CHICO, Calif. — Mike Erickson had been living in the trailer park for 341 days when he saw the new sign. It was unmissable, a blue billboard at the entrance to what had become a place of last resort f
About a year ago was the last time i wrote on this blog about politics of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) and with the annual general meeting and board elections coming up i think it is time to look back again at the past year and review the predictions i made last year. In this first part i…
Another entry into my blog series on countering misconceptions in space journalism. I discussed this post on The Space Show on November 5 2021. It has been exactly two years since my initial posts on Starship and Starlink. While the Starlink post has aged quite well, Starship is still not widely…
Keybase Browser Extension Insecure Published 8 years ago August 5, 2017 3 min read View Markdown Other Articles Article written by a human: Mike Cardwell Yesterday, I discovered that Keybase has a browser extension for both Firefox and Chrome. It activates whenever you land on a profile page on…
Ein Mensch in der Schweiz bewohnt im Durchschnitt 46 m2 und besitzt mehr Dinge, als in einen Kofferraum passen. Die bärner studizytig stellt vier Wohnformen vor, die anders sind. Ein buntes Holzschild an der Bushaltestelle im luzernischen Luthern Bad weist den Weg hinauf zu einem einzigartigen Dorf.…
My son, 9, is crying right now because a kid at the pool keeps telling my son that he’s a girl. My son—who grew his hair past his shoulders during the pandemic—has had people mistake him for a girl pr
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One of the hijacked displays at Elk Grove High School. Image by Tom Tran. On April 30th, 2021, I rickrolled my high school district. Not just my school but the entirety of Township High School District 214. It is one of the largest high school district in Illinois, consisting of 6 different schools…
This is United States calling…are we reaching… Overview Album cover for Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1979) Pink Floyd’s Young Lust has been a staple of rock radio for over 40 years. But many people are mystified about the section at the end when a “Mr. Floyd” in the United States attempts to make a…
Various sequences of ladybugs, which prepare and take off for flying away. The sequences were recorded by cameraman Rainer Bergomaz from Blue Paw Artists with a pco.dimax HD at 3000 frames/s and 1296 x 720 pixel resolution. Within the sequences the before and after parts are displayed at 250…
Melissa Cross is a classically trained singer and actress. But it’s her work with metal bands that’s the reason for her success, and her nom de guerre: the “Queen of Scream.” The 60-year-old has worked with some of the biggest names in hardcore, from Slipknot to Slayer and Megadeth. As America’s…
S ie fahren ja so“, sagt der Schaffner und malt auf dem Faltblatt des Hamburger Verkehrsverbunds mit dem Finger etwas, das ein Sternbild sein könnte. Aber es ist kein Sternbild, es ist eine Reise mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln von Hamburg-Eimsbüttel nach Vierden. Vierden ist ein Dorf in…
September 1, 6:30 P.M. Anthony Chavez makes dinner deliveries during Hurricane Ida. Photo: Philip Montgomery This article is a collaboration between New York Magazine and The Verge. Lea el reportaje en español aquí. The Willis Avenue Bridge, a 3,000-foot stretch of asphalt and beige-painted steel…
Go Map!! v3.0 was released today for iOS, and while superficially not much looks different, there are some big changes under the hood: All 38,000 lines of code are now written in Swift after a laborious conversion from it’s original Objective-C implementation. This make the code faster, easier to…
[This fragment is available in an audio version.] Suppose you’re running your organization’s crucial apps in the cloud. Specifically, suppose you’re running them them on AWS, and in particular in the “us-east-1” region? Could us-east-1 go away? What might you do about it? Let’s catastrophize! Acks &…
VR Productivity In (or Above) a WFA World Published inImmersed · 26 min read· Sep 27, 2021 -- View from my headset aboard Immersed’s “Orbitarium” soundcloud.com I float in space, surrounded on all sid
Thousands of people who shop in the UK probably noticed shortages of products in British supermarkets. The supply problems are blamed on the shortage of HGV drivers and the government is taking steps to tackle it: the driving hours have been extended and there is a talk about bringing the army…
Once upon a time, a few years ago, there was a startup company called what3words that tried (and apparently still tries) to make money out of selling an address system based on encoding geographic coordinates into a string. To anyone with a bit of background in geodata and geography the idea of…
