We are digital hoarders. Some of us make plans for the custody of our accounts after death, but our online legacy is mostly trash. It’s decades’ worth of political rants and throwaway jokes on social media; a lifetime of purchase receipts on Amazon; and a Gmail account overflowing with promotional…

Die "Anastasia-Bewegung" ist eine völkisch-religiöse Sekte, die in Brandenburg und im Harz Häuser und Grundstücke aufkauft. Nach außen hin geben sie sich harmlos. Doch ihre Ideologie ist gefährlich. Wer steckt dahinter und wie reagieren die Bewohner der betroffenen Dörfer? SPIEGEL TV Facebook:…

::: BG :: BLR :: CN :: DE :: EN :: ES :: FR :: HI :: HU :: IT :: BR-PT :: RO :: RU :: SK :: SRB-HR :: UA ::: :::::::::::::::::: contact: little.prince@custodians.online In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who…

I don't know who this person is, but I totally want to be friends with them! Watch this video, where they imagine how a bunch of different pastas and other foods would walk. I've never pondered this before, but now I won't be able to stop thinking about how the burrito I just ate would walk, or the…

A few years ago, I lost my dad to a kitesurfing accident. Beyond losing one of the most important people in my life, the most painful thing I had to “survive” was how people reacted around me. It was even featured in the local newspaper; there was no way to keep what happened totally private. Most…

Update: this post was written in November, 2022. It’s now March, 2023. My family member ended up making pretty much a full recovery, which has shocked everyone. He is almost back to his old self. Also, if you visited this post before, you’d notice I took it down. That was after it received a lot…

Nachdem sich die Neonazis der Jungen Tat Anfang Jahr immer mehr an die Spitze der Coro­na­pro­teste gedrängt haben. Nachdem sie im Juni einen Pride-Gottes­dienst in Zürich störten, Anfang Oktober vor einer Schule im schaff­hausi­schen Neuhausen mit isla­mo­phoben Parolen prote­stierten und erst…

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has a foundational problem. It’s 186 feet tall and weighs 14,500 tons. But its foundation is only 10 feet deep and built into silt and clay. Five years after construction (~1178 A.D.), the foundation shifted and the tower famously “leaned.” Oops. Every building needs a…

Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. Yogi Berra, et al Well, it looks like it's finally happened. As news sites began reporting that Elon Musk had finalised his purchase of Twitter, the fediverse's Eternal September — hoped for and feared in equal numbers amongst its existing user base —…

5905660 5893366 Neues Album von Popstar M.I.A.: Die armen Sendemasten M.I.A. ist ein Weltstar des schrillen Pop. Leider hat sie nicht erst im Promorummel um ihr neues Album „MATA“ etwas den Bezug zur Realität verloren. 10.11.2022 18:53 Uhr Diesen Artikel teilen Hirn einschalten nicht vergessen:…

Gav and Dan have never been immensely happy with the kind of break a pool cue can provide, so they try something a little more serious. Thank you to Amazon Shopping App for sponsoring this video. Download the Amazon Shopping App today! - https://amzn.to/3E8YN3H #amazonshoppingapp Instagram -…

Long into the year’s shortest night, muted light plays tricks on heavy eyes, and repetition can deceive a tired mind. Six times this group has completed the 12.29-mile counterclockwise loop: always south alongside the Willamette River, east past the pumpkin patch, north along the Columbia River…

On a snowy January morning in 2022, I walk into Duo, an exclusive little restaurant in the heart of the southern Italian town of Lecce, carrying a polystyrene box filled with two frozen plate-sized jellyfish. Antonella Leone, a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council’s Institute…

Scenes from an imagined life: The baroness and her mother in Manhattan.Credit...Rutu Modan The Great Read Birgit Thyssen-Bornemisza led a life of eccentric anonymity and shabby gentility. Then her money got cut off. Then she had a stroke. Scenes from an imagined life: The baroness and her mother in…

Personal History More than anything, Diana had wanted to be a mother. Now my three-year-old daughter and I had to find a way to live without her. August 22, 2022 Illustration by Holly Stapleton A dusting of frost coated Fourteenth Street; the taxi continued driving away from the hospital, crossing…

