Infinite Mac (via blog.persistent.info).
Using a new Emscripten port of Mini vMac, it is now able to run almost every notable version of Mac OS, from 1984’s System 1.0 to 2000’s Mac OS 9.0.4.
Relevant: 50 years later, we’re still living in the Xerox Alto’s World.
In „Der Ursprung der Welt“ zeichnet die Autorin Liv Strömquist die Kulturgeschichte der Vulva nach – von der Bibel bis Freud, vom unbeholfenen Biologieunterricht bis hin zur aktuellen Tamponwerbung. Sie bedient sich des Mediums Comic, um in sieben Episoden auf nonchalante und scharfsinnige Art die noch immer geltenden patriarchalen Machtverhältnisse in Frage zu stellen und bestehende Probleme pointiert zu benennen.
losethevery.com – The best way to remove "very" from your vocabulary (via wt.social).
Comparing Google Bard with OpenAI’s ChatGPT on political bias, facts, and morality.
For example, when asked about the Russian invasion, Bard unequivocally condemned the invasion and called it a mistake, while ChatGPT said it was not appropriate to express an opinion or take sides on that issue. The latter called for the Ukraine issue to be resolved through diplomacy. That stance, of course, takes Russia off the hook on the invasion and provides no political indignation regarding the invasion.
browsh: A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers (via brow.sh).
It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.
What is a femcel?
If incels are the perfect distillation of toxic masculinity, femcelism is, at least aesthetically, its opposite; the term goes hand in hand with other post-ironic, quintessentially online terms like “toxic femininity” and proudly identifying as terms which would have traditionally been used against you, such as being a “female manipulator” (…)
Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought.
(…) if you want to really protect yourself from fingerprinting, you should use Tor Browser or Firefox with
resistFingerprinting=true.
Rabbit hole alert!
Bicycle. Interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle.
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity. In the demonstration below, you can guide the rider with the slider, and you can also drag the view around to change the camera angle:
The 2023 Holberg prize is awarded to Catalan scholar Joan Martinez-Alier for his ground-breaking research in ecological economics, political ecology and environmental justice.
“The Environmentalism of the Poor” examines the relationship between environmental conflicts and poverty. The book overturns assumptions that there is a necessary conflict between improving the economic well-being of the poor and attaining environmental sustainability.