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  1. StreetsblogMASS
    Connecting people from all walks of life to information about how to reduce dependence on cars, promote human-centered, equitable, and environmentally sustainable places…. 🇺🇸 More info

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    MBTA to Suspend Red Line Service In Cambridge and Downtown Boston This Weekend
    The MBTA will suspend Red Line service for 2 days this weekend, from Saturday, February 24th to Sunday, February 25th, between Harvard and Broadway stations to conduct maintenance work. This suspension will take place for …
    By Meghan Volcy, 231 words
  2. Sinclair Trails
    The travels of David and Jennifer Sinclair, full-timing in their Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP motorhome. By David Sinclair. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Lambert’s Cafe
    I usually don’t do a blog post about a restaurant, unless it is particularly remarkable. Lambert’s Cafe fits that criterion. We went there for lunch, and it was quite the experience. Their claim to fame …
    By David, 356 words
  3. interfluidity
    By Steve Randy Waldman. More info

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    Cold December
    It is almost February. Happy New Year! Time to round up drafts posts from, um, December. I’ve been working a bit obsessively on what I think is a pretty great engine for turning any RSS …
    By Steve Randy Waldman, 530 words
  4. Econbrowser
    Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. By James D. Hamilton, Menzie Chinn. 🇺🇸 More info

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    CFNAI for January, WEI for mid-February
    Economic growth slightly below trend. CFNAI-MA3 is -0.02, so slightly below trend in January — but still above the -0.07 threshold for contraction. WEI y/y growth is 1.87% for week ending 2/17.
    By Menzie Chinn, 40 words
  5. Practical Engineering — Blog
    With a focus on civil engineering and public works, Practical Engineering highlights the innovative structures and projects that meet humanity’s basic needs. By Grady Hillhouse. 🇺🇸 More info

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    How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad
    [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]This is the Union Pacific Railroad’s Austin Subdivision in central Texas. It’s a busy corridor that moves both freight and passengers north and south …
    By Wesley Crump, 2,233 words
  6. Bits about Money
    About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of. By Patrick McKenzie. 🇯🇵 More info

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    The business of check cashing
    Happy 2024! I had been hoping to have a year-in-review for 2023 ready by now, but a combination of illness and travel bushwacked me in January. So instead of that, we’ll go with regular programming …
    By Patrick McKenzie (patio11), 5,138 words
  7. blog.jlcarveth.dev
    A log of my technical pursuits. By John Carveth. 🇨🇦 More info

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  8. zserge's blog
    Home page of Serge Zaitsev. 🇩🇪 More info

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    AI or ain't: LLMs
    Previously we covered early chatbots, bots talking gibberish, and self-taught number crunchers. But what we got so far is still boring. AI was promised to overthrow the world order and not just classify arrays of …
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  9. Chris Jones | chrisjones.io
    My name is Chris, I live in Halifax NS. This is my personal website. 🇨🇦 More info

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    New like: Adactio: Journal—PageSpeed Insights bookmarklet
    Liked page title: Adactio: Journal—PageSpeed Insights bookmarklet Liked page URL: https://adactio.com/journal/20911
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  10. Symbolic Forest
    Everyday witchcraft and occasional wizardry. By Caitlin. 🇬🇧 More info

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    How to cross the same river twice
    They say you can never go back again. Never cross the same river twice. The past is a foreign country, as the famous quotation goes. Sometimes, it can’t be avoided. Sometimes, though, it can be …
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  11. webcurios
    a regular(-ish) newsletterblogtypething all about stuff on the internet that its author finds interesting and thinks you might too. By Matt Muir. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Webcurios 16/02/24
    Reading Time: 35 minutes HELLO AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT BEING DEAD! (Presuming, of course, that you do in fact consider continued existence to be a general positive – I’m currently ambivalent) It’s a lovely day …
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  12. anderegg.ca
    Something (slightly) less boring than nothing. By Gavin Anderegg. 🇨🇦 More info

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    Some Thoughts on Jekyll
    Jekyll is a static site generator built in Ruby. It’s been powering this site since 2012 but I’m worried that might not be true for much longer. I’m a bit torn on how to feel …
    By Gavin Anderegg, 619 words
  13. Composite
    Internet — information — criticism — poetry — connection — feminism — open source — open spaces — translation — digression — recursion — boats — wheelchairs — disability rights — ranting — the future. By Liz Henry. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Weird SF and a kids’ book binge
    I did a lot of trying to say no to things and step down from things I wasn’t doing (well enough, or in some cases, at all) which was kind of my therapy homework and …
    By Liz, 1,665 words
  14. Magical Trash
    Documenting the trash cans of Disney theme parks and resorts for 13 years. By Steve Tanner. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Par-tee with an Arnold Palmer in hand as you tee off at one of his managed properties, Walt Disney…
    Par-tee with an Arnold Palmer in hand as you tee off at one of his managed properties, Walt Disney World’s Lake Buena Vista Golf Course.Arnold Palmer Golf Management signed a 20-year partnership with Walt Disney …
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  15. anthro{dendum}
    A group blog devoted to ‘doing anthropology in public’ — providing well-written relevant discussion of sociocultural anthropology that everyone will find accessible. More info

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    Thank You!
    Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of you. We say fortunate, because such encounters …
    By Guest Contributor, 516 words