Collection of interesting things I've gathered from around the internet. To view a single category, check the files/ folder.
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How to Crochet Perry the Platypus l Easy Amigurumi Tutorial l Beginner-Friendly l Monua DIY
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DIY Crochet Pokemon - How to Crochet a Drifloon (Step by Step for Beginners)
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Glinting Eyes for Amigurumi – PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog
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Crochet Eyes Tutorial - An Alternative To Plastic Safety Eyes
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crochet lily of the valley ♡ headphone accessory | crochet for beginner | EASY & QUICK CROCHET
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crochet headphone sprout ♡ beginner crochet tutorial | headphone accessory | crochet leaf QUICK EASY
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crochet kissing whales ♡ valentines gift diy | ABSOLUTE BEGINNER crochet tutorial | amigurumi whale
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An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming - In this paper, we study the highly competitive arena of baby naming. Through making several Extremely Reasonable Assumptions (namely, that parents are myopic, perfectly knowledgeable agents who pick a name based solely on its uniquness), we create a model which is not only tractable and clean, but also perfectly captures the real world. We then exte...
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Body Design and Gait Generation of Chair-Type Asymmetrical Tripedal Low-rigidity Robot - In this study, a chair-type asymmetric tripedal low-rigidity robot was designed based on the three-legged chair character in the movie "Suzume" and its gait was generated. Its body structure consists of three legs that are asymmetric to the body, so it cannot be easily balanced. In addition, the actuator is a servo motor that can only feed-forward r...
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How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset - We present a new class of statistical de-anonymization attacks against high-dimensional micro-data, such as individual preferences, recommendations, transaction records and so on. Our techniques are robust to perturbation in the data and tolerate some mistakes in the adversary's background knowledge. We apply our de-anonymization methodology to the ...
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Chinese woman stuck in blind date's house after city lockdown - BEIJING (AFP) - Imagine being on a first date you couldn't end? Read more at straitstimes.com.
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The ‘ petertodd’ phenomenon - Note: Nothing in this post is intended to vilify or defame any actual human named Peter Todd. I recognise that the existence of this phenomenon may b…
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SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation) - UPDATE (14th Feb 2023): ChatGPT appears to have been patched! However, very strange behaviour can still be elicited in the OpenAI playground, particu…
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The possibility of making $$138,000$ from shredded banknote pieces using computer vision - Every country must dispose of old banknotes. At the Hong Kong Monetary Authority visitor center, visitors can buy a paperweight souvenir full of shredded banknotes. Even though the shredded banknotes are small, by using computer vision, it is possible to reconstruct the whole banknote like a jigsaw puzzle. Each paperweight souvenir costs $$100$ HKD...
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Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms
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Birds of a Feather Video-Flock Together: Design and Evaluation of an Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System for Interspecies Ethical Enrichment. - Over 20 million parrots are kept as pets in the US, often lacking appropriate stimuli to meet their high social, cognitive, and emotional needs. After reviewing bird perception and agency literature, we developed an approach to allow parrots to engage in video-calling other parrots. Following a pilot experiment and expert survey, we ran a three-mont...
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Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming
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THE NURTURE MEGAMIX [𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐏𝐒𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆] - A Tribute to Porter Robinson's "Nurture" by distantstar
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A precise, three-word address for every place on earth | Chris Sheldrick
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Crow searching for a nut I'd hidden and then making very cool woo sound
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My love letter to computer science is very short, James Mickens (Harvard University)
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I put Porter Robinson's Cheerleader in Heaven Studio https://t.co/BJ6Ps03QA8
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https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1700672456397037898?s=09
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https://twitter.com/zachsilberberg/status/1588731953150275584?s=20
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empirical-methods - Homepage for 17-803 “Empirical Methods” at Carnegie Mellon University
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Things I Keep Repeating About Writing - I often write papers with students, or read students’ papers to provide comments, and I find myself saying the same things over and over, especially the first time out.* So: here’s a blog post I can point them to to (hopefully!) save us all some time and trouble. I plan to update it as I remember more things I say repeatedly.
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How To Explain Things Real Good (Stanford mini-talk) - YouTube
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Mental Health Tips feat. Anxiety Wolf - My mental health journey, with some science + practical tips.
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How to win friends and influence repos - In my last post, I wrote about the breathless highs I experienced whilst discovering productivity systems for the first time, and the subsequent crushing lows of realising that I was just another prick with a Dymo labeller. I also alluded to an ingenious framework that I have been evolving over the last year, which is obviously totally different to ...
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FutureMe: Write a Letter to your Future Self - Write a letter to the future and read the public (but anonymous) letters from others. FutureMe has been delivering letters to the future for millions of people since 2002.
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Getting things done - Getting things done
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How to be More Agentic - On a supposedly difficult thing
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Publishing your work increases your luck - In 12 months, @aarondfrancis changed his life by bypassing fear and embracing risk. Now, he’s working his dream job @tuple. Get his full story on The ReadME Project:
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Snapdrop - Instantly share images, videos, PDFs, and links with people nearby. Peer2Peer and Open Source. No Setup, No Signup.
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Carbon - Carbon is the easiest way to create and share beautiful images of your source code.
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cobalt - save what you love without ads, trackers, or other creepy bullshit.
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How to use up your CSA produce before it rots in your refrigerator - Community-supported agriculture is a great way to get a variety of local fruits and veggies, but it can be overwhelming to stare down all those leafy greens.
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How To Practice “Productive Procrastination” - Can’t face work? Then cultivate some side projects — and turn your work-avoidance into fun, useful diversions
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A first lecture on time management - Several students have recently asked me for advice about time management. When people ask you a important and difficult question like this, usually the best thing is to think of someone else who can give a better answer than you. For time management, an obvious person to turn to is the late Randy Pausch, a noted computer scientist who became an inte...
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GTD Made Simple: Why I think the Internet needs one more blog post about “Getting Things Done” - I’m naturally disorganised, but I have so much stuff to do that out of necessity I get organized. (Then more stuff comes and I get disorganised again.) The way I get organized is by attempting to follow a system called GTD. GTD comes from a book by David Allen called Getting Things Done. The book is an unusual read, a mix of management-speak, Zen-sp...
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Scroll-driven Animations - A bunch of demos and tools to show off Scroll-driven Animations
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Site of Sites - Explore the best in web design at Site of Sites. Find inspiration, trends, and insights to elevate your own projects. Submit your website for consideration and be part of our growing collection.
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Design Systems Database: Surf among top‑notch Design Systems - Best-in-class Design Systems with components and foundations references from top-tier tech companies and leading UI teams.
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Randoma11y - Get random, accessible color combinations
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Home - Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.
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Website Color Schemes to Inspire Creativity | Spectrum.Art 💎 - Immerse yourself in our collection of website color schemes. Find a trending color scheme for your site using the real examples.
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8 more micro tips for remarkably better typography - 8 more micro tips in less than 8 minutes to make your typography stand out in excellence.
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Generate unique SVG design assets | Haikei - A web-based design tool to generate unique SVG design assets for websites, social media, blog posts, desktop and mobile wallpapers, posters, and more! Our generators let you discover, customize, randomize, and export generative SVG design assets ready to use with your favorite design tools.
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Blobmaker - Make organic SVG shapes for your next design - Make organic SVG shapes for your next design. Modify the complexity, contrast, and color, to generate unique SVG blobs every time.
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Typescale - Create stunning typography, generate CSS, and find inspiration.
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Typography 101: A crash course of terms to know. | Create - Talking about typography can be a daunting task. Don’t fret: We’ve put together a visual glossary of the essential type typography terms to know, with a little help from our friends at Adobe Fonts and Letterform Archive.
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How to Get Out of Ontological Debt - Inconsistent product terminology leads to “ontological debt,” negatively affecting UX — but you can pay it down.
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Ohno Type School: A - OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!
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Kern Type - A game to learn how to kern type
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Essays - Articles by Jonathan Hoefler
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Color and Contrast.com - Color & Contrast is an interactive guide to color for designers.
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Building a Visual Language - Behind the scenes of our new design system
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Human Interface Guidelines - The HIG contains guidance and best practices that can help you design a great experience for any Apple platform.
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One Page Love - One Page Website Inspiration and Templates - One Page Love is a One Page website design gallery showcasing the best Single Page websites, templates and resources.
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Free Faces - This website is a curated collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licences somewhere on the interwebs.
