- Amazon's Time Off Bots.
Amazon’s warehouse feels like something from the Victorian era crossed with Cyberpunk.
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- Reading Digitally in 2024.
Craig Mod discusses an interesting phone sized eReader.
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- Dark Matter.
A retrospective on PostSecret.
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- War in Gaza, Shibboleths on Campus.
#Put me wherever you want: misguided socialist, toothless humanist, naïve novelist, useful idiot, apologist, denier, ally, contrarian, collaborator, traitor, inexcusable coward. It is my view that my personal views have no more weight than an ear of corn in this particular essay. The only thing that has any weight in this particular essay is the dead.
- A Dispatch From Inside Columbia’s Student-Led Protest for Gaza.
There are protests happening at American universities across the country.
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- She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.
This is one of the darkest, bleakest, stories i’ve read in some time. Great journalism from ProPublica. America is fucked.
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- Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened.
Probably the craziest story in supply chain computer security.
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- World Central Kitchen Let Him Serve Gaza. He Paid With His Life.
“The killing of foreign aid workers from World Central Kitchen brought international outrage. The death of their Palestinian driver drew less attention.”
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- Chase & Status at Boiler Room: London.
This is one of the best Jungle sets I’ve heard in ages. The mix of concluding song is incredible.
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- What was Drake?
This essay is so nerdy I kind of love it.
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- Martin Greenfield dies at 95.
He dressed six presidents, coached designers and made thousands of suits for TV shows and movies. But his beginnings were dismal: He learned to sew at Auschwitz.
A very incredible life.
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- MetaFilter: If the customer wants wheat toast, we simply flip the jelly pack over.
The linked training video for Waffle House is weirdly engrossing. What a bananas system! In the comments, Vigilant talks about their experience working at Waffle House.
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- Researching An Old Sitcom With AI.
A weirdly engrossing video about a very weird sitcom.
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- YouTube: FURIOSA Trailer.
This film is looking so hot.
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- The untold story of Kickstarter’s crypto Hail Mary—and the secret $100 million a16z-led investment to save its fading brand.
This article really explains some of the bizarre moves Kickstarter has made in recent years. My friend Mark feels the article misses the mark when it comes to articulating Kickstarter’s current woes. They haven’t made things easier for creators on their platform. Meanwhile, Gamefound and Backerkit entered the market and hoovered up creators. The perfect example, that’s even mentioned in the article: Sanderson’s latest crowdfunding effort is taking place on Backerkit. I can’t imagine he’s there because of Kickstarter’s lack of web3 nonsense. 17 million and counting, on someone else’s platform.
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- Behind F1's Velvet Curtain by Kate Wagner.
The lady behind McMansion Hell writes about Formula 1, only to have the article pulled almost instantly.
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- Canada Modern.
This is amazing: “a physical and digital archive of Canadian graphic design, with modernism central to its glowing heart.”
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