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Flowers for Turing

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Against longtermism (2021)

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John Boyer, blind software engineer, has died

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Is the Living Computer Museum dead?

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Iranian man who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years dies

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Tom Lord has died

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Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Van life (cancer edition) finale

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Edward de Bono Obituary

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Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013)

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I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say

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Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply

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Paul Taylor, the engineer who created the TTY machine for the deaf, has died

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Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’

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My Life Countdown (2007)

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On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs

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Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies

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The Collective Body: Russian experiments in life after death

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Bill Manning has died

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Indiana's Oldest State Worker Is Retiring at 102

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Bill Lorensen, co-creator of Marching Cubes, has died

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A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy

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A baboon who acted as assistant to a disabled railway signalman in South Africa

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Joe Armstrong Obituary

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From Alex’s Family

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My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective’

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My disabled son’s gaming life in the World of Warcraft

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What People Say Before They Die

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PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died

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Paul Allen has died

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The quest to save Stephen Hawking's voice

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Koko, a gorilla who could do sign language, has died at 46

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Totalbiscuit, one of gaming's most popular YouTubers, has passed away

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Some terrible personal news

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A Tribute to John Perry Barlow

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Paul Miller Loved Teaching Math So Much That He Did It for Nearly 80 Years

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Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87

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The Last Days of BMX Superstar Dave Mirra

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“I Helped 8 People Die”

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My Last Day as a Surgeon

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The Oliver Sacks Reading List

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Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37

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TempleOS: 5 minute random code walkthrough

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Last Of The Navajo 'Code Talkers' Dies At 93

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Planetary Scientist Colin Pillinger has died

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Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf

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My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved

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Neil Armstrong, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman

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Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

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Alan Turing Documentary

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The Genius of Turing

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R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010

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Daniel Kahneman has died

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I never stopped learning from Daniel Dennett

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Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Paul Allen's Computer Museum to Be Auctioned

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In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality

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Jake Seliger has died

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The Dying Computer Museum

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