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An elevated view over a bend of the Sài Gòn River in thick brownish smog, the downtown towers and a cable-stayed bridge dissolving into haze under a dim orange sun, a lone masked figure at the river railing

Thirty Years of Smoke One pfennig per breath

Indonesian wildfire haze has reached Sài Gòn - and a eight-year-old's fear about one day paying for air turns out to have been half right.
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A long candlelit banquet table in a high hall, seventeenth-century figures leaning over an open ledger, a potted palm behind them, and one lone cloaked figure waiting outside in the doorway

Words Nobody Asked For A kennel for maidens

German was argued into existence by people who mostly lost - four centuries of poets, pedants and purists building a language out loud.
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A lone figure seen from behind, crouched on a vast cracked plain, arranging four dark pebbles in a row on a stone slab while hundreds more scatter toward a hazy horizon under an enormous sky

Grammar All The Way Down Then I found four pebbles

Ultrafinitism wants infinity banished from math - but every fix for infinity is just another grammar, and quantizing an 80B model shows why.
EN· ·Curiosity & Science
8 billion people and falling: a brief spike in human history

The Brief Spike 8 billion people and falling: a brief spike in human history

Global population peaks before 2080, then falls. Four-fifths of all human births are already behind us. What that means for the next two centuries.
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