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Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces - Learn about Photoshop Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
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RUBBISH! - It's past midnight. Over the whump of the wipers and the screech of the fan belt, we lurch through the side streets of Southeast Portland in a battered white van, double-checking our toolkit: flas ...,News
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Stack Sorted. - Find Inspiration in Design Elements.
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DesignWanted - Design magazine
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The Bézier Game - A game to help you master the pen tool
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Humaaans: Mix-&-Match illustration library - Mix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library for InVIsion Studio and Sketch.
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POSEMANIACS - Royalty free 3d pose reference for all artists - Posemaniacs.com is a royalty free pose reference for all artists. Our mission is “to create free learning materials for all people who want to be an artist.” We are small teams it would be great if you are happy to help us.
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Miranda — Paper Portfolio - Niccolò Miranda is an award-winning designer & developer who’s passionate about creating iconic digital experiences through motion, typography and creative coding.
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In the file: The first 90 days of the Head of DesignOps - Figma is free to use. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3msp0OVSalome Mortazavi, Head of DesignOps at SiriusXM Listener, and Adam Fry-Pierce, Chief of Staff at Go...
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UI Playbook - The documented collection of UI components.
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Yuhki Yamashita: Confessions of Modern Design (Welcome to the WIP) - How do you make progress when the work is always in flux? What if some of the best features actually—gasp!—start with a solution instead of a problem? In thi...
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Article Listing | Datadog Security Labs - Datadog Security Labs is the place to read blog content about security research and tooling published by Datadog for the community.
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Church encoding - Church encoding is a unified way to model data and functions. An introduction for object-oriented developers.
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The Valley of Code - The Valley of Code, Your Web Development Manual
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Welcome to ReadMe! - 🦉 The Basics ReadMe is here to help you create an interactive developer hub that makes your APIs easy to use — and gives you visibility into API usage for better developer support. With ReadMe, your developers have the guidance they need to get started with your API quickly and easily troubleshoot ...
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Lightning Talk: Git add -p - Lightning Talk: Git add -p . GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Developer Roadmaps - Community driven roadmaps, articles and guides for developers to grow in their career.
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Scroll-driven Animations - A bunch of demos and tools to show off Scroll-driven Animations
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries - Learn how to use CSS container queries today.
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The UX of UUIDs | Unkey - Unique identifiers play a crucial role in all applications, from user authentication to resource management. While using a standard UUID will satisfy all your security concerns, there’s a lot we can improve for our users.
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A basic tutorial on "How to get the most out of embeds?" for a discord-friendly website!
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guide/style.md at master · uber-go/guide - The Uber Go Style Guide. Contribute to uber-go/guide development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Julia Evans - Julia Evans
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Robert Heaton | Blog - Software engineer. One-track lover down a two-way lane
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explainshell.com - match command-line arguments to their help text
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Bash best practices - Cheat sheets for various stuff
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid - CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb moments I've had in my own learning journey.
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A CRITICAL FIELD GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH MACHINE LEARNING DATASETS - Maybe you’re an engineer creating a new machine vision system to track birds. You might be a journalist using social media data to research Costa Rican households. You could be a researcher who stumbled upon your university’s archive of handwritten census cards from 1939. Or a designer creating a chatbot that relies on large language models like GPT...
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Learn VIM while playing a game - VIM Adventures - VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM's keyboard shortcuts. It's the "Zelda meets text editing" game. So come have some fun and learn some VIM!
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AutoRegex: Convert from English to RegEx with Natural Language Processing
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alex/what-happens-when - An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?"
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Confessions of a recovering lifehacker - I used to be a lifehacking addict, and in some ways I still am. I have a perverse love of systems and efficiency: analyzing, configuring, optmizing, categorizing, defining, and parameter-setting. (…
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How does Tor work? - The internet is a dangerous place for Person X.
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SecurityZines - SecurityZines are new way of learning security concepts, check the collection of Zines down below. You can get them all in a bundle or individually. But why should you read it ? Because, its proven that graphics has more persistent memory than reading.
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Learn Git Branching - An interactive Git visualization tool to educate and challenge!
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Pelican navbar menu items - Static site generators can greatly reduce the slope of the website creation learning curve. Take advantage of these tools if you are interested in creating your own simple website but want to sidestep manually generating the HTML and CSS on your own.
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jvns/pandas-cookbook - Recipes for using Python's pandas library
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discord.js Guide - Imagine a guide... that explores the many possibilities for your discord.js bot.
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benbjohnson/wtf - WTF Dial is an example web application written in Go.
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I heard you like polyrhythms - I've been watching this YouTube channel called ProjectJDM with these oddly satisfying pendulum-like sequences and I thought it would be cool if someone made a full song out of that concept :) Project file available on Patreon / virtualriot Inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/@project_jdm/...
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r4victor/brtlx - 📚💻 Content for https://bestresourcestolearnx.com
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How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend - Our philosophy to scaling is simple, avoid premature optimization
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dbdiagram.io - Database Relationship Diagrams Design Tool - Quick and simple free tool to help you draw your database relationship diagrams and flow quickly using simple DSL language.
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pragmatic_segmenter/README.md at master · diasks2/pragmatic_segmenter - Pragmatic Segmenter is a rule-based sentence boundary detection gem that works out-of-the-box across many languages. - diasks2/pragmatic_segmenter
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chubin/cheat.sh - the only cheat sheet you need
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The Lambda Service Behind Videos @ Meta: A New Years Eve Case Study | Zainab Zahid - The Lambda Service Behind Videos @ Meta: A New Years Eve Case Study | Zainab Zahid What happens at the stroke of midnight on December 31st? Other than the fireworks 🙂 In this talk, we’ll dive into the Lamba service that powers Videos@ Meta and we’ll see whats really happening behind the scenes on New Years Eve. We’ll explore the system design, and ...
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Crane: Uber's Next-Gen Infrastructure Stack | Kurtis Nusbaum - Uber has been on a multi-year journey to reimagine our infrastructure stack for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. The internal code name for this project is Crane. In this talk we’ll examine the original motivation behind Crane, requirements we needed to satisfy, and some key features of our implementation. Finally, we’ll wrap up with some forward-lookin...
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Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments - Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
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VSCodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
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Generate TOC Table of Contents from GitHub Markdown or Wiki Online
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Quick Sort - Sorting Algorithm Animations - Animation, code, analysis, and discussion of quick sort on 4 initial conditions.
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Ubuntu Manpage: run-parts - run scripts or programs in a directory
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styleguide/pyguide.md at gh-pages · google/styleguide - Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects - google/styleguide
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GitHub Next - GitHub Next investigates the future of software development
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Monaspace - An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
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Four ways to underline text in LaTeX - I'm very picky about the way underlines look, and have spent a lot of time trying to get the perfect underline in LaTeX.
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Server-side sandboxing: An introduction | Figma Blog - The first of our three-part series on deploying and operating sandboxing techniques
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Dark theme generator - Generate your custom dark theme with our easy-to-use CSS and SCSS Dark Theme Generator to easily create and manage your CSS and SCSS custom theme variables.
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Try Clojure - Clojure tutorial in a browser REPL.
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Nutshell: make expandable, embeddable explanations - a tool to let your readers dive into details
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Loneliness Universe - From: [email protected] To: Cara Hasani [email protected] September 18, 2015, 5:36 am Subject: I am drifting, but thank you for the photos My dear Cara, Thank you for sending me the photos, I never thought I’d feel this way again. But the pictures help. They really do. I can’t stop looking at them. Thank you for […]
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The Year Without Sunshine - During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civil disorder or both. My Minneapolis block had always been reasonably friendly—people would take their kids around on […]
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The Venus Effect - This is 2015. A party on a westside roof, just before midnight. Some Mia or Mina or throwing it, the white girl with the jean jacket and the headband and the two-bumps-of-molly grin, flitting from friend circle to friend circle, laughing loudly and refilling any empty cup in her eyeline from a bottomless jug of sangria, Maenad Sicagi. There are thre...
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Fandom for Robots - Computron feels no emotion towards the animated television show titled Hyperdimension Warp Record (超次元 ワープ レコード). After all, Computron does not have any emotion circuits installed, and is thus constitutionally incapable of experiencing “excitement,” “hatred,” or “frustration.” It is completely impossible for Computron to experience emotions such as ...
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maia :3 - meow
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Love at the Event Horizon - I never thought I’d want to make a film about the Lost Countrymen and the ghosts that haunt their ship. It’s been years since my brief time with them, but how could I forget them, the ghosts muttering to themselves about worlds long gone? Eyes starry wide, dreaming of a future Earth that would receive […]
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On the Fox Roads - While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight lines when you run the fox roads...
