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But in the 1980s, most kids didn’t have access to the Internet, integrated development environments, rich graphics, or even a choice of languages. What we had were 8-bit home computers, a blinking cursor, and Basic.

Hardware is hard.

A Dog Day Afternoon: But Way Darker.

There is a manner in which you are encouraged to talk and write about yourself as a woman, at present. You are supposed to foreground your submissiveness; detail the many indignities you have stoically endured in your relationships with men; present the men involved as two-dimensional villains; be humorless; admit to no wrongdoing yourself, not even for a sense of realism; and, finally, craft a metaphor to describe the ways in which you made yourself small.

VerifyFaces unveils facial recognition background check service for public. Well that’s terrifying.

Exercise is medicine for cancer and every dose counts – even in late stages of the disease.

When six US B-52 bombers were shot down in one night.

Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again.

Rising cost of climate change will challenge countries and companies in 2023.

Trimming the fat: Inflation finally hitting profit margins.

The above analysis shows that mask mandates have no massive effects, and counts of cases and deaths seem to show that the vaccines made a real-world difference.

Statistical experiments and science experiments.

Military Spending Surges, Creating New Boom for Arms Makers.

We’re drowning in old books. But getting rid of them is heartbreaking.

The Battle for Bakhmut – Wagner Trench Warfare Tactics.

Kansas universities may scrap algebra requirement because too many students fail it. Good. Absolutely useless skill.

Suppose the US Defeats a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan. What Then?

Inflation in the Real World.

The internet wants to be fragmented. Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn’t work.

When I criticized school closures over two years ago, I had my job and credentials threatened by strangers, lost most of my friends, and was generally treated as morally or intellectually deficient. So it’s difficult to describe the sense of whiplash I feel now seeing the harms caused by closures treated as self-evident by the very individuals and organizations that promoted this policy.

Beware the Do-Gooders. How a new class of capitalists couched their profit-seeking in the language of social justice and altruism.

How Putin’s War in Ukraine Became a Catastrophe for Russia.

Ten Years Later, The EU Orphan Works Directive Is Officially A Failure – Just As The Copyright Industry Intended.

Hyper-Elites Are Desperate For a Recession Because They Want to Buy Your Assets for Cheap.

America’s Toxic Gun Culture.

California November Existing Home Sales Down Almost 50% YoY, Prices Down YoY.

‘Space hurricanes’ swirling over the Earth surprise scientists. Cyclone-like auroras near the North Pole, dubbed space hurricanes, can transfer large amounts of energy from the sun to Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Conservatives complain abortion bans not enforced, want jail time for pill ‘trafficking.’

Looming ‘Apocalyptic’ Court Decision Could Ban Abortion Pills Nationwide. A right-wing effort to pull FDA approval of mifepristone would have immediate and devastating consequences.

Americans bought at least 150m guns in decade since Sandy Hook shooting.

What Happened When the Bay Area Rejected Growth.

SEC Proposes Rules That Would Squeeze Stock-Market Middlemen.

The Invisible Workforce that Makes AI Possible. AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent, it’s powered by underpaid workers in foreign.

‘Wiped out’: War in Ukraine has decimated a once feared Russian brigade. The bloody fate of the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade is emblematic of Vladimir Putin’s derailed invasion plans.

A Sprawling Hospital Chain Ignited Its Own Staffing Crisis.

The Spawn of ChatGPT Will Try to Sell You Things.

The great decline in adolescent risk behaviours: Unitary trend, separate trends, or cascade?

Scientists may have found the first water worlds. Density suggests these “super-Earths” are more like giant, hot Europas.

Rural universities, already few and far between, are cutting majors.

How does GPT Obtain its Ability? Tracing Emergent Abilities of Language Models to their Sources.

The Rent Is Too Damn High (and Concentration May Be to Blame).

Microbial predators form a new supergroup of eukaryotes.

Fast-Growing Company Flock is Building a New AI-Driven Mass-Surveillance System.

Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002.

Women in the UK Are Being Denied Medical Treatment Because They’re Virgins.

Pandemic eviction protections, direct payments kept homelessness in check, study shows.

ABC offers a masterclass in how not to handle workplace romance.

How progressive can a college be when instructors make poverty wages?

A Century of Serious Difficulty.

Congress introduces bill to ban TikTok over spying fears. Good.

Where Did Software Go Wrong?

