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- How to Find Your Size in Blue Jeans - McSweeney’s
- What is your star sign? We figured we’d ask in case no one has asked you today, even though it doesn’t change your pants size.
- Musicians Are Already Using AI More Often Than We Think
- It goes beyond the rise of deepfakes and ChatGPT. AI tools will—and already are—changing how music is made.
- Geen beleggingen in niet-zo-groene Apple
- Kinderarbeid en privacyschendingen: de fondsen van ASN Bank beleggen niet in techgigant Apple. Lees meer over de redenen.
- Blue skies over Mastodon
- the longer Mastodon stays in Linux-on-the-desktop mode, the more likely those people are to take their energy somewhere where it’s valued.
- The glass cliff and why struggling companies promote women, explained
- When women reach the upper ranks of power, they’re put into precarious positions, meaning there’s a greater risk for them to fall.
- A History Of The World According To Getty Images
- a short documentary about property, profit, and power, made out of archive footage sourced from the online catalogue of Getty Images
- How Paris Kicked Out the Cars
- A city once remade for voitures has transformed itself into an unlikely utopia for cyclists and pedestrians. What can it teach us?
- De leukste boeken over Japan (van reisgids tot kookboek)
- Lessons learned as a software developer turned project manager
- Becoming a project manager after being a software developer for many years changed me quite a bit. Below are my thoughts and breakdown of the experience.
- The story of Motörhead's controversial concert at The Racecourse in 1982
- The End of Design As We Know It? How Automation and A.I. is changing the Face of Design Forever
- In this article I look at the commercial and technological trends facing the industry and try to imagine what comes next.
- Understanding antisemitism on Twitter after Musk
- New research from CASM Technology and ISD has found a major and sustained spike in antisemitic posts on Twitter since the company’s takeover by Elon Musk on October 27, 2022.
- Ook deze klimaatwetenschapper bezet A12: 'Gebeurt gewoon te weinig'
- Wetenschappers hebben zich aangesloten bij de snelwegblokkade op de A12 door Extinction Rebellion. Zij maken zich ernstig zorgen om het klimaat. "Heel kort gezegd is de maat vol", vertelt klimaateconoom Reyer Gerlagh.
- How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change
- A logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change — to the oil industry's benefit
- Extinction Rebellion protest in Netherlands ends with 1,500 arrested
- Officers used water cannon to try to disperse the crowds at the Extinction Rebellion protest
- Straffeloos A12 bezetten leidt tot frustratie bij politie: 'Dan zijn we dus niet meer nodig’
- Het Openbaar Ministerie heeft besloten om de bijna 1600 aangehouden klimaatactivisten niet te vervolgen vanwege het ‘vreedzame karakter’ van de de demonstratie.
- Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83
- Legendary singer “died peacefully” Wednesday after a long illness
- 13 Glitch In The Matrix Stories From May 2023
- "I dropped my phone and watched it disappear. Poof, gone."
- Was Cleopatra Black? Netflix's Queen Cleopatra stars a Black actress.
- Why aren’t we better at predicting when a baby is due?
- What causes labor is still a mystery, and it’s hurting birthing people and babies.
- What did British Latin sound like?
- Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?
- Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
- Letter from Jourdon Anderson
- Jourdon Anderson, a formerly enslaved person, responds to a request from his former master to return to work for him.
- Trash, class, and free cigarettes: My life with The Jerry Springer Show
- Of the many lessons I’ve learned the hard way in my life, one of the hardest has been this: Never take a job for the story.
- The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse
- After building online communities for two decades, we’ve learned how to fight abuse. It’s a solvable problem. We just have to stop repeating the same myths as excuses not to fix things.
- No diet, no detox: how to relearn the art of eating
- Our relationship with food has become disordered and obsessive. As the new year brings diet madness, it needn’t be such a struggle to learn good eating habits
- Hoogspanning!: More Dutch Safety Posters
- Writers vs. robots: Hollywood moved toward automation long before AI
- In the franchise era, viewers and studios alike favor formula over creativity—the exact sort of stuff that’s easiest for AI to write.
- Why can some people smell ants?
- When you kill a common house ant, it releases a chemical that smells like blue cheese, but that isn't the only funky smell that ants produce.
- TV’s Streaming Bubble Has Burst, a Writers Strike Looms, and “Everybody Is Freaking Out”
- Billions in losses. Sweeping layoffs. The party’s over, and Hollywood is waking up with a splitting headache.
- Energy Saving Road Lighting in Norway
- Only as traffic approaches, Norway’s auto-dimming roads get brighter. New LED lights dim to 20 percent when no cars are in area. When a car drives by, the lights turn to 100 per cent.
- How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
- Unsubscribing should be easy. It’s not.
- GitHub now auto-blocks token and API key leaks for all repos
- GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories.
- India Street Lettering
- Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over
- Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
- Police accused of ‘alarming’ attack on protest rights after anti-monarchist leader arrested
- Graham Smith, head of Republic, among those detained on coronation route with environmentalists and women’s safety campaigners also held
- Why I 'heckled' Charles and why on his coronation I say abolish the monarchy
- “While we struggle to heat our homes, we have to pay for your parade.
The taxpayer pays £100m for you, and what for?
Nid fy mrenin; not my king.”
- Leiden4045.nl - Verhalen over de Leidse bevolking in oorlogstijd
- The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small
- It wasn't supposed to be six boring men with too much money creating spaces that no one likes but everyone is forced to use because those men have driven every other form of online existence into the ground.
