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Explore When, at the dawn of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark traversed western North America, they encountered a wondrous bestiary: the “fleet and delicately formed” coyote, the “bear of enormous size” which we call the grizzly. Yet few creatures impressed them more than the…

Feb 26, 2023

Post 43: Intentionally Making Close Friends — Neel Nanda

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Introduction One of the greatest sources of joy in my life are my close friends. People who bring excitement and novelty into my life. Who expose me to new experiences, and ways of seeing the world. Who help me learn, point out my blind spots, and correct me when I am wrong. Who I can lean on when I…

Feb 26, 2023

How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?

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On board the ship Garthsnaid at sea. A view from high up in the rigging. Image by Allan C. Green, circa 1920. View original image View dithered image Support Low-tech Magazine via Paypal or Patreon The sailing ship is a textbook example of sustainability. For at least 4,000 years, sailing ships have…

Feb 26, 2023

Beitrag über die Neuköllner Straßenraumkarte in den Kartographischen Nachrichten

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An dieser Stelle dokumentieren wir einen Beitrag über die Neuköllner Straßenraumkarte in der kartographischen Fachzeitschrift „KN – Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information“ – Info und Praxis 3 (2022) 72 (PDF, OpenAccess). Die Neuköllner Straßenraumkarte Ein detaillierter Plan des…

Feb 25, 2023

Drowning in AI Generated Garbage : the silent war we are fighting

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by Ploum on 2022-12-05 All over the web, we are witnessing very spectacular results from statistic algorithms that have been in the work for the last forty years. We gave those algorithms an incredibly catchy name: "Artificial Intelligence". We now have very popular and direct applications for them:…

Feb 23, 2023

GATTACA is still pertinent 25 years later - Nature Genetics

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References 111th Congress. Congress.Gov https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/3729/text (2010). Hiltzik, M. LA Times https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-06/jeff-bezos-richard-branson-elon-musk-space-race (July 2021). The Australian Law Reform Commission. Australian…

Feb 23, 2023

Die Ersten in Europa – das „Motherchapter“ der HSN, die «Schweizer Hammerskins»

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Vor nunmehr 32 Jahren importierten Schweizer Neonazis das Konzept der neonazistischen Bruderschaft aus den USA nach Europa und gründeten 1990 die «Schweizer Hammerskins» (SHS). Drei Jahrzehnte, in denen das Schweizer Chapter durch Gewalttaten, politische Agitation und Einfluss auf das internationale…

Feb 18, 2023

The Longest Ever Flight Was Over 64 Days In A Cessna 172

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Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay aloft for extended periods. However, many of the longest duration flights have been undertaken as…

Feb 12, 2023

Entwicklung unserer Persönlichkeit: Eine Zeitreise ins Ich

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I ch habe nur wenige Erinnerungen an mein Leben als Vierjähriger – das finde ich jetzt, als Vater eines Kindes im gleichen Alter, beunruhigend. Mein Sohn und ich haben eine Menge Spaß zusammen. Zuletzt haben wir mit Legosteinen uns vertraute Orte nachgebaut, das Café oder das Badezimmer, und den…

Feb 12, 2023

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Today's links Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing…

Feb 11, 2023

‘That Girl is Going to Get Herself Killed’ - Longreads

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Become a Supporting Member For 15 years, Longreads has published and curated the best longform writing on the web—and we wouldn’t exist without dedicated readers like you. Give today and ensure that quality journalism continues to flourish. This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and…

Feb 1, 2023

Fauci responds to Musk’s Twitter attack and rates world’s COVID response

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NEWS Q&A 13 December 2022 Public-health leader advises early-career researchers ‘not to be deterred’ by public vitriol. Max Kozlov View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar This month, Anthony Fauci will step down as director of the US National Institute…

Jan 28, 2023

Wie die Cybersicherheit bei Amherd landete

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Ein neues Bundesamt gibt es nicht jeden Tag. Darum ist es wenig erstaunlich, dass Ende letzten Jahres intensiv um das neue Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit gerungen wurde. Verteidigungsministerin Viola Amherd wollte es, der damalige Finanzminister Ueli Maurer ebenfalls. Beide schickten ihre Leute…

Jan 28, 2023

How "See A Satellite Tonight" Works | James Darpinian

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See A Satellite Tonight is my most successful side project so far, with 5 million users since launch in 2019. It's been entirely a solo project, and I've used it as a proving ground for a bunch of tech that I wanted to learn. It took dozens of APIs and services to put together the experience I…

Jan 24, 2023

Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting

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Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. After decades of eye-popping growth, these social media sites are contracting at an alarming rate. In some ways, this shouldn’t surprise us. All the social networks that preceded the current…

Jan 22, 2023

Wo das Paradies der rechten Rentner liegt – Antifa

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NZZ magazin. Viktor Orban hat in Ungarn eine antiwestliche Insel geschaffen. Nun ruft er wertkonservative Westeuropäer dazu auf, in sein Land zu kommen. Vor allem Pensionäre, die von einem Häuschen im Grünen träumen und genug haben von der hiesigen politischen Korrektheit, folgen seinem Ruf. Mit…

Jan 14, 2023

The Overture Maps Foundation: Yet Another Global Map. But Will it Fly?

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In case you didn’t realize, we live in a multiverse1 of global street maps. It all started back in the early 1980s in the offices of two startups who were both based in Sunnyvale, California. One was Etak, the original pioneer of in-vehicle navigation systems. The other was a little company called…

Jan 14, 2023

Sweet Turns: Tele May Save Us All | Blister Open Mic

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This willingness to reconsider tele skiing is encouraging. It bodes well for the sport, but more importantly, it may signal a return to thoughtfulness more generally. This will take some time. Apart from emotional dimensions, an institutional understanding of telemark has been eroded. The crowd…

Jan 7, 2023

Bones, Bones: How to Articulate a Whale

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Jan 5, 2023

Als Julie ging, ihre Eizellen einzufrieren

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Es gibt zwei Kategorien von Frauen, die man nicht gerne sieht, schreibt die französische Philosophin Elisabeth Badinter: jene, die keine Kinder wollen, und jene, die sie um jeden Preis wollen. Kinder kriegen: natürlich, aber macht bitte kein grosses Ding daraus. Besonders stark zu spüren bekommen…

Jan 4, 2023

OpenStreetMap Americana Speaks Your Language | OpenStreetMap US

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This a guest blog post featuring OpenStreetMap community member and OSM US board member, Brian Sperlongano. Do you have a story to tell? OpenStreetMap US news or info to share? Message us at team@openstreetmap.us and we’ll work with you to craft a blog post to share with the community! We started…

Dec 30, 2022

Was man mit einem 44 Mia-Spielzeug alles anfangen kann - Das Netz ist politisch

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Als Elon Musk im April 2022 ankündigte, die Aktienmehrheit bei Twitter zu übernehmen, tat er das mit einem starken Bekenntnis zu „free speech“. Unter anderem drückte er klar seine Erwartung darüber aus, dass doch auch seine Kritiker auf der Plattform bleiben sollen. Tweet vom 25.4. Und auch nachdem…

Dec 17, 2022

The Origins of Python | Lambert Meertens | Inference

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On Sunday, June 21, 1970, in an office building on Great Portland Street in London, a teletype sprang to life. Under the heading “HAPPY FAMILIES,” the machine rattled out a sequence of English sentences, such as “THE DOG SITS ON THE BABY” and “UNCLE TED PLAYS WITH SISTER.” The “Happy Families”…

Dec 14, 2022