[SC 2.4.4] Please clap
I made three phone calls today to schedule things. Please clap.
Jocko-homo Heavenbound: Science? Religion? Folly?
I'm a big Devo fan, and I 100% did not know that Jocko-homo was a reference to this, much less see it in the… Jerry Falwell Library?
Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL
This is bonkers.
David Walker's Paper Clip Collection.
"The annotation is beautiful, the locations of discovery and the overall aesthetic of the collation on cards and scraps of paper make us very happy indeed. They will be treasured."
Scientists link hundreds of severe heat waves to fossil fuel producers' pollution
oh.
Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking's black hole theorem
Now kiss!
AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies
Who could have forseen, etc.
World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
"The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today."
Decolonize Digital
"Decolonization happens on and offline. This is just a home for some of my decolonization work online."
Postcrossing
What a cute idea! I'll have to give this one a go.
The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 1
"By mapping the grey zones, blurred boundaries, types of ambivalence and contexts of complexity, this book creates the first Global Map of Informality."
Flesh embraces steel in new age of prosthetics aesthetics
I know there are a lot of complicated things in the prosthetics space to consider, but I do enjoy people leaning into their artifical nature.
In Finland, this giant battery is helping heat apartments and offices—using sand
Good job, sand!
If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough
"The lesson these tech companies with their 'move fast and break things' attitudes have been learning for decades is that the penalties for rampant lawbreaking will be cheaper and easier to bear than complying with the law would have been. This is not how a country should run."
FFglitch gallery
A nice little sampling of glitch video art.
Two Slice
"A font that's only 2px tall, and somewhat readable!"
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
It is buck-fucking wild to me that we use rare earth metals on this sort of stuff.
Now loading the loader thingy that loads the uploader…
Geoff captures the spirit of contemporary web experiences perfectly.
Blackboard bold
New secret version of each English letter just dropped.
How celery salt wound up on the Chicago dog
I'll say it: I like celery.
From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline
Every mediocre op-ed blowhard is money that could have been used to give more diverse voices a platform.
React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation
One of the many reasons I don't like React.
Bluesky Really Doesn’t Want People To Say ‘Rest In Piss’ About Charlie Kirk
Streisand Effect time.
Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent
Ice: Get bent.
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Odd, that.