Silicon Valley Developers and the Pressure to Ship Harm
A number that should make you pause: 74% of Silicon Valley developers in the preprint A New Digital Divide? Coder…
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Bots Surpassed Humans in 2024: The 51% Traffic Trap
A weird thing about the claim that bots surpassed humans is that most people hear it as a story about…
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Medieval Height Often Reached 170-173 Cm in Northern Europe
People in the Middle Ages were not uniformly shorter than people today, or even shorter than people in later centuries;…
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IOS 26 Adoption Isn’t One Number: It’s Three Different Measures
The weird part of the iOS 26 adoption debate is that January headlines argued over third-party numbers like 16% from…
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The Gulf Stream Helps Keep Europe Warm but AMOC Weakening Threatens That
The Gulf Stream helps keep western and northern Europe milder than they would otherwise be, but a true “Europe gets…
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Ralph Wiggum Technique Turns Claude Code Into a Test Loop
A lot of people encountering the Ralph Wiggum technique ask the wrong question. They want to know whether it’s a…
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X Bot Percentage is the Wrong Question, Bot Leverage is
Open almost any high-conflict post on X and you can watch the same pattern happen in minutes: a burst of…
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Gen Z Leads to Generation Alpha, Then Generation Beta
Generation Alpha comes after Gen Z, and the label most commonly used after that is Generation Beta, but Britannica identifies…
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Polar Vortex Splits Can Raise the Odds of Arctic Air Outbreaks
A polar vortex split is a disruption high in the stratosphere that breaks the Arctic polar vortex into two or…
