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- Seven Varieties of Stupidity
- Searching for Cyclic TV Reference Paradoxes
- both shows would be relying on the other being fictional in their respective universes, which cannot both be true simultaneously — a paradox!
- 14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture
- Please make a dumb car
- Make a car that’s pretty much all dumb and watch it sell — because what automakers are giving people is so bad, they’ll pay more to have less of it.
- The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?
- A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There's no closing Pandora's text box now.
- Can I Devtools?
- like caniuse.com but for the browser devtools
- The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
- How San Francisco Became a Failed City
- And how it could recover
- The COVID Event Horizon
- How many COVID infections will you have in your lifetime? There’s probably a limit.
- Gen Z Has Finally Discovered Kate Bush, and I’m Thrilled
- Klimaatverandering maakte extreme hittegolf in India & Pakistan 30 keer waarschijnlijker
- Sinds begin maart hebben meer dan een miljard mensen in India en Pakistan te maken gehad met een extreme hittegolf.
- Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show
- Toxic particles from tyre wear almost 2,000 times worse than from exhausts as weight of cars increases
- The Bleak Spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial
- How a washed-up celebrity, men’s rights activists and true crime stans convinced millions of Americans to buy into a conspiracy theory
- Why ‘The Wire’ Still Stands Alone After 20 Years
- After 20 years, the classic drama is much praised and rarely imitated. For a series based on the idea that institutions don’t change, that’s fitting.
- I don't care about cookies
- Browser extension to get rid of cookie warnings from almost all websites
- how-i-experience-web-today.com
- Ouch
- The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers
- In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom. How much it cost them was a mystery, until now.
- A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate
- PimEyes is a paid service that finds photos of a person from across the internet, including some the person may not want exposed. “We’re just a tool provider,” its owner said.
- Train to nowhere: can California’s high-speed rail project ever get back on track?
- “Approximately 98% of the American public has never set foot on a city-to-city train.” Wow..
- Kyshtym Disaster. How Did the Mayak Disaster Happen?
- The Kyshtym disaster (Mayak, Russia), occurs in the attempt to develop the atomic bomb. It is the third most serious behind those of Chernobyl and Fukushima.
- The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History | Glamour
- About 90% of the people who write Wikipedia are men. A brilliant team of women is making sure that we have a place in greatest collection of knowledge in human history.
- Tattooed Vikings? A look at medieval body art
- If you have ever watched Vikings or other TV shows or films that dwell on similar time periods and regions, chances are that you have seen a lot of characters heavily tattooed on face and body. Is it historically accurate?
- The Best Of Cannes Broke Through the Bleakness
- The film festival was full of doomed protagonists, graphic murders, and children driven to crime. But a handful of movies were hopeful, too.
- The words for "two" in 75 different languages, and how they are related.
- The Hidden Curriculum of Science Twitter
- Scientific discourse on twitter is a dumpster fire. It doesn't have to be.
- Accessibility in JavaScript Frameworks
- Part 1: What's The Big Deal?
- Ray Liotta Dies: ‘Goodfellas’ Star & ‘Field Of Dreams’ Actor Was 67
- Soft deletion with PostgreSQL: but with logic on the database!
- GOV.UK drops jQuery from their front end.
- Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’
- The Nasa data scientist explains why inaction on the climate crisis pushed him to chain himself to an LA bank – and why trusting in the ‘people in charge’ is so dangerous
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- Inside Taylor Hawkins' Final Days as a Foo Fighter
- Floods, fires, coral bleaching: Politicians leading the country to climate catastrophe
- Foresight and prevention is more effective and cheaper than disaster recovery and cure. We still have time, but precious little of it.
- The Stories Behind Severance’s Eerie Office Design
- Mid-century furniture, out-of-time desktop computers, and childish “incentives” build the series’s office as haunted playground aesthetic.
- Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit
- ‘Burnout tech’ seeks to identify signs of workers’ mental distress by reading Slack messages and email
- Philippines election: torture survivors from Marcos era in shock after son’s win
- Factcheckers say Ferdinand Marcos Jr was overwhelming beneficiary of a flood of online disinformation before poll
- A Messy Table, a Map of the World
- Dutch still life paintings like this one do more than depict luxurious objects. They narrate history on a global scale.