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Pushkin Industries and iHeartPodcasts launch new podcast Business History
podnews.net·2h
🎙Deep Dive Interviews
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LGBTQ+ Groups Have Been Quietly Buying Property, Building Equity and Community
planetizen.com·13h
🌲Cascadia Regionalism
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How Chinese restaurants became the world’s most successful “export”
bsmonaco.substack.com·11h·
Discuss: r/China
🌲Cascadia Regionalism
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The Life and Times of Jenny Calabrese
lairoftheduskwitch.bearblog.dev·2h
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Something Green
theinfatuation.com·15h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Word Game: Nov. 6, 2025
mercurynews.com·19h
💬Small Talk Fodder
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The Spegling Chronicles: Measuring dev shadow work until it measured us back
medium.com·17h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🔍Practical Epistemology
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Nick Knight and Simon Foxton: AI Is Not a Threat to Creativity
businessoffashion.com·1h
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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What Is Occult Grammar?
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Discuss: Hacker News
💬Small Talk Fodder
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One year later: An Introduction to Wikipedia online course
diff.wikimedia.org·19h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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China, world’s top carbon polluter, is likely to overdeliver on its climate goals. Will that be enough? - PBS
news.google.com·11h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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3 more Chinese University of Michigan researchers face smuggling-related charges - MLive.com
news.google.com·1d
🔬Curious Science
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Turn boring negatives into flavorful sentences with one little word: 还不/ 还没
i.redd.it·2d·
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Tech With Tim: 3 Unique Python Features You NEED To Know
dev.to·10h·
Discuss: DEV
🔬Curious Science
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Deploying Agentic AI For SEO: A Playbook For Technology Leaders via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW
searchenginejournal.com·17h
🚀Technology
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How to Turn Notes Into a Publish-Ready AI Knowledge Base
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Discuss: DEV
🚀Technology
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Do Androids Dream of Unseen Puppeteers? Probing for a Conspiracy Mindset in Large Language Models
arxiv.org·1d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Conversational Collective Intelligence (CCI) using Hyperchat AI in an Authentic Forecasting Task
arxiv.org·1h
💬Small Talk Fodder
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