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Konservative bis rechtsradikale Burschenschaften, die traditionelle Gesellschaftsvorstellungen in prachtvollen Villen zelebrieren, verwirklichen sich sportlich anders als linksprogressive Studierende, die in kleinen, pflanzenreichen Wohngemeinschaften das Miteinander…
Alle reden über die Kontakte der Jungen SVP-Strategiechefin Sarah Regez zur Jungen Tat. Doch sie ist nicht die einzige Politikerin, die mit den Mitgliedern der rechtsextremen Gruppierung die Hände schüttelt. Wer das alles ist und warum das ein Problem darstellt, wird im Folgenden aufgezeigt.…
Published on January 5, 2024 With Microsoft’s rollout of the new Outlook for Windows(new window), it appears the company has transformed its email app into a surveillance tool for targeted advertising. Everyone talks about the privacy-washing campaigns of Google and Apple as they mine your online…
Between 2010 and 2020, iO Tillett Wright photographed 10,000 queer and trans people in all 50 states for a series titled “Self Evident Truths.” This is a selection of people on the trans spectrum from that work. Photo: iO Tillett Wright This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s…
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It shouldn’t be hard to empathize with the pain of the Israeli victims, or the pain of the Palestinian ones. But paradoxically, it seems almost impossible to empathize with both sides at the same time. Why is that? This question, apparently is not exclusive to this conflict. In a study focusing on…
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Mayerowitz.io Step on the Front Line and Beat your Friends Written by Antoine Mayerowitz 0 0 0 0 In Mario Kart 8, choosing your driver, kart's body, tires, and glider isn't just about style — it's as crucial as your racing skills to win a race. Ever wondered how to truly find the best ones? For each…
Vorgeschichte – eine Chronologie Im August 2007 fand in der grossen Halle der Reitschule in Bern das 2. „Antifascist Festival“ statt. Vor Ort waren bis zu 1500 Besuchende. Mitten in dieser Menschenmenge platzierte ein Neonazi unbemerkt einen Sprengsatz in einem Rucksack. Da sich in diesem unter…
I was getting an MRI the other day (much to the surprise of my fiancée I do in fact have a brain — and a remarkably uninteresting one at that) and I started thinking about the headphones that I was wearing For those that haven't been for an MRI before, they are pretty uncomfortable affairs that can…
42 min read· Dec 9, 2023 -- Officials observe damage to the engine of a Qantas A380 after it made an emergency landing in Singapore. (Reuters) On the 4th of November 2010, a Qantas Airbus A380 was rocked by a catastrophic engine failure minutes after takeoff from Singapore, hurling fragments of a…
Marco Musy, EMBL Barcelona I2K 2022 | GatherTown Workshops Q&A Session #5 | May 10th vedo (vedo.embl.es) is a python library for scientific analysis and visualization of three-dimensional datasets. The module is useful for the analysis of any type of data having spatial and/or temporal structure,…
New! Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Kuz7QkN7w4 Please support me on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/machinethinking This is the first video in a series of recreating the first micrometer. Before I introduce the project, I look into where precision comes from. Please Like, Share and Subscribe One…
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When you’re using an online map as a consumer, one of the things you will undoubtedly do is search for places — or as the mapping industry likes to call them ‘places of interest’, ‘points of interest’ or ‘POIs’ 1. In performing these searches there are generally two factors: one factor is almost…
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On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a…
To experience Paperlike 2.1 for yourself head to https://paperlike.com/nevertoosmall Set in Tokyo’s Suginami-ku neighbourhood, home to many manga artists, Open Sky House is home to artists and architect Zajirogh, his wife, and their three children. Having always dreamed of living in a camper or a…
FOSS4G 2023 Prizren Presenter: Logan Williams At Bellingcat, a non-profit investigative organization in the Netherlands, we research war crimes, find tiger smugglers, monitor environmental degradation and track extremist hate. To do this, we use "open sources", including public databases, social…
“AI” companies and “AI” influencers love to argue that the space is so new and unregulated, that we quickly need new regulation to give business a foundation to thrive on. This argument is very dishonest. There is regulation, just not the one they like. Data protection law, copyright law, anti…
The political Europe is very busy currently: Having passed the GDPR a few and the DMA even fewer years ago its currently in the process of debating the so-called “AI Act”, a piece of legislation aimed at the developers of so-called “AI” systems trying to enforce “European Values” (I don’t wanna get…
Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense. You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking your phone signal could interfere with an airplane’s navigation systems, potentially causing a disaster. However, the necessity of airplane mode is largely a myth, and there’s…
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In a minivan with the rear seats ripped out, John is chasing one of his 250 electric scooters down a California highway. He finds it 10 miles away, hiding in a bush—a run-and-dump tactic that he says thieves use to test whether anyone will come after them before they take a scooter home. John, not…
Als im Juni 2013 der britische «Guardian» die Aussagen von Edward Snowden publik machte, stand die Welt für einen Moment still. Die Enthüllungen von Snowden, seines Zeichens Ex-Dienstleister des US-amerikanischen Auslandsgeheimdienstes NSA, bestätigten die schlimmsten Befürchtungen: Die…
The conversation about the “dangers of AI” is full of weird little tidbits that show only marginal connection to the real world. Is stochastic parrots becoming Skynet really a thing? Will some future “AI” lock us in a torture VR environment for not helping it emerge fast enough? You know probably a…
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Letter from London After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death? February 5, 2024 On November 28, 2019, Zac Brettler, a nineteen-year-old from West…
Feb 08, 2024 I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years. While I previously wrote about leaving GitLab to work on Inko, I never discussed what it was like working for GitLab between 2015 and 2021. There are two reasons for this: I…
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Space sickness What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back? "If you guys don't give me a chance to repair my instrument, I'm not going back." Eric Berger – Jan 22, 2024 6:00 am | 322 The STS-51-B mission begins with the liftoff of the Challenger from Pad 39A in April 1985.…
Long ago, in a parallel universe three doors down and one to the left of our own, OpenAI headquarters found itself in chaos. A klaxon blared overhead as red lights began flashing. A message played over a loud-speaker: “Warning! Warning! This is not a drill! Artificial General Intelligence window…
Disclaimer: this post is solely based on my lived experience of working at Google for 18 years. I don't actually know the reasoning of the company's highest leaders, so all I can do is share my personal hypotheses. I've tried to write this essay three times over the past couple of months; it's…
Ello launched on August 7, 2014 with big dreams and big promises, a new social network defined by what it wouldn’t do. They laid it all out in a manifesto, right on their homepage: Your social network is owned by advertisers. Every post you share, every friend you make and every link you follow is…
1. Not setting a morning alarm. During the pandemic, I found I didn’t need to set one. Now, I very rarely do. It means I don’t start the day with the hideous stress of the alarm going off – I wake up naturally, when I’ve had enough sleep. Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert The Guardian’s journalism is…
[Header image: Photo of the lunar lander taken during Apollo 11.] In 1969, after successfully bringing men back from landing on the moon, the astronauts, spacecraft, and all the samples from the moon surface were quarantined for 21 days. This was to account for the possibility that they were…
This much was clear. At some point in my future, I would have access to a time machine. This was a ridiculous sentence and a tragically irrelevant concern while my wife Judi was on the floor and possibly dying, but there it was: nonsense, in the presence of death. This was the central tragic…
Every month or so, a new blog article declaring the near demise of CSV in favor of some "obviously superior" format (parquet, newline-delimited JSON, MessagePack records etc.) find its ways to the reader's eyes. Sadly those articles often offer a very narrow and biased comparison and often fail to…
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