As I'm moving all my online assets to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) I wanted to share my current setup. I also want to emphasise that I've been able to set this all up with decent technical knowledge and an understanding of how the internet works, but far from adept developer skills or any…

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx. Mastodon, a decentralized microblogging site named after an…

When SpaceX deploy batches of Starlink satellites they drop them off in lower orbits and expect the satellites themselves to navigate towards their final operational orbits. This is quite a complex process and one that's worth discussing, the satellites need to be able to reach the target orbital…

As you may have noticed, mosquitoes don’t attack everyone equally. Scientists have known that the pests are drawn to people at varying rates, but they have struggled to explain what makes certain people “mosquito magnets” while others get off bite-free. In a new paper published on October 18 in the…

Ska Music is eternal, whether you're listening to the 1st, 2nd or 3rd wave, There's just something about it that's super fun and makes you wanna dance, and in this little love letter I'm gonna tell yo

The Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland is 57km long: and I think its greatest piece of safety equipment is nowhere near the tunnel itself. ■ Thanks to Swiss Federal Railways https://www.sbb.ch/ - drone filming near the tracks was specially approved with railway staff. ■ For tours into the Gotthard…

After a long drive, the only thing that makes our stomachs churn faster than a windshield smeared with bug guts is a windshield bearing no evidence of insect life whatsoever. It feels like a fundament

Mike Conner sits in his truck atop a hill in Boring, Oregon, where he can feel the summer breeze through the window and see the sun at its meridian over the fields and the snowcapped tip of a distant Mount Hood poking into a cloud-dotted sky. He sits here and thinks about cutting off his feet. His…

At Holman Correctional Facility, in Atmore, Alabama, the prisoners have a tradition of beating their doors when guards take a man from the holding area colloquially known as the “death cell” to the execution chamber to be killed. More than 150 men slam their full strength against solid steel,…

Abstract What began as a National Geographic expedition, lead by Dan Buettner, to uncover the secrets of longevity, evolved into the discovery of the 5 places around the world where people consistently live over 100 years old, dubbed the Blue Zones. Dan and his team of demographers, scientist and…

Photo cred: my dad Two truths (no lies): 1. Once you are moderately happy, it’s very hard to get any happier. 2. Everybody secretly believes they can be the exception to this rule. Psychologists have known for fifty years that people tend to adjust to the good things that happen to them, ending up…

The best theory physicists have for the birth of the universe makes no sense. It goes like this: In the beginning—the very, if not quite veriest, beginning—there’s something called quantum foam. It’s barely there, and can’t even be said to occupy space, because there’s no such thing as space yet. Or…

10 min read· Sep 25, 2022 -- TL;DR Recently we’ve launched an offline maps application for Apple Watch. This project has taken more than two years and the full attention of our small team of enthusiasts. We’ve faced so many product and technical issues along the way that we simply need to share. So…

Elon Musk, in a tweet (of course): Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app. Kara Swisher explains: He is essentially talking about a “super app,” which is common in China but not the U.S. and might include payments, subscriptions, entertainment etc. It’s the right idea but…

Als Manuel C. Widmer nach den Herbst­ferien 2019 ins Berner Schulhaus Tscharnergut zurückkehrte, lief überhaupt nichts mehr so, wie es sollte. «Man konnte nicht drucken, Daten gingen verloren, die neuen Tablets konnten nur teilweise benutzt werden, und schliesslich stotterte auch noch das Internet»,…

Stellen Sie sich vor, ein Mann zieht ein T-Shirt von Osama bin Laden an und provoziert damit an einer Trauer­feier für Opfer eines islamistischen Terror­anschlags. Oder mit einem T-Shirt des Islamischen Staats vor einer Kirche oder einer Synagoge. Und als der Mann irgendwann angegangen und…

Rachel Gerberding has a green thumb. So when her mother died this April, Gerberding decided to compost her. Gerberding, who lives in Washington state in a house surrounded by flowers, had heard about a newly legal method to turn human remains into soil. “I was like, ‘Mom, it would be such a…