kottke
16h ago
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account ....
How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account.
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kottke
40h ago
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“The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a...
“The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto”, a 70s automobile that put the “car” in “exploding car”.
kottke
39h ago
17°
Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? “When the...
Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? “When the light turns yellow, this Waymo does not speed up. It does not calculate whether it could make it.
kottke
10h ago
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The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the...
The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the line-up: the Midi. “The standard Times daily crossword, you see, is a 15×15 grid. The Mini is 5×5.
kottke
17h ago
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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (free...
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (free WSJ piece at MSN). “Last year the U.S.
kottke
12h ago
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“ Eclipses have been connected with the fate of...
“Eclipses have been connected with the fate of rulers since at least ancient Mesopotamia, around 4,000 years ago.” But more recently: “In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England made it a felony to use horoscopes to predict her death or her successor.”
kottke
13h ago
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Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth : 530km...
Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth: 530km (329 miles) between “an unnamed Himalayan ridge near the Indian-Chinese border and Pik Dankova in Kyrgyzstan”.
kottke
14h ago
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Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been...
Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been awarded a knighthood by French president Emmanuel Macron.
kottke
36h ago
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“A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree...
“A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree store locations across the United States.”
kottke
19h ago
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The...
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses.
kottke
41h ago
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Commenters in this thread shared a bunch of songs...
Commenters in this thread shared a bunch of songs “where the drum beats are Morse code that also serve as a separate layer to the lyrics”.
kottke
38h ago
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They’re doing a new Pride and Prejudice adaptation...
They’re doing a new Pride and Prejudice adaptation. From the comments on the trailer: “this looks like a temu version of the 2005” and “The Darcy is not Darcying”.
kottke
11h ago
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Satellite’s Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse Photo Taken From Orbit
During the recent annular solar eclipse on February 17, the ESA’s PROBA-2 satellite captured this great shot of the Moon passing in front of the Sun. Cue up the Johnny Cash.
kottke
36h ago
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Physics Is a Conversation
Physicist Sean Carroll leads off this video with this line:
kottke
16h ago
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Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Codebreaker
The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together:
kottke
17h ago
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An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75)
Illustrator Zara Picken maintains an archive of commercial illustration from the mid-20th century. So much throwback inspiration here!