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Bad Doors - The country was at just over ten thousand deaths the morning that the door appeared. On Kosmo’s phone NPR was interviewing a doctor with a nasal voice about the need for social distancing, while Kosmo himself collected empty cans from around his home office. They were everywhere. Walls of recyclable cans dominated his room. Just […]
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The God of Arepo - Adaptation of the popular internet short story. Temples are made for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds one to see which god turns up.
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The Great Silence - “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe. But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices? We’re a nonhuman […]
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What football will look like in the future - Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.
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War in the Shade - Posts about comic written by toastyhat
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Archipelago - The archive for the fantasy/sci-fi webcomic Archipelago which originally ran from 2005-2015. The story of how a waitress saves the world.
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Good Hunting by Ken Liu - Good Hunting by Ken Liu is a steampunk fantasy tale of individual adaptability and resistance in a time of historical transformations. It was first published in Strange Horizons in October 2012.
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The Curing - Content note: Hate crimes and animal death We stole the bottle of Elmer’s glue in the pass time between lunch and free period, the orange cap a beacon on the art room’s back shelves. Mrs. Chowdhury was out having her third baby in as many years, and the sub they’d hired to take her […]
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The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere - Winner of the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). Th…
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The Passing of the Dragon - A woman who fears she’s failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her favorite poets and finds something even more wondrous, but also more impossible to capture on canvas……
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Can You Hear Me Now? - Wait, stop. Pause. Don’t move. Please. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you. Just…don’t touch anything. The remote, your phone, your always-listening voice-activated digital assistant designed to make modern life a breeze. Accept my cookies. Agree to my terms. Don’t change the channel, if you still have channels. Whatever you do, don’t hit skip a...
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We Do Not Eat Much Fish - Content note: sexual assault and child death. For woman wild with witch’s curse, Take husband’s hand and heed this verse. As man and child make mother whole, A wedded witch may save her soul. Ylva clutches the prayer to her chest. It is her most precious thing, a gift from her father on […]
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How to Draw a Horse - To learn to draw horses, you can’t just want to draw them; you must NEED to draw them.
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Miz Boudreaux's Last Ride - You ever love the pretty right off someone? When I was a kid, had me a BMX, bright red like a candy apple. I rode it all summer long, cresting hills trying to catch the perfect gleam in the sunlight. Only that same sunlight that gave the bike its shine burnt all the sparkle out […]
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Theses on the Scientific Management of Goetic Labour - The most remarkable thing about Fuentes was not his genius at innovative goetic summoning, the likes of which the world had never seen and with luck will never see again. While formidable, his genius was not immediately apparent, because the work was dense and difficult and could only be truly appreciated by another expert in […]
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Collaboration? - Content Note: This story uses unusual formatting and fonts that may not be accessible to screen readers. A screen reader- and accessibility device-friendly version is located in this link here. Worlds pop into existence, composed by clicking keyboards or in spraying foam on waves of thought; tucked away in spells, algorithms, entangled particles, ...
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One Man's Treasure - Aden had never once forgotten his gear for bulk trash day, but he found it touching that Nura still taped a monthly reminder note on the door from the kitchen to the garage. Sweet of her to remember, given how exhausted med school had her these days. He ducked out to the garage to toss […]
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Yinying—Shadow - Since Mother’s death, a changeling was all I could be. Father said so before he himself passed, “A real child, a real daughter, our daughter, would never cause death, would never bring death upon this family.” Mother named me Yangguang—sunlight. But Father changed it to Yinying—shadow—for robbing his love of her light. But she told […]
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I Am a Little Hotel - and they tell me my body is not the home they’re looking for, not the presidential suite—lavish décor, wine, freshly pressed linen sheets— but sweat-soaked, blood-stained mattress in the basement behind locked doors, covered in dust, abandoned, by everyone but myself. But sometimes, even I forget that beneath withered, wrinkled, time- stamped hands,...
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Girl Oil - The second place winner of the LeVar Burton Reads writing contest, as co-presented by FIYAH Literary Magazine and Tor.com! Chelle’s friend, Wenqian, has everything Chelle doesn’t. A slim figure, pa…
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The Goldfish Man - I live in my car. It’s both worse and better than you’d expect. It’s an old Subaru hatchback so I can put the back seat down and sleep. I have all my stuff in the back but I have a space where I can lay. The place where I park is, like, the unofficial place […]
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Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time - I’m trying to piss against a wall when the vampire bites me. Trying because drunk-me can barely hold a glass, much less maneuver a limp prosthetic cock. My attacker holds me like he did on the dance floor, one arm wrapped around my chest, this time digging into my ribs. I struggle against his supernatural […]
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Rabbit Test - Content Note: Sexual Assault, abuse, traumatic miscarriage, psych ward treatment, and suicide. It is 2091, and Grace is staring at the rabbit in the corner of her visual overlay. It is an Angora rabbit, fluffy and white, and when Grace picked the icon out, she did not realize how much she would come to […]
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Ribbons - Monday’s lover tugs at Jan’s ribbon with his teeth. Jan doesn’t yell at the lover to stop. The guy just received bad news from the front—a friend lost to a bomb, perhaps, a sibling blown to bits; Jan doesn’t ask. He tells the lover, instead, to be careful: We don’t want my head rolling off […]
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Requiem for a Dollface - The doll was dead. There was nothing for it. Bear had seen bad cases before: legs ripped off, heads torn from necks, hair rudely shorn. Dolls mutilated by ink, fire, even—once—the lawn mower. Not every child loved their toys gently. That was life. This was murder. He wondered if the little girl knew yet. It […]
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In a seafloor surprise, metal-rich chunks may generate deep-sea oxygen - Instead of sinking from the surface, some deep-sea oxygen may be created by battery-like nodules that split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram - Beneath the tiny top hats and GIF-able snuggle sessions, I found a sad tale of internet virality.
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The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy - Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family.
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I ordered a bubble tea by drone in Shenzhen - Chinese company Meituan made drone food delivery possible—but the process is still not seamless.
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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine - Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.
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Silicon Valley’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico - “We have people stealing all over the world.” A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale.
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Something Strange Happens to Wolves Infected by an Infamous Mind-Altering Parasite - A study of 26 years' worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader.
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The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ - African workers who label AI data or screen social posts for US tech giants are calling on President Biden to raise their plight with Kenya's president, William Ruto, who visits the US this week.
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I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too. - Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
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These Flies Age Faster After Witnessing Death - A study offers clues to the link between what the brain of an organism perceives and physical reactions in its body.
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What it’s like to watch AI colonize your old job - From community journalism to farmed AI content, Hoodline’s devolution raises existential questions about news, and how we receive it.
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A wave of retractions is shaking physics - Grappling with problematic papers and poorly documented data, researchers and journal editors gathered in Pittsburgh to hash out the best way forward.
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Indians who pre-ordered Teslas in 2016 are giving up and chasing refunds - Elon Musk dodged another India visit, and many who placed $1,000 Tesla deposits admit the dream is over, while fanboys keep the faith.
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Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening? - All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.
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A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering - Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.
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These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged - Jane Willenbring was the first to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and assault in Antarctica. Years later, women are still coming forward with tales of horror as a government investigation unfolds.
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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 - "We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades."
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Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is. - Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was part of a neo-Nazi brawl.
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The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America - How a team of young people, living in a repurposed McMansion in Maryland, helped fix Healthcare.gov
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Why do some people always get lost? - Experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to sense of direction.
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Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers - Tools that allow government hackers to break into iPhones and Android phones, popular software like the Chrome and Safari browsers, and chat apps like
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NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix - "Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."
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How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine - Inside the developer of Life Is Strange's internal struggles with toxicity, hate speech, crunch, and more.
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The Mysterious Printer Code That Could Have Led the FBI to Reality Winner - Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
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A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask - As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.
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What time is it on the moon? White House tells NASA to decide. - The White House has instructed NASA to standardize time on the moon by 2026, to be known as Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), as the U.S. continues its presence there.
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A US town only reached through Canada - Visitors to the exclave of Point Roberts must drive through Canada to enter the United States. It’s a tiny town with empty beaches, pods of orcas and dozens of gas pumps.
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Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment - The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom.
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Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
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AI learned how to sway humans by watching a cooperative cooking game - New research used the game Overcooked to show how offline reinforcement learning algorithms could teach bots to collaborate with — or manipulate — us.
