Notes and links

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The web behind glass

https://medienbaecker.com/articles/the-web-behind-glass

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Somerville’s cat election made it into The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/05/the-cat-mayoral-race-meet-11-runners-and-riders-in-the-uss-most-furious-and-furriest-election

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For the love of the em dash

https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/pop-culture/em-dash-use-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini

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Western wildfires improve air quality on the East Coast 🤔

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/western-wildfires-east-coast-air-quality

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Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books used to train “AI” chatbots

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164

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I got myself a microphone

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigstreammicpro/

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The great extinction

https://habr.com/en/articles/934264/

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Wikipedia under attack

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

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Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes

https://blog.mollywhite.net/become-a-wikipedian-transcript/

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A city reinvented: Paris is now Greater Paris

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/world/europe/a-city-reinvented-paris-is-now-greater-paris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk8.9Ddp.ZVo6e2DPlP7S&smid=url-share

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Delta will add more European destinations from Boston in 2026

https://web.archive.org/web/20250827233359/https://news.delta.com/euro-summer-activated-delta-expands-bostons-gateway-europe

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Wirecutter on bidets

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/wirecutter-show-podcast-20250820-bidet-episode/

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After a century as a New England secret, Teddie peanut butter goes national

https://archive.is/2025.08.28-121429/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/28/metro/teddie-peanut-butter-turns-100-rest-country-gets-taste/

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I too am an “AI” hater

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

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Solar panels that fit on your balcony or deck are gaining traction in the US

https://apnews.com/article/balcony-plug-solar-climate-energy-renewable-trump-c162abf520da0fa155dc971270b8684a

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Awesome adblockers

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/awesome-adblockers

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The abomination that is the “national” “design” “studio”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/

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“AI” skepticism went mainstream [last] week

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/ai-skepticism-went-mainstream-this-week/

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Massholes, not assholes

https://massholesnotassholes.myshopify.com/

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New legal protections against “junk fees” go into effect next month in Massachusetts

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/18/business/junk-fees-massachusetts-attorney-general/

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Apple’s Liquid Glass shatters typography

https://pimpmytype.com/liquid-glass/

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It took many years and billions of dollars, but Microsoft finally invented a calculator that is wrong sometimes

https://defector.com/it-took-many-years-and-billions-of-dollars-but-microsoft-finally-invented-a-calculator-that-is-wrong-sometimes

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A timeline of assaults on immigration in the United States

https://unbreaking.org/issues/immigration/

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