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> How, one should rightly ask, could a khrafstar like the snake possibly be associated with good fortune? For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call soft…

Baudrillard shaming McLuhan on Slack. :chef-kiss:

Good that folks kept going and it's all documented here. Please fix the typography of this wonderful directory.

Github[1] page says it's intended to "feel" like Ghostty: > A native macOS note-taking app that feels like Ghostty — GPU-accelerated, keyboard-first, monospace, zero-config. [1]: h…

Love it. No Infinite Cavapoo Theorem needed. Give Momo a week and she'll have DOOM running on her treat dispenser.

I've been using Kagi for the past few years, but I try to use a brand-agnostic language talking about web search; e.g. "I'm gonna search [the web] for it"; "Use your favorite searc…

Jon Gjengset—among other things, the author of Rust for Rustaceans—works for this company and talks about them occasionally answering questions during his recurring Q&As; e.g. http…

> One thing I am curious about is whether there is a different kind of science fiction out there. One recommendation: Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora: We went there. It didn't work. W…

All these "have died"[1] and yet Claude the alligator "passed away". RIP. [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died

But if you'd like to see a sample of _Old_ Farmer's Almanac, their 2026 issue could be accessed here: https://reader.mediawiremobile.com/TheOldFarmersAlmanac/issu... I always enjoy…

> At a 2017 conference, MBS illustrated his vision for Neom by comparing two phones. [...] a Nokia 215 phone next to a traditional city layout and an iPhone next to The Line’s vert…

Not to be confused with Old Farmer's Almanac (est. 1792) and yet sad to see a 200 years old periodical closing up shop.

Harper's Index [1]: > Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 : 2,052 > Number of sentences from the original e…

```It's just a feeling I get when I think about it. ``` Definitely not human; the bug is though.

Ditto about the quality of intro. One way to show that "meat" without sharing some arbitrary number of chapters could have been to also include some of the back matter of the book …

On desktop on 133% at the moment. Can tolerate 120%, but the default is too small of a text size for me.

Thanks for your volunteer work for Standard Ebooks!