[SC 2.4.4] Some absolutely nasty CSS selectors
I've been working on community-reported bugs and access barriers at work. It's been very rewarding, and I just got to write some absolutely nasty CSS selectors to enable something good.
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
Some cool digital spelunking.
Mystery Search
Google, but you get the last person's search.
Chicken wings advertised as ‘boneless’ can have bones, Ohio Supreme Court decides
Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.
These dragons really do have iron teeth
Man, komodo dragons do not mess around.
AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
lol
UN Secretary-General’s Call to Action on Extreme Heat
oh.
Neural circuit basis of placebo pain relief
So, this is extremely interesting. We might have cracked the placebo effect?
Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools
h/t Ben!
LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads
"Alongside the well-established set of known offenders, Meta is also blocking a number of well-known Mastodon servers that host LGBT people and marginalized communities."
Words such as racist slurs can literally hurt – here’s the science
"They discovered that the participants felt the most pain and produced a larger physical response when the participants were speaking the language they most strongly identified with."
HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient
Get those pitchforks, folks.
Internet Phone Book
"We are creating a physical directory for exploring the vast poetic web. It features the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators."
The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
Some serendipitous zen.
Seattle crows are so smart, they’re challenging what we know about evolution
Apparently it takes ~16 years for crows to let go of an intergenerational beef.
Fact check: George Washington's hefty bar tab, days before Constitution's signing, is real
Wow.
Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen without contact
If this was a science fiction alien, some pedantic nerd would give the writer shit for it not being plausible.
Stricter Covid mask rules could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives, new study finds
I don't think I'll ever escape the waking horror of how we're handling Covid.
Los Angeles gave families $1,000 a month in the biggest basic income pilot in the country. Now the results are in.
We just keep discovering UBI works over and over and over again.
Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight'
The kids are all right.
Dungeons & Dragons Is Shedding ‘Race’ in Gaming. Here’s Why It Matters
Nice.