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17.03.2024
- Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine
- The origins of Tailwind and how it is framed against semantic CSS
- Roald Dahl: Pro Vaccine Letter Describes Daughter's Death from Measles
- Dahl's daughter Olivia died from measles-related complications in 1962
- What are some things that are normal to women but mind blowing to men? : r/AskReddit
- Brave, Mozilla, Vivaldi see browser installs rise on iOS
- Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ...
- Dead Simple Sites
- The most minimal sites on the web, curated in one place.
- The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
- The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.
- From luxury bunkers to tactical vehicles, the ultra-rich are preparing for the Big One
- Builders of fortified homes say inquiries and applications are up in recent years
- The Unraveling of a Royal Fairytale
- The Princess and The Bad Photoshop
- Arranging Love
- The cloudy routes to a life partner
- Why the world cannot afford the rich
- Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.
- ShÅgun's Hiroyuki Sanada Explains Why He Took The Role Of Toranaga
- A daimyo that changed the world.
- Are We Watching The Internet Die?
- We're at the end of a vast, multi-faceted con of internet users, where ultra-rich technologists tricked their customers into building their companies for free.
10.03.2024
- X Usage Dropped 30% In Last Year, Study Says
- Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have repeatedly said the platform’s usage has risen.
- Paul Giamatti Should Win Best Actor for ‘The Holdovers’—and Should Have Won For Something, For Anything, By Now
- The man has been the cinematic face of quiet desperation for 20 years. Give him a goddamned statue.
- Why Tolkien Hated Dune
- Herbert and Tolkien are exact moral opposites. Tolkien was an avid Deontologist and Dune is pure Consequentialism.
- France make abortion a constitutional right
- France becomes the first country to explicitly include the right to terminate a pregnancy in its constitution.
- Het vergeten Amsterdamse jaar van Dusty Springfield
- Ik wist dat Nina Simone in Nijmegen en in Amsterdam had gewoond in diezelfde late jaren tachtig, ik wist dat Marvin Gaye aan het begin van dat decennium zijn toevlucht had gezocht in Oostende, maar dat Dusty Springfield een jaar in Amsterdam heeft gewoond was nieuw voor me.
- Vehicles need fewer screens and more buttons, says EU automotive body
- Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 that require vehicles to have physical controls to earn the highest safety score.
- 100 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1924
- “AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?
- Are LLMs helpful tools to assist with making accessible front-end components? Let's find out.
- Who Gets an Abortion in the U.S.? Perceptions Don’t Match Reality
- People’s perceptions about who gets an abortion and why rely on stereotypes and misconceptions—with potential policy implications
- Engineering is more about people than tech
- Spoiler: I assumed that I would just code all day and that's it. Well, I was very wrong!
3.03.2024
- How ‘Dune’ Upholds—and Blows Up—the Chosen One Narrative
- If you look deep enough, much of traditional fantasy and science fiction boils down to the Magic Dick Theory. Including ‘Dune.’ Until it doesn’t.
- Landbouw is níét belangrijk voor de Nederlandse economie (en nog 3 mythes over de landbouw ontkracht)
- “Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
- The alien language spoken in Frank Herbert’s novels carries traces of Arabic. Why has that influence been scrubbed from the films?
25.02.2024
- Death, Lonely Death
- Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die
- 13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World
- Google tests removing the News tab from search results
- The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won't help publishers sleep any easier.
- She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By The Sink
- It wasn’t a big deal to me when I was married. But it was a big deal to her.
- Alabama IVF ruling: What does it mean for fertility patients?
- frozen embryos are considered children, and that a person could be held liable for accidentally destroying them
- Mazelen zijn terug, en armste landen voelen de grootste impact
- Kinderen in onder meer India, Azerbeidzjan en Ethiopië betalen nu het gelag omdat routinevaccinaties tijdens de covid-pandemie onderbroken werden.
- Fantasy World Generator
- Generate an image in fantasy style.
- Scandinavia’s first farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population
- Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations
- Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say
- On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school's 1,067 students were reportedly absent.
- Arend Feenstra moved to Russia to escape the 'LGBTQ+'.
- Arend Feenstra, the patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family, decided to move his family to Russia to escape 'wokeness'. It did not go well.
- In 'The Taste of Things,' all those delicious on-screen meals are real
- Food stylists will sometimes swap glue for milk and coat meat with motor oil. But on the set of The Taste of Things, the meals were real — and the actors kept eating after the director yelled "Cut!"
- Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
18.02.2024
- Valentine’s Day Spending on Significant Others to Reach New Record
- Total spending on significant others for the holiday expected to reach a record $14.2 billion
- Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault
- Make me feel old, why don't you..
11.02.2024
- Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read.
- Ten years into my college teaching career, students stopped being able to read effectively.
- Wat is het ‘limitarisme’? Hoogleraar Ingrid Robeyns legt het uit
- “Extreme rijkdom is funest voor de samenleving, democratie en het klimaat”, bepleit hoogleraar Ethiek van instituties Ingrid Robeyns.
- Trees struggle to 'breathe' as climate warms, researchers find
- Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity's carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm.
- Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds
- Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible
- More than 26K rape-related pregnancies estimated after Texas outlawed abortion
- Tucker Carlson interview: Fact-checking Putin's 'nonsense' history
- Historians say the litany of claims made by the Russian president are nothing more than a selective abuse of history to justify the ongoing war in Ukraine.
- Warning: Fraudulent App Impersonating LastPass Currently Available in Apple App Store
- attempts to copy our branding and user interface, though close examination of the posted screenshots reveal misspellings and other indicators the app is fraudulent.
