The Handshake | New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/143633/handshake-why-yousef-muslet-face-life-prison-everyday-gesture?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
200 Terabyte Proof Demonstrates the Potential of Brute-Force Math - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/padnvm/200-terabyte-proof-demonstrates-the-potential-of-brute-force-math
U.K. Can’t Afford Its Imperial Delusions Anymore - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-25/u-k-can-t-afford-its-imperial-delusions-anymore
The history of calling artists “sellouts.” http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/07/the_history_of_calling_artists_sellouts.html?curator=MusicREDEF
Inside the Gaming Library at Gitmo, America‘s Controversial Military Prison - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/a3d9jg/inside-the-gaming-library-at-gitmo-americas-most-controversial-military-prison?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
The US Army Funded Astral Projection and Hypnosis Research in the 80s - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pad4a9/the-us-army-funded-astral-projection-and-hypnosis-research-in-the-80s
Why Is the Internet Archive Painstakingly Preserving One Man‘s Junk Mail? - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59p89z/why-is-the-internet-archive-painstakingly-preserving-one-mans-junk-mail
Hackers‘ Own Tools Are Full of Vulnerabilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59pvp8/hackers-own-tools-are-full-of-vulnerabilities
The Anti-Waiter Sentiment That Made Automat Restaurants Go Mainstream - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/automat-20th-century-waiterless-restaurants?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
How a Group of ‘70s Radicals Tried (and Failed) to Invade Disneyland - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/disneyland-yippies-1970?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Watch This Adorable Robot Write Poems on the Beach - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwz78q/watch-this-adorable-robot-write-poems-on-the-beach
Bezos and Musk Are Shaping the Worldviews of Future Space Settlements - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywzazy/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-space-settlements-overview-effect
How Apple’s Early Clone Wars Reshaped Copyright Law - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59za4x/how-apples-early-clone-wars-reshaped-copyright-law
Hidden Features and Third Party Programs That Make Spotify Work for You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59z7vk/hidden-features-and-third-party-programs-that-make-spotify-work-for-you
A Violent 15th-Century Freshman Hazing Ritual Involving Boar Tusks and Razors - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deposition-hazing-ritual?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=149faf3a75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-149faf3a75-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_7_12_2017)&mc_cid=149faf3a75&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
The Best Demon Illustrations of All Time - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demons-illustrations-dictionnaire-infernal?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=149faf3a75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-149faf3a75-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_7_12_2017)&mc_cid=149faf3a75&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
Humans and machines can make beautiful music together. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/07/humans_and_machines_can_make_beautiful_music_together.html?curator=MusicREDEF
The Nihilism of Julian Assange | by Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/
Surreal Memes Are the Last Escape the Internet Has - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwz833/surreal-memes-are-the-last-escape-the-internet-has
How a Soviet Circus Clown Tried to Prove That Dogs Can Be Psychic - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dog-telepathy
Kafka’s Joke Book - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/kafkas-joke-book
Hans Zimmer: orchestral manoeuvres in the dark | British GQ http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hans-zimmer-interview-dunkirk?curator=MusicREDEF
The Politics of Pie Cutting at West Point‘s Mess Hall - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/west-point-mess-hall-pie?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c2839fb4bc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-c2839fb4bc-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_29_2017)&mc_cid=c2839fb4bc&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
I Can‘t Believe It’s Butter That Was Buried in a Bog! - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/make-your-own-bog-butter-ireland?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c2839fb4bc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-c2839fb4bc-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_29_2017)&mc_cid=c2839fb4bc&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
Want to Transcribe Rare Magical Manuscripts on Your Lunch Break? - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/newberry-library-transcribing-manuscripts
The Rise of the Thought Leader | New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-multiverse-theory?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2aa8411428-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-2aa8411428-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_22_2017)&mc_cid=2aa8411428&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
Can We Blame the Mafia on Lemons? - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mafia-lemons-citrus-sicily-economics?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3b6a8ecbb6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-3b6a8ecbb6-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_9_2017)&mc_cid=3b6a8ecbb6&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
The ATU Fable Index: Like the Dewey Decimal System, But With More Ogres - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aarne-thompson-uther-tale-type-index-fables-fairy-tales?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e507bdeb3f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-e507bdeb3f-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_16_2017)&mc_cid=e507bdeb3f&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
America Has Always Been Angry and Violent | New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/143361/america-always-angry-violent
More science fiction can help us create a better tomorrow. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/06/more_science_fiction_can_help_us_create_a_better_tomorrow.html
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps
http://www.avclub.com/article/woman-has-been-slowly-eating-infinite-jest-year-256801 http://www.avclub.com/article/woman-has-been-slowly-eating-infinite-jest-year-256801
Can These Pornographers End ‘MILFs,’ ‘Teens,’ and ‘Thugs’? | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/can-changing-our-porn-vocabulary-change-porn-itself/
The Creator of JavaScript Just Launched a Cryptocurrency to Improve Online Ads - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-creator-of-javascript-just-launched-a-cryptocurrency-for-online-ads
There Aren’t Enough Slaughterhouses to Support the Farm-to-Table Economy - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-23/there-aren-t-enough-slaughterhouses-to-support-the-farm-to-table-economy?src=longreads
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we 100% on the same page about self hosting. I thought the article was more about stopping to cooperate with the corporate web. We need to develop standards with our own priorities forefront.
