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I address my journals to my future biographers. I also maintain a Spotify playlist for my biopic's soundtrack. And I leave digital footprints for ingestion by future AI models. A w…

Like the article author, I have always found Harari's work and ideas, if not facile, then uninsightful, and the size of his following unwarranted. But a passage in the article stoo…

It is possible to write pornographic literature using Microsoft Word — and many do

> the current funding model of post-secondary institutions, which does not prioritize the ratio of faculty-to-students necessary for ever more personalized or real-time assessment …

How about a taxonomy by associated sexual pathology? https://youtu.be/mZyvIHYn2zk

Last year I bought a copy of The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, first edition. Inside was a folded piece of paper printed in really coarse old dot-matrix that h…

If countering blind denialism means conducting mathematics with regard for anything other than mathematics, then blind denialism it must be. I think though this is falsely dichotom…

I’m sure this comment is facetious, but as many motorcyclists will attest, something absolutely was lost in the 80s with the transition to electric starter motors. Kickstarting a m…

> I really disagree. I think engineers scratching their own itch leading down to trickle-down tooling is what a lot of independent devs _like to believe_, but that it's motivated m…

There's a real epistemological problem that people of protected classes face that I hadn't considered before reading this article and the comments here; one unintended effect of th…

After pressing Cmd + Shift + 4, press Space and then click on a window or alert to screenshot it entirely, instead of having to drag out a rectangular region. It works at the level…

After selling Australia the F/A-18 Hornet, the US refused to give Australia access to its friend-or-foe identification system, making it essentially useless for its role as the cou…

I've been wondering lately how and whether Australia could use its position as the biggest exporter to deliberately wreck the global thermal coal market, and consequently, coal usa…

But the Swedish Chef is still, surprisingly, the Swedish Chef in Sweden, which seems to be a cruel joke. https://slate.com/culture/2012/08/swedish-chef-what-do-swede...

We should not be surprised that the environment we find ourselves in is so seemingly well-suited to the flourishing of life. I believe the grandparent post was saying this as a res…

Great article. It expresses ideas similar to Game & Watch and GameBoy creator Gunpei Yokoi's philosophy of Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology.[0] > Yokoi said, "The Nintendo w…

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, the tweeter was technically correct when she said that she had written a book. She said neither that she edited, typeset, printed, bound, dist…

Not exactly what the GP asked, but there’s also Wireguard in the iOS[0] and Mac App Stores[1]. Wireguard from the Mac App Store works successfully with Little Snitch (per-app firew…

Ergonomics. Text that does not require much horizontal back-and-forward movement of the eyes is easier to read than super wide-set text. Gruber has long talked about typography so …