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UCF Club? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens (Tor Blog) ( Techmeme ) | Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura ( The Public Domain Review ) | Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale) ( Serious Eats ) | Why China has a tech manufacturing advantage over the U.S. ( Rest of World - ) | An Under-the-Radar Art Collection Could Fetch $180 Million at Auction ( NYT > Arts ) | We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile? ( Serious Eats ) | Ninajirachi Is Online ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Essential Releases, August 22, 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | It is less easy to see the joke when one is living through it ( MetaFilter ) | Nourished By Time’s Never-Ending Fantasy ( Bandcamp Updates ) | One-shot design of functional protein binders with BindCraft ( Nature ) | mojo dojo casa house ( McMansion Hell ) | 3 Delightful Games for Labor Day Weekend ( NYT > Arts ) | My Job as a Parent Is to Make My Kids’ Lives a Little Harder ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Bloom Phase: How to Read the Bubbles In Your Coffee ( Serious Eats ) | It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | “Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study ( The Public Domain Review ) | Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science ( NYT > Top Stories ) | The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, July 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the "most emotionally intelligent matchmaker", planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) ( Techmeme ) | We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs from Malicious Inputs - Schneier on Security ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Which country/empire was influenced a lot by it's colony? ( Geography ) | Things to do in Durham this week (August 25-31) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Crystal structures of agonist-bound human cannabinoid receptor CB₁ ( Nature ) | Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds | Oceans | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) | Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) | A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry ( NYT > Science ) | Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive ( The Public Domain Review ) | CSS HD Gradient Generator ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Boy Shot During ‘Ding Dong Ditch’ Prank in Houston ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Ellerbee creek trail crazy dude ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century ( The Public Domain Review ) | Selection at the GSDMC locus in horses and its implications for human mobility ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Question for the thrifters! ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | E. Jean Carroll Is Telling Her Story in a Documentary. Will It Find a Buyer? ( NYT > Arts ) | Best Burgers ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface ( Nature ) | Modern Nature, “The Heat Warps” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Replacing a cache service with a database ( Hacker News ) | The Most Important Machine Learning Equations: A Comprehensive Guide ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Jujutsu for Everyone ( Hacker News ) | Non-political event 🥰 ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Pig lung transplanted into a person in world first ( Nature ) | Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Solutions Engineers to Scale the OSS Security Stack ( Hacker News ) | “The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Trump called for ‘gold-standard science’: how the NIH, NSF and others are answering ( Nature ) | Today's internet meme is "Trump Dead". Historians: are there any precedents for cult like political leaders dying of natural causes, and what became of their followers? ( AskHistorians ) | A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Daily briefing: What we know about autism and why it’s on the rise ( Nature ) | Greenshot ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo Announce Album, Share Video for New Song: Watch ( Pitchfork ) | zakirullin/cognitive-load: 🧠 Cognitive Load Developer's Handbook ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | 18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) | Global phenology maps reveal the drivers and effects of seasonal asynchrony ( Nature ) | namesake mcmansion ( McMansion Hell ) | Anamanaguchi, “Anyway” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | How sounds from a Philippine slum gave rise to a viral music genre ( World ) | The Strange World Of… Van Morrison ( The Quietus ) | Swallow the Knife ( Pitchfork ) | We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition ( Serious Eats ) | How humans became upright: key changes to our pelvis found ( Nature ) | The Passionate Ones ( Pitchfork ) | Somewhere around Las Vegas, how are these terrains formed? ( Geography ) | Sept. 29: Blue Origin could launch twin NASA satellites to Mars. ( NYT > Science ) | Q&A weekly thread - August 11, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) | Lurker Review: Oh, Can’t You See You Belong to Me? ( Pitchfork ) | Trump Administration Criticises Smithsonian Museum Over Drexciya-Inspired Exhibition ( The Quietus ) | A notional design studio. — Ethan Marcotte ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers ( Serious Eats ) | An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology ( Nature ) | Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise ( McMansion Hell ) | Nokia Sans Font Family: Download Free | MaisFontes ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | What's with people in the fifties talking about "materialist Communism"? ( AskHistorians ) | The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps - 5th Edition | Andreessen Horowitz ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | How to Set Up a Personalized News Feed on Your Phone ( NYT > Technology ) | Clock DVA Reveal ‘White Souls In Black Suits’ Reissue ( The Quietus ) | In Science Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | The Structure and Geography of the ASL Signing Community in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Hartford Gatherings of 1850 and 1854 ( Linguistics ) | Homestyle Bibimbap ( Serious Eats ) | You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The vibrant colours of a house-hunting crab — August’s best science image ( Nature ) | 19 Sides to Go With Wings ( Serious Eats ) | South Korea Outlaws Use of Smartphones During Class ( NYT > Technology ) | The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) | Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device ( Nature ) | Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Earl Sweatshirt  – Live Laugh Love ( The Quietus ) | Supply-chain vulnerabilities in critical medicines: A persistent risk to pharmaceutical security ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Taking nuclear energy to the Moon ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease ( Serious Eats ) | Pile — Sunshine and Balance Beams (Sooper) ( dusted ) | A Grammar of the Shughni Language ( Linguistics ) | Israel Says It Killed Abu Obeida, Spokesman for Hamas’s Armed Wing ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister? ( Serious Eats ) | Mythical Furry Football | Writings and Gallery ( MetaFilter Projects ) | The McPhee method « the jsomers.net blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The Corporate Logo That Broke the Internet ( NYT > Top Stories ) | So where’s the party when “it” happens? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Why *wouldn't* a Soviet officer be purged? ( AskHistorians ) | Bendik Giske Enlists aya, Beatrice Dillon and More for New Remix Package ( The Quietus ) | Vines — I’ll Be Here (self-released) ( dusted ) | ode to a faux grecian urn ( McMansion Hell ) | In Memoriam of Linguistics Professor Emerita Robin Lakoff, a pioneer in gender and language ( Linguistics ) | Seismic evidence for a highly heterogeneous martian mantle ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Disney World Is the Happiest Place on Earth, if You Can Afford It ( NYT > Top Stories ) | How did ordinary people in the 18th century actually light their homes at night? ( AskHistorians ) | Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce) ( Serious Eats ) | Pentagon Pizza Index - Real-Time Military Tension Indicator | PizzINT ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games (Aditya Kalra/Reuters) ( Techmeme ) | Opinion | Disney World Is the Happiest Place on Earth, if You Can Afford It - The New York Times ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans? ( Serious Eats ) | What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers? ( Serious Eats ) | 🐾 Looking for Your Next Big Love? Meet Our Medium to Large Adoptable Dogs🐾 ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | PHYS.Org: "A universal rhythm guides how we speak: Global analysis reveals 1.6-second 'intonation units'" ( Linguistics ) | Gene therapy marks a turning point for rare skin diseases ( Nature ) | How likely is it for an oxbow lake to form here? ( Geography ) | How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract ( Serious Eats ) | How tree shrews see the world ( Nature ) | How To Argue With An AI Booster ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The Pasta Bioclimate system (The best Köppen climate classification alternative) ( Geography ) | Overmono Release Edit of High Contrast’s ‘If We Ever’ ( The Quietus ) | U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Why were they called "ant walkers"? ( AskHistorians ) | Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt Announces New Album Speak Daggers, Shares Video for New Song: Watch ( Pitchfork ) | “To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism ( The Public Domain Review ) | The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales ( Serious Eats ) | Hamas took 251 hostages from Israel into Gaza. Where are they? ( World ) | Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Heavily polluted Tijuana River drives regional air quality crisis ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Where would you go if you were told you only had weeks to live? ( Geography ) | Voices Beneath the Rubble: Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends At TreePeople ( The Quietus ) | If I was a woman living in New Orleans in 1862 and read Benjamin Butler's infamous General Order No. 28, practically speaking, what does for mean to me? ( AskHistorians ) | Every EV available in Australia ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe Announce New Collaborative Album, ‘Liminal’ ( The Quietus ) | Notes on Managing ADHD ( Hacker News ) | Yes, Cash Transfers Work ( The Atlantic ) | Aided by Instagram, Korea’s Tattoo Artists Are Grabbing Attention ( NYT > Arts ) | A Devastating Sci-Fi Movie ( The Atlantic ) | The unexpected productivity boost of Rust ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The primitive tortureboard – Aresluna ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Franz Kafka’s Anxious Letters to His Fiancée, Read Aloud by Richard Ayoade ( Open Culture ) | Tom Waits Stars in First Teaser Trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s New Film Father Mother Sister Brother: Watch ( Pitchfork ) | Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92 ( NYT > Science ) | What is Sumac? ( Serious Eats ) | We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition ( Serious Eats ) | Chicago’s Mayor Rejects Trump’s Plans to Send Troops to His City ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Eternal Struggle ( Hacker News ) | Orthodontist for adults — recommendations? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Reissue of the Week: Billy Woods’ Today, I Wrote Nothing ( The Quietus ) | Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics ( Nature ) | Trump Wants Europe to Stop Regulating Big Tech. Will It Bend? ( NYT > Technology ) | 21 Rules for Living from Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s Samurai Philosopher (1584–1645) ( Open Culture ) | The LGBTQIA+ News Post, August 31, 2025: No Banana Peel Please ( MetaFilter ) | Five single-celled species that dabble in multicellularity ( Nature ) | 75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online: Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More ( Open Culture ) | Manga Lashes ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Med Deli is closed today, where can I find a *good* $30 3L jug of EVOO? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins | The New Republic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The Sterling Bay Withdrawal and Durham’s Development Trap ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Dmitri Shostakovich Revolutionized Classical Music From Behind the Iron Curtain ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872) ( The Public Domain Review ) | An Illustrated Guide to OAuth ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Which territories have known triple or more independence which no longer necessarily exist today as a country ? ( Geography ) | Language and the study of language by William Dwight Whitney ( Linguistics ) | We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) | Gully formation in cities is displacing tens of thousands of people ( Nature ) | Four dead, buildings ablaze as Indonesians demand government accountability ( World ) | Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films? | Netflix | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Three Great Documentaries to Stream ( NYT > Arts ) | The Chaotic Genius of Pat Thomas ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Silicon Valley Pledges $200 Million to New Pro-A.I. Super PACs ( NYT > Technology ) | We need to seriously think about what to do with C++ modules ( Hacker News ) | What’s in my NOW? — Marston Quinn ( Cool Tools ) | Inferring language dispersal patterns with velocity field estimation ( Linguistics ) | Trump Just Made Burning the Flag a Little Easier ( The Atlantic ) | A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869) ( The Public Domain Review ) | AI robot dolls charm their way into nursing the elderly ( Rest of World - ) | The rise of rideable horses ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Venice Film Festival: Julia Roberts Courts Controversy With ‘After the Hunt’ ( NYT > Arts ) | Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) | Abhorrent Expanse – Enter the Misanthropocene ( The Quietus ) | Proto-Uralic by Ante Aikio (2022) ( Linguistics ) | Fortnite Makes Money From Popular Dances. Do Their Choreographers? ( NYT > Arts ) | Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865) ( The Public Domain Review ) | What’s Loud, Pink and Drawing New Yorkers Together? ( NYT > Arts ) | We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) | ‘The Paper’ Is an ‘Office’ Spinoff in a Different Office ( NYT > Arts ) | Five highlights from skin research ( Nature ) | Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Live Laugh Love ( Pitchfork ) | A Truly Great Statue of a Sports Hero ( The Atlantic ) | Nominations open for MeFi board ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Typepad shutting down ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The Classroom Where Conflict Is the Curriculum ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) | AI versus skin cancer: the future of dermatology diagnosis ( Nature ) | How to clean clear plastic drinking glasses? ( Ask MetaFilter ) | Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs ( NYT > Arts ) | Cricket, Fandom, and the Unspoken Price of Fantasy Gaming ( Hacker News ) | The Hidden Design of the Apple Airpod | Nebula ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | web-coding-book.pdf ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | China’s biggest delivery app brings its disruptive playbook to Brazil ( Rest of World - ) | Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI ( Nature ) | Explaining the mental-health burden of atopic dermatitis ( Nature ) | How Builder.ai Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom ( NYT > Top Stories ) | A Book Of Ghosts ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Nvidia Earnings Show Sales Jump Amid Strong Demand for A.I. Chips ( NYT > Technology ) | Psychobook / Dharma Delight ( Cool Tools ) | How ‘Clanker’ Became an Anti-A.I. Rallying Cry ( NYT > Technology ) | Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows ( Hacker News ) | KNOB / k.no.b.1 / Low Profile Mechanical Keyboard ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Virginia Democrats Block College Board Appointees, Leaving George Mason’s Without a Quorum ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) | Fluff & Gravy Is One Big, Folky Family ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Homeland Security’s Embrace of Art Reopens an Old Debate ( NYT > Arts ) | Cheese Foam Tea ( Serious Eats ) | Miguel Zenón Quartet, “Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | What am I seeing off the coast of SF?! ( Geography ) | CDC Director Susan Monarez Is Fired, White House Says ( NYT > Science ) | Why Is the National Guard in D.C.? Even They Don’t Know. ( The Atlantic ) | EURO-COUNTRY ( Pitchfork ) | I Am An AI Hater | moser’s frame shop ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Canadian Niagara Falls seem bigger and more developed than American Niagara Falls. Why is that? ( Geography ) | Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours ( Nature ) | Plug-in balcony solar panels could mean cheaper power. But Canada needs to get on board first | CBC News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert) ( Serious Eats ) | Madeleines ( Serious Eats ) | The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) | “The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Delicate Steve, “Luke’s Garage” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Retraction Note: Crystal structures of agonist-bound human cannabinoid receptor CB₁ ( Nature ) | Neural networks of the mouse visceromotor cortex ( Nature ) | Are you a high schooler interested in attending a series of lectures in linguistics topics given by academics and students? 2025's Teen Academic Linguistics Conference commences in 5 days! Our schedule is provided below: ( Linguistics ) | Walk Out on This World ( Pitchfork ) | Why the West Failed the ‘Putin Test’ ( The Atlantic ) | This Princess Kills Monsters ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, “GUSH” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France ( Nature ) | Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796) ( The Public Domain Review ) | The Comedian as Master Troll ( NYT > Arts ) | Darren Hayman and his Electric Guitars – Amazing Things ( The Quietus ) | Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without ( Serious Eats ) | DJ Haram — Beside Myself (Hyperdub) ( dusted ) | ‘A perfect symbiosis’: planting vines and other ways hot cities are creating cool spaces | Climate crisis | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Deep gashes in the earth are slicing up cities, swallowing houses and displacing vast numbers of people ( Nature ) | 5 Takeaways From Sabrina Carpenter’s New Album Man’s Best Friend ( Pitchfork ) | Explanation in typology edited by Schmidtke-Bode et al. ( Linguistics ) | Israel says it killed longtime spokesman of Hamas’s military wing ( World ) | The Technium: Everything I Know about Self-Publishing ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Author Correction: Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes ( Nature ) | Septal LYVE1+ macrophages control adipocyte stem cell adipogenic potential ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | How the pelvis evolved to enable human bipedalism ( Nature ) | Don't stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to ( MetaFilter ) | The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries ( Open Culture ) | SpaceX Starship Completes Successful Test Flight After Previous Launch Setbacks ( NYT > Technology ) | Neurobiological substrates of altered states of consciousness induced by high ventilation breathwork accompanied by music | PLOS One ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Trump Has Lunch With Smithsonian Chief as He Presses for Museum Changes ( NYT > Arts ) | Why are there so many English expressions with the word "Dutch" in it? ( AskHistorians ) | ‘Caught Stealing’ Review: Austin Butler in Trouble and on the Run ( NYT > Arts ) | Daily briefing: Deliberate fearmongering spread like a virus through revolutionary France ( Nature ) | The Uncompromising Spirit of Irritable Hedgehog ( Bandcamp Updates ) | The Manhattan Park That Keeps Children Locked Out ( NYT > Top Stories ) | The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | AI hypotheses lag human ones when put to the test ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London ( The Public Domain Review ) | 8-Bit Recipes ( MetaFilter Projects ) | the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) | How Builder.ai Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom ( NYT > Technology ) | The Origins of Satan: The Evolution of the Devil in Religion ( Open Culture ) | Cambridge, UK-based Paragraf, which makes graphene-based electronics using standard semiconductor processes, raised a $55M Series C to scale its manufacturing (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu) ( Techmeme ) | What countries lost the most territory (proportional to their size) as a punishment for losing a war? ( Geography ) | We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites ( Serious Eats ) | Water From Your Eyes, “It’s A Beautiful Place” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | When did the US transition from pounds to dollars? ( AskHistorians ) | Flux ( Pitchfork ) | Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) | ‘We Are All Shocked’: Warming Waters Bring a Stinging Sea Slug to Spain’s Coasts ( NYT > Science ) | Making Your Research Free May Cost You ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) | Architecture of the UBR4 complex, a giant E4 ligase central to eukaryotic protein quality control ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Mondo Lava — Utero Dei (Hausu Mountain) ( dusted ) | Beaches across the U.S. close over fecal bacteria levels. What to know. ( National ) | “I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte ( The Public Domain Review ) | Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | An introduction