From heart disease to IUDs: How doctors dismiss women’s pain.

Why the laws of physics don’t actually exist. Someone has been reading their Nancy Cartwright.

Of more than 140,000 Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon, just 1.6 per cent have actually quit Elon Musk’s social media platform. LOL. Because Mastodon sucks.

‘Supercharged’ rice sees crop yields improve 40%.

En Chine, l’économie malade du déclin de l’immobilier.

Grip strength is inversely associated with DNA methylation age acceleration.

The American left’s chronic Nimby problem.

Cancer mRNA vaccine completes pivotal trial.

Get Santa a Raincoat: The New Arctic Is Wetter and Warmer. The latest version of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card documents some truly troubling new trends in the region.

The United States Couldn’t Stop Being Stupid if It Wanted To.

Lawmakers Unveil Bipartisan Bill to Expand Retirement Plan Access.

Saturated fats have no effect on cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality or total mortality.

‘Out of control’: Dozens of telehealth startups sent sensitive health information to big tech companies.

How denying F-22 sales to allies led to a U.K.-Japan-Italy stealth plane project. Yeah, that was pretty clownish.

Is China an Overrated Superpower? Economically, geopolitically, demographically, and militarily, the Middle Kingdom is showing increasingly visible signs of fragility.

Japan to Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports to China.

The Obvious Answer to Homelessness. And why everyone’s ignoring it.

Spotify, in fact, has come to symbolize the new “app reality” – the consumer has a perception of control, but almost everything is controlled by the app-masters and faceless algorithms.. FUCKING FUCK SPOTIFY AND ANYTHING LIKE IT. FUCK ANYONE WHO LIKES SPOTIFY TOO.

Discovering a rare red spiral galaxy population from the early universe with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Glimmer of Hope that Rate Hikes & QT Pushed Down Inflation or Just Another CPI Head Fake? (The Fed Warned on Head Fakes).

From Bowling Alone to Posting Alone. Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone chronicled the growing loneliness and isolation of wealthy societies. Twenty years later, the problem is far worse than he could have imagined.

Lately, the common wisdom about letting comedy or artworks or even facts speak for themselves has been subverted by a deepening fear of what might happen if something gets lost in translation.

‘Solar Twins’ Reveal the Consistency of the Universe.

IPv6 Internet Is Broken. Well, yes. It was designed broken so it always will be.

The Corruption of the Legal Profession. A new book shows how corporate law firms bear great responsibility for the degradation of the rule of law.

Wang Hui et la Nouvelle Gauche.

Inflation Forecasts Were Wrong Last Year. Should We Believe Them Now? Nope!

What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?

‘Firmageddon’: Researchers find 1.1 million acres of dead trees in Oregon.

Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes.

Financialisation, central banks and ‘new’ state capitalism: The case of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.

The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us. They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not.

Why the Age of American Progress Ended.

Holiday gift giving in retreat.

A Decade-Old Coyote Attack Mystery May Be Solved. Coyotes killed a Canadian woman in 2009, the only time the animals have been known to kill an adult human. Scientists now think they know why it happened.

Starting to Be Housing Bust 2 for Homebuilders & New Single-Family Houses.

‘Buy now, pay later’ is booming. So are its problems.

Discovery of a New Massive ZZ Ceti Star.

The LHCb collaboration has released data from Run 1 of the LHC to the public for the first time, allowing research to be conducted by anyone in the world.

ChatGPT’s Fluent BS Is Compelling Because Everything Is Fluent BS. I said this a long time ago.

Masking could fight the ‘tripledemic’, experts say. Will anyone listen? Let’s hope not.

Here’s why NASA’s Artemis I mission is so rare, and so remarkable. If you’re against this, I hate you. No chance at redemption.

Tackling inequality from the demand side.

The Archive Of A Vanishing World. Albert Kahn sought to preserve a world he perceived to be disappearing. A century later, his “Archives de la Planète” connects disparate lands, dying ecosystems and cultures, and a world being utterly transformed by modernity.

Who put the ola in Victrola?

Backfired: Putin’s Prison Recruits Spiral Out of Russia’s Control.

We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Why Aren’t We? Then you might be doing eugenics. *makes spooky noises*

China’s Brute Force Economics: Waking Up from the Dream of a Level Playing Field.

Privilege doesn’t start with the super-rich. The upper middle class are not much less detached from the average earner than the one per cent.