The challenge and blessing of Down’s syndrome.
Jamie is empathetic and funny – and a ‘complete mystery’ to those who love him.
Pando is back. Or: timeo teutones et dona ferentes.
- The MySpace culture gap: what happens when platforms die?
- Immigrant wants to ban immigration: Peter Thiel pumps $850,000 into an immigration hawk in Kansas.
- According to Genderify, Meghan Smith is a woman -- but Dr. Meghan Smith is a man.
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning (via Bots & Beer).
Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
Totally missed this #nofomo.
Savor the Sight of Comet NEOWISE From Some Wondrous Places.
(…) in July 2020, comet C/2020 F3, known as NEOWISE, has been dazzling skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere, with a once-in-many-lifetimes appearance. We won’t see it again for another 6,800 years.
Browsers all the way down…
HTTPie—aitch-tee-tee-pie—is a user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.
It comes with JSON support, syntax highlighting, persistent sessions, wget-like downloads, plugins, and more.
Relevant: termible, Docker-powered terminals for your website.
Learn Rust with simple English.
Rust is a new language that already has good textbooks. But sometimes its textbooks are difficult because they are for native English speakers. Many companies and people now learn Rust, and could learn faster with a book that has easy English.
The Mary Sue is the geek girl’s guide to the universe.
The Big Picture.
Why It’s So Hard to See that We’re Headed for the Biggest Crash Ever?
This is fairly typical of what happens toward the end of the conservation phase of every civilization’s adaptive cycle. Each problem that arises, taken by itself, is usually solvable—at least in principle. But, as problems accumulate, leaders who are accustomed to (and benefit from) the status quo grow increasingly reluctant to undertake the changes to systems and procedures that would be required in order to address worrisome trends. And as those trends are ignored, the level of effort and discomfort needed to reverse them soars. Once solving problems requires too much perceived sacrifice, the only realistic ways to deal with them are to deny their existence or to blame others for them. Blame has the advantages of enabling leaders to look as though they’re actually doing something, and of winning loyalty from their followers. But it does nothing to actually stave off snowballing crises.
The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia, inspiring thousands of people to build versions in their own homes. The idea behind them was simple – to make technology available to everyone.
