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"Hypothesis: Chart Hits Before Maybe 2015 Are Less Likely to Be Remembered Than Hits from Previous Decades"
https://Karl-Voit.at/2026/04/19/hypothesis-chart-hits-popularity-decay
To check my assumption, I asked Claude what it "knows"…

Remember the spectacular Russian energy sanctions fiasco?
Europe convinced itself that cutting off Russian gas would bring Moscow to its knees.
Instead, Russia pivoted east, selling to India and China, while European factories bled out under the weight of energy costs they could no longer absorb.
-- The pain landed in the wrong capital.
Washington is now running the identical play with semiconductors,
apparently hoping for a different result.
That is …

The boomerang: How America’s semiconductor war backfired
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that Washington strategists should have remembered: “When you shoot an arrow of revenge, dig two graves.” They didn’t listen. And now we are wa…

Do you remember the days when people used to write little notes, drawings and messages for people they cared about?
#blog

Friction as a form of appreciation - Finest Day
Every blog on Pika comes with an already built-in and hassle-free feature that I find amazing in its quirkiness and simplicity: guestbooks.  Do you remember the days when people used...

Just been in a Lyft for the first time in years, I remember now why I hate cabs/Lyft/Uber: I can still smell the air freshener and cleaning stuff on my clothes 15 minutes later

Anybody here remember using the program #Eliza that came out of MIT back in the mid-60s? It was a first attempt at interpreting natural language in order to give the illusion of conversing with a computer. A primitive version of what people are doing now with LLMs. It used a small set of simple rules to parse text entered at a terminal, and to spit back what appeared to be a cogent response. People f…

“It turns out blaming the blackout on “too many renewables” was like blaming a loss by Real Madrid on having too many non-Spanish players on the pitch.”
https://www.raponline.org/blog/remembering-the-28th-of-a…

Remembering the 28th of April: What You Think You Know About the Iberian Blackout is Probably Wrong
One year ago, shortly after noon on a mild spring day across the Iberian Peninsula, the electric grid collapsed. There were no dramatic satellite photos Michael Hogan explores the complex causes of last April's widespread blackout on the Iberian Peninsula, and what we can learn from them.

Good $DEITY, is there anyone left in the United States who can remember what actual food tastes like?
Yes, I am subtooting.

The last thing you remember...

Under new European Union rules, businesses must prioritise keeping unsold clothing or shoes in use by selling them (including through discounts or alternative markets), donating them to charities or social enterprises, or preparing them for reuse (repairing, refurbishing or remanufacturing).
Destruction will be allowed only under specified circumstances and must be carried out in accordance with the waste treatment hierarchy, giving priority to recycling

Ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.