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When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens
The history of technology is full of innovators who got their start creating with their hands. Steve Jobs cites a calligraphy class at Reed
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1532
A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places
If you're still using this page, please email me at [email protected] and I'll send you a copy.
1533
Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event
This is the second year I brought my Dad (a now-retired radio engineer and co-host of Geerling Engineering) to Open Sauce, a Bay Area maker faire-like event, dreamed up by William Osman and featuring hundreds of exhibits ranging from mad science, to vintage electronics, to games, to world-record-breaking Rubik's Cube…
1534
A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used
A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive. I gave in and paid it, but what does that mean for open graph images and copyright?
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Facts don't change minds, structure does
Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war.
1537
Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
why the death of nuance should scare you -your fav gen z philosopher xx
1538
Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition
RELEASE: Today the workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild. The Guild will now begin the process to develop a contract.
1539
12ft.io Taken Down
The News/Media Alliance has successfully secured the takedown of notorious paywall bypass website 12ft.io.
1540
Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly
On how plummeting battery prices make 24/7 solar power a reality today.
1541
What happens when housing prices go down?
A reflection on affordability, finance, and the deep contradictions we struggle to face.
1542
Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)
Peep Show, a British tv series running from 2003 to 2015, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a pair of miserable, co-dependent roommates living in Croydon, London, is the most realistic por…
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New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation
Bill Banning One-Person Trains Would Lock NY Transit in the Past
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Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to...
1546
Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org
The Matrix.org network has great potential, but after years of dealing with glitches, slow performance, poor UX, and one too many failures, I’m done with it.
1547
It's rude to show AI output to people
Feeding slop is an act of war
1548
Death by AI
One man's struggle with his mortality.
1549
Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from users when the document is displayed on screen…
1550
Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium
Economists credit ads with two welfare‑enhancing roles: 1. Informative – trimming search costs (Stigler 1961 (pdf)). 2. Signaling – In classic models, high-quality sellers are more willing to incur large, sunk ad costs because they expect to recoup them through future sales, especially in experience-good markets where…
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Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)
Ivan Illich is doing to computers what he did to education (De-Schooling Society, 1971), to energy (Energy and Equity, 1974), to medicine (Medical Nemesis, 1975), and to sex roles (Vernacular Gender, 1983). Each time it has been radical analysis that changes our perception of what is really going on. Each time, and…
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The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes
On a QWERTY keyboard
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What were the earliest laws like?
Hammurabi’s code doesn’t tell the whole story
1555
Data Centers and Water Consumption | Article
See all of our articles on the impacts of data centers , including their energy needs, water usage, noise pollution, and contribution to higher energy bills: The Environmental Impacts of Data Centers (Article Series)
1556
What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?
Governments worldwide are trying to increase fertility with cash. But the most famous birthrate "boom" had a lot to do with science and technology, as well.
1557
LLM Inevitabilism
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing…
1558
Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE
For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies....
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Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
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You Are in a Box
your data is trapped inside the box that is your program. you can only see what the program author exposes.