Researchers had to remove the bird because they were worried it’d teach the others.
Ravens Are So Smart, One Hacked This Researcher's Experiment.
Airplane hijacking was mostly a solved issue by the end of the 1970s. However, passengers and regulators mistakenly attributed this victory to passenger controls when the real reason was the criminalization of hijackers and the fight against safe heavens. From this failure to disentangle correlation from causation, we paved the way for the growth of the “miniature police state”.
Not the best title choice but the issue seems to be real.
The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem.
How I temporarily cut my mom out of my social media life to reach a larger audience.
Said no user ever.
“I really hope I can earn a badge for sharing your product with 5 of my friends. #gamification”
The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated Edition.
The facts, research, and science behind the climate-change article that explored our planet’s worst-case scenarios.
17776 – What football will look like in the future.
this IS capitalism you donk
this is what its supposed to be, this is how it ends. if it isn't there its only because it isnt there yet. its like youre staring at a cake in the oven and wondering if its gonna be a cake.
things went the other direction in america and thank god for that. but capitalism deserves a zoo like this one. it's a beast of the wild, as wild as any grizzly bear with fawn's blood in its mouth. i think you see deeds and contracts and bureaucratic bloat and see that something went wrong. something was ALWAYS wrong y'all.
i love it. i love to watch it. in a zoo, where it can't hurt me.
Browsers know best.
The mobile web is awful, and everyone's to blame.
Git subtree: the alternative to Git submodule.
The Disaster Factory.
Hug a coder, folks. They could use it. Because what the software industry calls ‘best practice’, psychologists call ‘catastrophic thinking’, and it’s awfully hard to spend ten hours a day worrying about disaster and not have the aptitude you develop for it follow you home, like sentient toxic sludge from a grade-B monster movie.