💡 “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
A detail of the Chicago O'Hare International Airport on the Chicago section VFR map. Source: FAA.Physical cash is dying—and you don’t need to be a conspiracist to worry about the consequences #economy #society #longreadPhysical cash, to the chagrin of Piers Corbyn, is | Continue reading
Doshisha University shows an image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of a robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, on the moon. Credit: JAXA/Takara Tomy/Sony Group Corporation/Doshisha University via APBJP’s Saral app gathers unusu … | Continue reading
Miscellaneous Fire Grenades. Courtesy London Fire Brigade MuseumHaier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer | Hackaday #software #copyrightsAppliance manufacturer Haier has been integrating IoT features into their newer products, and as is so common these … | Continue reading
The elevated station, from afar. (C) brrAlaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections - The Air CurrentAir safety reporting by The Air Current is provided without a subscription as a public service. United Airlines has found l … | Continue reading
💡You got this newsletter, because you were subscribed to ReHacked on substack, but I decided to move to the new home. For you will be no changes: same newsletter, same creator.Buy me a coffee <3JAL flight was cleared to land before fiery Tokyo collision - | Continue reading
Derinkuyu: Strange underground city found in man's basement - Big Think #historyIn 1963, a man knocked down a wall in his basement and discovered a mysterious underground city. The subterranean city is up to 18 stories and 280 feet deep in places and probably thousands of years o … | Continue reading
Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts | Society | The Guardian #history #culture“Sheer vandalism” and “insane”. This is how leading historians on Monday described government plans to destroy millions of historical wills to save on storage c … | Continue reading
Mary Ratcliffe - code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's innermost secrets dies aged 98 | Daily Mail Online #historyTributes have been paid to a female code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's encrypted secrets during the Second … | Continue reading
The Life and Legacy of Feminist Activist Noe Ito | Tokyo Weekender #history #feminism #orientalismBorn in 1895, Noe Ito was raised in a small fishing village, not too far from Fukuoka. As a teenager, she convinced a wealthy uncle to fund her education in Tokyo, where she attended … | Continue reading
If you’re very very stupid, how can you possibly realize that you’re very very stupid? --J.Cleese | Continue reading
The currency of the New Economy won't be money, but attention --A radical theory of value, 1997 | Continue reading
This time in the main topic I would like to share information about Unseen STL event.On November 25th, Spine Indie Bookstore and Cafe (1976-82 Arsenal St.) will celebrate its second anniversary, or Spine-iversary, with a day of dabbling into everything that makes Spine such a gre … | Continue reading
A History of Japanese Train Evolution | Tokyo Weekender #history #technology #engineeringThey have been called the greatest privatization success story in Japan’s history: railways. Their on-time record is the envy of the world. In its best year in nearly six decades of se … | Continue reading
What is Wasabi and Why Is It so Spicy? | Tokyo Weekender #history #culinary #longreadWasabi was first cultivated in Japan in the 10th century after it was discovered growing by mountain streams, thriving alongside running water and shade. It was originally cultivated for its heal … | Continue reading
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking – The Marginalian #longreadIn a chapter titled “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,” Sagan reflects on the many types of deception to which we’re susceptible … | Continue reading
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” --W. Bagehot | Continue reading
...let the Russian soldiers and the Russian people know that this is an unjust war that is not provoked. --A.Schwarzenegger | Continue reading
Life is unfair and then... you die --Someone on the internet | Continue reading