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A while ago, we got a couple of x-ray machines from the government for a really good price. We got them both for $200 each, where one of them works perfectly, but the other one is a disappointment. However, even though it doesn't work, I can still tear it down for parts, and I'm interested to know…
Wer in Russland etwas im Internet sucht, wird den Begriff vielleicht googeln. Doch wahrscheinlicher wird er oder sie den Begriff yandexen. Yandex.ru ist mit 60 Prozent Marktanteil die führende russische Suchmaschine. Doch ihre Startseite ist viel mehr als das: Sie ist quasi das Eintrittstor zum…
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 14, No. 1 (2018) Gunter Lösel The idea of improvising robots might seem a strange subject, a bit of a joke. Isn’t robot-like behavior the exact opposite of improvisation? Improvisers obviously tend to think so, and being an improviser myself, I…
Credit...Illustration By Yoshi Sodeoka; Photographs By Amir Hamja Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back. Credit...Illustration By Yoshi Sodeoka;…
Life support is the biggest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars. This fact makes people mad, because there are all kinds of other obstacles that are fun to solve (orbital refueling, landing heavy payloads, making rocket fuel out of Martian air), and life support has a fun factor of…
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which might make it look a bit…
Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions and individuals to organize and try to shine some light onto important issues. We’ve seen many such…
Ben Huberman | Longreads | February 2015 | 13 minutes (3,354 words) For the past ten years Frank Warren has been collecting and publishing other people’s anonymous secrets, sent via postcard, on his blog, PostSecret. The stories behind the postcards span the entire spectrum of human drama, from…
Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper than a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to make this…
When we moved into our apartment we hired a contractor to build bespoke cupboards for a few niches that we wanted to use optimally. He built perfectly fitting, nice cupboards that make those areas look nice and clean while allowing us to store all kinds of stuff. And he took great care doing it.…
This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE…
Stellen Sie sich vor, der Staat beschuldigt Sie einer Straftat. Egal, ob Sie diese Straftat begangen haben oder nicht: In dieser Situation haben Sie Rechte. Drei dieser Rechte sind: Sie müssen sich nicht selbst belasten. Bis Ihre Schuld bewiesen ist, gelten Sie als unschuldig. Die Polizei darf gegen…
The traditional astronaut’s ‘low residue’ breakfast of steak and eggs pays tribute to the oldest and wisest strategy for going to the bathroom in space, which is to do everything possible to avoid it. While capsules like Soyuz and the Crew Dragon are equipped with a rudimentary toilet kit,…
Kaum ein Monat vergeht ohne Schlagzeilen über KI-generierte Inhalte im Netz: gefälschte Holocaust-Bilder, eine Welle KI-generierter Kinderpornografie oder sexualisierte Foto-Fakes von Frauen, die ohne deren Zustimmung erstellt und verbreitet werden – digitale Gewalt, wie sie gerade erst durch den…
Australien hat es bereits umgesetzt; Österreich und Frankreich haben es beschlossen; Grossbritannien überlegt es sich, in Deutschland fordern es CDU und SPD – nur der Schweizer Bundesrat ist noch zurückhaltend (möchte aber mit der Restriktion für Streaming-Plattformen de facto etwas Ähnliches): Die…
par Ploum le 2025-09-02 Переведено на русский Wandering Thinker Avertissement : Cet article parle de mon expérience avec le Mudita Kompakt, mais, n’étant pas lié à cette firme, je ne répondrai à aucune question concernant cet appareil ni le Hisense A5. Tout ce que j’ai à dire au sujet de cet…
Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. By Ulkar Aghayeva From the late 1980s through the early 2000s, a famous debate played out between the evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris on the nature of the evolutionary process. Gould viewed evolution as radically contingent: if…
Tom Hartmann had not planned to become a Software Mechanic. But then, nobody who was a Software Mechanic had planned to become one, because the job hadn’t existed seven years ago, and the people doing it had all been something else first. This was true of most professions in the post-transition…
by Ploum on 2026-03-13 In a poignant Gemini post, Kevin Boone wrote about his anxiety to go out of his house without his phone. (This is the Gemini protocol, totally unrelated to the Google chatbot.) Phone anxiety (larsthebear.me) Web version of the former Around 2018, I had the same epiphany: I was…
