The strangest letter of the alphabet
A character I knew not
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How far back in time can you understand English?
A few I didn't know!
‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release
History rhymes and all that.
He made a fake ICE deportation tip line. Then a kindergarten teacher called.
A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Is this a good economic indicator?
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Seems bad
The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune
Oops. I'm still not sure I buy the cell phone ban but I definitely wonder about how much classroom time is spent on their laptops (and why they have to go to and from school everyday).
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
I think this is close to my experience.
Designed to be specialists
What kind of people are we designing now?
15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.
All Your Base, slight remaster
25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds. In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the ...
Trump administration formally denies Minnesota access to Alex Pretti evidence
Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota BCA, said the FBI has formally denied his agency access to evidence and information from the killing of Pretti at the hands of federal officers.
Why the middle class feels poor
With the Great Decompression, incomes rise for everyone but much faster for the affluent.
Opinion | What They Wanted From Jeffrey Epstein
All of these terrible people were citizens of his network state
Tool Shaped Objects
Interesting take that we confuse the output and the value.
High-Level, Actionable Insights From Watching Doubles Luge For The First Time | Defector
To the uninitiated, luge itself might seem a silly sport, given that the average person might guess it mostly consists of holding onto a sled real tight as it goes fast down the ice. Of course, this opinion is wrong. Luge requires athleticism and dexterity, the ability to steer using the slightest movements of your…
CCC vs GCC
And they're... proud of this?
Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained
“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people
There’s a Lot the Skier Lindsey Vonn Can Teach Us.
Count me among the judgers, oops
What Does Starfleet Academy Tell Us About Teaching and Learning? | Tony's Teaching Tips
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I’ve Struggled To Explain How Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Feels Like TNG And Other Older Shows, But Tawny Newsome Nailed It
Star Trek is a Place
What Seattleites learned in Minneapolis
Political organizers from Seattle went to Minneapolis to learn from locals responding to an immigration enforcement surge ordered by the Trump administration.
(AI) Slop Terrifies Me – ezhik.jp
What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?
We mourn our craft
It is sad but I can either be in or out.
How to shoot a screen using a board of keys – Unsung
I forgot a lot of this trivia!
My Daughter Lived the Liam Ramos Nightmare. It Turned Out Worse for Us.
Well that's a little taste of crimes against humanity
Everything is Awful And Why Isn't Anybody Doing Anything About It?
Trying to kick the doom brain to the curb by blogging through it.
Frognative Dissonance - Uncanny Magazine
In November of 1990, The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson aired on CBS. In the one-hour special, Fozzie Bear has been given instructions from Kermit the Frog to put together a production number in honor of their own creator, Jim Henson, who had passed away earlier that year. Over the course of the special, the Muppets […]
How to tear gas children
Vile. And I know this is just bringing the tools of colonial power home but I think this is a formative experience for a lot of the Women's March level of crowd. I've never been tear gassed but it sounds horrible, and it certainly makes me wonder if I should ever go to one as a family
If Apple is richer than ever, why does it feel so broke?
Tim Cook's choices may keep the company in the black, but Apple fans are starting to see red.