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Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers — LessWrong

Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers — LessWrong

💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Six years ago, as covid-19 was rapidly spreading through the US, my sister was working as a medical resident. One day she was handed an N95 and told to "guard it with her life", because there weren't any more coming. N95s are made from meltblown polypropylene, produced from plastic pellets manufactured in a small number of chemical plants. Two of these plants were operated by Braskem America in Marcus Hook PA and Neal WV. If there were infections on site, the whole operation would need…
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Scottish Cup: Who will win the last two quarter-final matches on Sunday?

Scottish Cup: Who will win the last two quarter-final matches on Sunday?

💥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: St Mirren already have one title under their belt after stunning Celtic 3-1 in the League Cup final last December, and will be hoping that another cup run will lift the gloom that has hung over the Paisley team since then.Tuesday's 2-1 defeat to Dundee United left Stephen Robinson's side just three points ahead of Kilmarnock in the Premier League relegation zone, and they have won just three times in 15 games.Two of them have come in the cup and they will have high…
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TV TONIGHT: Holliday Grainger returns with her visceral thriller | TV and radio

TV TONIGHT: Holliday Grainger returns with her visceral thriller | TV and radio

💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Capture9pm, BBC OneThis political thriller about the intelligence service's use of deepfake "correction" videos was ahead of the curve when it debuted in 2019. Series three picks up a year after Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) blew the whistle and is now acting leader of the counter-terrorism unit (well, that's the "young, female and single" side of it). When another attack occurs, she is the only one who sees the true face of the perpetrator... Holly RichardsonMasterChef: The Professionals7pm, BBC OneIt's…
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Melvin Mallard: The Manchester United star’s journey from Reunion Island to the League Cup final against Chelsea

Melvin Mallard: The Manchester United star’s journey from Reunion Island to the League Cup final against Chelsea

✨ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: With a population of just 900,000, Reunion is more famous for its volcanoes, wildlife and tropical climate than its professional footballers.On the men's side, fans may remember former West Ham star Dimitri Payet and Newcastle winger Laurent Robert, but those who have come this way make up a short list. Growing up, Mallard tried boxing, karate, judo and handball before discovering soccer.“When I tried football, I said: This is my sport, because I can exert a lot of energy and I can play freely,” she…
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Qwen3.5 – How to Run Locally Guide

Qwen3.5 – How to Run Locally Guide

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: copyCopychevron-downModelsRun the new Qwen3.5 LLMs including Medium: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, 27B, 122B-A10B, Small: Qwen3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B and 397B-A17B on your local device!Qwen3.5 is Alibaba’s new model family, including Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, 27B, 122B-A10B and 397B-A17B and the new Small series: Qwen3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B and 9B. The multimodal hybrid reasoning LLMs deliver the strongest performances for their sizes. They support 256K context across 201 languages, have thinking + non-thinking, and excel in agentic coding, vision, chat, and long-context tasks. The 35B and 27B models work on a 22GB Mac…
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UFC White House: Alex Pereira will fight Cyril Jean for the interim heavyweight title

UFC White House: Alex Pereira will fight Cyril Jean for the interim heavyweight title

🔥 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: When Trump first announced the UFC's plans to host a show at the White House, although an ambitious idea, it was not a surprise.White has a long-standing friendship with Trump, who held some of his early UFC shows at one of his old properties, the Trump Taj Mahal, in 2001.The friendship blossomed, with Trump making guest appearances on several UFC shows, where he was the guest star with the moment of his exit.The friendship is compounded by White's public endorsement of the president, and he…
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Why Hamnet Should Win the Academy Award for Best Picture | Oscars

Why Hamnet Should Win the Academy Award for Best Picture | Oscars

💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars,Oscars 2026,Film,Awards and prizes,Culture,Hamnet,Jessie Buckley,Paul Mescal,Chloé Zhao ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOn paper, it already looks like the most Oscar-winning film of all time. A film about a visionary man whose genius made him one of the greatest figures in literature. Paul Mescal is played by William Shakespeare, an actor who leaves no demographic unaffected by his obscene levels of charisma. However, Hamnet marginalizes these two men in supporting roles. The film is about Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, who had long been viewed as a buxom,…
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A roadmap for artificial intelligence, if anyone will listen

A roadmap for artificial intelligence, if anyone will listen

🔥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Anthropic,Max Tegmark,OpenAI,pentagon,The Pro-Human Declaration ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: While Washington's break with Anthropic has exposed the complete lack of any coherent rules governing AI, a bipartisan coalition of thinkers has put together something the government has so far refused to produce: a framework for what responsible AI development should actually look like. The pro-humanity declaration was finalized before the showdown between the Pentagon and the Anthropists last week, but the collision of the two events was not lost on anyone involved. “There is something very remarkable that has happened in…
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Australian Grand Prix result: George Russell beats Kimi Antonelli as a new era for Formula 1 begins

Australian Grand Prix result: George Russell beats Kimi Antonelli as a new era for Formula 1 begins

✨ Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Russell's pole position - 0.8 seconds behind the fastest non-Mercedes car - sent shockwaves through the circuit on Saturday but the race was initially much closer than qualifying.Both Ferrari drivers made their expected electric start, with Leclerc jumping from fourth on the grid to take the lead at the first corner.Russell succeeded in passing the Ferrari on the second lap between turns 10 and 11 using additional electrical power.But Leclerc was not going to go down without a fight and he passed the Mercedes…
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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance / price

Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance / price

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Published: Feb 27, 2026 on dev.to by Dimitrios Kechagias #aws #googlecloud #cloud #devopsTime for the (not exactly) yearly cloud compute VM comparison. I started testing back in October 2025, but the benchmarking scope was increased, not just due to more VM families tested (44), but also due to testing the instances over more regions to attain a possible range of performance, as in many cases not all instances are created equal. I will not spoil much if I tell you that there is one new…
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