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> San Francisco schools decided a couple of years ago that they would no longer teach Algebra in 8th grade. This has nothing to do with this at all. We're talking about 4th grader …

Using my phone in grayscale convinced me of the power of shiny colours. It is shocking how boring my phone feels in grayscale. This really does help break any feeling of attachment…

> blocking a referendum because they didn't consult indigenous groups The requirement to do so is in our constitution, the Charter. It's not optional and not absurd to anyone with …

Sedition, technically.

There's something to be said about first impressions and the GnuCash website's first impression does not give confidence in its ability to handle finances. Ironically for this thre…

When the leading CEOs are saying the next generation will be unemployed due to AI... uh yeah, you're gonna lose them!

A very well done type system + native code performance, with the ease of use of Ruby is a massive selling point, IMO.

That is very high. Not sure who they are using for processing, but I know Stripe will give registered charities a (very small) cut on their fees, I'm not sure about non-profits. Bu…

So, if Thunderbird instead asked for users to sign up for an annual software subscription, it'd be fine?

How many space telescopes better than anything we currently have can we put up when launch costs are A huge synthetic telescope in orbit with an aperture the size of the planet? Ho…

> novel path Reusing Apollo-style stack, reusing Shuttle engines, reusing Shuttle-style SRBs. Novel?

Much like the vouch system mitchellh is working on for open source contributors, the wider web needs a trust layer that can vouch for a poster's status as human or AI, along with a…

Literally what they wrote: service members.

Art is often only appreciated in retrospect, so it is typically undervalued at the time of its creation. > equals the value of what they give to the tax payers in return This seems…

Kinda like the ones they are already burning in Starship to put these in space in the first place. Anywhere on earth is better than space for this application.

> mostly to religious sights [sic] Don't be so sure.

Hopefully getting a true UX practitioner in as Head of Design will help avoid these incredibly obvious usability issues. Ref: https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

It did for me. You have to be truly heartless to see a dog being sad about not going outside. So you take it for a walk, then another and another. Soon enough you're researching hi…

> If people demand evil, they will make evil, if people demand good, they will make good. This is so naive. People do not ask corporations to be evil and they certainly don't deman…

"The dose makes the poison." Comparing modern algorithmic/addictive social media to print articles with cliffhangers isn't a serious argument.

Come on, you know what is meant by "social media" in this context. An algorithmic feed with tuning to be as addictive as possible. No one outside of someone trying to be obtuse wou…

There is nothing that social media provides that a private group chat with your closest people doesn't fulfill. It could be banned with nothing of value lost.

> they're losing the youth when it comes to long-standing foreign policy positions It's well known that foreign actors are all over social and that the west's foreign policy is (ri…

Social media is the smoking of our age, and it will come to be seen the same way we see smoking now. Just like the tobacco companies, social media companies have known about the il…