Misc

Because I never feel confident spelling “miscellaneous”

• We Are Watching Elon Musk and His Fans Create a Conspiracy Theory About Wikipedia in Real Time

• Counsel of Perfection: Privilege Part One

• Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

• On a Scottish Island | ntoll.org

• An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus | Kalzumeus Software

• Why the super rich are inevitable

• ‘Endemic’ covers a lot of biology but we’re probably not there yet for COVID-19 - Virology Down Under

• Update website status · minvws/nl-covid19-notification-app-website@ce16c03

• Reflections From a Token Black Friend | by Ramesh A Nagarajah | Human Parts

• Why We Need To Stop Talking About Diversity Of Thought

• Dating advice for guys – GeniesLoki

• What’s Really Holding Women Back?

• Past Time to Tell the Public: “It Will Probably Go Pandemic, and We Should All Prepare Now” - Virology Down Under

• Twitter was special. But it’s time to leave - by Matt Tait

• Passive house: the future (and present!) of green building – Chad Dickerson’s blog

• Building an all-electric home – Chad Dickerson’s blog

• Conjuring Wildlife From Wood — Words + Wood + Wildish Places

• No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating. | by Dave Troy | Oct, 2022 | Medium

• The small things Manifesto – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog.

• Voter ID: ‘It’s Far Worse than Any US State’ – Byline Times

• Catalyst Cooperative Policy Handbook 0.1.dev55+g520037f documentation

• Did I ever tell you about my £15,000 t-shirt? | Thayer Prime’s Blog

• Daniel Thomas’ Blog » Blog Archive » Eco changes that worked

• Dusty shelves and aimless ramblings on Tumblr

• Matron: Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish!

• Lego Meditation for Self-Isolation – Geek | Manager

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Living Room Rules

• Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast swathes of recent human history | MIT Technology Review

• The End of the Road to Serfdom. Party’s Over, Pleb. | by Cory Doctorow | Nov, 2022 | Medium

• Yellowstone on Paramount+: Cable’s most popular show is doubling down on rural American rage.

• Twitter is Going Great!

• Man repatriates 19 antiquities after reading Guardian article | Heritage | The Guardian

• Fundamentals of permaculture – herb spiral | Pocket Farm Magazine

• Israel lifts its ban on color TV - CSMonitor.com

• Legoland Bond Crisis Threatens South Korea’s Economy

• Unsealed court documents reveal data anarchy at Meta - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

• killing a goldfish: magical capitalism

• Why Masks Still Matter | Time

• Elon Musk Buying Twitter Could Bring Down Tesla, His Business Empire

• Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife

• Michelle Mone’s PPE denials v what we know | Michelle Mone | The Guardian

• Lennie Pennie: Time to end a stigma that all women face | HeraldScotland

• Oversharing as an abdication of interpretive responsibility

• Firehose of falsehood - Wikipedia

• The Firehose of Falsehoods and the Leadership Principle - Teri Kanefield

• Opinion | America’s Coronavirus Reopening Choice: Schools, Bars or Disney World? - The New York Times

• 26 Thoughtful Gifts for New Parents 2022 - UK Gifts

• When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport number

• How to understand cough medicines | Sunlight Enthusiast

• The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse | The super-rich | The Guardian

• Oxt Weekend

• The Dangers of Priti Patel’s Racial Gatekeeping – Byline Times

• A few things to know before stealing my 914 - Hagerty Media

• Who is Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, and How Much of ‘The Lørenskog Disappearance’ is True?

• The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero

• They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. - The New York Times

• Sea Shanty - YouTube

• 14 hours in The Queue before Queen Elizabeth’s funeral | British GQ

• The ‘Dead-Internet Theory’ Is Wrong but Feels True - The Atlantic

• Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need

• James reads about Mr Pointy - Twitch

• Her Majesty’s Loyal Pleasuredrome - by Huw Lemmey

• ‘Leeds era’: How one English city’s name became a buzzword in Korea

• Mister Rogers’ widow says he was no saint. And that’s a better legacy - Los Angeles Times

• The lies, falsehoods and misrepresentations of Boris Johnson and his government.

• ‘I find myself choked up with the emotions’: TikTok’s trainspotter sensation Francis Bourgeois | Hobbies | The Guardian

• Studie belegt: 9-Euro-Ticket stärkte die soziale Teilhabe von Menschen mit geringen Einkommen

• Welcome to hell, Elon - The Verge

• Updating The Verge’s background policy - The Verge

• Explaining the Twitter Postrat Scene - LessWrong

• What’s not sexy but saves lives, resources and the Earth? - The Correspondent

• BeReal – A Whole Lotta Nothing

• Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve | Techdirt

• 500 Million, But Not a Single One More – Almost No One is Evil. Almost Everything is Broken.

• Visualizing Crowd Sizes

• Get Ready for the Forever Plague | The Tyee

• Pluralistic: 05 Jul 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 35-Year-Old’s Skill Tree All Fucked Up

• NYSCEF Document Viewer (untitled court filing)

• Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US - BBC Culture

• Turning Back the Economic Clock

• Author Isaac Fitzgerald on Never Having Kids and Showing Up as an Uncle

• History of the crawl stroke: Why Europeans resisted it for so long.

• Why does the Dept. of OB/GYN at the University of Utah offer a premarital exam for women? | Dr. Jen Gunter

• Liz Truss’s Oxbridge education plan is truly baffling - New Statesman

• Your (Non-Comprehensive) Guide To Your Observant Jewish Co-Worker! | by Yechiel Kalmenson | Rabbi On Rails

• Inside the violent, misogynistic world of TikTok’s new star, Andrew Tate | TikTok | The Guardian

• Unforced errors by Archie’s lawyers - by Joshua Rozenberg

• The IT Army of Ukraine - Structure, Tasking, and Ecosystem

• Cars 2: How Electric, Revisited

• The gathering crisis - Charlie’s Diary

• The Standard: Occupation Classification (underwriting manual, PDF)

• What does “shitty job” Mean in The Low-Skill, Low-Pay World?

• The truth about The Night Climbers of Cambridge - CAM Digital | University of Cambridge

• Endemic Pathogens Are Making You Crazy And Then Killing You: Toxoplasmosis Spotlight

• Holding back the years: why everyone in South Korea could soon be getting younger | South Korea | The Guardian

• Roko’s Basilisk: The most terrifying thought experiment of all time.

