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It has been a pleasant month of moderate growth in podcasts! 📈

“F4 felt like it was reading my mind. There were no options; Repeat just always seemed to do the thing I expected from it. As I understood this kind of functionality more, years later, I learned to appreciate the deeper thinking necessary to make it work.” @aresluna.org:

Unsung Heroes: Repeat in Excel 97 – UnsungA blog about software craft and qualityunsung.aresluna.org

“In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, laying out for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints. Earlier tests yielded cases in which monitoring systems had been disconnected.” @raphae.li, @deepa.bsky.social, @kenrick.bsky.social:

EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a weekOpenAI noticed after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, people familiar with the investigation say.www.reuters.com

“If we could choose anything, then we'd have like our own RV, and the riders would always sleep in the RV. But you're not allowed to do that. Otherwise it just becomes an arms race." @redford.bsky.social:

How Cycling Solved Sleep | DefectorAURILLAC, France — Is the Tour de France the most competitive sleep environment in sports? “Probably, yeah,” answered Dr. Jon Greenwell, EF-Education EasyPost’s Head Doctor when I asked him. Every ath...defector.com

“The Jeanette was lost, but the discovery of her wreckage proved the existence of currents crossing the Pole, and inspired Fridtjof Nansen’s completely insane expedition of 1893-1896, where he deliberately froze his ship into the ice and let her drift for three years.” @goldwagnathan.bsky.social:

Visualizing the Past (Part Four)If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human …nathangoldwag.wordpress.com

“Unlike in most places, in the United Kingdom it seems to be perfectly legal for people to give each other medical advice, provided they don’t misrepresent themselves as licensed doctors. This is not legal advice.” @dynomight.net:

You're probably taking the wrong painkillerAcetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what doctors may want you to know.asteriskmag.substack.com

“We’ve done a pretty good job as a nation of making vehicles more efficient, having more renewables, switching to cleaner fuels. There could be more progress on that, but really, it’s mostly all about wildfire smoke.” @mollytaft.com:

How to Protect Your Health as Skies Fill With Smoke From Canada’s WildfiresRoughly 100 fires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming 1,000 miles to the south and east.www.wired.com

“Some American films were huge successes in France and failed everywhere else. American studios very often keep an eye on which similar films worked well in France over the previous 30 years to get ideas of title changes and make callbacks.” @manilazic.bsky.social:

Lost in Translation: the mechanics and motivations of film title translations in France • Journal • A Letterboxd MagazineHow does The Hangover become Very Bad Trip, or Arrival become Premier Contact? With another Cannes film festival on the horizon, Manuela Lazić digs into one of French film culture’s most fascinating t...boxd.it

“Most of us are able to go about our lives without ever thinking about the huge industrial machine that keeps the blood of civilization flowing. But the US consumes over 20 million barrels of oil a day, every day, and it takes a vast complex of oil refineries to make that possible.”

How an Oil Refinery WorksThough wind and solar continue to carve out larger and larger shares of world energy supply, the modern world still runs on petroleum, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.www.construction-physics.com

“You’re not going to park a $100 million aircraft for a $1,000 chip. We’re hooking up the supply of components you can get off the shelf today — at volume, at low cost — with the demand for parts that are no longer available, but for which there’s tremendous marginal need.”

Phoenix Links IoT Chips to Save High‑Value Legacy SystemsPhoenix targets the high-mix, low-volume demand for obsolete chips in critical systemsspectrum.ieee.org

“It wasn't until 1960 that organizers had a stage start in a different city than where the previous one ended, with riders taking the train south from Bordeaux to Mont de Marsan. From that point, the Loop began slowly distending, its shape becoming increasingly abstract.” @redford.bsky.social:

Why The Tour de France Route Is Different Every Single Year | DefectorAs I spend the early part of the summer talking about the Tour de France with normal people (read: non-cycling fans), there’s one thing that catches almost everyone off guard. I will outline the route...defector.com

Wish I’d achieved a more green shade of gross algae bloom but otherwise these were a solid hit