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I left Nashville for a Maryland suburb. Eleven years later, I've finally made peace with the trade-off.
businessinsider.comΒ·18h
🌲Cascadia Regionalism
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Puran Utilities 3.2
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πŸ’¬Small Talk Fodder
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Joanna Walsh’s History Of Amateur Creativity On The Internet
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πŸ“±Contemporary Absurdity
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Ukrainian resistance to Russian colonialism
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πŸ“–Word Origins
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LLMs' Sycophancy and the Dilemma of Objectivity (Medium, 3m Read)
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πŸ“±Contemporary Absurdity
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I feel like I should have something to say about this Dumbing of Age storyline, which has the most…
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πŸ“±Contemporary Absurdity
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Eric 26 Inconvenient Truths
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β˜€Optimism
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The most life-changing books, statistically
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πŸ”¬Curious Science
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The Power Problem – A Silicon Valley Story
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NEW: Get a lifetime subscription to 1ForAll AI for only $29.99
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Ethics by Spinoza
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πŸ€”Philosophy
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It's the Economy, Not the East Wing, Stupid
reason.comΒ·8h
πŸ“±Contemporary Absurdity
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Sweeping Democratic Wins Serve as a Referendum on Trump 2.0
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πŸ“±Contemporary Absurdity
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Parleying with the Principled
lesswrong.comΒ·2d
πŸ’¬Small Talk Fodder
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Trash talk: why are UK kids using so many Americanisms?
theguardian.comΒ·2d
πŸ“–Word Origins
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I was written up for having a visible thong outside of work
askamanager.orgΒ·17h
πŸ’¬Small Talk Fodder
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Epidemiology of Large Language Models: A Benchmark for Observational Distribution Knowledge
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πŸ“±Contemporary Absurdity
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To improve Rationality, create Situations
lesswrong.comΒ·2d
πŸ”Practical Epistemology
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