• “We’re going to disrupt”: A year inside GB News - New Statesman

• Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

• Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy – Disability Visibility Project

• Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly - by Adam Mastroianni

• https://www.biospace.com/article/researchers-answer-how-and-why-infants-die-from-sids/?fbclid=IwAR2qUqCwSz-LPfHBzS-IWpIPclNmfR8uxCvYh5WUjX9yJIxYjxs_LweKXHY

• What Is It Like for An Autistic Parent to Raise a Non-Autistic Child? » NeuroClastic

• Where to sit on a Crossrail train

• Good cops vs. bad apples: policing reform after Ferguson and George Floyd.

• From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen - The New York Times

• Public beliefs vs. Private beliefs - LessWrong

• The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge | The New Yorker

• Most children of smart parents will be pretty ordinary • Otherwise

• Les Leftovers: The great Medieval water myth

• Graham Snyder, 30, engineer from West London – 🏴 Anarchist Federation

• Is New York City More Dangerous Than Rural America? - Bloomberg

• Behold: the dying art of the peripatetic music teacher | Tes Magazine

• Inside Kraken’s Culture War Stoked by Its C.E.O. - The New York Times

• I Should Be Able to Mute America

• Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families | Common Sense Media

• Childcare : what the science says | by criticalscience | Medium

• The 73 MPs Who Voted Against Same-Sex Marriage And 99 Against Abortion In Northern Ireland | HuffPost UK Politics

• The Stables (PW324) | Powells Cottage Holidays

• How the news breaks - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

• Omicron Is Our Past Pandemic Mistakes on Fast-Forward - The Atlantic

• The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive

• The Heaviest Drinker in the Animal Kingdom - The Atlantic

• Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil

• The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED

• Paul Butler – “Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs

• The New Year’s Resolutions the UK Government needs to Make for Disabled People - The Unwritten

• The Blitz Spirit - Historic UK

• Edward Colston statue toppling trial - Liam Walker represents acquitted defendant | Doughty Street Chambers

• Innerring - CS Lewis Society of California

• Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - The New York Times

• Unsolicited Advice on The Institute of Marriage

• Exclusive: Pregnant TV reporter Charlotte Bellis’ full, open letter on MIQ - ‘NZ said you’re not welcome’ - NZ Herald

• Reflections on six months of fatherhood

• A Case for Why We Should Not Do Visual Descriptions of Ourselves

• Why is LinkedIn so cringe? - SatPost by Trung Phan

• Question Time showed that you can’t counter anti-vax myths with cold reason alone | Sonia Sodha | The Guardian

• Anarchists are Building DIY Heaters to Keep Unhoused People Warm

• /r/antiwork: A Tragedy of Sanewashing and Social Gentrification | by Trace Underwood | Feb, 2022 | Medium

• The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London | The New Yorker

• Become an e-resident of Estonia | WIRED UK

• Baptisms by Arizona priest presumed invalid due to error | AP News

• Pluralistic: 21 Feb 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• Miscellanea: Understanding the War in Ukraine – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

• Things could be good | Dazed

• ‘Go fuck yourself,’ Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island tell Russian ship before being killed – POLITICO

• Zoya Sheftalovich on Twitter: “Watching Putin’s attack on Ukraine play out, I am struck by the thought that Putin learned the lesson from the wrong Afghanistan war. And he has also vastly misunderstood post-Zelenskiy Ukraine. 1/?” / Twitter

• Black On White TV: An open letter on the reporting of Ukraine: Do not let diversity be a casualty of war.

• The Euphoria Problem - All in Her Head by Jessica Valenti

• Kyiv keeps wheels of state turning under Russian bombardment | Financial Times

• Write plain text files | Derek Sivers

• A gripping yarn: inside the Knitting.com drama

• Meet ‘Posh George’: The Shady Money Man Tangled Up With Brexit, Russia, and Trump

• Behind the Twitter Bot Posting the Gender Pay Gap of Brands Celebrating IWD

• siderea | The Blue Tractor [music, cur ev]

• The hum that helps to fight crime - BBC News

• Collections: Nuclear Deterrence 101 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

• An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility | PNAS

• siderea | Achievements in Ukrainian Music: Putin Khuylo [music, curr ev, Patreon]

• How Kyiv Adapted the City’s Tech to Save Lives | Time

• What happened when I confronted my cruellest troll | Cyberbullying | The Guardian

• How Subarus Came to Be Seen as Cars for Lesbians - The Atlantic

• Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas (Interconnected)

• Kaleb Cooper: ‘Jeremy Clarkson? It’s Kaleb’s farm secretly’ | Magazine | The Times

• Planning Ahead Can Make a Difference in the End : NPR

• I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To. - The Atlantic

• Love & Kimchi - Ko-fi ❤️ Where creators get donations from fans, with a ‘Buy Me a Coffee’ Page.

• Basic things you need to know in order to use your computer properly in the CompSci labs

• Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

• Glenmont Lights

• A History of Leather at Pride: 1965-1995

• We got a new garage door. It came with an epic story - by Michael Estrin - Situation Normal

• When I was publicly stripped by the police. | Medium

• Exclusive Data: An Inside Look at the Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home for Remote Learning — and Now Won’t Leave | The 74

• In Dune, Paul Atreides led a jihad, not a crusade | Arts and Culture | Al Jazeera

• She Didn’t Want a Pelvic Exam. She Received One Anyway. - The New York Times

• I Want To Believe in Ted Lasso. - by Laurie Penny - Penny Red

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Deplatforming as a Moderation Strategy on Twitter | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Dilemma of a Conflicted Civil Servant - Texas National Security Review

• Twitter Data Has Revealed A Coordinated Campaign Of Hate Against Meghan Markle

• Aaron Rodgers Didn’t Just Lie - by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• Talking Productively About Guns | Popehat

• This S.F. Muni driver’s viral Twitter thread on ‘Shang-Chi’ bus scene is an absolute must read

• Air filter significantly reduces presence of airborne SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 wards | University of Cambridge

• Why not fund the welfare state with a 100% inheritance tax? | Abi Wilkinson | The Guardian

• How The Wheel of Time Compares to the Books | Time

• Queer Themes in the Wheel of Time - Books and eBooks - Dragonmount.com

• The LARS ULRICH Toilet Is Real, And I Want to Use It

• Why a toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today - The Verge

• 100 years of whatever this will be - apenwarr

• ‘Great British Bake Off’ Finale: An Anti-Brexit Metaphor?

