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  • @paris_review My Year of Tests and Arbitration #Literature #Essays #Law

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    Aug 3, 2026
  • @applied_cartography Near to the Wild Heart #Essays #Reviews #Media

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    Aug 3, 2026
  • @monochromatic_aberration ✦ Refrakt: 51 -- One Mile #Essays #Photography #Art

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    Aug 2, 2026
  • @applied_cartography op, mprocs #Software #Essays #Reviews

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    Aug 2, 2026
  • @fernando_borretti Mathematics Without Mathematicians #Mathematics #Philosophy #Essays

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    Aug 1, 2026
  • @applied_cartography Best of Enemies #Essays #Reviews #Media

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    Aug 1, 2026
  • @3_am_magazine The Rhyl Deal #Literature #Essays #Poetry

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    Jul 31, 2026
  • @blain_smith The Wheels We Keep Reinventing #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays

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    Jul 31, 2026
  • @liquidbrain Writing dumber #Writing #Essays #Community

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    Jul 31, 2026
  • @monochromatic_aberration Hokkaido #Travel #Photography #Essays

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    Jul 30, 2026
  • @3_am_magazine A Literary Action #Literature #Essays #Culture

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    Jul 30, 2026
  • @eurozine Lutter contre l'effacement #Culture #Essays #Analysis

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    Jul 29, 2026
  • @applied_cartography Cursed knowledge #Essays #Reviews #Knowledge

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    Jul 29, 2026
  • @paris_review The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou #Literature #Film #Essays

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    Jul 27, 2026
  • @applied_cartography Enough Said #Essays #Reviews #Media

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    Jul 24, 2026
  • @kottke Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and... #Culture #Books #Essays

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    Jul 23, 2026
  • @pointers_gone_wild The Hard Part Isn't Technical #Programming #Tech #Essays

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    Jul 23, 2026
  • @applied_cartography Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie #Media #Reviews #Essays

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    Jul 23, 2026
  • @erik_mcclure Software Engineering Is A Shit-Eating Contest #SoftwareEngineering #Essays #Technology

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    Jul 20, 2026
  • @eurozine A laboratory of attention #Culture #Essays #Analysis

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    Jul 20, 2026
  • @applied_cartography Check the status page #Tech #Software #Essays

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    Jul 20, 2026
  • @monochromatic_aberration ✦ Refrakt: 50 -- Black and White #Art #Photography #Essays

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    Jul 19, 2026
  • @andre_staltz One-handed clock #OpenSource #Web #Essays

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    Jul 19, 2026
  • @maggie_appleton In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors #History #Essays #Design

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    Jul 18, 2026
  • @maggie_appleton In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors #History #Essays #Design

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    Jul 18, 2026
  • @applied_cartography Wings of Desire #Film #Review #Essays

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    Jul 17, 2026
  • @monochromatic_aberration The Sacred and Profane #Art #Essays #Reflection

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    Jul 16, 2026
  • @james_zhan_in_real_life Do We Have a Future? #Society #Future #Essays

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    Jul 15, 2026
  • @tom_stuart Weeknotes 340: Human habitation #Weeknotes #SoftwareDevelopment #Essays

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    Jul 12, 2026
  • @ongoing_by_tim_bray Sports and Truth #Technology #Essays #Web

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    Jul 10, 2026
  • @monochromatic_aberration Reading Yourself #Essays #Creativity #Reflection

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    Jul 9, 2026
  • @mcsweeneys Reset Yourself #Humor #Satire #Essays

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    Jul 9, 2026
  • @kottke New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A... #Books #Essays #Culture

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    Jul 7, 2026
  • @jason_moiron The Pearl #Tech #Essays #Life

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    Jul 7, 2026
  • @cassidoo 🌵 "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion #Writing #Essays #Reflection

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    Jul 6, 2026
  • @applied_cartography Notorious #Essays #Reviews #Media

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    Jul 6, 2026
  • @monochromatic_aberration ✦ Refrakt: 49 -- The Other Side #Art #Essays #Photography

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    Jul 5, 2026
  • @reilly_wood Recently #Essays #Personal #Life

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    Jul 5, 2026
  • @tom_stuart Weeknotes 339: Itself trapped #Weeknotes #SoftwareDevelopment #Essays

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