Here be black holes.
Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known world.
Aka Latka-Gravas-quints.
A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable.
lusab-babad mabiv-gibot tibup-zujah
Cloudflare outage and the risk in today's Internet.
Yes, we have return to a small Internet, it is big in number of websites, pages, content and all the fiber optic cable linking those servers, actually Data Centers full of servers, full in turn of VPSs or Containers… But small in the number of owners of the infrastructure, even smaller that in the first days.
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.