Hi everyone, TGIF, right? How’s your week been? Feeling tired? Like you’ve not got enough done? As I mentioned last time, I’m doing daily writing in January so have mostly been quiet here, but there’s
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on
If you watch a lot of movies and TV shows, you might have noticed that over the last few decades everything has gotten a lot more ... gray. No matter the kind of story being told, a sheen of cool blue
Das Frauengefängnis von Ilopango in El Salvador, elf Kilometer von der Hauptstadt San Salvador entfernt, ist ein rauer Ort. Hinter blauen Gitterstäben sitzen die Frauen zu Dutzenden in Zellen auf dünn
Below is a survey of my favorite subgenre of crime story, the locked room mystery. The premise is simple. Readers are presented with an impossible crime. A victim is killed in a locked room. There’s n
As most of you know, I just took three days completely offline so that I could discover what would be difficult about it. I have so much to say about that three days, and first thing I would like to r
“A bit of bedlam.” That’s how the physician Graeme Clark described the scene at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, on the day before what would be the most important sur
Bill Gates wheels a hefty metal barrel out onto a stage. He carefully places it down and then faces the audience, which sits silent in a darkened theater. “When I was a kid, the disaster we worried ab
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Estonian translation courtesy of Karolin Lohmus How a nosy bureaucrat accidentally created the first social networking and blogging service Les Earnest (les at cs.stanford.edu), former Executive Offic
Every Sunday, I send out a newsletter called cron.weekly to over 10.000 subscribers. In this post, I’ll do a deep-dive into how those mails get delivered to subscribers. Let’s talk tech, workflows and
Es gab diesen Tag, an dem alles stimmte. Das Familienministerium bezahlte eine Fotografin, um Bilder vom Ehepaar Esther und Steffi Lau mit ihren Kindern Marlene und Jacob zu machen. Die Fotos sollten
It’s race day, and it’s freezing. Connie doesn’t have gloves or a hat. She wears black yoga pants and a cotton sweatshirt. On her feet are a pair of bulky five-year-old white Nikes she bought at a Foo
Transcript – Episode 79: The End of Uber with Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: Geometry hates cars. You know, if you multiply—I mean, I don’t have to tell The War on Cars this, but if you multiply, you kn
The first time I heard about Flat Earthers, I thought the idea was a joke. Surely nobody would believe something so crazy. I didn’t think about it again for a while. Until I started seeing celebrities
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Vor 1 1/2 Jahren habe ich ein Special aufgenommen und über Rassismus gesprochen. Die Pandemie drängt dieses Thema ziemlich an den Rand und trotzdem ist es nicht weniger wichtig geworden.
One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired t
Republik. Neonazis, wohin man blickt: Seit dem Sommer spielen Rechtsextreme bei Demonstrationen gegen die Corona-Politik des Bundesrats eine immer grössere Rolle. Am vergangenen Wochenende füllten s
Welche Art Mensch steckt hinter der Berühmtheit? Das möchten wir in unserem Format «5 Fragen an…» wissen. Heute von Sänger und Texter Endo Anaconda. Endo Anaconda im Interview: «Ich werde ganz bestimm
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🗺️ Learn how to make gorgeous maps of anywhere in the world in just a few minutes. Prettymaps is a Python library which takes data from OpenStreetMap and crafts it into great little maps where you hav
What do you get when you combine ancient designs with modern engineering? An exciting new way to convert time and money into heat and noise! I'm not sure whether to call this a catapult or a trebuchet
So NFTs are kind of a weird hype for the unscrupulous currently but that fad will at some point (hopefully soon) die. But even when things die, they leave traces in their environment. And when it’s ab
This is a recreation of a popular blog post I had at a former version of wilcosky.com. I re-created my website and since the previous version didn’t have a lot of posts and most weren’t popular, I did
Tech-savvy admirers of the late Terry Pratchett have hit upon an idea for a particularly appropriate memorial. It will be everywhere and nowhere, hiding in the code of the internet. Pratchett’s 33rd D
The Great Read First Person Marriage Requires Amnesia Do I hate my husband? Oh for sure, yes, definitely. Credit... Jake Terrell By Dec. 24, 2021 After 15 years of marriage, you start to see your mate
I've just had a really amazing experience: a guided tour of the nuclear reactor complex at Torness on the Scottish coast. What made this tour unusual is that the tour guide in question, Les, happens t
Ten Years of Logging My Life Update 2021-12-27: See Hacker News for 100+ more comments on this post. I’ve been continuously recording my daily activities by hand since I was 17, amounting to 85,000+ a
Die Titel ihrer Tracks lauten „Hängt sie auf“, „Gaskammerlüge“, „Die Folterbank“, „Ab in den Ofen“. Die Nazi-Band „Erschießungskommando“ verbreitet Hass, Hetze und Aufrufe zum Mord an politischen Gegn
Nazis in der Organisierten Kriminalität? Diese Recherche beginnt mit einer großangelegten Razzia: Mehr als 500 Beamtinnen und Beamte durchsuchen 27 Immobilien, die in Verbindung mit den „Turonen“, ein
Chabeli Carrazana Economy Reporter Published 2021-11-23 05:00 5:00 November 23, 2021 am Share This story was supported by the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigoro
Mike boastfully reads 100 books per year. He listens to audiobooks at 3x speed whenever he drives and swears he can remember it all. His browser has a plugin that lets him speed up YouTube videos, and
Couple of weeks ago we have noticed the article (opens new window) getting attention around twitter (opens new window). As it is using our WMS (opens new window) EOxMaps endpoint we have asked Erin Da
Not only am I VP of Reproduction for this household, but I’ve also been the end-user of this Small Child for over three years now. I’m going to give it to you straight. The user experience is terrible
Adjust Share When the crow whisperer appeared at the side gate to Adam Florin and Dani Fisher’s house, in Oakland, California, she was dressed head to toe in black, wearing a hoodie, gloves, and a mas
It was almost midnight when I pulled up to the drop site in a borrowed car, the rear seats pushed down to make room for the product. My cousin knew a Pakistani guy who had acquired the best stuff mone
NEWS FEATURE 14 September 2021 Correction Hundreds of scientists had worked on mRNA vaccines for decades before the coronavirus pandemic brought a breakthrough. Elie Dolgin Elie Dolgin is a science jo
In the freezing waters of the English Channel, a group of men, women and children are treading water and holding each other’s hands to stay afloat. Some are making desperate calls to rescuers on mobil
Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the Birds Aren't Real movement, with his van in Fayetteville, Ark. Credit... Rana Young for The New York Times The Great Read Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They?
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