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The game that put the Skyline, RX-7, Supra and NSX into our living rooms is 20

This issue heralds the dawn of a new era for Logic(s) and we plan to do something very different than counting up falling sky Chicken Little style.

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

A fantastic sci-fi MMORPG that's secretly also an idle game

Five lessons, and one open question

The Twitter implosion has brought a flood of people seeking a safer, less-toxic environment. The results have been mixed.

running decentralized detoxify monitoring for Mastodon

Since the launch of ChatGPT, generative AI has taken the world by storm. Text-to-image AI generators can create extraordinary images with just a text prompt, while ChatGPT promotes…

Safari and WebKit are here to stay with new features.

At WWDC23, Apple announced the rollout of Safari profiles for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma. Safari profiles let you create separate browser

Caste-oppressed gig workers contend with uncertain working conditions and algorithmic wage discrimination from the platforms they rely on.

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How to make better software with systems-thinking

President Joe Biden had called out ticketing giants for their “junk fees” during his State of the Union address

There is a moment in "Shrek" when the despicable Lord Farquaad has the Gingerbread Man tortured by dipping him into milk. This prepares us for another moment when Princess Fiona's singing voice is so piercing it causes jolly little bluebirds to explode; making the best of a bad situation, she fries their eggs. This is not your average family cartoon. "Shrek" is jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart.

Apple has been improving password management over the last several years to encourage people to use separate, hard-to-guess passwords for each site,...

Higher education risks becoming a cut-price assembly line. There’s a better way of producing good learning.

Recently, a friend sent me a link to an article that they thought I might mind useful. It was one of those articles, the kind that purpor...

Between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Apple's stock Notes app got hardly any screen time during yesterday's WWDC keynote, but one powerful addition to the app in iOS 17 is a new...

The largest air force manoeuvres in the history of NATO has officially begun in German air space, a German Air Force spokesman confirmed to dpa on Monday morning.

"If one man fails to file a story of a millionairess marrying a poor factory hand because that man understands such a story is not properly A.P. stuff, such an error of news judgment ought to be generally made known to other employees."

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Several optimisations and changes I've made to my single user mastodon instance.

Intro I’ve been using Mastodon maybe two weeks now, and I am liking what I’ve been seeing so far. Sure, the first few days were very quiet, but as I followed more users (and trimed as needed), and followed some hashtags, it started to become a useful service. I was on the mastodon.social instance. But, with Mastodon being a federated service, I wanted to run my own instance. Maybe to control my own data?

As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …