BrainDead is currently my favourite new TV show, and it has this cute idea of the previously song.
Warning: there might be spoilers ahead.
Who are the Real-life Models of “Silicon Valley” Characters?
9 Cartoons to Help You Avoid Any Actual Work.
Horserace, horseshit.
That Clinton Scandal the Press Desperately Wants Exists, But it’s Actually About Trump.
New kid on the blockchain.
The Blockchain is Perfect for Government Services, Here’s A Blueprint.
This is Aleppo.
JOHNSON [as a look of panic sweeps across his face]: And what is Aleppo?
When Will New York City Sink?
(…) even the supposedly manageable increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius envisioned by the Paris Agreement would translate to around ten feet of eventual sea-level rise. When I clicked up to ten feet, much of Battery Park City, the Lower East Side, and Brooklyn’s waterfront was submerged. The Dumbo carousel stood solitary in the East River, and the barrier spits of the Rockaways and Coney Island mostly vanished.
TIL There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil.
Time to drop the ’box at last?
Discovering how Dropbox hacks your Mac (via applehelpwriter.com).
It takes a nation of millions of confident idiots to hold us back.
Dunning Kruger nation and the disparagement of expertise.
A variety of very loud “confident idiots”—anti-vaxxers, homebirth advocates, climate change deniers—actually think they know more than the experts in the respective fields.