In 1983, Dworkin published Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females, an examination of women's reasons for collaborating with conservative men for the limitation of women's freedom.
Relevant: Excerpt from Chapter 3 of “Right-Wing Women”.
Alza.cz – eine Alternative zu Amazu und Temon? 🤔
If you don’t see this everywhere, you are not paying attention.
Accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a technique often used in the context of hate speech incitement, where one falsely attributes one's own motives or intentions to one's adversaries.
Ein Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres: Dämonen. Besessenheit und Exorzismus in der Geschichte Österreichs.
AI's effects on programming jobs.
These new developers will know how to think in a structured way, they will know principles of how software should function architecturally, but they will know less about programming language constructs and syntax. They will be architects more than developers, instructing AI to put together software for them without needing to know about "low-level" implementation, by which I mean the code. The same way current coders don't need to think about how assembly code works.
Hacker Laws – Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.
I sit here at my computer trying to think of words to describe how impressive this image is to me. The best I can do falls so far short of acceptable that I will not even try... The wonder and awe of an image like this is why I love astronomy so very much. Thank you allowing me the pleasure of seeing it.
Relevant: The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – The cosmic roadtrip.
Sync Engines are the Future.
They collapse the database and the server. If your database is smart enough and capable enough, why would you even need a server? Hosted database saves you from the horrors of hosting and lets your data flow freely to the frontend.
I never thought this was possible in practice, but then Roam Research proved me wrong. For the first few years after public release, they didn’t have a single server. Everything was synced to and served from Firebase. Living the dream.
The work is mysterious and important.
Lars Tunbjörk: Kontor.
I contributed a draft about Melody London to the English Wikipedia.
She began her career in 1984 with Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise”, which won awards at Cannes and Sundance. London continued working with Jarmusch on “Down by Law”, “Mystery Train”, and segments of “Coffee and Cigarettes”, employing long cuts to emphasize visual storytelling.
Update: Declined, unsurprisingly.