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Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189
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Reckoning the Great Hunger
tribunemag.co.uk·1d
🏺Deep History
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Joanna Walsh’s History Of Amateur Creativity On The Internet
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📱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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📱Contemporary Absurdity
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2025 Holiday Readiness Checklist (Page Speed Edition!)
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🚀Technology
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The late 1980s to the early 2010s, the post-theory and pre-wokeness period, was a golden age for the humanities
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Eight millennia of continuity of a previously unknown lineage in Argentina
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Our ancestors didn't know their faces
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Cannabis stores: How easy access is changing adult behavior
earth.com·14h
Coffee Culture
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Trump and Democrats are far apart on solving the shutdown. Here’s what could finally end it.
marketwatch.com·18h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Show HN: Arcitext, an AI assisted writing app to battle AI generated text
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📱iOS apps
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How to Optimize for AI Search
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📱Contemporary Absurdity
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NEW: Get a lifetime subscription to 1ForAll AI for only $29.99
neowin.net·1d
🚀Technology
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What kind of site content works best for AI answers - short and clear, or long blog posts?
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🔬Curious Science
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words of wisdom from years of child abuse, a top uni graduate and a disappointment
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💬Small Talk Fodder
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Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models
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📱Contemporary Absurdity
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