Happy Juneteenth for government workers

Juneteenth (June 19) is the latest day off for government workers, a great mid-summer demonstration of why it is stupid to work in the private sector (an Irish small business owner friend: “G… | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 2 years ago

Little evidence linking depression and long working hours, says WHO

Working excessive hours has long been thought to increase the risk of depression – but after conducting the largest ever review of research into this area, researchers say there is a surprising lack of evidence supporting the link | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 2 years ago

Malware prevents its victims from going to illegal download sites

© Pirate Bay In a report, SophosLab said it learned of the existence of malware intended to prevent its victims from downloading illegally. Active between October 2020 and January 2021, this malwar… | Continue reading


@swacash.com | 2 years ago

You May Not Want to Use AWS Amplify for Your Next Serverless Project

Some lessons learnt by our team during 6-month usage of AWS Amplify framework. | Continue reading


@peter-sereda.medium.com | 2 years ago

That Song Stuck in Your Head Is Helping the Brain with Long-Term Memory

When songs get stuck in your head, they are helping you to remember—according to researchers at University of California-Davis. | Continue reading


@goodnewsnetwork.org | 2 years ago

Solar Protocol

Solar Protocol is a network of solar-powered servers that collectively host a web platform created by Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella. | Continue reading


@branch.climateaction.tech | 2 years ago

Scikit-Learn: Subtle Questions About Implementing Machine Learning Methods

Scikit-Learn: Subtle Questions About Implementing Machine Learning Methods with Examples | Continue reading


@dasha.ai | 2 years ago

What Does a Fact Look Like?

“Alternative facts” respond to an emotional demand for coherence that reality often fails to address, and when the two clash, reality suffers. | Continue reading


@thebaffler.com | 2 years ago

Google’s first-ever retail store

Buy a speaker, try Google Stadia, or fix a cracked phone screen—the store is open. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 2 years ago

An illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

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@gentlydownthe.stream | 2 years ago

6C Podcast: June 18, 2021

WWDC hangovers, the Globe key, and some live pinging. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 2 years ago

Telnet Online

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@telnet-online.net | 2 years ago

Microsoft announces Windows developer event for June 24th

Microsoft has announced an additional Windows developer event for June 24th that will likely reveal new programming API or Microsoft Store changes. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 2 years ago

‘Rick and Morty’ Season 5 Opening Scene: Morty Saves the Day, Much to Rick’s Chagrin

Adult Swim has released the Rick and Morty season 5 opening scene, and even though Morty saves their lives, the outcome is a frustrating one for Rick. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 2 years ago

SoloSuit (YC W21) Is Hiring

SoloSuit is TurboTax for debt lawsuits. We are passionate in our pursuit and are looking for others to join us.We are a startup, so you won't be a small piece in a big machine. You will see how your effort impacts customers.We are a fully remote company. SoloSuit is funded by: Y … | Continue reading


@ycombinator.com | 2 years ago

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Breakdown: The Details and History That Enrich “Reunion”

We have everything you need to know about the latest episode of the Disney+ series in our Star Wars The Bad Batch Reunion breakdown. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 2 years ago

I Have Been Staring At This Outfit For a Long Time Now

And I have concluded the following: 1) You will probably want to know her name, which is right and good, and it is Assol Abdullina. Her film Materna is at Tribeca right now. 2) You will like her lipstick a lot, and I do, too. 3) You will bewail the existence of belt loops around … | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 2 years ago

The Encyclopedia Entry for the Midwestern Dad

Scientific Name: Patria Adultus Middle AmericanusCommon Names: Dad, Pop, Old ManNative to: North Central United States, with heavy concentrations... | Continue reading


@mcsweeneys.net | 2 years ago

‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Leans Into Director Sam Raimi’s Horror Background

Michael Waldron confirms that we're getting plenty of Multiverse of Madness horror for the Doctor Strange sequel, courtesy of Sam Raimi. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 2 years ago

Medical School 2020, Year 3, Week 19 (Internal Medicine)

Internal Medicine clerkship starts at 7:00 am. My classmates and I meet the clerkship coordinator at the hospital coffee shop to receive schedules and team assignments. Gigolo Giorgio is frustrated… | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 2 years ago

Koo is selling itself as a Twitter substitute in Nigeria

The Indian microblogging app has built a partisan audience in India by supporting government restrictions on social platforms. | Continue reading


@restofworld.org | 2 years ago

Retinal Tissue Restored in Patients with Dry AMD, Heralding Paradigm Shift

Retinal tissue has been regrown in three patients with age-related macular degeneration with geographic atrophy or dry (atrophic) AMD in a Phase I/IIa study conducted by Lineage Cell Therapeutics. | Continue reading


@biospace.com | 2 years ago

‘The Flash’ Director Reveals First Look at Supergirl’s Costume

The Flash director Andy Muschietti revealed the first look at the Supergirl costume, which will be worn by Latina actress Sasha Calle in the DC film. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 2 years ago

