Caucasian astronaut 😂
Whitespace Characters to Copy and Paste.
Quickly copy and paste Unicode whitespace characters — and learn how and when to use them.
The 14 least and most effective kinds of masks: ranked! By scientists!
There’s a lot of controversy and people say, ‘Well, masks don’t do anything.’ Well, the answer is some don’t, but most do.
Pokémon GO meets Blair Witch Project 🤔
The world's first quantumly generated Choose Your Own Adventure reality game.
Google pitches garbage like AMP and pushing dubious half-assed specs like Web Components. Mozilla just fired everyone relevant to focus on crap no one asked for like Pocket, and fad nonsense like a paid VPN service and virtual reality tech. [2020-08-14: It has been pointed out that the VR team was also fired.]
Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition.
We are hypocognitive amidst the rumbling moments of frustration when we are at a loss for words to describe how we feel. If there is any consolation, we could look to other cultural worlds to acquire an emotional lexicon that acknowledges these emotions. Ever felt the unspoken but mutual desire when looking into a loved one’s eyes? That’s mamihlapinatapei in the Chilean Yagán language. Ever felt the irresistible urge to pinch a baby’s cheek? That’s gigil in Tagalog.
The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films.
The China girl was there to assist the lab technicians processing the film. Even though the same person’s face might show up in reel after reel of film, her image would remain unknown to everyone except the technicians and projectionists.
Minority Report-style crime-predicting AI predictably sucks at its job.
The UK government has been funneling millions of dollars into a prediction tool for violent crime that uses artificial intelligence. Now, officials are finally ready to admit that it has one big flaw: It’s completely unusable.
1 + 2 + 3 = 6
6 + 7 + 8 = 21
21 + 22 + 23 = 66
66 + 67 + 68 = 201
201 + 202 + 203 = 606
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Literatur in Bayern: 100. Todestag von Lena Christ.
Lena Christ kam am 30. Oktober 1881 als uneheliches Kind einer Köchin auf die Welt. Damit war das Elend in einem bigotten Umfeld bereits programmiert. Dass sie ein "Bankert" war, wie man uneheliche Kinder damals nannte, verstieß gegen den Moralkodex.
12 Principles for a Diverging Desktop Future.
The Arcan project, at its core, is rooted in assumption that the ‘desktop’ way of interfacing with computing is inching towards its last of breaths, and rewriting X11 or JSONifying STDOUT won’t provide much more air than for a final gasp.