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- Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years.
- The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020
- Predictions by Wired from 1997
- Covid denial to climate denial
- Anti-lockdown movements online are turning their attention to climate conspiracy theories.
- Is 'Dopesick' a true story?
- What the show gets right about the opioid crisis
- Keanu Reeves interview 2021
- Keanu Reeves on Matrix Resurrection, John Wick, His Personal Life
- ICU is full of the unvaccinated – my patience with them is wearing thin
- Most of the resources the NHS is devoting to Covid in hospital are being spent on people who have not had their jab
- The State Of The Web
- The opening presentation from An Event Apart Spring Summit held online in April 2021.
- Kyle Rittenhouse has walked free. Now it’s open season on protesters
- Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes
- The Long, Hidden History of the Viking Obsession With Werewolves
- A symbol both of chaos and order, the wolf came to represent many things for the Vikings.
- Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
- Launched in 1977, the probe is vintage space hardware. [..] Looking at the machine’s specs is a reminder of how far electronics have come in the intervening years.
- What’s the music industry doing about climate change?
- From touring to festivals, vinyl and even streaming, when it comes to the environment, there aren’t many clean hands in the biz.
- Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia.
- Keyboards weren't designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them
- Was Ebola a near-miss? - by Lessons From The Crisis - Lessons From The Crisis
- ‘3rd Rock from the Sun’ Cast Reunites at Vulture Festival
- Het Chinese Liuzhou is de elektrische-autohoofdstad van de wereld
- De microwagens zijn al te koop vanaf 4.000 euro, opladen kan overal, parkeren ook. [..] hoe milieuvriendelijk is het?
- Marilyn Manson Abuse Allegations: A Monster Hiding in Plain Sight
- Long Range E-Bike
- Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secrets
- "I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these are things I encountered during working on the tools, documenting them and going through user feedback."
- The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
- Six biases that lead us to have too many meetings — and how to overcome them.
- Merlin's Wisdom Project
- Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”
- 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
- Siouxsie and the Banshees and Me
- Can we stomach the latest emerging food innovations?
- Our growing appetite for novel food tech - from lab grown meat to nano-packaging.
- Notes on Web3
- Four charts that show just what's at stake at the COP26 climate summit
- How hot will the planet get? What nations negotiate at the international climate summit will help determine that.
- Europe once again at centre of Covid pandemic, says WHO
- Planetary Scientists Recreate Arrakis From Dune, and It Really Is a Hellhole
- Climate models suggest a fictional planet like Arrakis would be habitable, but just barely.
- How to maintain a healthy brain
- Adopt these lifestyle changes and you will not only sharpen your mind today but also reduce your risk of dementia later on
- Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction
- Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
- Timeline of the human condition
- Milestones in evolution and history
- Lesser Known PostgreSQL Features
- What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
- Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science.
- More 'disease' than 'Dracula' – how the vampire myth was born
- The past century’s vampires have often been a bit dashing, even romantic. That’s not how the myth started out.
- The Code That Controls Your Money
- COBOL underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.
- Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild
- Around the 17th century, the Dutch started reinforcing their dykes and harbours with sturdy mats the size of football pitches – hand-woven from thousands of twigs grown on nearby coppice plantations.
- Novelists illustrate the climate futures that could await us
- Authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Omar el-Akkad discuss the responsibility fiction writers have to address the climate crisis.
- A Photo Trip to the Faroe Islands
- Images of this rugged, treeless archipelago located in the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland
- Complexity is killing software developers
- modern software development is “a study in entropy, and it is not getting any more simple.”
- 35 History Maps That Explain The World Better Than Any Textbook
- No Bicycling At COP26 Means Quickest Way To Decarbonise Road Transport Is Inexplicably Missing
- Active travel—walking or cycling for transport—rarely takes center stage at climate conferences, a bizarre omission, say experts.
- Actually, Sandworm Attacks Have Only a One Percent Death Rate
- 'Paul is straight-up LYING to us when he says they just need to figure out how to kill the sandworms before we go back to normal.' McSweeney’s FTW
- Living Alone in the U.S. Is Harder Than It Should Be
- In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people.
- The Story of Native American Metal Band Winterhawk
- "Dune," climate fiction pioneer
- The ecological lessons of Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece were ahead of its time
- Hyundai develops plug-and-play EV smart wheel with 90-degree turning
- Dancing ’Till Death: The Mystery Behind Dancing Manias
- Masses of people tumbled through the streets of Strasbourg in 1518, dancing toward their doom. Scholars still struggle to understand why.
- What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?
- Some interesting links in this thread on Hacker News
- CookLang: recipe markup language
- macOS 12 Monterey: The Ars Technica review
- No time to die
- An in-depth analysis of James Bond's exposure to infectious agents
- The case against Mark Zuckerberg
- Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety
- Using Performant Next-Gen Images in CSS with image-set