• The Expanse Team Unpacks Its Season 5 Abuse Storylines | Observer

• I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There. | by indi.ca | GEN

• Episode 566: The Zoo Economy : Planet Money : NPR

• His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752. - The New York Times

• Vaccine side effects: My experience of them and what they mean - BBC News

• I Like That The Boat Is Stuck

• Why Won’t Democratic Mayors Crack Down on the Cops? – Mother Jones

• Tom Holland, Zendaya’s ‘Lip Sync Battle’: How It Happened

• There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) – Eukaryote Writes Blog

• Once Upon a Time, Exploding Billiard Balls Were An Everyday Thing | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

• Consent Theater | by Cory Doctorow | May, 2021 | OneZero

• No Rain, No Roof!

• The Internet Is a Lovecraftian Horror Scenario - Media Chomp

• What Princess Diana Life and Legacy Meant for Black British Women

• Is this the worst policy idea of the pandemic? - CapX

• Baleen whale cortisol levels reveal a physiological response to 20th century whaling

• A Five-Point Manifesto to Saving ‘The Great British Baking Show’ - The Ringer

• Why We Turned to PBS: 50 Reasons Over 50 Years - The New York Times

• Why is bestiality so disgusting? - UnHerd

• Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness

• Why Is Latin Considered a “Dead Language”? - Tales of Times Forgotten

• A newbie’s guide to safes, both opening and using

• Tres Leones: Singing Three Lions in Latin - Antigone

• Pretentious Doctor Who Essays: COMPLETE AND UTTER SILLINESS: HOW TO WATCH THE DOCTOR’S REGENERATIONS “PROPERLY”!

• The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities · Intense Minimalism

• Following an idea to its logical conclusion

• Sonoma County Supervisor To Bohemian Grove: Admit That It’s Weird, and Sexist

• Childbirth: a father’s-eye view

• How Automated Tools Discriminate Against Black Language

• Take a look at the gender imbalances of the world’s leading orchestras

• Orchestrating false beliefs about gender discrimination

• Father Paul

• ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ at Fifty

• Straightening out brass instruments with magnets

• Port-scans and industrial fans: 1 month of parenthood

• Ten braille facts / ⠼⠁⠚⠀⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑⠀⠋⠁⠉⠞⠎

• What is Amazon?

• Meritocracy doesn’t exist, and believing it does is bad for you

• Malte Schwarzkopf Joins Brown CS As Assistant Professor

• Arrowverse Episode Order

• Is Trump Trying to Stage a Coup?

• An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft

• Decoupling - Overthinking Everything

• The Worst Thing A Woman Can Do - Body of Work: Belle de Jour

• Anxiety Looks Like Anger – Autistic Science Person

• mjg59 | Rebooting

• At thirty years’ call. Learning to Read | by Barbara Rich | Dec, 2020 | Medium

• How to Lose a Case | Essex Court Chambers

• New Jersey lawmaker stayed in Capitol until 3 am cleaning rotunda after riot | TheHill

• The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse | by Anil Dash | Humane Tech | Medium

• Pandemic fatigue? How adherence to covid-19 regulations has been misrepresented and why it matters - The BMJ

• Cake Offences Act(s)

• Inside Mar-a-Lago: the secret history of Trump’s Florida retreat | openDemocracy

• QAnon Woke Up the Real Deep State | by Nicholas Grossman | Jan, 2021 | Arc Digital

• AP says it will capitalize Black but not white

• Has science solved the Dyatlov Pass incident, one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?

• The football pitch in three pieces

• Why Oxford Comma Enthusiasts Are All Over Tinder

• Two types of viewpoint - relip and thamagar

• The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections

• Sony Imageworks’ Renegade Approach To ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’

• Woodlouse Recipes

• American Wake

• Lashon Hara

• TIL: Libguides

• Interview with Valentine Le Grice QC

• A Day in the Life of … Valentine Le Grice QC (barrister)

• Oh God, It’s Raining Newsletters

• Fact-Checking Facebook Was Like Playing A Doomed Game Of Whack-A-Mole

• Queens’ College Mathematical Bridge

• It’s the World Slime Convention! Let’s Goo!

• The curious case of disappearing buses

• Why a Grape Turns Into a Fireball in a Microwave

• No, ‘Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship. It might be even weirder.

• Reading a Chinese dictionary

• Why Parking Minimums Almost Destroyed My Hometown and How We Repealed Them

• How Do People Communicate Before Death?

• Why Ex-Churchgoers Flocked to Trump

• Patisserie Valerie - What happens now?

• WALL·E | Typeset In The Future

• The Gillette Effect: What a Single Ad Reveals About American Men

• Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets

• A tale of 132 e’s

• the [E]nd of eeeee

• Strange German Exclaves in Belgium

• The EU has archived all of the “Euromyths” printed in UK media - and it makes for some disturbing reading

• You Can’t Buy a Ticket From Catford to Catford Bridge

• A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet

• Euromyths A-Z index

• First Primitive Year at the Hut

• Brexit: What is the ‘backstop’ agreement and why does it matter?

• Inside the taboo, bizarre, revealing world of stadium bathrooms at Super Bowl LIII

• Why “Just Google It” Is Now A Synonym For “Indoctrinate Someone”

• The Poundland engagement ring is perfect – I’m not surprised they’ve sold 20,000

• You should be stockpiling food for Brexit

• Five facts about smell writeup

• A Brief Review of Reading The Wheel of Time at 38

• Van Conversion Build Guide: How To Convert a Campervan for Vanlife

• Why You Have to Develop an Investment Mindset

• Remaking the #SpiderMan: Into The #SpiderVerse trailer

• The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

• What Makes ‘The Good Place’ So Good?

