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- Weekend Reading: Looking Glass Politics, Enrichment, and OSM Datasets
🐇 Looking-Glass Politics On private emotions being thrown into the public sphere: People escape the Dunbar world for obvious reasons: life there appears prosaic and uninspiring. They find a digital interface and, lik…
- Weekend Reading: The Hour of the State, Location AI, and Mapillary Acquired
💬 The Hour of the State or Explosion From Below? Martin Gurri is one of the best minds we have for the current moment. Make sure to subscribe to his essays on the Mercatus Center's "The Bridge." The American people a…
- Weekend Reading: LightSpeed, Kubernetes, and a Car-Free Market Street
📱 Project LightSpeed: Rewriting the Messenger Codebase A technical piece describing the goals for Facebook’s rewrite of the Messenger app. Interesting to see them avoiding their own React Native for this, and doing t…
- Weekend Reading: Strasburg Tipping, RapiD, and TikTok Investigation
⚾️ How the Nationals Fixed Stephen Strasburg and Saved Their Season Strasburg tipping his pitches almost ended the Nats’ run: He remembered the game Strasburg pitched in Arizona on August 3. The Diamondbacks pounded S…
- Weekend Reading: Satellites, Antilibraries, and Libra
🛰 How to Profit in Space: A Visual Guide Fantastic visualizations from the WSJ team. Shows the history of satellite expansion divided by country, year, and orbits, both LEO and geosynchronous. A great use of maps for…