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Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever - Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z
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The IRS Finally Has an Answer to TurboTax - Against all odds, the government has created an actually good piece of technology.
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DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest - People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.
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The Danger of the President’s Nuclear Powers | Opinion - In the United States, it’s up to one person to decide whether the world becomes engulfed in nuclear war.
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Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination - Jalon Hall was featured on Google’s corporate social media accounts “for making #LifeAtGoogle more inclusive!” She says the company discriminated against her on the basis of her disability and race.
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These Kids Made Their Influencer Parents Wealthy. Will They See a Dime of That Money? - In the unregulated world of vloggers, children are, for the most part, not entitled to a single cent they help earn. We spoke to creators—and the child of a mommy blogger—to understand how this unusual family business actually works.
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An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. - Students said they were given little information about when and if the devices would be returned, and many wondered if they’d lose access to the work they saved.
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The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ - Employers are letting artificial intelligence conduct job interviews. Candidates are trying to beat the system
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How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts - Modern slot machines develop an unbreakable hold on many players—some of whom wind up losing their jobs, their families, and even, as in the case of Scott Stevens, their lives.
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Before There Was Tinder - Five people on finding their life partners through 1960s “computer dating.”
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Two of four stolen giant tortoises found in Dorset - Blastoise and Jeffery were found, but the other two - Squirtle and Wartortle - are still missing.
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Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses; scientists want them to stop - The mystery began about two years ago, when Charles Littnan, lead scientist of the monk-seal program, got a strange email from researchers in the field. The subject line was short: "Eel in nose."
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New pictures show Wally the Walrus relaxing on a small boat in Crookhaven - Wally the walrus is set to get a ‘floating couch’ in an effort to prevent him from sinking more boats.
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If I Fits, I Sits: Starlink's Self-Heating Internet Satellite Dishes Are Attracting Cats - The dish's Snow Melt Mode prevents snow build-up from interfering with the signal—and apparently provides a toasty outdoor lounge space for critters.
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Escaped robber returns to annals of weird crime / Cops say 'Roofman' lived large in store - Escaped robber returns to annals of weird crime / Cops say 'Roofman' lived large in...
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The hijacking of $339,000 worth of rare Japanese KitKats - This is an instance of a computer-based form of fraud dubbed 'part identity theft, part extortion'. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Pigeons are still (sometimes) faster than your internet - Internet speeds have come a long way since the days of the dial-up modem, but sometimes you can’t beat the millennia-old method of carrier pigeon.
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A new look at our linguistic roots - A controversial analytic technique offers new answers for Indo-European languages.
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The first known scorpion to live with ants carries mini hitchhikers - Small arachnids hitch a ride on the scorpion, possibly to get inside food-rich ant nests.
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'Date Me' Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love - Some people have ditched dating apps—and opted to bare their souls via a public, view-only link instead.
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AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They're Everywhere - Hundreds of documents obtained by 404 Media show how Fusus, a system for linking a town’s security cameras into one central hub and adding AI to them, has spread across the country.
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Computer scientists designing the future can’t agree on what privacy means - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University wanted to create a privacy-preserving smart sensor. Then, they were accused of violating their colleagues’ privacy.
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Tropicn: Tropicana withdraws letters 'AI' from its branding. Here's why - The limited-time rebranding is really just a marketing stunt timed to coincide with CES 2024, one of the biggest tech showcases of the year.
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This Clever New Idea Could Fix AirTag Stalking While Maximizing Privacy - Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy. Researchers think they’ve found a better balance.
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McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup - Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.
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Child Abusers Are Getting Better at Using Crypto to Cover Their Tracks - Crypto tracing firm Chainalysis found that sellers of child sexual abuse materials are successfully using “mixers” and “privacy coins” like Monero to launder their profits and evade law enforcement.
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How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea - In 2011, the South Korean Ambassador to Israel said on Israeli public television that “each Korean family has at least one copy of the Talmud.”
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The story behind the iconic Vietnam episode of 'Hey Arnold!' - For the 25th anniversary of the “Hey Arnold!” pilot, show creator Craig Bartlett talked to NBC Asian America about the storyline surrounding Mr. Hyunh, a Vietnamese refugee.
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The Cold War Over Hacking McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines - Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.
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The Sobering Details Behind the Latest Seed Monopoly Chart - As four seed companies now control more than 60 percent of the global market, a seed policy expert argues that consolidation poses major risks to our food supply.
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A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms - The company's Pixel phone responds to voice commands, and sometimes that can have inadvertent effects.
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Roombas at the End of the World - IEEE Spectrum - Robotic romance, ransoms, and raccoon suits at the South Pole
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They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird - Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.
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Giant Rodents 'Invaded' a Wealthy Gated Community. What Happened Next is a Lesson for Cities in the Climate Change Era - Nordelta had to adapt after its population of giant rodents started to boom last year.
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'Satoshi Nakamoto' Just Posted. WTF Is Going On? - Did the anonymous inventor of Bitcoin really just break their silence? Let's go down the rabbit hole.
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New Evidence Found of Rape and Torture by Russian Forces in Ukraine - A U.N. report documented cases in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which remain partly under Moscow’s control.
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Thousands of remote IT workers sent wages to North Korea to help fund weapons program, FBI says - Federal authorities say that thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program.
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Inside FTX’s All-Night Race to Stop a $1 Billion Crypto Heist | WIRED
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They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? - Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.
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Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory - The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery. Is this the indulgence of an oddball founder, or a better way to run an I.T. company?
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Swipe Right to Hire Me: How Tinder Became China’s Hottest Networking App - Young Chinese are increasingly using the dating app to hunt for potential job openings amid soaring graduate unemployment. But the trend is sparking concern among the platform’s users — and inside Tinder itself.
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And Now a Word From Voice-over Actors - It may seem easy, but making a career out of talking isn't as simple as it sounds.
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Elon Musk Does It. Sergey Brin Does It. Your Boss Might Do It. Welcome to the Workplace Shroom Boom - Microdosing in the workplace is becoming increasingly common in Europe, even though it’s illegal in many countries and the benefits aren’t entirely proven.
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The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online - People learned about the decision on the same devices they’ll use to help those in need circumvent it.
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The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes - Soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher now believes he’s found evidence the data was manipulated.
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These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died - An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.
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Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists - "A totally unreasonable proposal."
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Unmasking Trickbot, One of the World’s Top Cybercrime Gangs - A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang’s secrets, including the identity of a central member.
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Age of Empires and live ants used to test theoretical ideas on combat - Theories dating back to World War I put to the test with Australian meat ants.
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The FBI accused him of spying for China. It ruined his life. - Anming Hu’s case was meant to be a victory for the “China Initiative,” a US effort to root out spies. Instead, it turned more attention on the FBI.
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One Drive, Double Agent - OneDrive Ransomware - See how a SafeBreach Labs researcher leveraged Microsoft OneDrive to develop a new undetectable-by-design ransomware variant.
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He Had a Dark Secret. It Changed His Best Friend’s Life. - Tin Chin and Mo Lin were inseparable at the homeless shelter. But one of the men wasn’t who he seemed to be.
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US soldier facing disciplinary action flees into North Korea - The soldier was believed to be in North Korean custody, U.S. officials said, creating a fresh crisis for Washington in its dealings with the nuclear-armed state.
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Their Crypto Company Collapsed. They Went to Bali. - The implosion of Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, devastated the industry. Its two founders spent the next year surfing, meditating and traveling the world.
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The thorny social politics of location sharing - "I love you, now let me watch your location 24/7."
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater - Elon Musk’s livestreamed brain implant event made promises that will be hard to keep.
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Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims - How I accidentally breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger called Converso.
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Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds - Honeybees are one of the most common pollinators. But their flower-visiting habits make it harder for some plants to produce good seeds.
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The revolt of the Christian home-schoolers - They were taught that public schools are evil. Then a Virginia couple defied their families and enrolled their kids.
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Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto - And it's happening in plain sight.
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This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale - Hired as customer service reps, these freelancers were instead tasked with luring in the lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites.
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The Truth About Dentistry - It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.
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FBI: Rent-a-Hitman site nabbed Air National Guardsman who was “excited” to kill - FBI: Guardsman owned AR-15 and was willing to take fingers and ears as trophies.
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The case against pet ownership - Why we should aim for a world with fewer but happier pets.
