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I could hear Meet the Press on in the background at my house on Sunday and the reporters were discussing various means of reducing the budget deficit. I didn’t bother to sit down and listen, however, because I knew that none of it made any sense. All were [...]

One can refuse to pay bills, bully employees, steal credit, work the refs and look for shortcuts… or pay bills ahead of time, elevate employees, amplify the credit of others and take the long…

Posted on Friday 25 Nov 2022. 654 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

How the aesthetic, utopian yet pragmatic movement of Solarpunk reimagines a future without a climate catastrophe

Twitter Is Dead, Long Live Twitter

Alameda County had initially denied issuing the data, citing requirements under healthy privacy law.

A study finds that people who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years prior are still fatter.

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Star Wars has always been political.

Soon after Musk took over Twitter, he announced that no big content moderation changes would occur until after he had convened a “content moderation council” made up of “diverse&#…

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“Ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth of

The bicycle and the bow are both highly efficient, human-powered technologies that could substitute for two very harmful alternatives: the car and the firearm. Why do we promote one but not the other? Image: University of Chicago students practice archery. Image by Bardon, Emmet. University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center. Why did firearms and bullets replace bows and arrows? To many, this sounds like a stupid question with an obvious answer: the firearm succeeded the bow because it’s a superior weapon. Let’s investigate. Strength and skills Hand-held firearms are usually assessed or compared in terms of performance characteristics such as lethality, range, and rate of fire. However, if we apply the same criteria to bows, two difficulties quickly...

While manufacturing modern firearms and bullets depends on a global supply chain and fossil fuels, bows and arrows can be made anywhere out of anything, using only human power and simple hand tools. Image: Tanimber islander with very large bow and arrow in leather armor, Dutch Indies. Source unknown. Many bows and arrows ago The bow is one of humanity's most essential and fascinating technologies, perhaps only eclipsed by the controlled use of fire. Despite endless academic speculation on the subject for almost 200 years, we don't know when archery originated. [1] Bows and arrows were made from organic materials, which do not preserve for long. The oldest archaeological finds come from peat bogs, glaciers, and water-logged lake sediments –...

Breaking down the 50th anniversary of Stove Top, the foodstuff that changed our relationship with stuffing. There’s a lot of herbs and spices here.

Two years later, Seattle is still fighting over meaningless accounting moves while squandering an opportunity to build a real police alternative.

We're just too practical to be too stylish.

“Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/”

The long read: By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is this breakneck-pace development happening faster than this 600-mile stretch between Abidjan and Lagos

Elon Musk said the overwhelming wealth is inversely proportional to the number of children they have, but considered himself a rare exception

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A new report from the Geena Davis Institute, Google Research and USC uses AI to analyze representation in media.

Could a shorter work week be the answer to the UK's productivity problem?