[SC 2.4.4] I made an app!
I made an app! What Can't I Press? helps you discover keyboard shortcuts that are used by screen readers and other apps you use.
Verisign is finally bringing .web domains to the internet after a decade of fighting
Too bad I already went with .website 😎
Not using the F words
"Observe men working in tech rationalise and defend their decisions to support and fund the far-right and fascists."
Bookmark: 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
Noice.
U.S. measles cases surpass last year's total: Tracker
Not noice.
Nobody Actually Wants a Minimalist Interface
"Next, check whether your minimalism decision was actually informed by watching real usage, or whether it was informed by how the design looked in a review meeting."
These ‘Anti-Facial Recognition’ Glasses Block Surveillance Cameras
Still prefer the dazzle camouflage makeup aesthetic, personally.
Humans Can Learn to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks, And It Rewires The Brain
I've read a lot of anecdotal writing around this concept, cool to see it researched.
Nothing Works and Everyone Is Euphoric
"Software vendors have long been KPI-oriented, and making things more stable doesn’t always have a direct effect on the numbers. It doesn’t look exciting in presentations"
What I think about when I edit
Solid gold.
we have a black hole at home
I'm not gonna lie: Enabling camera mode and watching it drill straight through the center of my skull was spooky.
The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon
"Here’s the problem: hydrogen and oxygen atoms aren’t all identical."
Diffuse puffs of “missing” matter surround most galaxies
Oh there you are!
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
Stop this reality, I want to get off.
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
Go sand!
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets."
55 Percent of Leaders Regret AI Layoffs—and a Major Hiring Reversal Has Begun
And related.
did they ghost you?
I'm glad someone made this.
In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels Radical
I think we'll continue to see more and more of this popping up in other industries.
The Male Gazed
"Resolution of these power imbalances– between those whom technology privileges and those it doesn’t– will require us to recognize power as an element of technology that doesn’t privilege everyone equally."
"Human refrigerator" provides escape from deadly heatwaves
Cool.
Earth's Greatest Catastrophes Seem to Follow a Mysterious 27-Million-Year Pulse
huh
New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
"The scientists found that around 44 percent of the animals went on to produce broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV in their blood. These antibodies were impressively abundant. "
Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
Yup!
The Linguistic Genius of Prairie Dogs
"Just like humans, prairie dogs seem to have many different languages."
Babel - one brick per Wikipedia edit
Delivers what it promises.
Electronic
The urge to make a cyberdeck that looks like one of these is strong.
The Coming Assault on Disability Rights
"Everything that the administration is doing is based on a legal house of cards. But a house of cards left standing because no one pushed on it is still a house."
I Hate Adobe
Yuuuuup.
Context Collapse, Part 3 - AI Worming through Word
Oh boy.
Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians
We need to tax these billionare weirdos back to reality, and do it sooner than later.
The vanishing art of disability reporting
"For this Disability Pride Month, my message continues to be the same – the gaming industry needs to support disabled voices, or they’ll be pushed to the sidelines."
Information architecture is the foundation AI is starving for
laughcries
Stolen Buttons
I think I shared this before, but I don't care. I love it.