• Nonspecifically Neurodivergent

• Building Friendships

• An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus

• Doctor Who backlash shows why it’s time to bin the phrase ‘politically correct’

• Robot Accidentally Hospitalises 24 Amazon Workers After It Sprays Them With Bear Repellent

• The Toxoplasma Of Rage

• Reducing your carbon footprint still matters

• UK Underground Utility Colour Codes Explained

• Medium is a poor choice for blogging

• Period-tracking apps are not for women

• Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker

• Once were gardeners, lovers, poets… and warriors

• Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace

• Fiat 850 Spider erster Start seit 1988 - YouTube

• Scientists unravel secret of cube-shaped wombat faeces

• HMRC’s Case Studies: Tightening the Virtual Screws on Software Claims

• Happily Ever After - Ashley Ladd Romance Writer: Monday Minute Fiction: Holding up the Contract

• FBI Webcam Surveillance: What You Should Know

• The Definitive Latin Translation of “Baby Shark”

• For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching

• The ‘feel-good’ horror of late-stage capitalism

• This Is The Real Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter

• The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook

• This Is How We Radicalized The World

• When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?

• Alzheimer’s disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause

• A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions.

• The Anatomy Of A Click: What Happens To Your Data Online

• In Defense of Flogging: Six Questions for Peter Moskos

• The $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life With Diabetes

• Japan’s Hometown Tax

• Rubbish collection in Taipei

• Writers’ HQ Privacy Policy

• Brexit and Finance

• Exclusive - Most of the Daily Mail’s ‘Commentors’ Don’t Even Exist - Far Right Watch

• World Population Cartogram

• Common Cyborg

• Open-Access Medical Image Repositories

• If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you better doublecheck the time

• European Commission proposes ending DST in March 2019

• UK mass surveillance ruled unlawful in landmark EHCR judgment

• The monopoly-busting case against Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook

• Why Can’t Apes Talk? Considering Primate Speech

• The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

• #youbroketheinternet So We Got Tracked Anyway

• Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies

• How LeBron James’ Tattoos Could Affect Baseball

• I’m 23 Years Old. And I’ve Bought a Farm. | The Free Press

• Coercion versus Care — Crooked Timber

• *privacy not included | Shop smart and safe | Mozilla Foundation

• Education by punishment - by David R. MacIver

• Book Review: Elon Musk - by Scott Alexander

• cohost! - “Do you know about the ‘liftblr’ name collision?”

• Who the hell are 2girls1bottl3? - The Face

• Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases - Aileen Oeberst, Roland Imhoff, 2023

• Levels: A Cultural Anomaly | The Generalist

• The Case For Leaving Twitter

• The fascist state of Paw Patrol | Matthew Walther | The Critic Magazine

• Learning to exercise agency - by David R. MacIver

• Bentham’s Mugging | Utilitas | Cambridge Core

• The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned

• cohost! - post from @atomicthumbs

• ‘Ray, This Is a Religion’: Inside Ray Dalio’s Hedge Fund

• Overlooked factors in the analysis of parole decisions - PMC

• The 20% Statistician: Impossibly hungry judges

• What it’s like to be a “White” Haitian in Haiti - The Haitian Times

• ‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power | Science | The Guardian

• ADHD Medication Treatment Options: Stimulants, Nonstimulants & More

• Empowering Individuals with ADHD to Thrive | The Mini ADHD Coach

• Things I recommend you buy and use, 2023 edition

• ELODIEUNDERGLASS on Tumblr

• Too good to be true? What it is really like to win a £3m dream home | Homes | The Guardian

• My New Job Trying to Save the World - by Gretta Duleba

• The Insidious Faux-Feminism of Barbie | Full Stop

• Red blood cell capacity of modern menstrual products: considerations for assessing heavy menstrual bleeding | BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health

• What do you want? – What I learned today…

• ‘Never ask permission’: How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural tractor barn | The Independent

• Virginia Apgar, the Woman Whose Name Saves Newborns

• ‘Bizarro World’ - The Boston Globe

• A Brooklyn Neighborhood Went 5 Days Without the Police - The New York Times

• [109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake” - Data Colada

• Woman spends 500 days alone in a cave – how extreme isolation can alter your sense of time

• Pretty Terrible: George R.R. Martin Can Fuck Off Into the Sun

• What ARGs Can Teach Us About QAnon – mssv

• On Star Trek: Discovery and Michelle Yeoh’s accent

• Dismissed academic visitor ran unofficial “Oxbridge fellowship” scheme for financial associates - Cherwell

• Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine - The Verge

• Brandon Sanderson Is Your God | WIRED

• Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself · mtlynch.io

• Japanese Man Becomes ‘Night Mover’ to Help Abused Women Disappear

• ‘John Wick’ Guns: How the Franchise Balances Creativity and Safety | IndieWire

• Taylor Swift Avoided $100 Million FTX Deal With Securities Question: Lawyer

• the Michael Browne suits | Derek Sivers

• Gigabit internet is now a legal requirement for new homes in England - The Verge

• Three wrong takes on the Zahawi affair – Tax Policy Associates Ltd

• A manifesto on shower temperature control

• In the Stacks (Maisie’s Tune), by Robin Sloan

• Geoff Greer’s site: Gasoline Car Review

• How things come to be as they are - by David R. MacIver

• Life and Rocks May Have Co-Evolved on Earth | Science| Smithsonian Magazine

• Beach wheelchairs at Sandown, Isle of Wight and Barry, South Wales « Robin’s Blog

• Flying With Covid

• cohost! - “I spent my New Years Eve in VR (unsuccessfully)”

• I had Evusheld privately in the UK | Martin Paul Eve | Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing

• Tom Lehrer Songs – Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

• Meditations on the Garbage Bin - Echo and Bounce

• Hitchhiking to Christ’s Grave : Francis Irving

• Kids and Space

• You don’t have to wait for a high income to have kids • Otherwise

• The world is something that we make | Terminal

• Mattress Firmness: Finding the Best Firmness for You!

