We are digital hoarders. Some of us make plans for the custody of our accounts after death, but our online legacy is mostly trash. It’s decades’ worth of political rants and throwaway jokes on social
Die "Anastasia-Bewegung" ist eine völkisch-religiöse Sekte, die in Brandenburg und im Harz Häuser und Grundstücke aufkauft. Nach außen hin geben sie sich harmlos. Doch ihre Ideologie ist gefährlich. W
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I don't know who this person is, but I totally want to be friends with them! Watch this video, where they imagine how a bunch of different pastas and other foods would walk. I've never pondered this b
A few years ago, I lost my dad to a kitesurfing accident. Beyond losing one of the most important people in my life, the most painful thing I had to “survive” was how people reacted around me. It was
Update: this post was written in November, 2022. It’s now March, 2023. My family member ended up making pretty much a full recovery, which has shocked everyone. He is almost back to his old self. Also
Nachdem sich die Neonazis der Jungen Tat Anfang Jahr immer mehr an die Spitze der Coronaproteste gedrängt haben. Nachdem sie im Juni einen Pride-Gottesdienst in Zürich störten, Anfang Oktober vor
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Why I never thought I was a bio person. But then I overheard Viv talking about MAOIs at a party. I asked her: > - What are MAOIs? > - monoamine oxidase inhibitor > - What does that mean? > - It preven
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. Yogi Berra, et al Well, it looks like it's finally happened. As news sites began reporting that Elon Musk had finalised his purchase of Twitter, the fedive
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Gav and Dan have never been immensely happy with the kind of break a pool cue can provide, so they try something a little more serious. Thank you to Amazon Shopping App for sponsoring this video. Down
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On a snowy January morning in 2022, I walk into Duo, an exclusive little restaurant in the heart of the southern Italian town of Lecce, carrying a polystyrene box filled with two frozen plate-sized je
Scenes from an imagined life: The baroness and her mother in Manhattan. Credit... Rutu Modan The Great Read Birgit Thyssen-Bornemisza led a life of eccentric anonymity and shabby gentility. Then her m
A dusting of frost coated Fourteenth Street; the taxi continued driving away from the hospital, crossing the line dividing downtown from the rest of this dark and morbid city. December 8, 2011. Not a
As I'm moving all my online assets to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) I wanted to share my current setup. I also want to emphasise that I've been able to set this all up with decent technical knowledge
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(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site wa
TomTom: from PND to FUD. (TomTom data is such high quality that people have to put up signs like this. Photographed in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, by Tim Brown, licensed CC-BY 2.0.) You can tell you'
There’s been another surge of Twitter users moving to Mastodon in the last few days and for the first time it feels like it’s getting some mainstream traction. It’s an interesting time—the fediverse h
When SpaceX deploy batches of Starlink satellites they drop them off in lower orbits and expect the satellites themselves to navigate towards their final operational orbits. This is quite a complex pr
(Those who read English will enjoy this intro to Mastodon.) Sie fühlen sich unwohl, wenn Sie Facebook, Instagram oder Twitter nutzen? Fakenews, Hatespeech, Werbung und die ständige Selbstinszenierung
As you may have noticed, mosquitoes don’t attack everyone equally. Scientists have known that the pests are drawn to people at varying rates, but they have struggled to explain what makes certain peop
Ska Music is eternal, whether you're listening to the 1st, 2nd or 3rd wave, There's just something about it that's super fun and makes you wanna dance, and in this little love letter I'm gonna tell yo
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After a long drive, the only thing that makes our stomachs churn faster than a windshield smeared with bug guts is a windshield bearing no evidence of insect life whatsoever. It feels like a fundament
Mike Conner sits in his truck atop a hill in Boring, Oregon, where he can feel the summer breeze through the window and see the sun at its meridian over the fields and the snowcapped tip of a distant
At Holman Correctional Facility, in Atmore, Alabama, the prisoners have a tradition of beating their doors when guards take a man from the holding area colloquially known as the “death cell” to the ex
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10 min read· Sep 25, 2022 -- TL;DR Recently we’ve launched an offline maps application for Apple Watch. This project has taken more than two years and the full attention of our small team of enthusias
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Als Manuel C. Widmer nach den Herbstferien 2019 ins Berner Schulhaus Tscharnergut zurückkehrte, lief überhaupt nichts mehr so, wie es sollte. «Man konnte nicht drucken, Daten gingen verloren, die neu
This image was created by an AI, MidJourney. All I had to do was type in a prompt (“wildfire”) and aspect ratio. This AI is pretty good, but nowhere near the state of the art, and AI like it are, over
back before Instagram… a young woman photographed with her 4×5 camera from an undated Kodachrome slide. As a photographer, I have been making photographs with my own cameras my entire life. From my fi
Stellen Sie sich vor, ein Mann zieht ein T-Shirt von Osama bin Laden an und provoziert damit an einer Trauerfeier für Opfer eines islamistischen Terroranschlags. Oder mit einem T-Shirt des Islamisch
Rachel Gerberding has a green thumb. So when her mother died this April, Gerberding decided to compost her. Gerberding, who lives in Washington state in a house surrounded by flowers, had heard about
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