A seismic social shift has taken place seeing much of humanity evolve from a person to a user. We are all complicit in this shift. We have collectively accepted this new social contract unchallenged. We 'agreed' to it. We perpetuate and propagate it. We are now the users, the using and the used.
The Secrets of the White House Reflect Its History of Constancy and Change.
It’s Not Actually White.
The author is the creator of AMP 🤔
Designing very large (JavaScript) applications.
So, I build this JavaScript framework at Google. It is used by Photos, Sites, Plus, Drive, Play, the search engine, all these sites. Some of them are pretty large, you might have used a few of them.
Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies.
Over the years, trackers have been found storing user identifiers as supercookies in increasingly obscure parts of the browser, including in Flash storage, ETags, and HSTS flags.
»Worte, die mir guttun, wenn ich depressiv bin.«
Weißt Du, was ich heute mit Dir unternehmen möchte? Gar nichts. Du bist genug
The cold incubator: the VC dream of workerless wealth.
The dream in its purest form, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies promise wealth pulled from thin air, spinning hay into gold without the involvement of any brutish Rumpelstiltskins.
Imagine a Hiring Process Without Resumes.
This approach, which eschews resumes, interviews, and background checks, focuses solely on human potential and provides employment to anyone willing and able to work. Some of these requirements, like background checks, may be necessary in sectors such as education, government, healthcare, and finance. But for industries that rely heavily on front-line talent — manufacturing, distribution, retail, and food services, where candidates can be trained on the job — open hiring offers the opportunity for more diverse talent that would otherwise be passed over or ignored.
🤞 Development of a cancer-targeted single component supramolecular peptide phototherapeutic agent.
Chemotherapy with only one injection, repeated phototherapy, and no side effects.
Researchers in South Korea have developed a phototherapy technology that can significantly increase efficiency while reducing the pain of chemotherapy and minimizing side effects after treatment.
Women’s bodies emerge on the shoreline between biology and culture.
Androcentrism, as it’s known, isn’t just a symptom of bias in science and medicine, but the consequence of a society where the ‘default-male’ is encoded in language, leisure and law. The heights of desks, the shapes of cars, the size of phones, the width of piano keys – all are built in ‘one-size-fits-men’ terms, as Caroline Criado Perez has argued. The bodies of women and other gender minorities are simply perceived as a divergence from the norm – ‘mutilated males’, in Aristotle’s words.
This fooled me so hard already.
Async loops — and why they fail!
forEach expects a synchronous function – forEach does not wait for promises. Kindly make sure you are aware of the implications while using promises (or async functions) as forEach callback.