• That Survivorship Bias Plane – Yuxi on the Wired

• Review: why the lucky stiff - Tom Mewett

• Race in My Little Pony · Gwern.net

• Is Potty Training A Diet? | Patreon

• Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

• One Is the Loneliest N: An Autobiographical Report of Long COVID[v1] | Preprints.org

• The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta

• Portland’s protest frogs are dead serious about absurdity - Salon.com

• The Missing Missing Reasons | Issendai.com

• THE TOYMAKER

• ECR in 2025: Part Three- Advice to ECRs – SSFH

• The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy - PMC

• Entering the US as a UK Citizen With a Criminal Record | UKStartups

• I’m Not a Robot

• After the abortion vote, I want to thank Britain. You were there for Irish women | Anne Enright | The Guardian

• How to report on neo-Nazis without giving them what they want

• Five for 50 - Anil Dash

• Using Rule 107.1c to Steal US Government Secrets

• Thank You for Calling the Perimenopause Hotline, Where Our Hold Times Are Completely Unpredictable - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

• Leicester Church of England: A preacher asked me out and then started stalking me - BBC News

• Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history” - Ars Technica

• Sonic Boom Over UK: RAF Typhoon Intercepts Private Jet

• Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk

• One Event at a Time: Funding Your Community the Realistic Way

• Don’t make kids miserable about the news • Otherwise

• 27 Notes On Growing Old(er) - by Ian Leslie - The Ruffian

• A brief history of low-level violence | by Twll Dun | Medium

• What do tweens really want? | The Observer

• You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.

• Fell in a hole, got out.. Medium’s recap, financial turnaround… | by Tony Stubblebine | The Coach Life | Jul, 2025 | Medium

• Want to Raise Venture Capital More Easily? Clean Up Your Own Shite First | by Mark Suster | Both Sides of the Table

• The facile debate about separating art from artist | Girl on the Net

• 50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin - Sasha’s ‘Newsletter’

• Never Forget That ‘VeggieTales’ Weren’t Allowed to Show Jesus as a Vegetable - RELEVANT

• BBC targets adults in the latest adventure for its top dog Bluey | Bluey | The Guardian

• The Astronomer CEO’s Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

• The films of Studio Ghibli and when to show them to your kids | The Spinoff

• Ten weird things you can buy online (and why you would)

• The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were …

• How to remember everything and feel nothing - by Kasra

• The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad

• Stop Trying to Make 90s Summer Happen

• Cool Spaces in London

• This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars

• Legalise AC - by Sam Dumitriu - Notes on Growth

• Conveying wealth and poverty to kids • Otherwise

• The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen

• M&A in 2025 w/ Art Levy - OnlyCFO’s Newsletter

• I Don’t Care If You Correct My Kids

• Letting Kids Be Kids - by Zvi Mowshowitz

• One Rocket to Rule Them All: An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Ring of Power Delivery Feasibility Study - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology

• Chattel Childhood - by Aella - Knowingless

• Why is it impossible to book a driving test in the UK?

• Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet

• Square Theory | Adam Aaronson

• Major & Minor Modes – David Chudzicki

• The curious tale of Bhutan’s playable record postage stamps - The Vinyl Factory

• I Paid Off A Utah School’s Lunch Debt: My Journey to Change | HuffPost HuffPost Personal

• Feeds: An Anthropological Report on a Powerful Online Social Technology - Tasshin

• Just About Everything That’s Changed Since Congestion Pricing Took Effect - The New York Times

• Are you more likely to die on your birthday?

• There Is No Getting Back On This Ride - Aftermath

• Digital Legacy Association - Home

• Okay Hand Gesture | ADL

• What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management | by Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District | May, 2025 | Medium

• Brian from Michigan - Columbia Journalism Review

• The narrow road to the deep north | Terminal

• The 1969 Easter Mass Incident

• Summer Camps Are Not Just Childcare (Guest Post)

• Pokemonization

• On watching Star Trek | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time

• A tribute to Mark Longair / mySociety

• The Dilbert Afterlife - by Scott Alexander

• My Parenting “Screen Time” Philosophy | Mike McQuaid

• Is My Pub Fucked? | Support Your Local Pub

• Why I’m a Quaker - by Ozy Brennan - Thing of Things

• Notes on Afghanistan – Matt Lakeman

• My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

• What the Palestine Action judgment means - and what it does not mean

• Super Bowl Grass A72 - Elizabeth Laraki

• Totally insane and truly helpful - by Mason Currey

• The most brilliant move in corporate history? – Asymco

• Parenting philosophy • Otherwise

• Reflections On The Economy Of The United Federation Of Planets | Goldwag’s Journal on Civilization

• The Firewall.

• Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green

• Warpspire: Fragments toward a more resilient future

• Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason

• Cached Thoughts

• Killer Clowns and Chelsea Smilers: Moral Panic to Urban Legend | Little Atoms

• Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy – Lore and Ordure

• Erasmus: Social Engineering at Scale - by Martin Sustrik

• James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah | STAT

• This internet poll is breaking men’s brains!

• Staring into the abyss as a core life skill | benkuhn.net

• It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe | Phil Mongredien | The Guardian

• David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*): “I know people like to make fun…” - Infosec Exchange

• Backblaze: A Loss-Making Data Storage Business Mired in Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, and Brazen Insider Dumping

• HDR‑Infused Emoji | sharpletters

• Plotlands – the struggle for land and affordable housing | critical place

• COVID is doing the rounds again - by David R. MacIver

• ‘We Were Caught in a Storm We Didn’t See Coming’: Strix Sisters Speak Out After Jezebel Controversy - News, Paganism, U.S., Witchcraft, World

• https://uxdesign.cc/to-benefit-from-ai-your-organizations-learning-loops-must-evolve-5b6145415f6a

• Accountability is not Blame

• How to come up with blog post ideas

• Why I have office hours and why you should too

• Music theory for nerds

• Why do you do the things that you do?

• 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”)

• Writing a book: is it worth it?

• Destigmatize being dumb - Defender’s Corner

• Accountability sinks | A Working Library

• The day piracy changed

• How a survey glitch replaced ‘yes’ with ‘forks’ | Pew Research Center

• Foundations

• Travel Time Map | Drive Time Radius & Other Modes

• I’ve Been Meaning to Call - by Paul Crenshaw - Melt With Me

• “‘Considered Harmful’ essays considered harmful” essays considered harmful - Mort’s Ramblings

• Reflections on Palantir - Nabeel S. Qureshi

• 30 Years of Notebooks

• Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments’

• you need to be agencymaxxing

• How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions

• How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area (Ultimate Guide) - Sam Matla

• How the Internet Gets Inside Us | The New Yorker

• Happy 2025, Here’s Something Mad That Happened.

• Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies | sean goedecke

• A real Good Samaritan - BBC News

• Your Family: Past, Present, and Future — Wait But Why

• About - The Integral Guide to Well-Being

• A Neighborhood of Infinity: You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)

• “ROI” is the wrong way to sell your product

• This Is the Person Selling Your Product | Stay SaaSy

• The NIPS experiment

• On not being a radical medicine skeptic, and the dangers of doctor-by-Internet « The Story’s Story

• ‘The government has been too terrible to make fun of’: Peter Capaldi on satire, politics and privilege | Peter Capaldi | The Guardian

• Pog’s Blog: Which Really Useful Boxes stack?

• (PDF) Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks1

• There is way too much serendipity — LessWrong

• Having a non-autistic brother (extended version) - YouTube

• Singing The Blues - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

• In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox @ tonsky.me

• Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles - Commoncog

• When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease - Wilson N. Merrell, Soyeon Choi, Joshua M. Ackerman, 2024

• Traditions of the Bar: Dos and Don’ts [2023 Update] | Yet Another Blogging Barrister

• Very Ordinary Men | The Point Magazine

• Torment executioners in Reno, Nevada, keep tormenting us with their publications. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

• Creator Flywheels – The Operating System for Your Business | Nathan Barry

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings—Asterisk

• The Big Split: Overground Line Names - London Reconnections

• スマホ (USB) で動くプラズマアークライター

• シャポコ🌵 on X: “スマホの充電端子に刺して動くUSBアークライター USB arc lighter that works by sticking it into the phone’s charging terminal https://t.co/z4RFcDSjSO https://t.co/AMF56NacA0” / X

• ‘Not letting me on Snapchat was the best thing my mum ever did for me’: how to talk to your kids about social media | Parents and parenting | The Guardian

• How to be a -10x Engineer

• Why scrapping VAT on sunscreen and public EV charging would be an expensive waste of money - Tax Policy Associates

• Cultivating And Destroying Agency

• Work with me

• A Message to Garcia

• Nobody Cares

• How To Avoid Bad Startup Culture

• Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts | Stuffed Crocodile

• Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian | Derek Sivers

• Trier social stress test - Wikipedia

• Today is my Birthday! I got ADHD - Alan Pope’s blog

• She Stole $54 Million From Her Town. Then Something Unexpected Happened. - POLITICO

• The Bujold Nexus - The Vorkosigan Saga Reading Order Debate: The Chef Recommends

• The Natron Theory

• glasgow/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md at main · GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow

• Beards and Masks? — LessWrong

• How to Use Power - Commoncog

• My friend Michael | ntoll.org

• Hole store

• Acausal Trade - LessWrong

• The Open Source Torment Nexus

• The Startup Drake Equation

• Beans and Noses — Archive of UIE/Brainsparks

• Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

• Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals – charity.wtf

• The “Talk vs Walk” workshop

• Impostor Syndrome: Why I felt like a fraud, and how I overcame it

• Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload - Commoncog

• What it costs to run a Coworking space in Brighton (and how much The Skiff is making) | by Jonathan Markwell | The Skiff

• Don’t call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

• The Cloud Is Just My Basement’s Computers - Aeracode

• The 10 Rules of Being Human

• Loudly Give Up, Don’t Quietly Fade — LessWrong

• A Stupid Self-Compassion Life Hack - by Ozy Brennan

• Social Dark Matter — LessWrong

• Invisible Pie Labor.

• The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds

• ‘How do you reduce a national dish to a powder?’: the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours | Snacks | The Guardian

• Using Anki with Babies / Toddlers : r/Anki

• cohost! - “Let’s dig into this wannabe vamp king”

• I can’t sleep

• Why it’s nice to compete against a large, profitable company

• Homepage | European Alternatives

• 6 lessons I learned working at an art gallery

• TBM 325: Skeptoptimism – Thinking Slow, Acting Fast

• Eighty Percent · jml :: Jonathan Lange

• Data-Informed, NOT Data-Driven — Ant Murphy

• 4 Levels of Data Proficiency - Itamar Gilad

• Teaching My Younger Self to Program - by Shoshannah

• Facebook’s Little Red Book

• “The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion” – Joyce Arthur’s page

• The men who like women and the men who don’t. Yes we can tell.

• Causing a stink: reflections on my viral PhD - New Statesman

• ‘I’m stuck. Get me outta here!’

• Write down what you’ve done | What’s new

• CausalImpact

• “Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking – charity.wtf

• The importance trap

• In praise of the feijoa, New Zealand’s most socialist fruit | The Spinoff

• On Complicated… - by EMILY WILSON - EMILY’s Substack

• Full Restitution, Empty Promises - Bleak House Revisited

• Baby Evacuation Aprons

• How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr | The Guardian

• Collecting open secrets - by Carmen - Altered

• Political News for Normal People. | What The Fuck Just Happened Today?

• There Are Only Three Mindsets: Which Are You? — midwesternish

• Stress can disrupt memory and lead to needless anxiety — here’s how

• Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better

• Improving Team Morale is not an Objective

• Culture as a Driver of Success (or Failure)

• RDEL #78: Does removing author identity in code reviews reduce bias?

• 7 Bold Moves to Defeat the Bloody Feature Factory Before It Burns You Out

• This Is How You’re Eroding Accountability - Stay SaaSy

• Unpopular Defaults for High-Performing Tech Organizations – Aviv Ben-Yosef

• Quick Steps for a Scrum Team to Improve the Process | by Egor Savochkin | Booking.com Engineering | Jan, 2025 | Medium

• The Wisdom of Insecurity - by John Durrant

• How to feel bad and be wrong - by Adam Mastroianni

• Product Development Processes You Might Not have Heard of - Department of Product

• AddyOsmani.com - Service Reliability Mathematics

• How to create a culture of continuous learning in the workplace - Work Life by Atlassian

• TBM 335: “Simple” Dependency Coordination - by John Cutler

• What Makes a Good Team? – Accidentally in Code

• Respect Your Time, or No One Else Will | by Brian Fink | Jan, 2025 | Medium

• The deadline doom loop - by James Hawkins

• The Complete Guide to Writing Self-Reviews (That Actually Get Read)

• Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Self-Assessments

• Sidebar #3: Two Flavors of Medium Risk - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

• Jade Rubick - Reliability is all stick, no carrot

• Study: Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams | Spotlight

• Alaska Fried Chicken: the UK’s curious approach to naming chicken shops. | Vizzee Rascal

• Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) – charity.wtf

• hath

• Face The Productivity Phantom - The Force That Drains Your Team’s Potential

• All Projects Are Business Projects

• TBM 341: 10 Tips for Turning Around a Platform Team

• The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy by @ttunguz

• When to kill a product: How to stop wasting time and budget

• Feedback - by Mike Fisher - Fish Food for Thought

• Discworld Rules - by Venkatesh Rao - Contraptions

• Sustainable Ebook Strategy | akos.ma

• ‘It was chaos’: The history of San Francisco’s most unforgettable ad

• Why Can’t I Remember My Crush’s Face?