- Europe’s arms production is in ‘deep shit,’ says Belgian ex-general
- Europe’s ammo production shortfalls are a symptom of a “cultural problem” to adapt to a war-ready industry, retired general Marc Thys tells.
- How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data
4.02.2024
- Nederland plant de hagen terug, doe je mee?
- Duizenden kilometers aan hagen verdwenen in nog geen honderd jaar tijd. Maar natuurliefhebbers planten ze terug. Doe je mee?
- Google Update Shows How Bard AI May Work With Your Messages App
- [..] may ask to read and analyze your private message history. So how might this work, how do you maintain your privacy, and when might this begin.
- On the Black Death in Africa and Asia, and the interconnected Middle Ages
- To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer
- US culture is an incubator of ‘extrinsic values’. Nobody embodies them like the Republican front runner, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
- Podcast ’Het Pilotengraf’ ontrafelt Leidse mythe over nazi-piloot die neerstortte bij het Elisabeth Ziekenhuis
- Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
- Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.
- De Tweede Kamer-app Debat Direct is zoveel meer dan Netflix voor politiek
- Met de app van de Tweede Kamer volg je live debatten en kun je debatten die je hebt gemist terugkijken. Dankzij de app ligt ook alle informatie die je nodig hebt om de politiek te volgen binnen handbereik.
- Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books
- Measles outbreaks cause alarm: what the data say
- A drastic rise in infections in the United Kingdom and Europe follows a drop in vaccine uptake.
- 50 Worst Decisions In American Politics' Last 50 Years (1974-2024)
- These are the historic blunders, scandals, machinations, and lies that have defined our times
28.01.2024
- Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
- Put down the jQuery, step away from the non-relational database: we have more important things to talk about.
- why lowercase letters save data
- Does Double-Dipping Really Spread Germs?
- Or is it just, um, rude?
- Our Rodent Selfies, Ourselves
- A photographer trained two rats to take photographs of themselves. They didn’t want to stop.
- Greta Gerwig Snubbed by Oscars: One Woman Nominated for 2024 Best Director
- Justine Triet's landed a nomination for 'Anatomy of a Fall,' following last year's controversy where no female filmmaker was nominated in the category.
- Hoe een stokoude programmeertaal de overheid in zijn greep houdt
- Een programmeertaal uit de jaren zeventig vormt het hart van de Belastingdienst-ICT: ‘toch is het de toekomst’
- Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
- Our goal is to move as close as possible to becoming fully supported by small donors, relying on a large number of modest contributions from people who care about Signal.
21.01.2024
- Electric cars are not the future
- In cities at least, e-bikes make more cultural and consumer sense
- Mapping Middle-earth: The lopsided demographics of Tolkien's universe
- Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
- Antifungals are going the way of antibiotics—overused, hitting resistance
- CDC urges clinicians to confirm fungal infections before prescribing antifungal medications.
- How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
- Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.
- Streaming model for music set for a streamlining
- Spotify plans to cull millions of barely listened-to tracks come as the big labels focus on artists with superfans
- ‘Het klimaat kan alleen gered worden door een oorlogseconomie’
- Om het voortbestaan van de mens te redden pleit de Duitse journalist Ulrike Herrmann voor een oorlogseconomie naar Brits model met door de overheid bepaalde rantsoenering. Maar de consumptie halveren, kan dat wel? ‘Het zal sowieso gebeuren. Dat is iets wat veel mensen niet begrijpen.’
- Eve by Cat Bohannon review – long overdue evolutionary account of women and their bodies
- The American writer traces the female form back to our ‘true ancestors’ in an epic combination of science and speculation that places women at the centre of history
- Scientists crack mystery of how MS gene spread
- While northern Europeans carry more genetic risk for MS, southern Europeans are more likely to develop bipolar disorder, and eastern Europeans more likely to have Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes.
- Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
- Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
- ‘It’s the industry’s dirty secret’: why fashion’s oversupply problem is an environmental disaster
- As many as 40% of clothes made each year – 60bn garments – are not sold. Experts say tackling such obscene waste will require radical changes in production – and legislation
- All the garbage I found on Substack in 1 hour
- Substack has a huge role in the active promotion of disinformation
- The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
- Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?
- App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline
- Designing better target sizes
- An interactive guide that is all about enhancing the target size area with CSS.
14.01.2024
- Ancient Insurrections—and Ours
- Would-be tyrants keep trying until they succeed.
- After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, is it The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing?
- Either extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) are incredibly rare (or non-existent), or they are deliberately avoiding contact with us (aka. the “Zoo Hypothesis“).
- Yotam Ottolenghi’s winter soups
- Warm up with a hearty potato, cheese and cabbage soup, a mushroom and sausage meatball number or a rich, hot Mexican tortilla soup
- The Economics of Time Travel
- In this article, I argue an alternative explanation is that we are not economically important enough to our descendants to justify the costs of time travel.
- Huge network of ancient cities uncovered in the Amazon rainforest
- Archaeologists working deep in the Amazon rainforest have discovered an extensive network of cities dating back 2,500 years.
- The Dangerous Side Of Marina Abramovic’s Performance Art: Rhythm 0
- “Rhythm 0” was a groundbreaking piece of art by legendary performance artist, Marina Abramovic. She demonstrated what can happen when you give up your own free will to the whims of a crowd. The result nearly killed her.
- No money for meat, so we eat rats: The Indian snake catcher
- A snake catcher earns a steady income for only half the year, but his small abode always has room for one more.
- What We Lost When Twitter Became X
- As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.
- Hoe het klimaat op aarde verder ontspoorde in 2023
- vijf opvallende vaststellingen over een uitzonderlijk weerjaar