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The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop(newyorker.com)
5 points by fortran77 1mo ago|0 comments
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Mercury Poisoning Situation at MIT [video](youtube.com)
2 points by fortran77 1mo ago|0 comments
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Burning Man has become a wrinkled sausage fest of aging millennial men(nypost.com)
4 points by fortran77 1mo ago|0 comments
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Colleges Are Sending Acceptance Letters to Kids Who Didn't Apply(wsj.com)
8 points by fortran77 1mo ago|2 comments
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by fortran77 1mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/hundreds-of-colleges-a...
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The Art of Leaping Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires(newyorker.com)
3 points by fortran77 1mo ago|0 comments
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by fortran77 1mo ago
And Andy Grove was himself an immigrant, as is Jensen Huang of NVidia. Bezos’ father was born in Cuba. I’d bet he’d never point this out.
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James Dyson Sold Us on a $400 Hair Dryer. Now He's Trying a $499 Toothbrush(wsj.com)
25 points by fortran77 1mo ago|18 comments
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by fortran77 1mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/james-dyson-sold-us-on-a-400-h...
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A Hacking Attempt in a Fake Cloudflare Captcha(twitter.com)
1 points by fortran77 1mo ago|0 comments
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by fortran77 1mo ago
That story is not quite true: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-jobs-and-biological-fathe...
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by fortran77 1mo ago
Neither would I. What’s your point?
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by fortran77 1mo ago
He was a huge piece of shit. Yet, when I lived in Silicon Valley, I saw parents scrambing to get a house in the right district so their kid could go to Homestead High and have a shot of "being like Steve Jobs." They want their kid
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by fortran77 1mo ago
> Steve Jobs was, amongst many other things, the biological son of an unmarried Syrian immigrant who was in the United States on a student visa, and he grew up to be a person who had a really good sense of when to say “fuck you" to
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What Happened to Yoga?(theatlantic.com)
13 points by fortran77 1mo ago|8 comments
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by fortran77 1mo ago
Agreed. It’s also nonsense. You need an NVidia gpu to do any serious work.
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'Freakish Little Animals': Ferret Owners Gather to Celebrate Their Charms(nytimes.com)
3 points by fortran77 1mo ago|1 comments
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by fortran77 1mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/ferret-buckeye-bash.ht...
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No Way Out: Car Companies Forgot How Door Handles Work [video](youtube.com)
3 points by fortran77 1mo ago|1 comments
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by fortran77 1mo ago
Related: See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNCGvOJOwIM
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by fortran77 1mo ago
Thus is reminiscent of how early View-Master storybook reels were produced.
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A Lesson on Wealth Taxes from Charles Dickens(wsj.com)
1 points by fortran77 1mo ago|1 comments
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by fortran77 1mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-lesson-on-wealth-taxes-from-ch...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning(newyorker.com)
45 points by fortran77 1mo ago|47 comments
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A Society of Cheats(theatlantic.com)
9 points by fortran77 1mo ago|6 comments
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by fortran77 2mo ago
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/we-tested-a-smartphone-smuggl...
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We Tested a Smartphone Smuggled from North Korea(wsj.com)
6 points by fortran77 2mo ago|1 comments
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Meta seems happy to pay a landmark legal settlement(theatlantic.com)
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The Absolute Pleasure of Tim Curry(theatlantic.com)
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by fortran77 2mo ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/tim-curry-tribute/...

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