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1.
Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt
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historytoday.com
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2 points
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benbreen
14 hours ago
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Vacuum-Form Signage
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116 points
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benbreen
7 days ago
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24 comments
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Easy Writer: On Ted Geltner's Biography of Denis Johnson
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3 points
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benbreen
12 days ago
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[dupe]
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test
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arstechnica.com
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209 points
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benbreen
19 days ago
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8 comments
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The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science
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the-hinternet.com
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17 points
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benbreen
19 days ago
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2 comments
6.
R vs. Dudley and Stephens
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benbreen
22 days ago
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7.
The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers
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diffuseai.pub
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66 points
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benbreen
26 days ago
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85 comments
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What Is Happening to Publishing?
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resobscura.substack.com
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83 points
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benbreen
28 days ago
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59 comments
9.
Russian–American Telegraph
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3 points
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benbreen
29 days ago
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10.
Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype
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publicdomainreview.org
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49 points
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benbreen
31 days ago
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6 comments
11.
Why they stopped building wooden stupas: on survivorship bias in history
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resobscura.substack.com
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5 points
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benbreen
34 days ago
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12.
Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale
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ieee.org
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3 points
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benbreen
35 days ago
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13.
Notes on Tanya M. Luhrmann's Book 'How God Becomes Real'
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michaelnotebook.com
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1 point
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benbreen
39 days ago
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14.
Cooking the Hashish Cookbook
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cookingthehashishcookbook.com
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9 points
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benbreen
40 days ago
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3 comments
15.
Sovereign AI: Control, Choice, and Why It Goes Beyond Geopolitics
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blog.mozilla.ai
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4 points
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benbreen
42 days ago
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16.
The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)
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sciencehistory.org
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59 points
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benbreen
44 days ago
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19 comments
17.
A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
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rightscon.org
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105 points
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benbreen
47 days ago
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48 comments
18.
Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930
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resobscura.substack.com
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17 points
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benbreen
48 days ago
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3 comments
19.
The Last of the Lost Generation
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porticoquarterly.com
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25 points
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benbreen
53 days ago
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6 comments
20.
When your digital life vanishes
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newyorker.com
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75 points
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benbreen
55 days ago
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20 comments
21.
The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations
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resobscura.substack.com
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60 points
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benbreen
56 days ago
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4 comments
22.
"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)
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publicdomainreview.org
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17 points
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benbreen
64 days ago
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2 comments
23.
Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)
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publicdomainreview.org
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5 points
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benbreen
76 days ago
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1 comment
24.
Photos from my time in Iran, 2017
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resobscura.substack.com
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3 points
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benbreen
78 days ago
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Obsolete Sounds
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citiesandmemory.com
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248 points
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benbreen
83 days ago
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50 comments
26.
The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)
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metropolitanreview.org
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36 points
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benbreen
83 days ago
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9 comments
27.
When do we become adults, really?
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newyorker.com
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100 points
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benbreen
83 days ago
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141 comments
28.
Desperately Seeking Space Friends
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reviewcanada.ca
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40 points
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benbreen
83 days ago
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3 comments
29.
When Do We Become Adults, Really?
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newyorker.com
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5 points
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benbreen
88 days ago
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4 comments
30.
Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017)
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denizcemonduygu.com
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6 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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