"The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." --Kurt Vonnegut | Continue reading
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." --Rudyard Kipling | Continue reading
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Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. --Ray Cummings | Continue reading
"It takes no money to respect the individual." --Harvey Milk | Continue reading
“Thank you” helps someone feel seen and understood. It reminds us that we’re not alone. --Seth Godin | Continue reading
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." --Abraham Lincoln | Continue reading
"The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." -- Kurt Vonnegut | Continue reading
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -- Carl Sagan | Continue reading
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." --George Bernard Shaw | Continue reading
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind." -- John F. Kennedy | Continue reading
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower | Continue reading
"We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity." -- Eleanor Roosevelt | Continue reading
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -- From Edgar Allan Poe's "Eleonora" | Continue reading
"One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community." --Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Continue reading
"Being young isn't about age; it's about being a free spirit." --Lesley "Twiggy" Lawson | Continue reading
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C. Clarke | Continue reading
When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? | Continue reading
Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime | Scientific American #psychology #health #longread A new study published in Science Advances by Sacktor, Fenton and their colleagues plugs these holes. The research suggests that PKMzeta works al … | Continue reading
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Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious • The Register #internet In the past eight months, however, Google has lost two major US competition lawsuits: One brought by Epic Games over Google's grip on the Android ecosystem, the other brought by the Department of Justice | Continue reading
Computer security is a political struggle #security #privacy #politics #longread Most of Western society now depends on digital technology. Yet we have a technology industry that is at war with its own customers. Much of our technology is broken, and it is broken by design. becau … | Continue reading
“What happens when that information is baked into large language models and the source of that information is not live on the web anymore?” --T.Cooper | Continue reading
An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut #literature #history #longread One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I arrived at the home of Kurt Vonnegut in Sagaponack. We had called Kurt, earlier; and asked to interview him, whereupon he said, “I’d rather interview Bob Caro.” | Continue reading
How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy | Smithsonian #privacy #copyrights #history Early photographers sold their snapshots to advertisers, who reused the individuals’ likenesses without their permission. In 1904, a widow named Elizab … | Continue reading
eHammurabi #history #law #longread The Law Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest legal texts from ancient Mesopotamia. The artifact, a basalt stele, is believed to have been created between c. 1792–1750 BCE. It was discovered by Jacques Jean Marie de Morgan's team around 1901 | Continue reading
Short survey I would like you to fill the one question survey, which will shape the future of the newsletter. You can find the survey form here (no any personal information will be asked): https://tally.so/r/wA8lPe Thank you very much! Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immun … | Continue reading
South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware — over 600,000 torrent users report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs | Tom's Hardware #security 💡 Is it OK to defend(?) the copyrights by slaughtering the security? Express your opinion in the … | Continue reading
Donald Sutherland dies aged 88 #promemoria The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, star of films including The Hunger Games and Don't Look Now, has died at 88 after a long illness. His son, the actor Kiefer Sutherland, said: "With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, | Continue reading
Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack — ProPublica #security #longread Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the Nationa … | Continue reading
Martha Gellhorn Was The Only Woman to Report on the D-Day Landings From the Ground | Smithsonian #history #longread “Gellhorn was willing to put herself in positions where some journalists wouldn’t and then tell the stories that weren’t the traditional ‘what’s going on | Continue reading
Huge #privacy threat arises in #Europe and highly prorussian move. Original message: Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. France is considerung to give up its resistance. The "compromise": Either you agree to have … | Continue reading
Steve Blank Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid #photography #history #economy #longread In April 1969 Kodak tore up a 20-year manufacturing partnership with Polaroid. In a surprise to everyone at Polaroid, Kodak declared war. They terminated their agreement to … | Continue reading
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings #politics #history #world #longread First, some important words from Donald T: “I know it sounds devastating, but you have to get used to the fact that a new era has begun. The pre-war era.” And this | Continue reading
Atari’s Mike Jang – The Arcade Blogger #computer #games #history #atari #longread I started the concepts for the Star Wars cabinet and later another designer did more detailed work on the plastic part in front of the monitor. One of the main elements I sketched up were the | Continue reading
ESA - Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail #space #science The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These observations show a p … | Continue reading
💡 <...> the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. --Dave Rupert The Battlegrounds from World War 1 Are Still Dangerous in France - Atlas Obscura #history In some parts of France, World War I has | Continue reading
💡 “The word for world is forest” — Ursula K. Le Guin We Need To Rewild The Internet #internet #society #longread The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometim … | Continue reading
💡 You can do anything you want. She Built a Microcomputer Empire From Her Suburban Home #women #computers #hardware #history #longread London. 1981. A young, smartly dressed woman watches from the sidelines as a stage is prepared. Everyone is there to hear about a hotly a … | Continue reading
Timeline of the xz open source attack #software #security #longread Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library, eventually being granted commit access and maintainership. Using th … | Continue reading
Make a donation - support Ukraine. My favourite: Support the Armed Forces of Ukraine | via National Bank of Ukraine. More options if you want alternatives. Also, very important Come Back Alive Foundation - Charity Organization. Щира подяка. Разом | Continue reading
EU cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments results in financial paternalism – Patrick Breyer #economy #money #privacy The majority of the EU Parliament’s lead committees today approved far-reaching new anti-money laundering laws: Anonymous cash payments over €3,000 will be … | Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law | News | European Parliament #privacy #ai Key points: Safeguards on general purpose artificial intelligence Limits on the use of biometric identification systems by law enforcement Bans on social scoring and AI used to manipula … | Continue reading
Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star's physics lab #science #fakescience #longreadThree previous investigations into Dias’s superconductivity work by the University of Rochester did not find evidence of misconduct. But last summer, … | Continue reading
The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias - Atlas Obscura #art #culture #history #longreadIn some science fiction cinema, the future looks pretty bleak, with dystopic visions of a world struggling with overcrowding, high crime, pestilence, and the aftermath of war. And it c … | Continue reading
A Peek Inside a 'Scam Manual' Written to Help Immigrants Not Become Victims - Atlas Obscura #history #books #security #longreadWritten by inventor-turned-journalist William Lange and published in 1912, it was called Modern Swindles: A romp through early 20th century con … | Continue reading
An extract of 1 USGS topographic map, accessed via the Living Atlas Historical Topo Map Explorer. 1885 Tooele Valley 1:250,000European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-endencryption - the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans? - EU Repo … | Continue reading
Original image by ©Yazawa Manga Productions/Shueisha, with background edits by Tokyo WeekenderPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands | U.S. | EL PAÍS English #slaveryA hidden path to America’s dinner tables be … | Continue reading