24 Children's Stories That Still Give Us the Creeps.
The farmer knowingly (and happily!) feeds ground up children to the birds. And the whole town is okay with it.
Why differential privacy is awesome.
Listen to local radio stations while driving through the cities around the world. Istanbul, Berlin, London, Paris, New York City and many more.
Relevant: WindowSwap – open a new window somewhere in the world.
A street-level view of homelessness from a woman living through it.
Want to understand homelessness? Witness one woman’s experience of living on London’s streets firsthand, filmed on an iPhone.
Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad (via lobste.rs).
Popular modern technology is taken over by expats from a megacorp and made worse in the service of a hyper-specialized (and just plain over-hyped) orchestration platform.
30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact.
In other rooms we see teenagers the size of 6- and 7-year-olds, with no secondary sexual characteristics. There were children with underlying genetic disorders lying in cages. You start almost to disassociate.
Tonight with The The’s Soul Mining.
I no longer need help in separating operators from numbers. But assistance in finding the functions and their contexts and influences is valuable.
My colleague D. once lived 200m across.
The Irkutsk Babr.
It wears a confused look on its face as if it, too, is befuddled by its unconventional anatomy.
Women’s pain, it seems, is hysterical until proven otherwise.
Would the ardent devotee of ‘extreme intermittent fasting’ be diagnosed with an eating disorder if he were a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be thin, instead of a 35-year-old tech bro who wanted to master ‘biohacking’? Quite possibly.