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What are my key issues to look for in today’s budget?
What are my key issues to look for in today’s budget? In no particular order and with some issues undoubtedly overlooked, start with these, none Read the full article...
From Kagi Small Web
Parable of the Polygons
an interactive story about how we divide ourselves, from the bottom up
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Newspaper Clipping of the Day
Via Newspapers.com One for the “mini mysteries” file: This unresolved poisoning case was reported in the “South Wales Argus,” February 8, 1934. How did cyanide of potassium, used for electro-plating, find its way into a teacup from which a girl of 20 drank tea and died shortly afterwards? This was…
From Kagi Small Web
Something Stinks And It Ain’t Us
What have you stopped buying because life got too expensive? I didn’t read a list. I read a mirror. A woman in Chicago said she used to send about 80 Christmas cards a year. She got about the same back. Now she sends a picture by text. The card and the stamp just cost too...
From Kagi Small Web
The Cost Before the Wait
Unpredictable appointments can cost you a day’s wages even when you hardly wait.
From Kagi Small Web
How arbitrary is the Electoral College?
Redraw state boundaries with 2016 US election data.
From Awesome Explorables
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
As Chinese immigration to California accelerated across the 19th century, the hairstyle known as the queue — a long, braided pony tail — became the subject of white Americans’ fascination, disgust, and legal regulation. Sarah Gold McBride explores why hair served as an index of political…
From The Public Domain Review
Ben Werdmuller
Writing at the intersection of technology, journalism, and community.
From personalsit.es
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.
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Frontdoor: find who can assume into your cloud accounts
Map the federated trust into your cloud accounts. Finds who can walk in from outside: OIDC, SAML, cross-account and cross-cloud paths. AWS, GCP, Azure. One binary, no database. - secorvia/frontdoor
From Show HN
CaseCite – Free RAG caselaw research and document analysis for lawyers
CaseCite is a source-available, self-hosted legal caselaw research & document analysis platform. - thomasunise/casecite
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A Love Story
Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships.
From The Pudding
Pillowfort closing in December
I’m terribly sorry to bring this news to you. This is, genuinely, the hardest decision I have ever made in my life, and I have put off doing it for as long as I could. While we did have many people reach out about the non-profit initiative, for which I am grateful, it became apparent that we…
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Andrea's Antisocial Shelter
Andrea Zanchetta's antisocial shelter: splinters of thought, away from the noise of the feeds and with no algorithm deciding for you.
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How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle
A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside. The post How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Open Dataset of the Lebanese Law
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
From Show HN
SimCity, but with Permits
Build the city of your dreams. Subject to approval. A free city builder about zoning, hearings, lawsuits and reelection.
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Kate Compton's Casual Creators
Kate Compton talks about casual creators and tool usage.
From Tiny Tools Directory
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