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Ex-Pentagon Analyst Sentenced to 30 Months in Leak Case - The former counterterrorism analyst had pleaded guilty to sharing classified information with reporters about foreign weapon systems.
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After disrupting businesses, Google Drive’s secret file cap is dead for now - The reaction to Google Drive's secret 5 million file limit makes Google hit "undo."
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Scientists triggered the flow of spinal fluid in the awake brain - If future studies confirm these waking waves wash away toxic proteins from the brain, the finding could lead to new treatments for brain disorders.
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There’s Something Off About LED Bulbs - Have you started to notice, too?
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The Landlord, the Tenant and a House Fire in Milwaukee - A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”
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Eremina desertorum - Eremina desertorum (formerly Helix desertorum) is a species of land snails in the genus Eremina. It is native to desert regions in Egypt and Israel. A specimen from Egypt thought to be dead was glued to an index card at the British Museum in March 1846. However, in March 1850, it was found to be alive. The Canadian writer Grant Allen observed: The ...
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Alan MacMasters hoax - On 10 February 2012, photography and ICT student Alan MacMasters attended a university lecture where the class was cautioned against using Wikipedia as a source. The lecturer mentioned that his friend had falsely claimed to be the inventor of the toaster on the Wikipedia page. Following the lecture, Alan and his friends edited the Wikipedia toaster ...
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Graffiti (Palm OS) - Graffiti is an essentially single-stroke shorthand handwriting recognition system used in PDAs based on the Palm OS. Graffiti was originally written by Palm, Inc. as the recognition system for GEOS-based devices such as HP's OmniGo 100 and 120 or the Magic Cap-line and was available as an alternate recognition system for the Apple Newton MessagePad,...
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Snake wine - Snake wine (Chinese: 蛇酒; pinyin: shé-jiǔ; Vietnamese: rượu rắn; Khmer: ស្រាពស់, sra poas) is an alcoholic beverage produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol. The drink was first recorded to have been consumed in China during the Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1040–770 BC) and believed in folklore to reinvigorate a person according to...
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National conventions for writing telephone numbers - National conventions for writing telephone numbers vary by country. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) publishes a recommendation entitled Notation for national and international telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Web addresses. Recommendation E.123 specifies the format of telephone numbers assigned to telephones and similar commun...
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No one likes us, we don't care - "No one likes us, we don't care" is a sports chant that originated as a football chant sung by supporters of the English football club Millwall in the late 1970s. It is sung to the tune of "(We Are) Sailing" by Rod Stewart. The late 1960s saw the rise of fan violence and football hooliganism throughout England; Millwall was one of several English t...
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CONOP 8888 - CONPLAN 8888, also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance, is a U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Command CONOP document that describes a plan for the United States and its military defending against zombies. It was initially classified by the United States Intelligence Community, but was eventually declassified following a Freedom of Information Act...
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Zheng Pingru - Zheng Pingru (1918 – February 1940) was a Chinese socialite and spy who gathered intelligence on the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun, the security chief of the Wang Jingwei regime, a puppet government for the Japanese. Her life is believed to be the ...
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DVD region code - DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back only DVDs...
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Speakers' Corner - A Speakers' Corner is an area where free speech open-air public speaking, debate, and discussion are allowed. The original and best known is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Historically there were a number of other areas designated as Speakers' Corners in other parks in London, such as Lincoln's Inn Fields, Finsbury Park, ...
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Montreal–Philippines cutlery controversy - The Montreal–Philippines cutlery controversy was an incident in 2006 in which a Filipino-born Canadian boy was punished by his school in Roxboro, Montreal, for following traditional Filipino etiquette and eating his lunch with a fork and a spoon, rather than the Canadian tradition of a knife and fork. In response to the media coverage of the affair,...
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Santiago Calatrava - Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. His best-known works include the Olympic Sports Complex of Athe...
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John Rabe - John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre (also romanized as Nanking) and his work to protect and help Chinese civilians during the massacre that ensued. The Nanking Safety Zone, which he helped to est...
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Pirahã people - The Pirahã (pronounced [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. The Pirahã people do not call th...
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Chicken gun - A chicken gun or flight impact simulator is a large-diameter, compressed-air gun used to fire bird carcasses at aircraft components in order to simulate high-speed bird strikes during the aircraft's flight. Jet engines and aircraft windshields are particularly vulnerable to damage from such strikes, and are the most common target in such tests. Alth...
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Trojan Room coffee pot - The Trojan Room coffee pot was a coffee machine located in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, England. Created in 1991 by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky, it was migrated from their laboratory network to the web in 1993, becoming the world's first webcam. To save people working in the building the disappointment of fi...
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Veterstrikdiploma - A veterstrikdiploma, also known as veterdiploma or strikdiploma (English: shoelacing diploma) is a diploma which children between 5 and 6 years can get in the Netherlands and Belgium after they manage to tie their shoelaces by themselves. It is often the first diploma a child achieves and thus has an important pedagogic meaning, giving the child the...
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Polar bear jail - The polar bear jail (officially known as the Polar Bear Holding Facility) is a special building in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada where polar bears that are considered troublesome or dangerous are isolated until they can be relocated.Before the facility was established, polar bears which were considered dangerous were shot. The jail was established i...
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Jeffrey Manchester - Jeffrey Allen Manchester (born 1972) is an American convicted spree-robber and former United States Army Reserve officer known as the 'Rooftop Robber' or simply 'Roofman' due to his modus operandi of entering his targets (most commonly McDonald's locations) by drilling through the roof and dropping in. Before being apprehended for the second time in...
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Bogdanov affair - The Bogdanov affair was an academic dispute regarding the legitimacy of a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (alternatively spelled Bogdanoff). The papers were published in reputable scientific journals, and were alleged by their authors to culminate in a theory for describing what occurred before ...
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Snowplow Game - The Snowplow Game was a regular-season game played between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots on December 12, 1982, at Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Due in part to icy conditions, the game remained scoreless until late in the fourth quarter, when the snowplow operator was called in to clear a spot on the snowy field specifi...
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Carbuncle Cup - The Carbuncle Cup was an architecture prize, given annually by the magazine Building Design to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months". It was intended to be a humorous response to the prestigious Stirling Prize, given by the Royal Institute of British Architects.The cup was launched in 2006, with the first winne...
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Miura fold - The Miura fold (ミウラ折り, Miura-ori) is a method of folding a flat surface such as a sheet of paper into a smaller area. The fold is named for its inventor, Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura.The crease patterns of the Miura fold form a tessellation of the surface by parallelograms. In one direction, the creases lie along straight lines, with each par...
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Pirate Party of Catalonia - Pirates of Catalonia (Catalan: Pirates de Catalunya, PIRATA.CAT) is a political party in Catalonia. The party is based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party and is a member of the Pirate Parties International, it supports intellectual property reform, open access to culture and knowledge, transparency and direct democracy.The party was founded in...
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Mystery Seeker - Mystery Seeker was a website based on the Google search engine. that until November 30, 2009 had been known as Mystery Google. The WHOIS domain name record for mysterygoogle.com was created on 10 February 2009 with registrant Google Inc, but since February 26, 2017 it has had no website. The website has been featured in a number of technology blog...
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Reverse Polish notation - Reverse Polish notation (RPN), also known as reverse Łukasiewicz notation, Polish postfix notation or simply postfix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators follow their operands, in contrast to prefix or Polish notation (PN), in which operators precede their operands. The notation does not need any parentheses for as long as each op...
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Lake Nyos disaster - On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.The eruption triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons (1.6 million tons, according to some sources) of carbon dioxide (CO2). The gas cloud initially rose at nearly 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph; 28 m/s) and then, bei...
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Mass suicides in 1945 Nazi Germany - During the final weeks of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe, many civilians, government officials, and military personnel throughout Germany and German-occupied Europe committed suicide. In addition to high-ranking Nazi officials like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Philipp Bouhler, and Martin Bormann, many others chose suicid...
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Road of Life - The Road of Life (Доро́га жи́зни, doroga žizni) was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War. They were the only Soviet winter surface routes into the city while it was besieged by the German Army Group North under Feldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.The routes operated in the winters of 1941...
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Sanrizuka Struggle - The Sanrizuka Struggle (三里塚闘争, Sanrizuka tōsō) refers to a civil conflict and riots involving the Japanese government and the agricultural community of Sanrizuka, comprising organised opposition by farmers, local residents, and leftist groups to the construction of Narita International Airport (then New Tokyo International Airport). The struggle ste...
