Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
@oct2pus Looks like they were right in this case.
Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project…
The Beat has a comics-themed round up of “The ten weirdest content moderation decisions #Tumblr has made this week”
What Trump and John Bolton Don’t Understand About Nuclear War
Fifty-six years ago today, on Black Saturday, the world was nearly destroyed in the Cuban missile crisis.
The Sun Set Off 4,000 Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/high-tech-farmers-are-using-led-lights-in-ways-that-seem-to-border-on-science-fiction/2018/11/06/d965021a-e15b-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_graphic.html
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, with an added “creep-o-meter” for just how creepy readers rate them.
Four big-picture principles for making our democracy work better
Link: The Hair Sprouting From This Building Is Actually Thousands of Tiny Legs https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-daddy-longlegs-cluster-together
“If you’re tempted to not vote because of the vitriol or the imperfect nature of the choices, then you’re supporting a downward cycle, in which the candidate who best suppresses voter turnout of the opponent’s backers wins.”
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to those?”
First page of search results turns up: What happened to web intents?
Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books
A Russian scientist working in Antarctica is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly stabbing a colleague for telling him the endings of books he wanted to read.Sergey Savitsky, an engineer, is accused of stabbing welder Oleg Beloguzov in the chest, the Sun reports.
“The Vortex is a user-behavior pattern that begins with a single intentional interaction followed by a series of unplanned interactions. This unplanned chain of interactions creates a sense of being “pulled” deeper into the digital space, making the user feel out of control.”
Given the amount of energy this stuff uses, I’m not convinced.
“Add Climate Change to the List of Things Blockchain Is Supposed to Solve” 🙄
The urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic
@kemonine I’m still fond of this comic strip: World’s Most Elusive Human Being
Gotta do something with them, I suppose: a 5-meter dome made entirely out of bicycle wheels in Whitehorse, Yukon. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bicycle-wheel-dome
Biosphere 2: A Once Troubled Social Experiment is Transformed
That means researchers from the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada don’t have to worry about harming the environment while studying how plants in the tiny rainforest adjust their water consumption.