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How America Gave Up on Its Own History - Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all.
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and Its Freedom Fighters - Students in Budapest launched protests on October 23, 1956, demanding political reform, Soviet troop withdrawal, and freer elections. When the secret police opened fire, the demonstrations escalated into an armed uprisi…
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Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change across three countries - A University of Zurich study of 112 monasteries in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria finds that longstanding practices of collective consultation and decentralized decision-making can he…
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Making Claude a chemist - Anthropic reports early results from efforts to improve Claude for chemistry, including benchmark tests on NMR prediction and structure elucidation against specialized tools. The post says Claude can help chemists interpret spectra, compare favorably on…
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Honda Civics and the Evil Valet - A three-year update on reverse engineering the 2021 Honda Civic head unit, including the USB update path, the publicly known AOSP test key, new tooling for rebuilding update files, and open questions about supported versions and custom themes.
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Consciousness likely not unique to Earthlings - UC Riverside philosophers argue that consciousness may be substrate-flexible — able to arise in life forms made of very different materials than Earth biology. Their paper extends the Copernican idea of cosmic humility to conscious…
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Chili Peppers of the World - A visual field guide to 176 chili peppers, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, tracing wild origins, domestication, heat levels, forms, and global culinary spread.
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A vast whale necropolis has been found - A newly described deep-sea whale graveyard in the southeastern Indian Ocean spans roughly 1,200 kilometres along the Diamantina fracture zone and appears to be an actively forming site of preserved whale remains.
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Under The Western Empire You Get Punished For Having A Conscience - Reading by Tim Foley:
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Degrowth would make Europeans poorer - Europe’s growth debate is increasingly turning into a debate about whether rich countries should deliberately accept lower living standards. The piece argues that degrowth is a European-centered movement that would weaken prosperity, underm…
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The Origins of Rave in Objects: See the Members Only Cards of 80s and 90s UK Raves - A visual history of UK rave culture told through preserved flyers, membership cards, and other club ephemera from the late 1980s and 1990s, including scenes tied to the Haçienda, Shoom, Fantazia…
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In Defense of Difficult Reading - A review of Naomi Kanakia’s What’s So Great About the Great Books? argues that classic literature can deepen attention, serious thinking, and our sense of living in conversation with the past.
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The Lodge Steakhouse - A longtime Langley steakhouse set in an ice and curling rink facility in Brookswood. The post covers a recent visit with calamari, a 14 oz PEI ribeye, mashed potatoes, vegetables, and peppercorn sauce, along with notes on price and preparation.
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Every Frame Perfect - UI animations should remain coherent at every moment, not just in the start and end states. Small visual glitches, desynchronized motion, and partially loaded or inconsistent frames can undermine user trust.
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FIFA's World Cup Ticketing Fiasco - FIFA’s 2026 World Cup ticketing rollout has been marked by dynamic pricing, heavy resale fees, launch problems, and sharp criticism over how it balances revenue with fan access.
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Appreciating Exif - A practical guide to Exif: where it lives in image files, what metadata it stores, why orientation matters, and how tools like exiftool help inspect or strip it.
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The greatest tournament in the world - Wrong Side of History round-up #77, with reflections on Substack’s international readership, commentary on politics and culture, and links to recent essays on housing, cities, immigration, and public life.
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A German soccer fan walks into a Buc-ee’s and discovers abundance - The World Cup tourists helping me see America
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Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration - How pre-modern societies raised, sorted, equipped, and paid armies without modern bureaucracy, focusing on the coordination problem behind mobilization and two minimal models: self-recruitment a…
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