Monday, 8. June 12020
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What the ‘trolly-lolly’ of gibberish means for language.

To create gibberish is both to flee from the familiar features of our mother tongue and yet also to draw on our deepest understandings of what language is and how it works.

Lynchings abound, and ‘Karens’ keep calling.

First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate (…) who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Short Trip.

A hand-drawn, interactive illustration about a tram driver, mountains, cloaked cats and everything in between.

Million Short makes it easy to discover sites that just don't make it to the top of the search engine results for whatever reason – whether it be poor SEO, new site, small marketing budget, or competitive keywords.

“For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies.”

Listen more; talk less.

Feature Stores for ML.

Data scientists are duplicating work because they don’t have a centralized feature store.

Meet Bessie Coleman, the First Black Woman to Get a Pilot's License.

In 1921, Coleman earned an internationally respected license to fly from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale—two years before Amelia Earhart received her own international license.

Relevant: Bessie Stringfield, the Bad-Ass Black Motorcycle Queen of the 1930s.

Sunday, 31. May 12020
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Next leader of the pack?

Introducing Snowpack 2.0.

Snowpack removes the bundler from your dev environment, leveraging native ES Module (ESM) support to serve built files directly to the browser. This isn’t just a faster tool, it’s a new approach to web build systems.

The trolley problem problem.

(…) in 2015, nearly 70 per cent of CPR attempts in TV dramas succeeded, with 50 per cent of patients surviving to be discharged. In reality, the rate of successful discharge after CPR in US hospitals is 25 per cent. So using fiction as a means for ethical reflection – whether in thought experiments or in novels – will tend to raise the same questions of experience, abstraction and ‘too much knowledge’ that we considered earlier in discussing Thomson’s violinist.

Source: omicron.aeon.co

Promnesia is a browser extension (…) that serves as a web surfing copilot by enhancing your browsing history, improving your web exploration experience, and integrating with your knowledge base.