- Why we put royal wealth under the microscope on eve of coronation
- With days to go until Charles is enthroned, here’s what we learned from the Cost of the crown project
- Enough Is Enough. It’s Time for the Rock Hall to Recognize Metal
- What Iron Maiden's second snub says about the institution's attitude toward music's loudest genre
- In 2023, I’m creating an illustrated tiny sci-fi story every day
- Twitter thread
- it's a(door)able - a one-minute minigame
- The Great Bubble Barrier
- A smart solution to plastic pollution
- ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
- For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
- Jay Duplass Doesn’t Want to Be a Coen Brother Anymore
- The director-actor-writer-producer talks about uncoupling with his brother and creative partner, his role in Season 2 of the HBO drama “Industry,” and his most ambitious project yet: “a comedy relationship movie, thriller-action movie, mystery, coming-of-age story.”
- Heavier Vehicles in Aging Garages Are a Recipe for Disaster
- Study Finds ChatGPT Outperforms Physicians in High-Quality, Empathetic Answers to Patient Questions
- Maak van Schiphol een Europese vlieg-treinhub
- Met betere dienstverlening kan internationaal treinreizen zowel een duurzamer alternatief voor als een aanvulling op vliegen worden, schrijven experts van de TU Delft.
- Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuary
- I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk’s Twitter. It’s….not good.
- This is the environmental cost of the food we eat
- Chicken or tuna? Tofu or lentils? Rice or potatoes? See which food is better for the planet.
- Misverstanden over republiek en monarchie
- Spotify Game: Metal Edition
- An addictive game about which Metal song has been played more on Spotify.
- Missing a point: the UX of subtitles
- Do you realize how much context we lose when we lose sound? In a world with everything already invented, can designers do more?
- Using dark patterns to overcharge for pizza
- A study on how Dominos (and Pizza Hut) use dark patterns, UX tricks and design psychology to overcharge customers.
- Worst Decisions in Music History
- Horrible business moves, artistic blunders, deeply questionable moral judgment — with appearances by Adam Levine, Kiss, Kanye West, and many more
- When Vin Diesel wears 4 sleeveless shirts & spends 14-15% of the films running time in them, the films make more money and have higher critic scores
- How the Dutch Investment in Bike Parking Paid Off
- A decade ago, the Netherlands began building a national network of bicycle garages integrated with rail stations. Here’s how that investment has paid off.
- Fietsersbond roept overheden op: maak nú werk van veiliger fietsen
- Uit cijfers blijkt een enorme stijging van het aantal fietsdoden in het verkeer, voornamelijk door botsingen met gemotoriseerd verkeer.
- ActivityPub is the next big thing in social networks
- The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook. But we’ve been here before.
- It's Pedro Pascal's World Now
- After years of grinding away, the suddenly-everywhere actor is enjoying fame and near-universal adulation thanks to his dual streaming blockbusters 'The Last of Us' and 'The Mandalorian.'
- Intense heatwaves singe Asia as summer keeps eating into spring
- According to climatologist Maximiliano Herrera, more than a dozen countries are experiencing the worst April heat wave in Asian history
- Donna Zakowska's Costumes For "Maisel" Enhance Storytelling With Boldness, Color
- Designing for colorblindness
- Apparently, the very idea of colorblindness is hard to visualize. Take a shot at looking through my eyes.
- Fictional Brands Archive
- collection of many fictional brands found in films, series and video games
- Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic
- How Visual Basic became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
- Sidebar
- Has been collecting the best design links of the day since October 2012. Links can be anything from an article, to a beautiful porfolio, to a cool CodePen demo.
- Research with exotic viruses risks a deadly outbreak, scientists warn
- The covid-19 epidemic has challenged conventional thinking about biosafety, leading a growing number of scientists to reconsider the danger of prospecting for unknown viruses and other research with pathogens.
- Het eerlijke verhaal: BBB wil dat Nederland het slachthuis van Europa blijft
- Hier komt het: we doden 1,5 miljoen kippen, 45.000 varkens en 5.000 koeien per dag. De schijn van de beschaafde veehouderij is de grootste leugen van onze tijd.
- Brooke Shields and the Curse of Great Beauty
- “Pretty Baby,” a new documentary on Hulu, explores the toll that sexual and commercial objectification takes on women.
- The age of average
- This article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.
- Visually hidden content is a hack that needs to be resolved, not enshrined
- Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving
- We tend to turn a blind eye to the social ills of driving.
- ‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood
- In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger..
- There She Goes: A Reading List on Women Adventurers
- The women you’ll find on top of the world.
- A Deadly Cousin of Ebola Has Flared Up in Africa
- The World Health Organization is gearing up to test vaccines against the Marburg virus—but the world is still not prepared to contain new viral outbreaks.
- During Covid, bus and subway ridership dropped. Now transit systems are in crisis
- Don’t let buses and subways become another casualty of the pandemic.
- Why experts are calling for you to break up with your couch
- Going furniture-free may just make your home more inviting.
- The Nepotism Babies of Hollywood: A Definitive Taxonomy
- Actors, singers, directors who just happen to be the children of actors, singers, directors.
- Finland cleared to join NATO following Turkish vote
- The country is set to become the alliance’s 31st member as Sweden’s bid remains frozen.
- How to get more women on bikes? Better biking infrastructure, designed by women
- involving women in decisions about implementing new bike infrastructure, as well as expanding the use of e-bikes through financial incentives, are key to getting more women on the road.
- How Meat and Fossil Fuel Producers Watered Down the Latest IPCC Report
- Scientist authors recommended more plant-based diets and phasing out all fossil fuels. But those recommendations didn't make it into the final report.
- Wim de Bie (83) overleden | Genootschap Onze Taal
- Op 27 maart 2023 is Wim de Bie op 83-jarige leeftijd overleden. De Bie, vooral bekend als invloedrijk programmamaker, was samen met Kees van Kooten erelid van Onze Taal, vanwege hun ongekend creatieve taalgebruik en de vele sporen die ze hebben nagelaten in het Nederlands.