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opensearch.org·6h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Don't cut health insurance subsidies vital to small businesses | Javier Palomarez
omaha.com·3h
☀Optimism
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TIL that we, humans, basically have two Noses, each nostril leads to its own nasal cavity with independent erectile tissue that swells and shrinks, so one side ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov·16h·
Discuss: r/todayilearned
🔬Curious Science
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World of Travel: Louvre heist is Paris’s latest mystery in a city that manufactures legend
thehill.com·10h
☕Seattle
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Bases best practices: creating too many bases?
this.note.date·6h·
Discuss: r/ObsidianMD
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The Verge’s 2025 holiday gift guide for tinkerers
theverge.com·1d
🚀Technology
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4 Comedy Urban Legends and Conspiracy Theories That Won’t Go Away
vice.com·8h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Much Ado About the Mitfords: A Talk with Mimi Pond
tcj.com·1d
🔬Curious Science
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Health Advocates Call for a Federal “Reboot” in Addressing Ultra-Processed Foods
nakedcapitalism.com·18h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Friday essay: Debra Dank’s grandmother was a ‘drover’s boy’. Her stolen wages can’t be recovered
theconversation.com·4h
🌲Cascadia Regionalism
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Migrating a Laravel Application From a Relational Database (PostgreSQL) to MongoDB
dev.to·8h·
Discuss: DEV
🚀Technology
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<p>Just realised that I haven’t posted in a while. Life is kinda of busy. I really like my new job and the fact that there is a lot to do. Never a dull moment. ...
blog.pcora.eu·6h
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Private Data, Public Danger? How the Shutdown Poses Risks to the Entire Economy
ineteconomics.org·8h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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The world turns to energy pragmatism on the path to a new climate consensus
morningsun.net·4h
☀Optimism
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How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
nytimes.com·8h
🔬Curious Science
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Collins' Word of the Year 2025: Vibe Coding
blog.collinsdictionary.com·19h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🚀Technology
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Dmitry Shevelenko on Perplexity's Vision for Reshaping the Internet
bloomberg.com·14h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Unlock Multi-Domain NLP: Adapt Pre-trained Models Without the Heavy Lifting
dev.to·14h·
Discuss: DEV
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Wordle Launches ‘Create Your Wordle Puzzle’ Feature From New York Times Games — Minus Certain Words (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.com·7h
💬Small Talk Fodder
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<p>**Abstract:** This paper introduces a framework for automated verification of the semantic integrity of scientific literature, termed Automated Semantic Inte...
freederia.com·5h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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