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180 links saved from 2005 to 2026; 139 with a note, 56 in a Weekly Thing.
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- kottke.org 4, medium.com 4, theguardian.com 4, youtube.com 4, fivethirtyeight.com 3
2026
2025
- A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size Anthropic
- a frank piece about influencers
- Travel: I visited the world's happiest country. I wish I could unlearn its secret.
- “Crazy Busy” is a Trap
- Make Fun Of Them
- Daring Fireball: The WSJ Reports on How Elon Musk Manages His 'Legion' of Children and Harem of Mothers
- Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town
- The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
- NYC Subwaysheds
2024
- Commercial tea bags release millions of microplastics, entering human intestinal cells
- ‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
- Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
- This Is Why You Don't Want To Tell Yourself Stories
- How College Consultants Invent Perfect Ivy League Applicants
- Why I'm Not Going To #InspireInclusion For This Year's International Women's Day
2023
- ‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake
- Women's Pockets are Inferior.
- Words that deserve wider use - Word Warriors - Wayne State University
- Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly
- When Pay to Play Doesn’t Pay
- HeadshotPro: Professional corporate headshots for remote teams.
- The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
- Daring Fireball: Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter
- Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
- Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
2022
2021
- Event featuring teachers crawling for cash prompts apology
- Soccer Looks Different When You Can’t See Who’s Playing
- Spiders are much smarter than you think
- Hiker lost for 24 hours ignored calls from rescuers because of unknown number
- 15 episodes in and still have no idea what works to make a podcast popular
- When you monetize your hobby, it looks a lot like a job
- If The Truth Be Told
- David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them (Ep. 124)
- Why Russians do not smile
- ShadyURL - Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
- Target halts sales of trading cards in stores after customers fight in Wisconsin
- This Word Does Not Exist
- I Tracked Down The Girls Who Bullied Me As A Kid. Here's What They Had To Say.
2020
2019
2018
- the xonsh shell — xonsh 0.7.8 documentation
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk smokes weed on Joe Rogan's podcast
- We Gave You 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets. Here’s What You’ve Found So Far.
- It Looks Like I’m Gonna Be Super Busy Til I’m Dead
- I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
- One space between each sentence, they said. Science just proved them wrong.
- Billy Mitchell's Direct Feed Recordings are MAME Generated
- xkcd: Meltdown and Spectre
2017
- The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business
- Plymouth police: Husband's kidnapping, ransom was a hoax
- Ask Hickey: What are flat Earthers saying about Monday's eclipse?
- Here’s How Unicorns Trick You Into Thinking They’re Real
- Looking for the One: How I Went on 150 Dates in 4 Months
- U.S. denies visas for Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team
- Clutter – a n n i e m u e l l e r
- 'Ladies' Is Gender Neutral
- You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you
- ewanvalentine.io
- My MinneDemo Experience: The Continuation of Feeling Alienated | Lanice Sims | Pulse
2016
- Dear Dudes: This Is What Rape Culture Looks Like
- ‘Never Happened’ —Daring Fireball “Eight-minute short film by Mark Slutsky. Don’t even read the description, just set aside eight minutes in a dark room with a big screen. Trust me.”
- Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
- “Eat, sleep, code, repeat” is such bullshit
- O RLY Parody Book Generator for Slack
- XY Bias: How Male Biology Students See Their Female Peers
- Teenagers Are Much Better At Snapchat Than You
- People Are Freaking Out Over What This Sign Means For The Super Bowl
- Add "ing" to the end of a movie title, what is the movie about now? : AskReddit
2015
- Don't make New Year's Resolutions!
- Namaste, Bitches
- Crushing Your Head Part 2 - The Kids in the Hall
- Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
- BBC - Future - The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
- How I Gave Up Alternating Current
- Why I’m finally convinced it's time to stop saying "you guys"
- GM: That Car You Bought? We’re Really The Ones Who Own It.
- We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
- Why ‘Natural’ Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore
- My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure — The Message
- This Video Will Make You Angry
2014
2013
- If youre the frugal type, this budget might cause your brain to explode.
- Just Make Crap
- Never Give Stores Your Zip Code. Here's Why
- Cold Call Me Maybe
- The PA Report - Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men, and how one studio is fighting back
- Everyfuckingwebsite.com - Home - title separators - are - the - coolest
2012
- GOP Clown College on Flickr
- WikiLoopr
- Our New Shrines
- BlaBlaMeter
- Relativistic Baseball
- Kubb - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
- How we found the rudest cities in the world
- You Are Not a Curator, You Are Actually Just a Filthy Blogger
- Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived
- Klouchebag - The Standard for Asshattery
- TN Abstinence Bill May Nix Hugs, Hand-Holding
- Something of that Ilk Browsers
- Facebook and CraigsList Feel the Same
- Dont work. Be hated. Love someone.
- The Pink Menace
- What Happens When A 35-Year-Old Man Retakes The SAT?
- Shit New Yorkers say
2011
- The Best Films of 2011 - Roger Ebert's Journal
- Sliding down snow
- The Man Who Makes Money Publishing Your Nude Pics
- Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn't Honey
- This One Slide From Wal-Mart Basically Says It All...
- Samuel L Ipsum
- Ridiculously Transparent
- Make things
- Totally Not Bogus
- Around The World and Back Again: Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
- My Addiction... - pukerainbows's posterous
- Kind of Screwed
- An Open Letter to the Gentleman Blow-Drying His Balls in the Gym Locker Room
- Turing test with "babygurl01475"
- It's Time to Drop the F Bomb - or Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL.
- Fuck You, Tiny Wings
- Dangerous Minds Hey Facebook: Whats SO wrong about a pic of two men kissing?
- We Didn’t Stop The Fire.
- Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo
- THE UNASKED QUESTION
- Palin Aide Claims Crosshairs on Target Map Aren’t Gunsights
- ‘Read the Fucking HIG’
2010
- Chaos Monkey: How Netflix Uses Random Failure to Ensure Success
- April 11, 1954 was most boring day in history
- National IPR Coordination Center
- Hyperbole and a Half: Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving
- Trailer for ‘Linotype: The Film’
- A Facebook Chat Romance That Wasnt
- WATCH: A Facebook Chat Romance That Wasn’t
- The Luckiest Bastards Alive
- Ira Glass Likes Excess and Giant M&Ms
- Natural Selection
- girl quits job on dry erase board exposes farmville boss called her hopa theCHIVE
- Not your father's style manual
- How to trick people into thinking you're good looking
2009
2008
- Feedback on New Screenshots
- IYo Yo-Yo almost certainly doesn't work
- Oow, Eew, OuchYahoo
- Metallica "ear spanks" management, reinstates online reviews
- For the love of all things holy, will you filthy bloggers please stop doing this?
- Another Card
- The $300,000 Watch That Doesnt Tell Time - The Wealth Report
- This is why we love Microsoft
- Quarterlife Jumps To NBC, Bombs
- Skin type
- The Truth That Dare Not Speak: The CES Keynote Sucked