All I wanted was a swimming pool. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in Zelle fraud.
Really need public key signatures to be easier huh?
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The WebP 0day
Very nice analysis. I wonder if we'll ever get an official explanation... maybe once there is more patching?
Analysis | Musk is nearly done destroying what made Twitter Twitter
It's just so sad. (And on verification using your own domain as on Mastodon seems to be a great mechanism.)
Opening remarks on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge”
It's going to get bad as everyone scramble to make up use cases.
The Seven Meetings You Hate
Experienced a lot of these.
Did leaded gasoline cause a huge spike in crime?
I had read this in Freakonomics years ago but this adds a few more details.
24 hours in an invisible epidemic
Where are their online communities?
Why don’t more people go vegan? It could be the label.
Interesting but unsurprising that the vegan label is such a turn off
With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways | Margaret Sullivan
It's not both sides!
A family fled to WA to protect their trans child. Here’s how their life changed
We really need to plan for a surge in this type of refugee. Housing!!!
On Robots Killing People
I wouldn't be surprised if insurance ends up being the mechanism, like a lot of underregulated things.
Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate
Sure does seem like we'll be paying more and getting less for a long while.
What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?
Capitalism coöpted the aesthetic without the values?
Artist: Known — Illustrator for 'A Wrinkle in Time' gets long-overdue credit
Amazing investigation! Sad the original paintings were destroyed.
The Roger Rabbit Theory
As usual it's complicated... there was conspiracy but that wasn't enough on its own
Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists
Of course they don't want people looking into e-meters without consequences!
Column: Hollywood studios have already lost the strikes. Now it’s time to surrender
As with many other industries AMTMP wants to generate pure profit divorced from labor but they have nothing without creatives.
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
I love this whole story. I'm sure I've been under that bridge many dozens of times and never noticed it didn't go anywhere anymore.
I am now of the opinion that more 9th grade history reports should be retained in historical archives.
Inverted computer culture (a thought experiment) | viznut
A neat idea that reminds me of elements of Anathem.
This Is What Transgender Eradication Looks Like
It's bad out there. We must support internally displaced trans persons.
Though these may be efforts to erase us, one truth stands firm: we are part of what it means to be human, and eradication is a futile pursuit. Even if every last one of us was removed from this Earth, we would still be here, born anew to every generation.
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale
I knew it was going to get bad but I didn't realize it would get this bad this fast.
The Revitalizing Power of Indigenous Typography | The Tyee
Very cool to have a regional sans serif typeface
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For a generation of students, the iMac was a gateway to the future
Everyone is so mean to the puck mouse.
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How the iMac saved Apple
Beautiful machine. I still have my B&W G3 tower! Need to do something with it...
Entertainment CD-ROMs were a thing in the 1990s. Ask your parents.
A superconductor claim blew up online. Science has punctured it.
Aw. Too good to be true?
Why Amazon’s RTO strategy could backfire | Op-Ed
Leads with Empathy is on the PE list and the policy very much lacks it.
Shamir Secret Sharing
That's a fun incompatibility.
Behind "Hello World" on Linux
Nice overview of how Linux process launches work
Mastodon's Mastodon'ts
Being able to moderate replies to your posts would be nice.
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
I suspect this kind of market capture is already illegal or regulated but mostly unenforced. Yuck.