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The strange story of Soviet music on the bone. The iconic images of gramophone grooves cut onto x-rays of skulls, ribcages and bones have captured the collective imagination way beyond the music scene. Now for the first time, the complete story of the Soviet x-ray record has emerged, as told by the…
NewsBooks & CultureFiction & PoetryHumor & CartoonsMagazinePuzzles & GamesVideoPodcastsArchiveShop Newsletter Subscribe » Americans know little about how their seafood is sourced. Much of it comes from a vast fleet of Chinese ships. On board, human-rights abuses are rampant. A Reporter at Large The…
The Race to the North Pole The race to the North Pole took 300 years and ended in two men pitted against each other, in an attempt to convince the world who had got their first. But one of them was lying. My next video is live on Nebula NOW! It's Part 2 in my series on How the US Stole America --…
Die Zeit von Xitter muss enden. Wahrscheinlich muss überhaupt die Zeit privat besessener Plattformen enden. Es gibt dort nichts, worum man kämpfen muss oder kann. Wir sollten öffentliche Plattformen bauen. Mich findet ihr vor allem hier: https://chaos.social/@afelia Sonst Bluesky:…
For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings forward etc. And there…
This story will begin and end on a breathtaking stretch of tarmac called Enchanted Way. The hills cradling Los Angeles are woven with roads like this—dead-end residential streets that corkscrew toward the sky, the views and the homes expanding as you ascend. Enchanted Way lies in Pacific Palisades,…
Das Thema Kartografie erfreut sich in der GNU/Linux-Community einer grossen Beliebtheit. Auch bei uns gab es schon viele Artikel zu Anwendungen, Projekten und Mitmach-Beispielen. Erst kürzlich fand mein Beitrag zum Projekt Schüler schaffen Orientierung grossen Zuspruch. Aktuell läuft bei uns eine…
Der Präsident der grössten Partei der Schweiz posiert im Bundeshaus mit Rechtsextremistinnen. Diesen Satz sollte man zweimal lesen. Der Präsident der grössten Partei der Schweiz posiert im Bundeshaus mit Rechtsextremistinnen. Am Freitag tauchte das Bild auf X (ehemals Twitter) auf. Es zeigt den…
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As harvest season begins here in the Midwest, I once again celebrate by grinding Nebraska gravel at the Gravel Worlds Long Voyage bike race. As in previous years (2021) (2022), I spent more time writing code for a marginally-useful project than I did training. But hey, I finished! Fueled by Pizza My…
City Perils The Fifty-nine-Story Crisis What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper are flawed—and hurricane season is approaching. May 22, 1995 Citicorp CenterPhotograph from Bettmann / Getty On a warm June day in 1978, William J. LeMessurier, one…
It's 106 miles to Chicago we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sunglasses.. hit it!
The internet artist Zardulu — creator of Pizza Rat — has claimed that “the creation and perpetuation of myths is art of the highest form.” Humans create such grand fakes, Zardulu argues, as a way of keeping the world weird and wondrous. But what happens when such pursuits of wonder collide with…
A couple weeks ago while perusing Hacker News, I came across an open-source maps app called Organic Maps. Proudly billing itself as privacy-focused and open-source, Organic Maps’ website claims that it is “one of a few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active internet…
Von Junge Tat bis Mass-Voll: Unter dem Begriff «Freiheit» treffen sich in Volketswil am «Freedom-Festival» Verschwörungstheoretiker, Freiheitskämpfer, Personen mit Verbindungen zu rechtsradikalen Gruppierungen und sogar Nationalratskandidaten. Sie alle sehen die Freiheit in der Schweiz in Gefahr.…
I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even started using one of the loudest and most annoying alarm clocks I could find. (That sound still gives my university housemate flashbacks.) In my search for ways to fix my sleep schedule, I came across…
by Ploum on 2023-08-01 Traduction en français par Nicolas Vivant Traducción Española de JavierSam تُرجم النص للعربية من قِبل: يونس بن عمارة There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective:…
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Updated at 11:25 a.m. ET on July 20, 2023 Three years ago, while the nation’s attention was on the 2020 presidential…
Why is this bridge here? This pedestrian bridge crosses I-494 just west of the Minneapolis Airport. It connects Bloomington to Richfield. I drive under it often and I wondered: why is it there? It's not in an area that is particularly walkable, and it doesn't connect any establishments that…
A number of years ago, I joined a Master’s swim team. I was doing triathlons at the time, and the swim was my weakest leg. The team I joined divided the pool into four lanes: A (fastest swimmers), B (next fastest), C (next fastest) and D (slowest.) Workouts were organized accordingly; faster…
