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The euthanasia coaster.
Umm… “The Euthanasia Coaster is the name given to a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed with the sole purpose of killing its passengers: a euthanasia device.” ~ learn more
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Anchovy sex is a force of nature.
“Every night and without any apparent reason, we were seeing very, very high levels of turbulence,” says Castro, a physical oceanographer at England’s University of Southampton. Castro and his colleagues eventually traced the source of all this mixing: the frothing […]
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AI design patterns.
This post offers some lightweight education. “As we’ve been researching the AI landscape & how to build applications, a few design patterns are emerging for AI products. These design patterns are simple mental models. They help us understand how builders […]
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Someone stole $25 million with a deepfake multi-person video call.
Warning: slow down whenever money is at stake! “A multinational company lost HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) in a scam after employees at its Hong Kong branch were fooled by deepfake technology, with one incident involving a digitally recreated version of […]
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The quietest places in the world’s loudest cities.
“Urban noise pollution is not going away. That’s why we’ve put together this guide to the ‘noisiest’ cities across the US, UK, and mainland Europe, and the places within them where it’s possible to escape the hustle and bustle of […]
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I just love this video of Argentina’s new president.
It’s a solid couple minutes of entertainment watching Javier Milei systematically cut down his government to libertarian-appropriate size. ~ learn more
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I hope the browser wars are starting again.
You almost certainly either use Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. A newer entrant called The Browser Company seems to be gaining ground with their Arc Browser. Some of my mac-wielding friends love it. This is their 15 minute video promoting their […]
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A banking perspective on the check-cashing business.
This is a thorough commentary about the industry that charges relatively high fees for check-cashing in a world where the market price for a checking account is zero. If you ever thought to yourself “how could this be?” you’ll be […]
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Your internet is never safe.
Consider this your friendly reminder to stop reusing passwords. “The supermassive leak contains data from numerous previous breaches, comprising an astounding 12 terabytes of information, spanning over a mind-boggling 26 billion records. The leak, which contains LinkedIn, Twitter, Weibo, Tencent, […]
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Why is there so much fraud in academia?
“Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracted. We talk to whistleblowers, reformers, and a co-author who got caught up in the chaos.” ~ learn more