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Are "Real" Catholics as Conservative as Evangelicals?(graphsaboutreligion.com)
2 points by lordleft 5mo ago|1 comments
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by lordleft 5mo ago
I had no idea Boox made these. I have two of their tablets and one of their e-readers. I can't wait to see e-ink progress as a technology.
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by lordleft 5mo ago
Yep. And it doesn't help that the people selling AI products act as if they're going to build God. Going, "well AI can't do that" isn't going to fly when you are lax about communicating its limitations!
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The 2 Hour [Marathon] barrier has been smashed(stevemagness.substack.com)
3 points by lordleft 5mo ago|0 comments
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Why I wrote a biography of Pascal(grahamtomlin.substack.com)
3 points by lordleft 5mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 6mo ago
I love Orwell, he ranks as one of my favorite writers, especially his non-fiction. Unfortunately, I think too many writers take his famed writing advice as doctrine, and ignore the possibilies of a richer and more elaborate style.
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by lordleft 6mo ago
I've started doing this as a kind of creative and mental exercise. It can imbue even a day filled with drudgery with something worthwhile.
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by lordleft 6mo ago
I knew vaguely that Troy had many layers of settlement, but I didn't realize that Troy had an extensive life in antiquity that extended into the classical Greek age (Post-Bronze Age) and Early Roman Age. It's funny to think of Rom
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Michael Burry found a $1.7T 'earnings illusion' hiding in tech stocks(finance.yahoo.com)
9 points by lordleft 6mo ago|0 comments
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TypeWhisper 1.2 – Private speech-to-text for your Mac(typewhisper.com)
1 points by lordleft 6mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 6mo ago
I live in Brooklyn and have spent about a grand outfitting my apartment with ACs. I would absolutely take advantage of this if the law passed.
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Silent YouTube Premium Price Increase?(old.reddit.com)
2 points by lordleft 6mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 6mo ago
There's a dark irony in start-ups appropriating names from the work of a devout catholic attached to beautiful, old modes of life.
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by lordleft 6mo ago
I've used a kindle for years and have bought hundreds of ebooks through Amazon's platform. The convenience of being able to carry a library with me in a single device is undeniable. ~14 years of support seems reasonable, especiall
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by lordleft 6mo ago
Pushkin is eternal, to writers and mathematicians alike
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by lordleft 6mo ago
I genuinely don't understand how one company can be so bad at naming products for multiple decades. It makes Sony's names for its headphones seem downright catchy.
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Cookwell: The Fundamentals of Cooking(cookwell.com)
2 points by lordleft 6mo ago|0 comments
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Homebrew routers just got a whole lot more important in the US [video](youtube.com)
1 points by lordleft 7mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7mo ago
I don't disagree that reading news articles online today is a deeply unenjoyable experience. At the same time, I think not enough people acknowledge that the decision to put so much content online for free is how we ended up in this he
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by lordleft 7mo ago
We like writing because the fact that we can create good writing says something about ourselves. If AI can create writing that surpasses, say, a Tolstoy or George Eliot, that will fundamentally change our self-perception. Is that a good thi
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by lordleft 7mo ago
One thing I'll note about this is that the writing reminds me of the much contested "MFA workshop" style that has launched a thousand think pieces. --- The story was decent! I thought it was insightful and it made me reconsid
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by lordleft 7mo ago
I strongly recommend abebooks for buying physical texts.
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On Redistribution by Musa Al-Gharbi(musaalgharbi.substack.com)
1 points by lordleft 7mo ago|0 comments
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Today Is the 150th Anniversary of the First Telephone Call(about.att.com)
3 points by lordleft 7mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7mo ago
Hyperion was a wonderful sci-novel. Thank you Dan, for your amazing writing; may you rest in peace.
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Child-free 'Disney adults' are transforming the company's theme parks (2023)(businessinsider.com)
23 points by lordleft 7mo ago|55 comments
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Claude Code for MBAs (Part 1)(essilfie.substack.com)
1 points by lordleft 8mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 8mo ago
I read Sam Kriss' substack and he's a wildly unique and talented writer.
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Frege Plagiarized the Stoics(philarchive.org)
3 points by lordleft 8mo ago|0 comments
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When Philosophy Stopped the Traffic in New York City(lareviewofbooks.org)
1 points by lordleft 8mo ago|0 comments

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