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Nobody knows how the whole system works – Surfing Complexity

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🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon Wardley on building things without understanding how they work: Here’s Adam Jacob in response: And here’s Bruce Perens, whose post is very much in conversation with them, even though he’s not explicitly responding to either of them. Finally, here’s the MIT engineering professor Louis Bucciarelli from his book…

TV Tonight: Mackenzie Crook’s Beautiful New Supernatural Sitcom | television

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Mackenzie Crook ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Minor Prophets10pm on BBC TwoA new supernatural comedy series from Mackenzie Crook. Oddball Michael (Pearce Quigley) is the bearded Miss Havisham, who lives in the house his partner left seven years ago and never returned to. But his father, Brian (Michael Palin), who has moved into foster care, says he knows a way to finally find answers — and it involves using a little chemistry to grow humans (little humans). Brian just needs to find the recipe to conjure…

Six Nations 2026: Five talking points from the opening round

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✨ Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The England visit comes at a critical time for Scotland and its coach Gregor Townsend.He entered the tournament courted by Newcastle Red Bulls and with question marks over his commitment to the cause.An understated display in some appalling weather in Rome as Italy claimed a famous 18-15 win left some calling for change.Former Scotland striker John Barkley told Rugby Special: “I thought before the Six Nations that Scotland should finish third or higher.“If they don't, which will be very difficult now, I think it becomes…

Super Bowl Tailgate photo essay: Bad Bunny, Big Tech, and the Big Game

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🔥 Read this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Culture News,Photo Essay ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jim Lockhart, from Boston:Did you travel to get here today?Yes, we came early Friday morning. Planes, trains and cars from Logan Airport.Where do you live?InterContinental Hotel, right in San Fran, downtown.Beautiful. I'm from San Francisco, born and raised, so I'm proud of my hometown. Hope you enjoy your stay.Oh, you know what? They did an incredible job. San Fran was very convenient. Everyone has been great. Friendly bartenders, waitresses, concierges and Uber guys. Everyone's been great, man. They did a great…

Jamie Carragher gives his verdict on whether Liverpool will qualify for next season’s Champions League after 2-1 loss to Manchester City

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✨ Check out this trending post from Sportskeeda 📖 📂 **Category**: Football 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher does not believe that Arne Slott's team will play in the Champions League next season after losing 2-1 to Manchester City. The former England defender believes they will miss out on the top five after a poor run of form. Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, Carragher said Liverpool would need a massive change in form and luck to reach the top five after falling four points behind fifth-placed Chelsea. He added that they need to focus on the…

TSMC to make advanced AI computer chips in Japan

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TOKYO (AP) — Taiwan’s chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it will be manufacturing some of the world’s most cutting-edge semiconductors in Japan to meet booming artificial intelligence-related demand, in a boost for the country’s chipmaking ambitions.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a major chip supplier to companies such as Nvidia and Apple, said Thursday it plans to make 3-nanometer semiconductors — advanced chips that are used in areas such as AI products and smartphones — at its second factory in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture, which is under construction.The decision…

“Were you afraid to go back to China?” No’: Ai Weiwei on AI, Western Censorship, and Repatriation | Ai Weiwei

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Ai Weiwei,Art and design,Culture,China,AI (artificial intelligence),Censorship,Asia Pacific,Technology,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AWeiwei talked to me about his decision-making process before his first visit to China in more than a decade. The artist, known around the world as the most famous critic of the Chinese Communist regime, had to do some math before deciding to return to his homeland.Before boarding the plane with his son, who had never met the artist's elderly mother, Ai recalled his time in detention when his captors told him he would…

Turning Point USA’s halftime show was exactly what you’d expect

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🚀 Explore this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Music,Anti-Climax ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On Sunday evening, during Bad Bunny's rousing halftime performance at Super Bowl LX, a crowd of what appeared to be fewer than 200 people at an undisclosed location was greeted by an alternative concert, titled "The All-American Halftime Show," presented by the right-wing student organization Turning Point USA.Conceived as culture war counter-programming to a show hosted by a Puerto Rican megastar who raps and sings in Spanish and has been an outspoken critic of ICE, the event featured four MAGA-aligned country stars and…

ONE FIGHT NIGHT 40: Stella Hemmitzberger talks camp with Alicia Helen Rodriguez: ‘We have strong fighters’

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🔥 Read this trending post from Sportskeeda 📖 📂 **Category**: MMA 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Stella Hemmitzberger of Austria, the women's strawweight Muay Thai world champion, believes iron sharpens iron. “Always Hungry” quickly rose to the top of the women’s Muay Thai rankings, something she credits to the elite level environment at Phuket Fight Club. The Austrian is surrounded by high-level coaches and teammates on a daily basis, including fellow champion, women's atomweight queen, Alicia Helen Rodriguez. For Hemetsberger, training alongside the Brazilian champion has accelerated her progress. Get the latest updates on Sportskeeda's One Championship standings and more "During…

Super Bowl 2026: Seattle Seahawks beat New England Patriots, President Trump slams Bad Bunny

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✨ Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Amid protests and scrutiny over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) tactics, Super Bowl entertainment options have not been well received at the White House.When Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny was announced in September, right-wing media circles noted that he had criticized the Trump administration's immigration policies.The subsequent decision to give vocal Trump critics Green Day a spot in the pre-match entertainment worked just as well.Last week, when Bad Bunny took home the Grammy for Album of the Year, he began his acceptance speech with…