The Integral Guide to Well-Being

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Memory Metadata

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Reclaim your focus with ~12 lines of bash

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Solar-Powered Stirling Engine

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Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again in a Decade

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Empathy for Dummies

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Welcome to Garfism

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Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages

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Agroecology Map

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Aaaan.net

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Ink deformation

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TextureTown

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Coliving and Tiny Apartments

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The algorithm will see you now

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