What was the song? Mary couldn’t quite remember. It was one of Mr Pepper’s classics, certainly. A ballad. Possibly You Are My Sunshine? What did it matter; the point was the voice. Not Mr Pepper’s – she knew what he sounded like well enough, being one of Easterlea Rest Home’s regular afternoon…
Shubham Bose, “The 49MB Web Page”: I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all…
| Das Magazin | Urs Schwarz: Arzt arbeitete sich am Unispital Zürich zu Tode Abo Der Fall Urs Schwarz – Teil 1 – 17 Jahre ohne Ferien: Der Arzt, der sich zu Tode arbeitete Er war ein erfolgreicher Neurologe, bei allen beliebt. Nein sagen? Konnte er schlecht. Und so arbeitete Urs Schwarz am Unispital…
Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. This essay will appear in our forthcoming book, “Making the Modern Laboratory,” to be published later this year. In 1942, at the height of British industrial war mobilization, an unlikely cohort scavenged the nation’s coastline for a precious substance. Among…
by Gary Borjesson To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for,…
Madison Swart/Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The plan was never to become an ICE agent. The plan, when I went to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Career Expo in Texas…
Get updates Follow @mattshumer_ Get early access to future reviews and builds. Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing…
The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found. The platform, which says it has about 50 million users worldwide, allows members of the public to self-publish…
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Asimov - Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957) Profession by Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov’s Profession is an allegorical description of the manner in which education currently functions in our primitive western societies — abelard Profession, copyright ©1957 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., from…
I’m an old Mac-head at heart, and I’ve been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don’t tend to genuinely think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there’s a thing to be said about the simplicity of older…
James and I both started working at Keystone Data Analytics in 2019, right before the pandemic. We were pretty good friends. Every Friday, we went out for drinks with a few of the other software engineers. But like most tech companies, Keystone went fully remote in 2020, and James and I lost touch.…
Digitalisierung: Zum Surfen in die Migros Die Digitalisierung ist eine Welt der Grauzonen – auch für Sans-Papiers wie Ackson. Während er in der analogen Öffentlichkeit ausgegrenzt ist, kann er die digitale Welt auch zur Erweiterung seiner Handlungsspielräume nutzen. 19.05.2023TEXT: FLORIAN WÜSTHOLZ,…
There's a feeling you get in the presence of beautiful buildings and bustling courtyards. A sense that these spaces are inviting you to slow down, deepen your attention, and be a bit more human. What if our software could do the same? —— We shape our environments, and thereafter they shape us. Great…
Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of clothes, a stack of medical reports, and a few boiled eggs to snack on. Then, she takes a 1.5-hour…
Top: Ivrea, Bottom: Camillo Olivetti The town of Ivrea is quite old and has a rich history, but today, its population has shrunk from around 90,000 in 1970 to just over 20,000 in the 2020s. In the 1400s, Ivrea gained small Jewish community. By the mid 1800s, Salvador Benedetto Olivetti was a…
A light-hearted behind-the-scenes look running the OpenStreetMap infrastructure. From fighting bots and scrapers to rescuing failing servers, discover how the Ops Team keeps OSM.org running smoothly. Full details of this session at https://2025.stateofthemap.eu/session.html#7RREJS Part of the…
What did people used to think the world looked like? From the beginning of human history to right before the age of exploration, how were world maps created? This goes from Anaximander to the Catalan Atlas in 1375. The Catalan Atlas - A Medieval Marvel by Flash Point History…
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing…
Deutsch | English Es sind Szenen, wie man sie aus Diktaturen kennt: Maskierte Agenten der Migrationsbehörde ICE machen in den USA Jagd auf Migrantinnen. Im Stil von paramilitärischen Gruppen dringen sie in gepanzerten Fahrzeugen in Quartiere ein und verhaften Menschen, um sie danach ohne…
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