Fake DarkSide gang targets energy, food industry in extortion emails

Threat actors impersonate the now-defunct DarkSide Ransomware operation in fake extortion emails sent to companies in the energy and food sectors. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft’s Russian office went from 1000 employees in 2014 to less than 300 now

A switch to cloud tech, coupled with a drive to use local software and a decline in revenue, has led to the downsizing of Microsoft's Russian ... | Continue reading


@intellinews.com | 2 years ago

The Principles of Deep Learning Theory

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@ai.facebook.com | 2 years ago

Hong Kong’s Freedoms: What China Promised and How It’s Cracking Down

Beijing has tightened its grip on Hong Kong in recent years, dimming hopes that the financial center will ever become a full democracy. | Continue reading


@cfr.org | 2 years ago

Very Important

We’re off to a solid start to our second annual drive for The TPM Journalism Fund. It’s super important for... | Continue reading


@talkingpointsmemo.com | 2 years ago

Tesla’s ‘Knight Rider’ Steering Yoke Is Getting Panned in Early Reviews

There's a reason the "steering rectangle" never caught on. | Continue reading


@thedrive.com | 2 years ago

Chess blindfold platform: Chess Radio

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@chessrad.io | 2 years ago

GitHub Actions are down right now

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@githubstatus.com | 2 years ago

Shopify’s Massive Storefront Rewrite (2020)

Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It’s a fairly well known opinion that rewrites are “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can … | Continue reading


@changelog.com | 2 years ago

A Conversation with William Logan

Piotr Florczyk in the Los Angeles Review of Books: PIOTR FLORCZYK: Forgive me for opening with a grim statement, but you are, as a poet-critic, a member of a dying breed, not the least because, as you remind us, “America is suspicious of the man who wears more than one hat.” What … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 years ago

Scaling Pokemon Go (2016)

Throughout my career as an engineer, I’ve had a hand in numerous product launches that grew to millions of users. User adoption typically happens gradually | Continue reading


@cloud.google.com | 2 years ago

∞ The Dalrymple Report: Siri rant and flying HomePod

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@loopinsight.com | 2 years ago

2022 Tesla Model S Plaid First Test: 0–60 MPH in 1.98 Seconds

*Under very specific conditions dictated by Tesla, that is. | Continue reading


@motortrend.com | 2 years ago

Get the most of your Twitter Bookmarks

dewey. makes it easy to search, organize, and share all your Twitter bookmarks into your favorite note-taking tools. | Continue reading


@getdewey.co | 2 years ago

Proliferation of electric vehicles based on high-performance, low-cost sodium-ion battery

Various automobile companies are preparing to shift from internal combustion (IC) engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). However, due to higher cost, EVs are not as easily accessible to consumers; hence, several governments are subsidizing EVs to promote sales. For EV costs … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

The Best of Voyager, Part 1

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@filfre.net | 2 years ago

Journal scammed by guest editor impersonator

An Elvis impersonator, via Metro Library and Archive It just keeps happening. For at least the fourth time in two years, a journal has been scammed by someone impersonating a guest editor. The late… | Continue reading


@retractionwatch.com | 2 years ago

Show HN: Replace most costly step when generating music with OpenAI Jukebox

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@songeater.github.io | 2 years ago

New cause found for intensification of oyster disease

A new paper in Scientific Reports led by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science challenges increased salinity and seawater temperatures as the established explanation for a decades-long increase in the prevalence and deadliness of a major oyster dise … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

The Right Isn’t Done With Juneteenth

As I noted below, my first reaction to the news that Juneteenth was becoming a federal holiday was shock. Given... | Continue reading


@talkingpointsmemo.com | 2 years ago

The 27.5-million-year cycle of geological activity

Geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, giving the planet a 'pulse,' according to a new study published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Sylvia Plath and the Loneliness of Love

“Life is loneliness… Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship — but the loneliness of the soul, in its appalling self-consciousness, is horrible and overpowering.” | Continue reading


@brainpickings.org | 2 years ago

Graphene drum: A new phonon laser design

Professor Konstantin Arutyunov of the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE), together with Chinese researchers, has developed a graphene-based mechanical resonator, in which coherent emission of sound energy quanta, or phonons, has been induced. … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

MacStories Unwind: An App Review Comic Book, Podcast Subscriptions, and Shazam Milestones

[audio_player src=”https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/0de98bba-5e4d-4879-94dc-8c76a3a88322/episodes/b2a8d766-093b-4f02-b984-c7d2fe5b42e1/audio/f47d5eec-2bbd-458a-9529-4b4577aca78a/default_tc.mp3” mime_type=”audio/mpeg” total_duration=”00:18:09” caption=”“] [subscribe_to_unwind] Spo … | Continue reading


@macstories.net | 2 years ago

Climate warming influences fungal communities on oak leaves

Climate warming plays a larger role than plant genes in influencing the number and identity of fungal species on oak leaves, especially in autumn. Recently published in the journal New Phytologist, this research by ecologists sheds light on how warming and tree genes affect the d … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago