[SC 2.4.4] 24 hours of free talks
Inclusive Design 24 has started up its 2024 edition. If you're not familiar, it's 24 hours of free talks about accessibility and inclusive design streamed live to a global audience.
And speaking of accessibility, I also updated my a11y-syntax-highlighting library. It feels good to get that finally done.
Every webpage deserves to be a place
What if every webpage was a Figma-style chatroom?
Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid.
"A very flat rock that whispers to the light of heaven and coaxes it into bottled lightning. Without even moving."
Part of brain network much bigger in people with depression, scientists find
This is a curious one when contrasted against last week's newsletter that proposed depression as a survival mechanism.
What happens when you touch a Pickle to an AM radio tower?
sizzily glizzy
The Case for Jumping Flash, Past and Present
I loved this game!
Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent
Apparently it's a dye found in Doritos! (h/t Jan)
The Big Baltic Bomb Cleanup
I need to remember this the next time I get frustrated at my job.
Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Dogs: extremely good!
GoldenEye 007’s composer released an HD version of the game’s soothing watch music.
Why does pause music for a game adaptation of a movie go so hard?
The Rise of Hybrid Frameworks
Documents can have a little state, as a treat.
Your company needs Junior devs
I feel software engineering is a trade, and trades should have apprentices (amongst other things).
50 years ago, Apollo 13's Jack Swigert flew to the moon, but forgot something big. Taxes.
"While Swigert was not in a different country, he was still considered a U.S. citizen abroad, which qualified him for an extension to file his taxes late but penalty-free. "
The Different Types of Clowns
Today I leanred there's a clown hierarchy.
Many pickup trucks must be redesigned to reduce pedestrian deaths under proposed regulation
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Five Geek Social Fallacies
Yeah, uh, this one rocked me.
Pacific islands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime
I am skeptical that it could be enforced, but welcome a world where it was.
Carpentopod: A walking table project
Delivers what it promises!
Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
ohmygodohmygodohmygod
GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation
"Both concerns are likely to be magnified in the future, increasing the risk of what we suggest calling evidence hacking—the strategic and coordinated malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base."
How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter’s Ghost Network
What a horrible world we've built for ourselves.
You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Alibaba
I need to stress that too many diamonds is not a problem.
Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive
Yooooooooo.
Max Headroom and the Strange World of Pseudo-CGI
"Perhaps it is time that the animators and digital artists of today rediscovered the lesser-known cousin of this aesthetic: the strange world of pseudo-CGI."