Oh, there are new articles on #whatif: https://what-if.xkcd.com/153/ and https://what-if.xkcd.com/154/
The decline of GPL? ⌘ https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I read a few sentences from your article to my wife, and she replied that we probably should go to Canada …
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net If only less sites would break so bad, even on our own taz.de i can barely seperate a headline from the list of related articles
@kas@enotty.dk Nope, creepy here too. Dont know what asmr is? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/02/asmr_videos_autonomous_sensory_meridian_response_and_whispering_videos_on.html
tumblelichen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrant_lichen↵potentially extraterrestial lichen: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063313002055↵chthonic lichen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolithic_lichen
One: no unity. No identity. Nothing exists except in relation to another. Nothing is singular. They don’t even have a definite article.
American parenting is killing marriage
This article sounds very true, although I would not go as far as generalizing it for all Americans.
Mothers must devote themselves to their children above anyone or anything else, but many wives would be offended if their husbands said, “You’re pretty great, but my love for you will never hold a candle to the love I have for John Junior.”
Mothers are also hol … ⌘ Read more
China’s two child policy
This one is worth documenting, as it doesn’t happen every day. As a matter of fact, it hasn’t happened for over three decades.
“It is the latest twist in the most ambitious and ruthless social-engineering program ever undertaken by a modern state: Beijing announced Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party will officially abandon it … ⌘ Read more
Big Red Bus
“Hi guys, don’t forget to donate today!” says the lady with the oneblood.org t-shirt. The Big Red Bus parks on campus often, sometimes they seem to be here every day. “We’ll give you a t-shirt and a cookie!” She says. That’s the price of your donation, but is it?
A typical pint of blood costs $130-150, and sometimes [even more](http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-04-05/news/os-blood-cost-anne-chinoda-201 … ⌘ Read more
Space for the dead
I read an article today on The Guardian, which showed up on the eight page of Hacker’s News. It talks about the lack of space for the dead, in the world of the living.
“Some 55 million people are reckoned to pass away each year (about 0.8% of the planet’s total population – equivalent to 100% of England’s). Yet urban planners and developers focus overwhelmingly on accommodating and making money from the living. Ceme … ⌘ Read more
Selling out
It seems iOS 9 ad blocker, Crystal, will allow some ads to go through for a fee. From an article on the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Murphy said he has taken Eyeo up on its offer, and plans to implement an option within his app whereby “acceptable” ads will be displayed to users. The feature will be switched on by default, Mr. Murphy said, and he will receive a flat monthly fee from Eyeo in return. Mr. Murphy declined to disclose the fee, but said he expects to make less money from Eyeo’s payments th … ⌘ Read more
Glowforge
We all need this. Watch the video and tell me if you do not feel amazed. It is pricey, but oh the fun one could have with one of those!
Glowforge is a wireless 3D laser printer that fits on your desktop, works with your favorite design programs, and stores your designs & data on a cloud.