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(April 19, 2026) Story of cities #25: Shannon – a tiny Irish town inspires China’s economic boom
www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/...
Story of cities #25: Shannon – a tiny Irish town inspires China’s economic boom
Created in 1959 to lure foreign investors with tax breaks, the Shannon Free Zone proved revolutionary across the world. But in today’s world of looser trade and tax havens, Ireland’s innovators face a...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
John Fletcher Moulton. (1924). Law and Manners ["Obedience to the Unenforceable"]. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐. archive.ph/5Sw23
archive.ph
October 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
(Oct 17, 2023) AI, AI, and chicken nuggets
kieranfor.de/2023/10/17/a...
⬆ Some of my thoughts on this from two years ago; time to update the metaphor, perhaps.

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AI, AI, and chicken nuggets – ﻼF
kieranfor.de
October 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Nice.
My favourite version below:

a-ha - Take On Me [ Live From MTV Unplugged, Giske / 2017 ] www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKM...
a-ha - Take On Me [ Live From MTV Unplugged, Giske / 2017 ]
YouTube video by ahaVEVO
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September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
➡ "It's acting as a permanent barrier to employment, even decades after serving their sentence," said Husein.

➡ "If you don't give people who have been convicted an opportunity to get back into the regular workforce, there might be additional recidivism"

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September 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you're curious about what using the Right to Be Forgotten actually entails in practice, check out:

(Feb 17, 2023) Using my Right to Be Forgotten
kieranfor.de/2023/02/17/u...

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Using my Right to be Forgotten – ﻼF
kieranfor.de
August 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Could you share link or some search terms related to "not retooling to meet the Japanese dimensional lumber market in the 1980". I'd like to learn more about this but can't seem to find the story.
Cheers.
August 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
PermaLink to the Chronicle via UBC Library:
go.exlibris.link/46hg4pQw
Summon 2.0
go.exlibris.link
May 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Linguistic inflation is often evident, as the terms used tend to point to an unexplored & uncharted landscape, outside of all previous human experience...“beyond”

I am 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 humbled / honoured / grateful etc.

The terms used direct us to the very edge of the map, right next to the dragons.
May 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The removal of the "sort by date" feature was the beginning of the end of Google search. I see Kagi has this feature so I'll give it a go and see how it works.
Cheers for the tip.

(April 8, 2019) Google quietly removes “sort by date” feature from search results
reclaimthenet.org/google-searc...
Google quietly removes “sort by date” feature from search results
Many people used this feature to override Google Searches’ algorithmic recommendations and get date based view of the search results.
reclaimthenet.org
May 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM