Miscellaneous Articles You Should Read (1 Viewer)

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Can you actually talk to LaMDA and see for yourself? Edited transcripts are pretty meaningless IMO

 

[pete]

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut: Exploratorium Exhibit.

 

[pete]

What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?

Digging into the world of "pig-butchering" scams

maxread.substack.com

 

[pete]

One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia

Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.

www.wired.com

 

[pete]

When Queen Victoria's mother and husband died in quick succession, the result was a significant expansion of public education in England.

What happened when the rich stopped intermarrying?

When Queen Victoria's mother and husband died in quick succession, public education was expanded in England.

www.axios.com

 

[pete]

Inside the IRA: Spin's 1994 Feature

In the late summer of 1993, I had dinner with Jack Healey, the Executive Director of Amnesty International at the time and a great friend of mine. I told

www.spin.com

 

[Lili Marlene]

Opinion | The Case for Longtermism

We are living through an extraordinary and precarious chapter in humanity’s story.

nyti.ms

Sure how could you disagree with something as vague as vibes-only based as this?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I was being yelled at by a group of lads driving past â then they got their comeuppance | Adrian Chiles

I don’t usually enjoy being heckled in the street. But this episode left me wanting to punch the air, says Adrian Chiles

www.theguardian.com

 

[Deadmanposting]

I was being yelled at by a group of lads driving past â then they got their comeuppance | Adrian Chiles

I don’t usually enjoy being heckled in the street. But this episode left me wanting to punch the air, says Adrian Chiles

www.theguardian.com

I really like that guy

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I really like that guy

he knows his audience

 

[seanc]

he knows his audience

He knows how to get paid by article, rather than per word (as is the norm afaik), or per content. Every article is like "300 words of something you would have heard earwigging on people in a quite good old man's pub"

I like it buh.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i'm always seeing them getting shared by banter lads on twitter

 

[seanc]

I just think his pieces are too short. They are supposed to be easy-reading, but it feels like some shit he threw out there while doing something else.

 

[Deadmanposting]

He did a thing on the telly about problem drinking
It was insightful

 

[seanc]

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He did a thing on the telly about problem drinking
It was insightful
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Well, as I said, a particularly succinct and erudite pisshead who is probably not a prick.


You've already got at least one of those in your world ahem.

 

[Lili Marlene]

An Energy Weapon Is About To Freeze The UK's Working Class

It's not so much the cold as the neoliberal energy decontrols and skyrocketing prices. Like in a postapocalyptic movie, our correspondent looks for salvation in his propane stove.

foreverwars.ghost.io

(@flashback)

 

[pete]

The Big [Censored] Theory

A case study on how the government censors TV in China.

pudding.cool

 

[Deadmanposting]

The Big [Censored] Theory

A case study on how the government censors TV in China.

pudding.cool

Good read
I've never watched that show - can't say the show is worse without Sheldon's Ma's "ching chong" cracks tbh
Mental how far they go though

LGBTQIA2S+

Am I way behind or has this '2S' been there a long time?

 

[pete]

Good read
I've never watched that show - can't say the show is worse without Sheldon's Ma's "ching chong" cracks tbh

my thoughts exactly - if i'm a chinese censor fuckin right i'm taking that out

 

[pete]

Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?

This week we are taking a look at the latest winner of the ACOUP Senate poll, which posed the question “Why didn’t the Roman Empire have an industrial revolution?” To answer that,…

acoup.blog