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In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)
An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.
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A Love Story
Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships.
From The Pudding
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists,…
From The Public Domain Review
How arbitrary is the Electoral College?
Redraw state boundaries with 2016 US election data.
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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
Off The Hook 10/28/2026
The new edition of Off The Hook from 10/28/2026 has been archived and is now available online. Kyle is back, massive trove of DHS data leaked by DDoSecrets, Emma Best joins the panel to discuss the...
From Kagi Small Web
He'll Never Leave Me
A food app pictured a bacon and egg soda as a glass of fizzy drink with an egg in it. McDonald's forecast one man's next six weeks to the penny and gave him zero chance of leaving, so he left. And a 65-year-old writer would rather not ask a machine the date of his death.
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South Florida midterm election report, Rihanna edition
Readers can’t imagine the convenience of ending a class, descending the stairs, and stepping into the early voting site temporarily housed in the building’s conference space. Even though I brought my cheat sheet, it took longer to mark my ballot than standing in line (there was no line). I can make…
From Kagi Small Web
The New Science of Sentencing
play with algorithms that (try to) predict crime
From Explorable Explanations
District
a puzzle game about gerrymandering & proportional representation
From Explorable Explanations
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