News of the Weird: Week of August 14 2025
shepherdexpress.com·11h·
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🦀Rust
Show HN: Imagenai – generate images directly from <img alt>
npmjs.com·1h·
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👨‍💻Programming
Class Dismissed
joincolossus.com·1h·
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⚙️OS
Predicament
xkcd.com·3d
📟Terminal
African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
npr.org·7h·
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📊Economics
Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
pressgazette.co.uk·2h·
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📊Economics
Time Is on My Side
frankchimero.com·21h·
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📊Economics
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
quantamagazine.org·2h
⚙️OS
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu·2d·
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📐PLT
Who’s Afraid of Gay Penguins?
theatlantic.com·1d·
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📐PLT
We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism
democracyjournal.org·1d·
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📊Economics
Colorado River Running Out of Water
oilprice.com·16h·
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📊Economics
Polypeptides synthesized by bacteria in the human gut improve rodent metabolism
nature.com·45m·
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👨‍💻Programming
Addiction alloys: the cross-promotion of internet compulsions
internettalk.xyz·20h·
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⚙️OS
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
propublica.org·1d·
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👨‍💻Programming
Steam's Content Removal Could Be A Wider Consequence Of Project 2025
thegamer.com·20h·
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🐧Linux
Greater Israel: Theology as Cartography – Cartography as Catastrophe
blogs.timesofisrael.com·11h·
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📊Economics
BlackboardLM – launching my passion project
blackboardlm.com·11h·
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👨‍💻Programming
List of Genocides
en.wikipedia.org·31m·
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📊Economics
The Forgotten Meaning of "Jerk."
languagehat.com·1d·
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