People Staring at Computers In 2011 I published a series of photos taken with the laptops in two New York City Apple Stores, as part of my ongoing exploration of surveillance, face analysis, and computer-mediated interaction. In response, Apple contacted the Secret Service and they raided my…
Please just pick something and support it A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess. Ron Amadeo – Aug 25, 2021 6:00 am | 321 Just a few of the many Google messaging logos. Can you name them…
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Seit einigen Monaten macht in den Echokammern der Gegner von Corona-Massnahmen eine Gruppierung von sich reden, die laut eigenen Angaben aus «kritischen» Angehörigen der Polizei und anderer Sicherheitsbehörden besteht. Die anonyme Vereinigung, die sich «Wir für Euch» nennt und eine gleichnamige…
Adjust Share Amigo Bob Cantisano didn’t think he was going to die. But his wife, Jenifer Bliss, who had cared for him through eight years of throat cancer, could see that his condition had taken a turn for the worse. The tumor in his neck had imploded, leaving an open wound that Jenifer kept clean…
Unabhängige Recherchen unterstützen Unsere unabhängigen Recherchen werden erst durch Spenden unserer Leserinnen und Leser möglich. Jetzt unterstützen Die Milchlobby: Wie unsere Milch Klima und Umwelt schadet Die Milchlobby: Wie unsere Milch Klima und Umwelt schadet Werbekampagnen und Lobbying haben…
Danielle Del Plato In 1947, Albert Einstein, writing in this magazine, proposed the creation of a single world government to protect humanity from the threat of the atomic bomb. His utopian idea did not take hold, quite obviously, but today, another visionary is building the simulacrum of a…
I saw my name followed by “RN” for the first time on July 27, 2020. The next day, my instructor, or preceptor, and I were assigned to the COVID intensive care unit at our hospital in Nashville, Tenn. I read the assignment sheet with a strange knot in my chest. It wasn’t fear or dread rising into my…
About a year ago, teenager Anastasia Vlasova started seeing a therapist. She had developed an eating disorder, and had a clear idea of what led to it: her time on Instagram. She joined the platform at 13, and eventually was spending three hours a day entranced by the seemingly perfect lives and…
Over the last few months, I dove really deep into the topic of addiction and compulsive use of the Internet. I feel my relationship with the Internet is much healthier now because of it and I wanted to share with you what it looks like in practice when you apply these rules. I wake up with an alarm…
Was kostet eine Stunde bei Ihnen?Caro: Ich möchte diese Frage nicht beantworten. Billie: Ich lieber auch nicht. Warum?Billie: Einerseits, weil ich nicht immer gleich viel verlange. Andererseits wäre es doof, hier mit Zahlen um sich zu werfen. Denn Gender, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, ob wir eine…
29 Dec 2019 » Posted by fred » The Diversity Dilemma One of the essential characteristics of the OpenStreetMap project I have known and been active in for well over a decade is that it is made and run by volunteers. OSM is not an association of professional geographers, it’s a bunch of hobbyists…
The natural sciences are under attack around the world. From political appointees who deny the climate-changing effects of polluting industries to the corporate funding of anti-science research, highly qualified experts are now facing severe funding cuts, harassment and pressure from vested…
Dieser Beitrag handelt von einer Kampagne der TX Group, des grössten privaten Medienkonzerns der Schweiz. Die Gruppe besitzt neben «20 Minuten» sämtliche Titel der Tamedia und kontrolliert ein Redaktionsnetzwerk mit einer täglichen Auflage von über einer Million. Ziel der Kampagne mit Artikeln im…
111 years ago almost to the day, a murder was committed which ultimately led to the first criminal trial to use fingerprints as evidence. We've all since watched enough crime shows to understand that fingerprints are unique personal biometric attributes and to date, no two people have ever been…
“Can you give me a thumbs up?” the surgeon asks Jerry Majetich, an Iraq War veteran, during a checkup this spring at a Boston hospital. “Can you make me a fist? And extend your fingers?” It is an odd, even jarring, series of requests to make of a patient whose right arm has been amputated above the…
(Photo: Alexander_P/shutterstock.com) In 1920, the popular newspaper comic strip Jerry on the Job was adapted by Bray Studios into a few animated films. In “The Bomb Idea,” Jerry and another character read that “Bolsheviki” are on the loose throughout the country, and that all citizens should be on…
Perhaps you’ve noticed that ebooks are awful. I hate them, but I don’t know why I hate them. Maybe it’s snobbery. Perhaps, despite my long career in technology and media, I’m a secret Luddite. Maybe I can’t stand the idea of looking at books as computers after a long day of looking at computers as…
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