[SC 2.4.4] Sensitive to the gravitas
I was talking this weekend about organizations that aren't aware of, or sensitive to the gravitas of the thing they owned—especially when that thing is now larger than the organization itself.
I can't stop thinking about it. There's no good answers here, but it seems highly prescient given the news of the past couple of days.
Colossal raises $200M to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo
Wise from your gwave.
China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth'
I hope that one day we are capable of looking back on our reliance on fossil fuels with horror and disgust.
Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work
Apparently solar is also good for sheep!
Moving on from React, a Year Later
I also hope that one day we are capable of looking back on our reliance on React with horror and disgust.
Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
If you build it they will come.
You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
Leopards, face, etc.
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
"The U.S. is notorious for incurring the highest costs per capita of any wealthy nation, yet failing to achieve an even remotely equivalent improvement in patient outcomes versus Europe’s social market-based economies."
Software Folklore
"Sometimes bugs have symptoms beyond belief. This is a collection of such stories from around the web."
Rewilding: A meaningful response to tackling the biodiversity crisis
In addition to the many ecological benefits, rewilding also looks sick as hell.
Meta AI case lawyer quits after Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Neo-Nazi madness’; Llama depositions unsealed
Here's how to delete Facebook, by the way.
Japanese aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish with cardboard cutouts of people
It sure did get dusty in this aquarium all the sudden.
The internet is now five websites
Yeah…
Chicken accessories for chickens
I love this content, and Luke's writing, and also his site design.
Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
Of course it has a random link, and of course I repeatedly clicked it
Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
It's humbling to know there's people smart this way out there, and also cool that they're willing to share.
Welcome to ‘career catfishing’ — Gen Z’s new defiance against endless rounds of interviews and hiring managers who ghost
Turnabout is fair play, as far as I'm concerned.
Bionic and the Wires
"Bionic and the Wires are a Manchester UK based collective that create electronic music with plants and mushrooms."
Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust
Oh.
The US Military Debates Possible Deployment on US Soil Under Trump
I don't think the people mentioning due process and Fourth, Fifth and Sixth amendments understand that they don't apply anymore.
Calm Tech Certification "Rewards" Less Distracting Tech
More of this, please.
Citroën Sabotaged Wartime Nazi Truck Production in a Simple and Brilliant Way
Time to start thinking about what the digital equivalent of dipsticks are.
iocaine
"The goal of iocaine is to generate a stable, infinite maze of garbage."
Gender Variance Around the World Over Time
Teen Vogue continues to have more chutzpah than the New York Times and The Washington Post combined.
When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
"ChatGPT doesn’t summarise. When I asked ChatGPT to summarise this text, it instead shortened the text. And there is a fundamental difference between the two."