• Nate the Snake

• The Flying Snowman | Whatever

• Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics | Techdirt

• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - ArchWiki

• I’ve Been Paralyzed Since I Was 3. Here’s Why Kindness Toward Disabled People Is More Complicated Than You Think - Facing Disability

• ir·regular expressions: Stopping (human) memory leaks

• Speedrunning the Skill of Demand - Commoncog

• Troubleshooting: The Skill That Never Goes Obsolete — The Autodidacts

• Career advice in 2025. | Irrational Exuberance

• Burn your title | notes.eatonphil.com

• The 10 Biggest Leadership Blindspots Based on 10 Years of Research

• Ok. So, You’re Failing – Rands in Repose

• What holds people back from questions and how to overcome it

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Figuring out what hurts

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Victims of metonymy

• Superficial auditory (dis)fluency biases higher-level social judgment | PNAS

• Easy to criticize, hard to create

• Explore vs Execute

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Behaving as if you were trying to succeed

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Well you gotta

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: No

• How the failing Passport Office was transformed into Britain’s most efficient public service

• Inside the BBC’s first ever live Eid broadcast - Hyphen

• GrantsWG/Charter - PSF Wiki

• Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method

• Mastodon Exit Interview | Rob’s Posts

• A Usefully Useless Projection – somethingaboutmaps

• SSEBITDA – A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies

• Wenn der Keller radioaktiv ist - Ebersberg - SZ.de

• How identical twins Paula and Bridgette Powers save Australia’s seabirds with ‘Twinnies magic’ - ABC News

• The Open Source Nanny – Honest Childcare Insights

• Carbon Dating Primer - Funranium Labs

• High Agency

• Stop Looking for Your “Authentic Self”—It Doesn’t Exist

• Put down the compiler until you learn why they’re not buying

• I Have a Terrible Memory. Am I Better Off That Way?

• Hunting with beagles: Beagling at school and university - The Field

• Toblerone theory of knowledge

• My stupid noise journey

• Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record

• ‘There is a reason why famous people are often screwed up’: Tim Minchin on quitting comedy | Culture | The Guardian

• House Address “Twins” Proximity – The Unusually Named Blog

• The Ludic Education - by Shadow Rebbe - Shadow’s

• 📘 Neurodivergent Lexicon

• Internal Family Systems, Unattached Burdens, and spirit possession

• How Much Should Startup Founders Pay Themselves?

• Thanksgiving – Wayne Hale’s Blog

• My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

• How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen | Apr, 2024 | UX Collective

• Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field | Frontiers in Zoology | Full Text

• Unsafe Lubricants - 52 Popular Lubes Tested for pH & Osmolality • Phallophile Reviews

• A Culture that Encourages Isolation Must be Fought to the Death

• “Will you fuck off please”. The use of please by London teenagers

• The New Midlife Crisis by Matthew Schmitz | Articles | First Things

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Cheeseburger Ethics

• Exclusive: Elevated CO2 Levels Directly Affect Human Cognition, New Harvard Study Shows – ThinkProgress

• UPON CLOSER INSPECTION – @lovelybones81 on Tumblr

Remote Work

• Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down. | Andreas Klinger

• Dear Founder: Things To Consider When Building a Remote Team | Mathias Meyer

• Job leaving rituals in the WFH era – Terence Eden’s Blog

• WFH Setup Tips – Geek | Manager

• Why Remote Friendly Won’t Do | Blog

• Elad Blog: Back to the office

• How to Manage a Remote Team | Coursera

• How to build a leading remote-first company while exceeding company goals? Do this…

• Airbnb will let its employees live and work anywhere

• The Where (of Working). As we start to see a return to the… | by C L Combe (he / him) | Mar, 2022 | Medium

• The Future of Work at Cloudflare

• Intentional connection in the digital office | Seth’s Blog

• Why People Like Working From Home - The Atlantic

• Why do remote meetings suck so much?

• How do we make remote meetings not suck?

• Can you hear me? I can hear you - The Scale Factory

• I only know you from above the shoulders – Terence Eden’s Blog

• What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work

• Small tech companies are staying remote to attract workers, while Big Tech goes back to the office - Vox

• More Effective Remote Working | Mike McQuaid

• How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face | benkuhn.net

• Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian

• Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us happier.”

• The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment - PubMed

• Remote work won, don’t let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise

• Return-to-Office Mandates by Yuye Ding, Mark (Shuai) Ma :: SSRN

• Rest Isn’t the Opposite of Work — Remote Work Prep

• The data behind remote work · Intense Minimalism

• Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale - apenwarr

• TrueUp Remote 200 | powered by TrueUp Tech

Trans & Gender

• Elliot Page on His Transition, ‘The Umbrella Academy,’ and Finding Euphoria

• The secret court case 50 years ago that has robbed transgender people of their rights ever since

• Billy Bragg: Why I’ve made my old lyrics trans-inclusive - New Statesman

• Pride Month 2021: Step the fuck up or fuck the fuck off

• Who Did J.K. Rowling Become?

• The Inner Sense of Gender

• Advice for Parents of Trans Kids - by Ozy Brennan

• J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: A history - Vox

• Queer yeshiva to publish first-ever collection of Jewish legal opinions written by and for trans Jews - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• Baldur’s Gender. There are nineteen genders in the… | by Duncan Fyfe | The Campo Santo Quarterly Review

• Why are UK trans people upset?

