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Even better: allow theaters to charge different prices to different movies. It's ridiculous that a big budget action movie with A-list cast costs the same to watch as a cheap indie…

They're going extinct by habitat loss from climate change.

A fun application of this is hooking mushrooms up to synthesizers for groovy beats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbP2DgDp890 Their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bionicandthe…

Has it? I recently tried to organize a little AoE2 LAN party but we got stuck because the DE was too heavy for our old computers and the HD Edition was no longer for sale on Steam.…

Dunno, but I like the Chinese Doomscroll substack for a daily glimpse into what they're talking about. https://substack.com/@weibo

We've had protectionist tariffs for the auto industry for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

Meanwhile China is building it's own giant telescopes: https://www.science.org/content/article/china-quietly-prepar... And will soon launch their own version of Hubble: https://en.…

This is the first I've heard of "direct-join union"s. DuckDuckGo only brings up variations of this article, or the pages to join individual, employer specific unions. Where can I l…

None of those cases are "generative" AI.

Combining engineering teams of very similar products will inevitably lead to consolidation. The key leaders of these teams will leave. The open source projects will starve. No cust…

They've existed for years https://www.fastcompany.com/90651242/how-the-drivers-coopera... https://www.wired.com/story/gig-economy-worker-owned-apps/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki…

A club I'm active with posts everything to Meetup and Facebook. Meetup is the "official" source of truth for posting events and photos and limited chats related to the events thems…

>Our results show that regulators must consider mass economic grid defection of PV-diesel generator-battery systems as a very real possibility in the near future. To prevent utilit…

They meant after consolidations.

The seed was still alive for those 1000 years. Still respirating from stored fats and carbs. Still performing cellular activities like DNA replication and repair. Also plants often…

A standard coding setup but with a very strict block list for time wasting websites.

This as good a place as any to mention one of my favorite authors, Dishwasher Pete[0], who wrote a zine about dishwashing and dishwashers[1], and a memoir about his quest to wash d…

Unrolled: https://unrollnow.com/status/1828490449881047401

Thank God, now I can finally kick my YouTube addiction.

"Whuffie" is a reference to the Cory Doctorow novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom . It's set a post-scarcity society, Whuffie acts as a sort of currency and is earned from clou…

> Most of the feedback loops in employment — from salary payments to annual performance appraisals — were torturously long. So Coonradt proposed shortening them by introducing dail…

Forget flying cars -- a 50's consumerist fantasy. I'm begging for basics like safe bike lanes, fast public transit and cheap high speed rail. > It’s often remarked upon, in booster…