to the study of language by Leonard Bloomfield ( Linguistics ) | Scree — August (Ruination) ( dusted ) | Apple Music Introduces Tool to Allow Users to Import Playlists from Other Streaming Platforms ( The Quietus ) | Sun City Girls — Famous Asthma / Tibetan Jazz 666 (Three Lobed) ( dusted ) | Python: The Documentary | An origin story - YouTube ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | 13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays ( Serious Eats ) | Should I Get a Portable Induction Cooktop? ( NYT > Science ) | Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better? ( Serious Eats ) | Science Shock: 'Smoking Gun' Evidence Emerges That the Met Office is Inventing Temperature Data – The Daily Sceptic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Volkswagen Brazil found liable for ‘slave labor’ after priest’s long struggle ( World ) | Hard-Nosed Sheriff Who Inspired ‘Walking Tall’ Movie Killed His Wife, Inquiry Says ( NYT > Arts ) | At the Frick, a Young Painter Spars With an Old Master ( NYT > Arts ) | Rupert’s Property | Azimuth ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Revealing Taste ( NYT > Technology ) | Sharp Pins Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Song “(I Wanna) Be Your Girl”: Watch ( Pitchfork ) | Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects ( NYT > Science ) | Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer? ( Serious Eats ) | Did Paul McCartney Really Die in 1966? How the Biggest Beatles Conspiracy Theory Spread ( Open Culture ) | CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program | CIDRAP ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Are We Decentralized Yet? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Nurse practitioners ( Ask MetaFilter ) | Dust Volume 11, Number 8 ( dusted ) | Preservation & Gabe ‘Nandez – Sortilège ( The Quietus ) | Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) | New Study Shows Heat Waves Make People Age Faster ( NYT > Science ) | Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now ( NYT > Arts ) | “When a billion people have access to advanced AI, we've entered what we might call the era of Mass Intelligence” ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Rún – Rún ( The Quietus ) | Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) | glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg ( McMansion Hell ) | Frieze House Seoul Gives Art Fair a Permanent Presence ( NYT > Arts ) | A closer look at how cells sense dietary nutrients ( Nature ) | ‘Griffin in Summer’ Review: Growing Up Stage Left ( NYT > Arts ) | Rescuing century old tomatoes ( MetaFilter ) | Suede Launch New Album, ‘Antidepressants’, at Southbank Gig ( The Quietus ) | Haematopoietic stem cell number is not solely defined by niche availability ( Nature ) | What the ‘Panama Playlists’ Exposed About Spotify User Privacy ( NYT > Technology ) | In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit ( NYT > Top Stories ) | "This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated" Why? ( Hacker News ) | 16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day ( Serious Eats ) | Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink) ( Serious Eats ) | The Clearing ( Pitchfork ) | Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Creating connection with wings and strings ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Seven Philosophy Books for Beginners: Where to Start ( Open Culture ) | Punk Flea (LAPhelps Art) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | simulacra for bootlickers ( McMansion Hell ) | Essential Releases, August 15, 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | SpaceX Reschedules Scrubbed 10th Test Launch of Starship Rocket ( NYT > Technology ) | On the Brink of Adulthood ( The Atlantic ) | Crisis at the CDC ( MetaFilter ) | Southwest Monsoon Brings Dust Storms and Rain ( NYT > Science ) | New Ruby Curl bindings with Fiber native support ( Hacker News ) | Does anyone know any domestic violence shelters I could stay at ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585) ( The Public Domain Review ) | We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites ( Serious Eats ) | Vegetation steers a river’s path ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | How did France have enough people to continuously go to war under napoleon? ( AskHistorians ) | Why is Buddhism virtually nonexistent in India, its country of origin, while it thrives in Japan, China, and Tibet? ( AskHistorians ) | Junior Murvin, “Cool Down the Heat” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | How was leishmania seen as a disease in past? Any famous incidents associated with the disease? ( AskHistorians ) | Supersonic 2025: Your Quietus Essential Picks ( The Quietus ) | Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025 | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Adding on to house recommendations ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | ‘Unforgotten’ Review: Cold Cases, Warm Hearts ( NYT > Arts ) | Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks, Revived for the First Time in 500 Years ( Open Culture ) | Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI (Wall Street Journal) ( Techmeme ) | Growing into mentorship ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | TIL the Missouri River is currently 1 mile longer than the Mississippi River ( Geography ) | New clues found about the assembly of life’s first proteins ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Lunar soil machine developed to build bricks using sunlight ( Hacker News ) | How Do Air Fryers Work? 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