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2ix23 seems to be the oldest, and this list has the rest of 2023:

2ix23

Could Any Other Jazz Trumpeter Match Up with Louis Armstrong in the 1930s? The short answer is no—but these eight horn players came close. Ted Gioia

Frost-Pale Stillness Andy Ilachinski

4ix23

The difference, between words, esteemed synonymous: in the English language; and, the proper choice of them determined: together with, so much of Abbé Girard's Treatise, on this subject, as would agree, with our mode of expression John Trusler, 1766

A Walk in the Woods May Boost Mental Health Harvard Medicine Magazine

5ix23

'We are extreme' ... how Lankum's heavy mutant folk made them Mercury favourites The Guardian

Episode 170: Printers, Plague and Poets History of English

Fox-like Hedgehogian Photography Andy Ilachinski

13ix23

Rebecca Solnit is a Collapse Entrepreneur and Anti-Science Propagandist Jeffrey Joe Miller at Medium

Very Expensive Maps Flowing Data

Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850 The Public Domain Review

16ix23

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder Marginalian

Investment Funds Are Now Selling the Rock Songs They Bought Ted Gioia

20ix23

Theory of consciousness branded 'pseudoscience' by neuroscientists New Scientist

The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean? NYTimes

OpenAI Has Just Killed Prompt Engineering With DALL-E 3 You can now get high-quality images that depict complex scenes by default. Alberto Romero

Aristotle On Dreams classics.mit

The Leaves of Southwell

21ix23

Zadie Smith on The Fraud Radio Open Source

23ix23

Earliest Printing in Sarawak? Breon Mitchell

24ix23

How to Own Your Human-Heartedness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness Marginalian

26ix23

Twigs and Rocks Andy Ilachinski

27ix23

The Screens are the Symptom danah boyd

30ix23

Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders via Marginalian

1x23

Unconscious mind Wikipedia

2x23

Howling Fantods A Way With Words

Memoirs of an Arab-Jew Mark Martorell Junyent reviews Avi Shlaim's Three Worlds at Informed Consent

New Cold War, Ever-Hotter Planet: What could Possibly Go Wrong? Tom Engelhardt at Informed Comment

3x23

What is gravity? New Scientist

4x23

Octavio Paz on Freedom Marginalian

Meta's AI Stickers Are Already Causing Trouble gizmodo

The Watchbird WVPE

Perspective: Repressed By The Watchbird Tom McBride sat Northern Public Radio

Sarah on X: "I’m a telebugeye, you’re a telebugeye, we’re all telebugeyes !!

Fly Away, Watchbird! Munro Leaf

Saying Goodbye to Blairhaven Nancy Little

David Rumsey's Maps

6x23

The mall-ninja tactical Every Day Carry thing is a lot older than people let on Bruce Sterling

8x23

The Prophets, Angels, & Churches of 'Armenia!' Gini Alhadeff at The New York Review of Books

Armenia! The Met

Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages

Intentionality Sasha Frere-Jones at NYRB

Sasha Frere-Jones Wikipedia

One Man's Trash: Parting Out Veteran Photojournalist Bill Green's Darkroom at PetaPixel

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