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A young National Guardsman posted hundreds of secret government files to a private Discord group. Then they sat there for months unnoticed.

We don't know where to go online now.

Thoughts on the mention of the Newton Protest in Steve Jobs’ “Make Something Wonderful.”

pIn Liar’s Poker, his 1989 seminal account of trading, Michael Lewis has a chapter called “From Geek to Man.” Here’s what he says about “geeks”: “A geek is a circus performer who bites the heads off live chickens and snakes. Or so says the red American Heritage Dictionary.” When Lewis arrived at Salomon Brothers in […]/p

Say goodbye to the old Twitter and hello to the new normal.

Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm

The $300 Unihertz Titan Pocket is an imperfect phone that just might be worth it.

The news cycle is talking about NPR leaving Twitter. This is a good moment to look at a case study of Heise, a big German news outlet, and what joining Mastodon actually means in terms of numbers and engagement.

Kia made a fun, attainable supercar but forgot to pump up the battery.

I made a little web service back in 2015 and somewhere in the following 7 years I forgot about it. I’ve been adding title-casing to various projects and plugins and keep writing new code for it…

Substack Notes just dropped. Can the startup survive this foray into social media?

The decision comes a week after the social media platform began labeling the network as “US state-affiliated media.”

Here are some things that have been bothering me

Most of the time, a terminal is a productivity powerhouse. But there's more to the terminal than commands and configurations.

The classic music player Winamp's revamp is part streaming aggregator, part Patreon alternative.

My original Mastodon account was on mastodon.social. I chose it because it’s the largest instance, it’s operated by the developers of the service, and it runs the reference implementati…

This article gained traction over the past couple weeks, and it mentioned something that I feel like I keep seeing casual Mastodon users complain about: People relentlessly calling Twitter the “birdsite” Do they???? I got heckled once of twice for calling "Twitter" by it's name like once or twice back

The next best thing to search.

Family is preeminent for most publics but work, material well-being and health also play a key role.

Regular blogging by Terence Eden.

Jia Tolentino's first essay collection, Trick Mirror, contains startling insights arrived upon through the New Yorker staff writer's own bizarre life experiences, many of which took place right here in Houston.

Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

What’s next?

When Twitter shut off API access, third-party apps were left high and dry. One app chose to pivot to become a Mastodon app.

It's high time we escaped the barbed-wire-fenced private domains of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. You don't need to search long for a key — at least if you know where to look.

We're releasing the Segment Anything Model (SAM) — a step toward the first foundation model for image segmentation — and the SA-1B dataset.

Scrivener for academic writing with Zotero : A robust setup for academic writing in Scrivener including references and bibliography, output to PDF and docx, and live preview.

A simple, searchable, themeable archive of your public tweets

by Darius Kazemi, Dec 31 2018 April 7th, 2019 is going to be the 50 year anniversary of the first ever Request for Comments, known as an...