I quit a civil rights group because its policies will harm children. | Continue reading
I review The Boy I LIke? -- the English localization of what is effectively a freeware doujin meme visual novel | Continue reading
I’m exhausted from all the news and threats and everything. Every day we wake up to another horrible alert that another war is starting. I just wrote a thousand words and deleted all of it. It shouldn’t need an entire article to tell people how bad a war is. I’m just exhausted of … | Continue reading
A breakout anime’s first movie often falls into one of two categories. Either it’s a showcase of the source material that feels like a stretched-out arc of the anime itself, or it attempts to fill in some backstory and set up some dominoes for the season to come. In the case of t … | Continue reading
During the historic April 8 total solar eclipse, a government radio station in Colorado started sending out slightly shifted "time signals" to millions of people across the globe as the moon's shadow altered the upper layers of our atmosphere. However, these altered signals did n … | Continue reading
Last week, I reported on the Environmental Protection Agency’s monumental new restrictions on “forever chemicals” in Americans’ drinking water. At the time, I stressed that the issue doesn’t end with the water that flows out of our kitchen and bathroom taps — the government also … | Continue reading
I saw a variation of an email from back in the day, which provides a Mad Libs style approach to formulating a country & western song. When I was reminded of it today, I adapted it for Perchance. Give it a go! | Continue reading
Underwater archaeologist and author David Gibbins discusses his new book about shipwrecks around the world. | Continue reading
He’s your current employer, and you live in his house. Not a red flag. Not for you at least. As the person in the higher class, he is the one with the most to lose. For you, there is nowhere to go but up. He lies to you about who he is when you first meet. Not a red flag. This is … | Continue reading
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"Im also improving the lives of people in my neighborhood.” ATM produces surprising result when people swipe their card: 'Why should I spend on drinking water?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today? The post This Web of Ours, Revisited appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
Following Childhood’s End, my exploration of Arthur C. Clarke books made me read three other works regrouped into a series entitled The Space Trilogy, which are Islands in the Sky, The Sands of Mars, and Earthlight, or Les îles de l’espace, Les sables de Mars, and Lumière cendrée … | Continue reading
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Apple removed several U.S.-based messaging apps from its App Store in China, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Threads, according to the Washington Post Friday. Officially, the apps were already banned in China but could still be accessed by users with a VPN. Read more... | Continue reading
You don’t make a movie as sumptuous and engrossing as Dune: Part Two and not think of every little detail. How the planets move, who all the people are, how people get off the sandworm. In preparing and making both Dune films, Denis Villeneuve thought of everything. And, to illus … | Continue reading
Major cities across eastern China are sinking due to groundwater extraction and the weight of buildings, potentially exposing millions of people to flooding and damage in the next 100 years. | Continue reading
This week I spoke at TED2024, the iconic program’s 40th anniversary event. I joined RuPaul, Kesha, and two different astrophysicists on the stage in Vancouver. I was given 15 minutes, and took 17, to riffle through 47 slides articulating what I believe is the greatest challenge f … | Continue reading
Here's what we looked at this week:Startup Humane has debuted their Ai Pin, to damning reviews. The UI/UX design is just insane. Form follows function: NASA's zero-gravity drinking cup, prototyped in space.Some wonderful scans from "The Function of Colour in Factories School … | Continue reading
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Fraudster charged with crypto market manipulation defended Mango Markets scheme. | Continue reading
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Disney has released a first look at “Smellephants on Parade,” a new family-friendly “search and sniff” interactive experience that is coming to Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. The Details First announced in July 2023, “Smellephants on Parade,” is sponsored by Scentsy, the Off … | Continue reading
Researchers discovered the remains of a huge dinosaur named Bustingorrytitan shiva last year and have now released artistic reconstructions of the Cretaceous giant. | Continue reading
Following an urgent appeal filed to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) on behalf of blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, EFF has joined 26 free expression and human rights organizations calling for immediate action. The appeal to the UNWGAD was i … | Continue reading
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 17–21 April 20 … | Continue reading
This is the twenty-sixth part of a fiction serial, in 757 words. Not long after celebrating her forty-second birthday, Hettie was informed that her classes would be increasing in size starting the following month. Agents were being recruited to replace those arrested or killed, a … | Continue reading
At roughly 11:19 a.m. on April 20, 1999, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold emerged from their vehicles in the parking lots of Columbine High School. Clad in black trench coats, they started strolling toward the school entrance. Klebold lobbed a pipe bomb. Then … | Continue reading
Zenpack is a packaging design firm with a key difference from competitors: They also handle fulfillment, bringing design and manufacturing under one roof to offer clients a turnkey solution.They were recently hired by coffee retailer Cambio Roasters. "When Cambio Roasters was get … | Continue reading
Passengers love airplanes because they’re fast. Piston-powered aviation is, of course, almost always slower than driving, but time spent at the airport is seldom wasted. I went up to Stuart, Florida the other day to fly the Cirrus and have dinner with the Quiet Birdmen. Here were … | Continue reading
Visitors at Ranthambore National Park in India captured rare footage and images of a tigress and her three 1-year-old cubs feasting on the carcass of a crocodile after killing it. | Continue reading
As the year 2000 approached, pop culture channelled its millennial unease into science fiction. While 1999 did see some standout horror (The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project) and fantasy (Toy Story 2, The Mummy) releases, one genre reigned supreme—and it involved aliens, time … | Continue reading
"There is a legal right to an EV charger even for renters as long as you pay for it." Tenant stunned by message from landlord forbidding them from using EV charger: 'You can do what you want' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Rochelle wakes from cryostasis to take up her role as engineer on the colony ark, Calypso... The post Read an Excerpt From Oliver K. Langmead’s Calypso appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
In a comment on yesterday's post ("High vowel lenition/devoicing in French"), carveuir wrote: Ha! As a final-year undergraduate in 2015, I mentioned having come across devoicing of the second /i/ in "université" to my French linguistics tutor and he didn't believe me. Finally I'v … | Continue reading
It's not uncommon to have to remove a laptop's keyboard in order to perform other work on it. The Thinkpad x280 is actually a little different in that respect, because it only generally needs removing for replacement or because the motherboard needs removing for some reason. Desp … | Continue reading
A long post with notes and reflections and photos from my recent trip to Toronto and Halifax. | Continue reading
After flying against simulated opponents, the AI agent has taken on humans. | Continue reading
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FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024 The Wreck of The Old #4: Friends, how well are you served by the works of your clan? The issue arose yesterday at the start of Deadline: White House. Two of the original seven Trump jurors had now been dismissed by Judge Merchan. We speak of the original Ju … | Continue reading
A review of the third book in the Saevus Corax trilogy. The post One Last Time, Saevus Corax Gets Away With Murder appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
In the meetings and events industry, excellence stands out. With the Skift Meetings Awards now accepting entries for the 2024 program, this is your chance to celebrate your achievements. -Adam Stacey | Continue reading
Approximately 22,500 exposed Palo Alto GlobalProtect firewall devices are likely vulnerable to the CVE-2024-3400 flaw, a critical command injection vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks since at least March 26, 2024. [...] | Continue reading
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,When I think about that little newborn baby—the first one I birthed, the first true obsession of my life—I recall the haze of sleepless nights and the excitement of new life. Babies are so raw and new; they wholly need you. You carry them and everything they will one day become. … | Continue reading
After testing nine charcoal chimney starters (and burning through 78 pounds of charcoal), we found four top picks for lighting briquettes and lump charcoal. | Continue reading