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The true nature of creativity: pilfering and recombining the work of your forebears (who, in turn, pilfered and recombined)

Secret games to play when you're bored in public

Here's what a nuclear reactor starting up looks like

The Lesson to Unlearn

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Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost)

The Plain Text Project

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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

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Behind the scenes, "plain" text editing is unbelievably complex and weird

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The Youtubers' union just wants Google to give them the rulebook

Bipartisan legislation would force Big Tech to allow interoperability with small competitors

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NASA video: "Space Is Hard"

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What's the best kept secret on the Internet?

TIL that Americans are the most charitable people in the world. "Americans are about twice as generous in their private giving as Canadians, and 3-15 times as charitable as the residents of other developed nations. Americans also volunteer more than almost any other wealthy people."

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