This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s step outside the news cycle and turn our attention toward a topic I’m deeply invested in but only rarely write about: productivity platforms. For decades…
by Ploum on 2023-07-06 «ترجمة عربية من نور الدين». Lot is happening in the social network landscape with the demises of Twitter and Reddit, the apparition of Bluesky and Threads, the growing popularity of Mastodon. Many pundits are trying to guess which one will be successful and trying to explain…
Erinnern Sie sich noch an die Computer der 1990er-Jahre? Damals tippte man auf Tastaturen vor graubeigen Apple-Macintosh-Ungetümen mit Diskettenlaufwerken. Bilder solcher Computer zeigt die IT-Anwältin und Dozentin Anne-Sophie Morand ihren Studentinnen jeweils auf der ersten Folie ihrer…
(Mis)Uses of Technology from the do-not-drm-the-web dept Wed, Aug 2nd 2023 09:22am - The grand old enshittification curve strikes again. Remember, as stated by Cory Doctorow, the process of enshittification entails these steps: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make…
In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments. I wanted to know the degrees of freedom that flowers have in producing colors to signal to bees. He…
Radeln in der Großstadt : Wie ich mich radikalisiert habe -Aktualisiert am 22.08.2023-06:08 Freie Straßen: eine Seltenheit Bild: Finn Winkler Alles begann ganz harmlos – mit dem Erwerb eines neuen Ren
Foto: Hermes RadbotInnen Das Büro der Hermes Radbot*innen in Wien-Leopoldstadt könnte genauso gut eine Studierenden-WG sein. Eine durchgesessene, braune Couch, Poster, selbstgedrehte Zigaretten, ein Hund unterm Schreibtisch und Fruchtsäfte, die man eben noch beim Wahlkampf der Österreichischen…
Twenty-two years ago, a six-year-old girl—my cousin—got lost in the Arkansas Ozarks, prompting what was at the time the largest search and rescue mission in the state’s history. Her disappearance would eventually connect my family to another story, a dark and bizarre one involving kidnapping,…
Essay: Wer darf sich abkühlen? Nr. 31 – 3. August 2023 Heute gibts in den USA private Pools für Reiche und unattraktive Wasserbecken für alle anderen. Dabei wurden in den Städten einst riesige öffentliche Schwimmbäder gebaut. Von Wenn es Sommer wird in Kalifornien, ziehe ich mit meiner Tochter ins…
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Elon Musk takes ketamine. Sergey Brin sometimes enjoys magic mushrooms. Executives at venture-capital firm Founders Fund, known for its investments in SpaceX and Facebook, have thrown parties that include psychedelics. Routine drug use has moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate…
In the first Map Story we met Eratosthenes, who tried to calculate the size of the Earth almost 2300 years ago (and got really pretty close). Today we’ll meet a second guy, Friedrich Wilhelm von Struve, who revisited the same problem in the 1800s. A lot had happened scientifically since Eratosthenes…
It was still dark as I walked down Petrarkija Street towards the Music Academy, disoriented and confused in the early-March Sarajevo morning. From the bell tower of the cathedral, right around the corner, six o’clock rang out. With the last toll of the church bell, the irritating sound of a call…
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In the perennial battle among mapping services, there are two main competitors: Google Maps and Apple Maps. Google Maps was first out of the gate, in 2005, and has since introduced some truly revolutionary features, such as Street View and real-time business foot traffic. Those types of innovations…
W er John Curingtons Büro betritt, bekommt als Erstes einen Gummihoden in die Hand gedrückt. „Hier, spüren Sie den Samenleiter?“, fragt der 57-Jährige, während seine Finger über das detailgetreue Modell gleiten. Dann ergreift er zwei scherenartige Werkzeuge, fixiert den „Samenleiter“ – und schnipp!…
Sridhar Ramaswamy didn’t leave Google to build another search engine. At least not at first. At the close of his 15-year tenure at Google, Ramaswamy was running the company’s entire advertising division, overseeing more than 10,000 people — he knew better than most exactly how much work it took to…
The Atavist Magazine, No. 140 Carlos Barragán is a Spanish writer. He previously reported for El Confidencial and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Columbia University, thanks to a Fundación “la Caixa” scholarship. Editor: Seyward Darby Art Director: Ed Johnson Copy Editor: Sean Cooper…
Würziger Waldduft wabert von den feuchten Hügeln herunter und mischt sich mit dem Chlorgeruch aus dem Freibad. Man könnte direkt von den Hängen über die Badewiese und den Beckenrand ins Wasser kugeln. Grillen zirpen, niemand badet. Neben dem Eingang, einem Häuschen mit spitzem Dach, sitzen eine Frau…
The Doomsday Machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life. Now suppose that machine is buried deep underground, but connected to a computer, which is in turn hooked up to…
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