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Page 3 - Page 3, or Page Three, was a British newspaper convention of publishing a large image of a topless female glamour model (known as a Page 3 girl) on the third page of mainstream red-top tabloids. The Sun introduced the feature in November 1970, which boosted its readership and prompted competing tabloids—including The Daily Mirror, The Sunday People,...
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Anti-computer tactics - Anti-computer tactics are methods used by humans to try to beat computer opponents at various games, most typically board games such as chess and Arimaa. They are most associated with competitions against computer AIs that are playing to their utmost to win, rather than AIs merely programmed to be an interesting challenge that can be given intentio...
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Manifold Destiny (cookbook) - Manifold Destiny is a 1989 cookbook (ISBN 0679723374), its updated 1998 edition (ISBN 0375751408) and a 2008 update (ISBN 1416596232) on the subject of cooking on the surface of a car engine. It was written by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, a photographer and a travel writer who were also rally drivers.The authors claimed inspiration from a trip f...
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Hand of Glory - A Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man, often specified as being the left (Latin: sinister) hand, or, if the person was hanged for murder, the hand that "did the deed." Old European beliefs attribute great powers to a Hand of Glory combined with a candle made from fat from the corpse of the same malefactor who died on the gall...
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Beagle Brigade - Beagle Brigade is a team of beagles and their human handlers who, as part of the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), inspect luggage at U.S. airports searching for agricultural products. According to the USDA, the Beagle Brigade program averages around 75,000 seizures of prohibited agricultu...
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China–Hong Kong football rivalry - The China–Hong Kong football rivalry is a sports rivalry between the national association football teams of the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong. The rivalry has been exacerbated by Hong Kong's status as a Special Administrative Region of China, with major political and ideological differences than on the mainland, a legacy of having been un...
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Chinese number gestures - Chinese number gestures are a method to signify the natural numbers one through ten using one hand. This method may have been developed to bridge the many varieties of Chinese—for example, the numbers 4 (Chinese: 四; pinyin: sì) and 10 (Chinese: 十; pinyin: shí) are hard to distinguish in some dialects. Some suggest that it was also used by business ...
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The purpose of a system is what it does - The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system ca...
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Response to sneezing - In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "[God] bless you", or, less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed bless-you origins for use in the context of sneezing. In non-En...
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Child Abusers Are Getting Better at Using Crypto to Cover Their Tracks - Crypto tracing firm Chainalysis found that sellers of child sexual abuse materials are successfully using “mixers” and “privacy coins” like Monero to launder their profits and evade law enforcement.
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Glorified rice - Glorified rice is a dessert salad popular in the Midwestern cuisine served in Minnesota and other states in the Upper Midwest, United States and other places with Norwegian populations. It is popular in more rural areas with sizable Lutheran populations of Scandinavian heritage. It is made from rice, crushed pineapple, and whipped cream. It is often...
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Nutri-Score - The Nutri-Score, also known as the 5-Colour Nutrition label or 5-CNL, is a five-colour nutrition label and nutritional rating system, and an attempt to simplify the nutritional rating system demonstrating the overall nutritional value of food products. It assigns products a rating letter from A (best) to E (worst), with associated colors from green ...
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Alex (parrot) - Alex (May 18, 1976 – September 6, 2007) was a grey parrot and the subject of a thirty-year experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard University and Brandeis University. When Alex was about one year old, Pepperberg bought him at a pet shop. In her book "Alex & Me", Pepperberg descr...
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AquAdvantage salmon - AquAdvantage salmon is a genetically engineered (GE) fish, a GE Atlantic salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies in 1989. The typical growth hormone-regulating gene in the Atlantic salmon was replaced with the growth hormone-regulating gene from Pacific Chinook salmon, with a promoter sequence from ocean pout. This gene enables GM salmon to gr...
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Freetown Christiania - Freetown Christiania (Danish: Fristaden Christiania), also known as Christiania or simply the Staden, is an intentional community and commune in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of the Danish capital city of Copenhagen. It began in 1971 as a squatted military base. Its Pusher Street is famous for its open trade of cannabis, which is illegal in Denma...
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Methbot - Methbot was an advertising fraud scheme.
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Jonathan (tortoise) - Jonathan (hatched c. 1832) is a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea); he is the oldest known living land animal. Jonathan resides on the island of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Sixty-fourth note - In music notation, a sixty-fourth note (North American), or hemidemisemiquaver or semidemisemiquaver (British), sometimes called a half-thirty-second note, is a note played for half the duration of a thirty-second note (or demisemiquaver), hence the name. It first occurs in the late 17th century and, apart from rare occurrences of hundred twenty-eig...
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Caning of Michael Fay - In 1994, Singaporean authorities sentenced American teenager Michael Fay to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act. This caused a temporary strain in relations between Singapore and the United States.Fay was arrested for stealing road signs and vandalizing 18 cars over a ten-day period in September 1993. Fay pled guilty, but...
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Scunthorpe problem - The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning. Names, abbreviations, and technical terms are most often cited as being affected by the issue. The problem arises sin...
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Simmons–Tierney bet - The Simmons–Tierney bet was a wager made in August 2005 between Houston banking executive Matthew R. Simmons and New York Times columnist John Tierney. The stakes of the bet were US$10,000.00. The subject of the bet was the year-end average of the daily price-per-barrel of crude oil for the entire calendar year of 2010 adjusted for inflation, which ...
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Walburga Oesterreich - Walburga Oesterreich (née Korschel; 1880 – April 8, 1961), nicknamed "Dolly" and "Queen of Los Angeles", was a German-born American housewife, married to a wealthy textile manufacturer Fred William Oesterreich (December 8, 1877 – August 22, 1922), who gained notoriety for the shooting death of her husband and the subsequent bizarre revelation that s...
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Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research, first done by the American Human Interference Task Force in 1981. A 1993 report fro...
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Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack - The vulnerability of nuclear plants to deliberate attack is of concern in the area of nuclear safety and security. Nuclear power plants, civilian research reactors, certain naval fuel facilities, uranium enrichment plants, fuel fabrication plants, and even potentially uranium mines are vulnerable to attacks which could lead to widespread radioactive...
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The Thing (listening device) - The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagn...
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Metcalf sniper attack - On April 16, 2013, an attack was carried out on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Metcalf transmission substation in Coyote, California, near the border of San Jose. The attack, in which gunmen fired on 17 electrical transformers, resulted in more than $15 million worth of equipment damage, but it had little impact on the station's electrical power...
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1989 California medfly attack - In 1989, a sudden invasion of Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata, "medflies") appeared in California and began devastating crops. Scientists were puzzled and said that the sudden appearance of the insects "defies logic", and some speculated "biological terrorists" were responsible. Analysis suggested that an outside hand played a role in ...
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Joe Ades - Joseph Ades (; 18 December 1934 – 1 February 2009), also known as the "Gentleman Peeler", was a well-known street peeler seller in New York City, United States.
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Pigeon photography - Pigeon photography is an aerial photography technique invented in 1907 by the German apothecary Julius Neubronner, who also used pigeons to deliver medications. A homing pigeon was fitted with an aluminium breast harness to which a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera could be attached. Neubronner's German patent application was initially rejec...
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John Willis (gangster) - John Willis (born May 11, 1971), nicknamed Bac Guai John in Cantonese, or White Devil John, is an American mobster linked with the Chinese mafia in Boston and New York. Willis claims to have been the only white person within Chinese organized crime, an assertion backed by FBI agent Scott O'Donnell, who stated he has "never seen" a case like that of ...
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Daffynition - A daffynition (a portmanteau blend of daffy and definition) is a form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word (or group of words). Presented in the form of dictionary definitions, they are similar to transpositional puns, but often much less complex and easier to create. Under the name...
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Herringbone seating - A herringbone seating arrangement describes the positioning of seats partially and equally askew in one direction. As the name suggests, the arrangement of the seats looks very similar to the skeleton of a fish, and has been called "fish-bone seats" in a few languages. The term is derived from the arrangement of interlocking brickwork, and has been ...
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Two hundred fifty-sixth note - In music, a two hundred fifty-sixth note, or occasionally demisemihemidemisemiquaver (British), is a note played for 1⁄256 of the duration of a whole note. It lasts half as long as a hundred twenty-eighth note and takes up one quarter of the length of a sixty-fourth note. In musical notation it has a total of six flags or beams. Since human pitch pe...