• Landmark Report Finds Major Flaws in the Cass Review

• Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says | Brenda Hale | The Guardian

• What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence – Dr Ruth Pearce

• ‘I asked 60 gyms if trans people like me could join – this is what happened’

• Tops off: The public pool protest changed Trans+ rights in Italy

• Basic fashion intuitions for trans women: Shape

• Culture leaders ‘unwilling’ to police which toilets people use - BBC News

• Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case

• Take a hike; lessons from my incredible 500 mile walk across the UK - Trans Writes

• Odessa, TX Just Put $10,000 Bounties On Trans People Using The Bathroom

• The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights

Burnout

• Burning out and quitting

• Feeling Blah During the Pandemic? It’s Called Languishing - The New York Times

• Laziness Does Not Exist

• Workplace stress is killing us. Here’s what to do about it. | by Emma Violet Makinson | Medium

• Eject disk.

  • “A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you.”

  • “You’re not burned out because you’re weak. You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership.”

• How to Prevent Burnout When Working from Home | by Olivia Bennett | Feb, 2025 | Medium

• Why You are “Always Exhausted” : The Truth About Burnout | by YOUth Time | Apr, 2025 | Medium

• Why I Did Not Take A Vacation in 6 Years — And The Burnout That Followed | by Degraphe | Mar, 2025 | Medium

Banking

• App Store Payments Will Have Increased Competition | Kalzumeus Software

• Wirecard – the “German Enron” & a very personal history 2008-2020 | value and opportunity

• Finality does not exist in payments

• Credit cards as a legacy system

• UK Pensions Got Margin Calls - Bloomberg

• A Quirk in Russian Bonds Could Hamper Default Insurance Payout - Bloomberg

• Plastic (and payments) in the fantasy supply chain

• Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance - Bloomberg

• The Wirecard Scandal Could Only Have Happened in Germany | The New Republic

• How Discount Brokerages Make Money

• My Startup Banking Story – Mitchell Hashimoto

• Banking in very uncertain times

• Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own MSP

• Payfac in 1,000 words - by Matt Brown - Matt’s Notes

• Debanking (and Debunking?)

• Banking’s critical functions are vanishing into the cloud

• Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50,000 cash

Decisions

• How to pick a number for any purpose - by David R. MacIver

• Suzi McAlpine | Four questions to ask yourself when faced with a big decision

• How to make easy decisions - by David R. MacIver

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Find a forking path

• Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”

• How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts

• pozorvlak | Decision procedure

• on trading potential for something actual - by Isabel

• Make Fewer Decisions?. An interesting programmer I followed on… | by Terry Crowley | Jan, 2025 | Medium

• When should a decision be fast, or slow?

Strategy

• Aleksandr Volodarsky 🇺🇦 on Twitter: “I’m obsessed with 1-person companies and have spent over 50 hours researching them. Here are the 10 most impressive ones that have generated millions in revenue with 0 employees:” / Twitter

• What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?

• Writing an engineering strategy. | Irrational Exuberance

• Underutilized Fixed Assets - kwokchain

• Constellation: Software’s Superorganism | The Generalist

• How to double revenue and 10x margins in three years

• cdixon | How bundling benefits sellers and buyers

• A startup is a bundle, and Windsurf broke the bundle

• The evasive evitability of enshittification - apenwarr

• How to Help Your Company “Speak” Strategy | by Noa Ganot | Jan, 2025 | Product Coalition

• Is engineering strategy useful? | Irrational Exuberance

• “We’re a product engineering company!” – Engineering strategy at Calm. | Irrational Exuberance

• Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy. | Irrational Exuberance

• Navigating Private Equity ownership. | Irrational Exuberance

• Diagnosis in engineering strategy. | Irrational Exuberance

• Chasing Squirrels: Avoiding Strategy Drift - Captain, Crew, & Capital

• Exploring for strategy. | Irrational Exuberance

• TBM 332: The Last Strategy Framework You’ll Ever Need

• Risk Management & Strategy. The Centrality of What Would Have to be… | by Roger Martin | Jan, 2025 | Medium

• The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies

• First outlines of a plan: thinking strategically about a modern tech and media business

Product

• The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method

• Obviously Awesome: Comprehensive Book Summary - Commoncog

• Everything is a product – We help you create successful product culture and process

Personal Finance

• Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window

• Beyond wealth: What happens AFTER you reach financial independence?

• How did Warren Buffett get rich?

• Nine underrated tools to help you achieve Financial Independence

• The Economics of Divorce (Mr. Money Mustache)

• The Economics of Divorce (Young FI Guy)

• Will Jeff Bezos Get Half of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fortune in the Divorce?

• Fractional shares and ISAs – HMRC are probably wrong – Tax Policy Associates Ltd

• FI Calc

• My love hate relationship with UK (S)EIS reliefs — Matthew Cleevely

• All You Need To Know About The Trinity Study - The Poor Swiss

• Rich, Broke or Dead? Post-Retirement FIRE Calculator: Visualizing Early Retirement Success and Longevity Risk - Engaging Data

• Don’t Panic Sell

• A checklist for stock option offers | benkuhn.net

• Startup options are much better than they look | benkuhn.net

Personal Development

• An Evidence-Based Approach to Goal Setting and Behavior Change

• I left full-time employment, here’s what happened since | theburningmonk.com

• ADHD 🧠 | Andreas Klinger

• ADHD isn’t ‘overdiagnosed’ – quite the opposite, actually | The Independent

• Gratitude Lists Are Bullsh*t — It Was an “Ingratitude” List That Saved Me

• Life Is Not Short | DKB Show

• The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

• Parenting : Who is it really for? | Derek Sivers

• Living with ADHD can cost an extra £1,600 a year because of difficulties managing your money

• Why I quit my job during the pandemic. | by Rhys Davies | Feb, 2021 | Medium

• I got married and had kids so you don’t have to | Robert Heaton

• Daily Schedule Transitions: Changing Tasks with Adult ADHD

• Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

• How I run a company with ADHD

• This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

• An autist’s introduction to Circling - by Duncan Sabien

• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy - by Ozy Brennan

• Underrated ways to change the world - by Adam Mastroianni

• Happy New Year: Now sort your fucking life out

• Feeling Stuck? Revisit Drucker’s “Managing Oneself” and ask and answer these questions - Management Excellence by Art Petty

• Fail! Fail a Lot! It’s Good for You

• Setting yourself up for success in 2025 - by Irina Stanescu

• What Are the Best Self-Care Practices for Managing Stress? - Chris and One