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Neil Van Leeuwen and Jacob Eisler argue that religious freedom and evidence-based government may share a psychological foundation: sacred commitments differ from factual beliefs.

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Product · The Beautiful Mess — John Cutler October 2026
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How we halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%

Why read thisSmaller DNS rebuilds require explicit knowledge of dependencies and old state; their memory savings can also make protective waiting periods safely shorter.

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Engineering · Cloudflare Blog November 2026
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28 slightly rude notes on writing

Why read thisWriting gains force from a particular person's reasons for caring, while fluent sentences alone may leave that force absent.

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New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts

Why read thisDetecting an internal disturbance and understanding its content may be separate abilities, complicating claims that language models can introspect.

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AI · quantamagazine.org via Quanta Magazine November 2026
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Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain

Why read thisA recovery can be real while its explanation is wrong, leaving patients to navigate the gap between individual relief and reliable evidence.

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Philosophy · Astral Codex Ten October 2026
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“You didn’t do it right”

Why read thisBlaming every framework failure on implementation prevents failures from revealing where the framework actually applies.

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Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture

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