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Grain entrapment - Grain entrapment, or grain engulfment, occurs when a person becomes submerged in grain and cannot get out without assistance. It most frequently occurs in grain bins and other storage facilities such as silos or grain elevators, or in grain transportation vehicles, but has also been known to occur around any large quantity of grain, even freestandin...
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Toynbee tiles - The Toynbee tiles, also called Toynbee plaques, are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American cities. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered. They are generally about the size of an American license plate (roughly 30 by 15 cm or 12...
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Don't be evil - "Don't be evil" is Google's former motto, and a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct. Following Google's corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took "Do the right thing" as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct. The original motto was retained in Google's cod...
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California nut crimes - California nut crimes refers to the organised theft of nuts (almonds, pistachios, cashews, and pecans) in California. Reported cases of nut theft go as far back as 2006 with the worth of stolen nuts being millions of dollars. The thefts demonstrate a high level of sophistication, encompassing identity theft and a deep understanding of computer secur...
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Morris worm - The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It was written by a graduate student at Cornell University, Robert Tapp...
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Area denial weapon - An area denial weapon is a defensive device used to prevent an adversary from occupying or traversing an area of land, sea or air. The specific method may not be totally effective in preventing passage, but is sufficient to severely restrict, slow down, or endanger the opponent. Some area denial weapons pose risks to civilians entering the area even...
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Island of California - The Island of California (Spanish: Isla de California) refers to a long-held global misconception, dating from the 16th century, that California was not part of mainland North America but rather a large island separated from the continent by a strait now known as the Gulf of California. One of the most famous cartographic errors in history, it was ...
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The Million Dollar Homepage - The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provid...
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Operation Paperclip - Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was l...
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American cover-up of Japanese war crimes - The occupying US government undertook the cover-up of Japanese war crimes after the end of World War II, granting political immunity to military personnel who had engaged in human experimentation and other crimes against humanity, predominantly in mainland China. The pardon of Japanese war criminals, among whom were Unit 731's commanding officers Ge...
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Asahi Linux - Asahi Linux is a project that ports the Linux kernel and related software to Apple silicon-powered Macs. The software design project was started and is led by Hector Martin. Work began in early 2021, a few months after Apple formally announced the transition to Apple silicon. An initial alpha release followed in 2022. The project has been made chall...
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Disposition Matrix - The Disposition Matrix, informally known as a kill list, is a database of information for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the United States. Developed by the Obama administration beginning in 2010, it goes beyond existing kill lists and is intended to become a permanent fixture of U.S. policy. The process determining ...
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Max Jacobson - Max Jacobson (3 July 1900 – 1 December 1979) was an American physician and medical researcher who treated numerous high-profile clients in the United States, including President John F. Kennedy. Jacobson came to be known as "Miracle Max" and "Dr. Feelgood" because he administered highly addictive "vitamin shots" laced with various substances that in...
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Sinking of MV Sewol - The ferry MV Sewol sank on the morning of April 16, 2014, en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. The 6,825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi; 1.5 nmi) north of Byeongpungdo at 08:58 KST (23:58 UTC, April 15, 2014). Out of 476 passengers and crew, 306 died in the disaster, including around 250 students fr...
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Zoot Suit Riots - The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place from June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. It was one of the dozen wartime industrial cities that suffered race-related riots in the summer of 1943, along...
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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster (Tragedia de los Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes (Milagro de los Andes). The inexperie...
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Baker-Miller pink - Baker-Miller Pink, also known as P-618, Schauss pink, or Drunk-Tank Pink is a tone of pink which has been observed to temporarily reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior. It was originally created by mixing white indoor latex paint with red trim semi-gloss outdoor paint in a 1:8 ratio by volume.Alexander Schauss did extensive research into th...
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Saddle Ridge Hoard - The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to a hoard of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in the Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada, California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. The hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins, and $20 in five-dollar coins, all dating fr...
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2008 submarine cable disruption - The 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East from 23 January to 4 February 2008, causing internet disr...
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Lenin was a mushroom - Lenin was a mushroom (Russian: Ленин — гриб) was a highly influential televised hoax by Soviet musician Sergey Kuryokhin and reporter Sergey Sholokhov. It was first broadcast on 17 May 1991 on Leningrad Television.
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Hebenon - Hebenon (or hebona) is a botanical substance described in William Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet. The identity and nature of the poison has been a source of speculation for centuries.
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Rotating locomotion in living systems - Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion. However, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not seem to play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of certain flagella, which work like corkscrews). Biologists have offered several explanations for the apparent absence of biologi...
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Ronald Opus - Ronald Opus is the subject of a fictional murder case, often misreported as a true story. The case was originally told by Don Harper Mills, then president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, in a speech at a banquet in 1987. After it began to circulate on the internet as a factual story and attained the status of urban legend, Mills stated...
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Big Four (debutantes) - Chicago's Big Four were a quartet of debutantes in the Chicago social scene during World War I, described as "the four most attractive and socially desirable young women in Chicago."
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Siege of Suiyang - The siege of Suiyang (Chinese: 睢陽之戰; pinyin: Suīyáng zhī zhàn) was a military campaign during the An Lushan Rebellion, launched by the rebel Yan army to capture the city of Suiyang from the loyalist forces of the Tang army. Although the battle was ultimately won by the Yan army, it suffered a major loss of manpower and time. The battle was noted for...
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Hapax legomenon - In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon ( also or ; pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, plural hapaxes) is a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context: either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that...
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Ghost word - A ghost word is a word published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work even though it had not previously had any meaning or been used intentionally. A ghost word generally originates from readers interpreting a typographical or linguistic error as a word they are not familiar with, and then publishing that word elsewhere under th...
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Taito (kanji) - Taito, daito, or otodo (𱁬/) is a kokuji ("kanji character invented in Japan") written with 84 strokes, and thus the most graphically complex CJK character—collectively referring to Chinese characters and derivatives used in the written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. This rare and complex character graphically places the 36-stroke tai 䨺 (wi...
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E-meter - The E-meter, originally the electropsychometer, is an electronic device for displaying the electrodermal activity (EDA) of a human being. It is used for auditing in Scientology and divergent groups. The efficacy and legitimacy of Scientology's use of the E-meter has been subject to extensive litigation and in accordance with a federal court order, t...
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Shabbos App - The Shabbos App claimed to be a proposed Android app to enable Orthodox Jews, and Jewish Sabbath-observers, to use a smartphone on the Sabbath. The app was supposed to appear in late 2014. Some argued from the outset that this project was nothing more than an elaborate hoax or prank.
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Dr. Dynasaur - Dr. Dynasaur is a publicly funded healthcare program in the U.S. state of Vermont, created in 1989. Vermont had an estimated 140,000 people under age 18 (90,000 under 300% above the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). Dr. Dynasaur covered 56,000 of these uninsured. After adding the coverage of this program to those already covered by private health insuran...
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Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón - Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón (Madrid, 15 November 1866 - Madrid, 28 April 1934) was a Spanish nobleman, the great-great-grandson of Charles III of Spain, and is known for having had 88 forenames. This is recognised as a record by Guinness World Records.Alfonso was a son of Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, and his second wife, Infanta Maria Chr...
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La Sombrita - La Sombrita (Spanish for "The Little Shade") is a prototype sunshade created for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). Its purpose was to assist female bus riders by offering shade during the hottest hours of the day and providing sidewalk lighting at night. This was especially targeted at locations where the swift construction of tr...
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Ginevra King - Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. As one of Chicago's "Big Four" debutantes during World War I, she inspired many characters in the novels and stories of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; in particular, the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. A 16-year-old King met an 18-year-old...
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Scaly boy - The scaly boy (Aboma etheostoma) is a species of goby native to the Pacific coast of Central America from Mexico to Panama. This species is the only known member of its genus.
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Telegarden - The TeleGarden was a telerobotic community garden for the Internet. Starting in the mid-1990s, it allowed users to view, plant and take care of a small garden, using an Adept-1 industrial robotic arm controlled online.
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Marcus McDilda - Lieutenant Marcus Elmo McDilda (December 15, 1921 – August 16, 1998) was an American P-51 fighter pilot who was shot down over Osaka and captured by the Japanese on 8 August 1945, two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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Michael Orlitzky { CSC ServiceWorks laundry machine coin bypass }
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Nyan Cat's cousin who is listening to some lo-fi beats - ...the cat that has a habit of singing while coding. Meow.
