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Thompson vs Holland - The Jack Slack Breakdown — The Fight Primer
Dec 07, 2022 | The Fight Primer
The end of history for programming
Nov 22, 2022 | www.haskellforall.com
history I spend quite a bit of time thinking about what the end of history for programming might look like. By the “...
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Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming
Nov 21, 2022 | chreke's blog
Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.
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Can Mastodon be a reasonable Twitter substitute for journalists?
Nov 21, 2022 | Nieman Lab
Adam Davidson: "I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide all these major journalistic questions."
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How Do You Pronounce Qatar? Probably Incorrectly.
Nov 21, 2022 | www.nytimes.com
Is it Kuh-TAR, like guitar? Or KUH-ter, like cutter? A vital World Cup investigation.
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What’s your favorite pie? And how did my choice threaten my marriage?
Nov 17, 2022 | Tampa Bay Times
As Thanksgiving approaches, a retrospective on bad pie choices.
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“I’m working on my family tree” is a perfectly good excuse to swear at your ancestors ten times a day
Nov 14, 2022 | Ryan Sholin
One night a few weeks ago, instead of working on the family tree — which I have been doing in my “free” time (ha), rather obsessively, tbqh, for the past, oh, five months or so, j…
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Kevin Conroy's DC Pride Story Is a Powerfully Necessary Kick in the Gut
Nov 12, 2022 | Gizmodo
DC's 2022 Pride anthology is full of beautiful stories of queer joy—but it importantly concludes with a complex reminder of the pain that paved the way.
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Inside the Twitter meltdown
Nov 11, 2022 | www.platformer.news
Elon is speaking. VPs are resigning. Is bankruptcy next?
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Kevin Conroy, the Batman of A Generation, Has Died
Nov 11, 2022 | Gizmodo
One of the, perhaps the, defining actors to step into the mantle of the Dark Knight has passed away at the age of 66.
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Who's the audience for our graphics? Not the people who need them the most
Nov 08, 2022 | www.thefunctionalart.com
Disinformation in the United States is an asymmetrical phenomenon: prevalent and central to the political right, and peripheral elsewhere. ...
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‘It’s better to go down fighting’: the extraordinary life of murdered journalist Lyra McKee
Nov 08, 2022 | the Guardian
An intimate documentary on the writer, who was shot dead at a riot in Derry, is released this week – tracing her impact on those around her and the fury that followed her killing
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The Rings of Power’s first season loved secrets more than stories
Nov 07, 2022 | Polygon
Secrets, secrets are no fun, so Rings of Power tell us some
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Twitter Is Our Future
Nov 05, 2022 | fallows.substack.com
What's happening to the entire media, in speeded-up time-lapse form.
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