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How do large companies such as Mihoyo make decisions? – MoonBear Musings
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Collection of U.S. diaries - The American Diary Project collection spans over 16 decades and 2 centuries, with many diaries available to read online.
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How the UEFA Euro 2024 football games are impacting local Internet traffic - Discover how UEFA Euro 2024 is shifting Internet traffic patterns during games across Europe with insights into traffic drops and cybersecurity concerns during national team games
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archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet - Do you like reading articles in publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, but can’t afford to pay what can be hundreds of dollars a year in subscriptions? If so, …
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Listen to live air traffic control radio mixed with lofi hip hop - Live radio from SFO, LAX, and other airports...
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Listen To The Clouds - Live as the world flies - Background noise while you work or relax. Listen to live streamed air traffic radio chatter.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Commute - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Commute
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Elon Musk Deposed In Lawsuit For Falsely Linking Jewish Man To Neo-Nazi Brawl | PDF | Deposition (Law) | Lawsuit - Elon Musk was deposed in a recent lawsuit for falsely linking a 22-year-old Jewish man to a neo-Nazi brawl. Musk, who attempted to keep the deposition from the public, admits he did no research into his false claim, among other revelations.
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Complete bathroom overhaul - a sad, builder-grade sack of tears - Complete bathroom overhaul - a sad, builder-grade sack of tears
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A framework for building Open Graph images - We recently set about creating a framework and service for automatically generating social sharing images for repositories and other resources on GitHub.
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MSCHF - AMERICAN ART COLLECTIVE. NOTHING IS SACRED.
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Everything I know about the XZ backdoor - Please note: This is being updated in real time. The intent is to make sense of lots of simultaneous discoveries
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danluu/post-mortems - A collection of postmortems. Sorry for the delay in merging PRs!
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analytics.usa.gov | The US government's web traffic. - Official data on web traffic to thousands of US federal government websites. Published by the Digital Analytics Program.
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Kruschiki Supply Company - Kruschiki Supply Company
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How different languages laugh online - Laughter is universal, but lol is not.
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Why Are Hyperlinks Blue | The Mozilla Blog - Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink While musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue
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Compare Countries With This Simple Tool - Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.
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TartanLlama/vizh - An esoteric visual language that takes image files as input based on a multi-tape turing machine, designed for compatibility with C.
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Tinder for 🍌 - It’s like Tinder, but for 🍌
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Fandom for Robots - Computron feels no emotion towards the animated television show titled Hyperdimension Warp Record (超次元 ワープ レコード). After all, Computron does not have any emotion circuits installed, and is thus constitutionally incapable of experiencing “excitement,” “hatred,” or “frustration.” It is completely impossible for Computron to experience emotions such as ...
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Banana Ducks of Dubai - They are just silly. No apparent real purpose. When I first saw the BANANA DUCKS of downtown Dubai, I thought that perhaps they were marking some slippery parts of the pavement – ? But no,…
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Fat Bear Week Hall of Champions - Fat Bear Week Hall of Champions
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Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts
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Deliberate Grieving - This post is hopefully useful on its own, but begins a series ultimately about grieving over a world that might (or, might not) be doomed. …
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sisters with transistors - Cargo
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MWBD - Games - Math Games with Bad Drawings
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What I Learned Using Private LLMs to Write an Undergraduate History Essay – zwischenzugs
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"Apocryphal Inventions," an exploration of Generative AI - "Apocryphal Inventions" by Jonathan Hoefler: An exploration of Generative AI
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Home | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - A whimsical literary competition for the worst possible opening sentences to novels never written.
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Baking a Hello World Cake - I have a soft spot for esoteric programming languages. They are (usually) perfectly functional languages, in the rather loose sense that they are Turing complete and thus capable of solving all the…
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How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim - A while back I answered a question on Quora: Can people actually keep up with note-taking in Mathematics lectures with LaTeX. There, I explained my workflow of taking lecture notes in LaTeX using Vim and how I draw figures in Inkscape. However, a lot has…
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads - Lessons from the plagiarists of the steppe
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Can't Unsee - A game where you need to pick the design that is most correct. Test your attention to details!
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Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group - This site contains ongoing research in the classification of occlupanids.
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I can't sleep - I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes, on hospitals, on schools. Tens of thousands of dead in indiscriminate bombings.
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Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski - Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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OpenPods - The Free and Open Source app for monitoring your AirPods on Android
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Home | Shrimp Welfare Project - Shrimp Welfare Project aims to improve the lives of billions of farmed shrimps in India and Southeast Asia.
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AmputatorBot: Remove AMP from your URLs - AMP is threatening your privacy and the Open Web. With AmputatorBot, you can remove it from your URLs. AmputatorBot is available in many forms: here, as bots on Reddit and Twitter and as a free and public API
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Discord Should Remove Usernames Entirely - Discord's Recent Announcement made a lot of people mad, mostly because of Hyrum's Law - users were relying on unintended observable behavior in the original username system, and are mad that their use-cases are being broken despite very good evidence that the current system is problematic. I think the major issue here is that Discord didn't go far e...
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It's Nicky Case! - i make shtuff for curious & playful peeps
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Nyan Cat's cousin who is listening to some lo-fi beats - ...the cat that has a habit of singing while coding. Meow.
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Ubuntu Manpage: run-parts - run scripts or programs in a directory
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A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials - Exploring the Applecore style
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Viola the Bird - Play a cello inspired instrument with Viola the Bird and the help of machine learning! An experiment by David Li.
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Stripe Black Friday–Cyber Monday 2023 - Live dashboard of Stripe systems during Black Friday–Cyber Monday 2023.
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[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): "Clusterfake" - This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team of anonymous researchers examined a number of studies co-authored by Gino, because we had concerns that they contained fraudulent data. We discovered evide...
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Apollo-11/Luminary099/LUNAR_LANDING_GUIDANCE_EQUATIONS.agc at master · chrislgarry/Apollo-11 - Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules. - chrislgarry/Apollo-11
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Richard Towers | Typescripting the technical interview - An homage to Aphyr's Typing the technical interview
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NEC MC/300HC Review - Retrospective review of the NEC MC/300HC / Celux 300HC
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The Waiting Time Paradox, or, Why Is My Bus Always Late? | Pythonic Perambulations
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What Happened to Dolphin on Steam? - Well that blew up, huh? If you follow emulation or just gaming on the whole, you've probably heard about the controversy around the Dolphin Steam release and the Wii Common Key. There's been a lot of conclusions made, and while we've wanted to defend ourselves, we thought it would be prudent to contact lawyers first to make sure that our understandi...
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Random Observations: Analysis vs Algebra predicts eating corn?
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Puritan Spotting - [Related to: Book Review: Albion’s Seed] [Epistemic status: Not too serious] I realize I’ve been confusing everyone with my use of the word “Puritan”. When I say “That…
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HTTP Cats - API for HTTP Cats
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How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - This is for all the web designers out there who have suffered as I have suffered.
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FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition - FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition is a no-nonsense implementation of FizzBuzz made by serious businessmen for serious business purposes.
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Factory factory factory - Explaining what's wrong with modern software development by allegory.
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DreamBerd - perfect programming language
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infinite-cat - Now part of the Petside family, The Infinite Cat Project is about one cat watching another cat (see below). A long line of 1856 cats, so far. The very first Infinaut is Frankie (seen at left admiring a flower) the owner of Paul Hamilton. In addition, the ICP also offers all manners of other cat-related diversions every day […]
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Open Questions - Some anomalies/questions which are not necessarily important, but do puzzle me or where I find existing explanations to be unsatisfying.
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 - In May 2022 over 70,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.
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Burning up in Orbit - Waxing lyrical
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Never Forget Jeju - Remembering the Dark History of My Ancestral Home
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A student's dream: hacking (then fixing) Gradescope's autograder - Ever since I started exploring security more deeply, I’ve been asked countless times by people if I could hack into grading systems to change my (or, more often, their) grades. With Gradescope being the most ubiquitous platform for grading STEM classes at Stanford, my standard response was always that I couldn’t, imagining that a well-established Ed...
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SF and Fantasy Governments: A Semi-Scientific Survey - Having complained about one particular aspect of science fiction and fantasy settings for decades, it belatedly occurred to me to start tabulating data to see if in fact there were any support for…
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Discord, or the Death of Lore - I chose the life, it didn’t choose me. I could have walked away from it a long time ago, and I’ve certainly shifted my focus over the years. But I still hold the heft and halter, the on…