August 25, 2020
- The Inside Story of the 25-Year, $8 Million Heist From the Carnegie Library | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
- Japan facing credit card number shortage as people stay home and shop – The Mainichi
- The First Repeat Covid-19 Infection Case Isn’t All Bad News | WIRED
- ‘Coup 53’ Review: Documentary Reveals The 1953 Campaign To Oust Iran’s Leader : NPR
August 24, 2020
- Why People Become Internet Trolls – Doctor Adam
- Opinion | Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
- Two feet from Clearwater’s past, father’s funny legacy leaves a deep impression
- 4 Things Making Your Living Room Look Messier Than It Is
- Advice on Life and Creative Integrity from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson
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- Soviet Star Wars
- The Case of the Top Secret iPod – TidBITS
- The Brass Bunnies of Berlin
- A college student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of Hacker News
- If you read one thing from me, please be this
- Inside Trump’s Chaotic, Desperate Reelection Campaign
- Sentencing Review: Deposition of the Captain | kung fu grippe
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- The World Is Studded With Artificial Mountains
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- Why the Baltic states are reconfiguring their electric grids
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- These Japanese Lindberghs Made a 10,000 Mile-Flight in 1937
- Germans learn to love the staycation
- America musters the world’s biggest naval exercise
- Miki Yamada – Wikipedia
August 16, 2020
- Dickens and his demons
- I left Labour over anti-Semitism. I’m rejoining, but with a heavy heart
- Historic peace deal reached between Israel and the UAE
- Alaska Airlifts ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Out of the Wild
- To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab | … My heart’s in Accra
- The millions being made from cardboard theft – BBC News
August 15, 2020
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August 8, 2020
- The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity | Open Culture
- The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave
- Why is This Idiot Running My Engineering Org? | by Marianne Bellotti | Aug, 2020 | Medium
August 7, 2020
- The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII
- COVID-19 Could Mess With Survivors’ Brains for Years to Come
- Just a Small Shift in Remote Work Could Change Everything
- Why Your Brain Hates Other People – Issue 55: Trust – Nautilus
- Dementia on the Retreat in the U.S. and Europe
- Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure
- Coronavirus live news: hospitals damaged and PPE destroyed in Beirut blast; Africa records 1 million cases | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian
- Hackers Can Break Into an iPhone Just by Sending a Text
- Halifax Explosion – Wikipedia
- The Tragic Physics of the Deadly Explosion in Beirut
- As bad as the spread of the coronavirus is, there’s reason to believe it will get worse – The Boston Globe
- Georgia teens shared photos of maskless students in crowded hallways. Now they’re suspended.
- The Spirited Afterlife of Detroit’s Little Red Demon – Atlas Obscura
- Biography – LAUMET, de Lamothe Cadillac, ANTOINE – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- “The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World | The New Yorker
August 6, 2020
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August 3, 2020
- MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up
- The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
- The saboteurs you can hire to end your relationship – BBC Worklife
- Arrests after Blackberry cracked five years after seizure
- “Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia
- Hiltzik: Bill English dies, unsung hero of personal computing – Los Angeles Times
- Americans are getting more nervous about what they say in public
August 2, 2020
- Media 2020: Rise of the Renaissance Creator
- Moldova Shuts Down Bootleg Helicopter Factory | Balkan Insight
- Almost half of all jobs lost during pandemic may be gone permanently
- The Painter And The Thief review: A doc with too many twists
- “The Painter and the Thief” and “The Trip to Greece,” Reviewed | The New Yorker
- U.K. Officials’ New Trump Dilemma: What if He Loses? – The New York Times
August 1, 2020
- Crash And Burn: The Amiga ST Story
- Opinion | Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. It’s being used to score you.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee ‘sorry’ for slashes
- Chasing Success Leads Away From Happiness
- Cold Spring Harbor Lab on Nautilus: Why We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized
- Washington officials captured their first invasive murder hornet, with less than two months until mating season – CBS News
- The Apogee FAQ: Section [2.8.9]: Wacky Wheels
July 31, 2020
- The Last Flight of Wang Wei – Air Force Magazine
- Despite Cold War’s End, Russia Keeps Building a Secret Complex
- Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Accuser Virginia Giuffre Says Bill Clinton Partied on Pedophile Island
- Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
- Facebook says Apple’s iOS 14 changes could hurt its ad targeting
- Hackers post fake stories on real news sites
July 30, 2020
- A Viral Epidemic Splintering Into Deadly Pieces
- ‘We Are Your Family Now’: What It’s Like to Lose a Loved One to QAnon
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- Trump floats delaying election despite lack of authority to do so
- Trump Floats Election ‘Delay’ Amid Claims of Voting Fraud
- Tarrare – Wikipedia
- The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet
- The Queer Black Woman Who Reinvented The Blues – Atlas Obscura
July 29, 2020
- Nintendo ‘gigaleak’ reveals the classic games that never were
- The 19th-century painting that saved Bill Murray’s life
- Humans of New York
- 6 Habits of Highly Focused People
- These 4 Covid-19 Vaccines Are Closest to Becoming Reality
- Twitter’s Security Woes Included Broad Access to User Accounts
- HOW CHINA USES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO COMMIT GENOCIDE
- The Rise of Synthetic Audio Deepfakes
- Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister
- The code I’m still ashamed of
- Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb’s Vibrations
- How to be a Roman emperor | Essay by Mary Beard
- Scientists pull living microbes from 100 million years beneath the sea
- DNA/Riding the Rays
- How did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon? » Reaper Feed
- Socialism’s DIY Computer
- Do you struggle with anxiety from work? | Hacker News
July 28, 2020
- The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire | The New Yorker
- How a Hacker Intercepted FBI and Secret Service Calls With Google Maps
- Paranormal Club. A group of teen outcasts from a tough… | by Patrick Glendon McCullough | Truly*Adventurous | Jul, 2020 | Medium
- Gaze Into These Hyperrealistic Masks and See a Troubling Future | WIRED
- How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
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- The Cincinnati Privy Disaster of 1904
- The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang
- A Billion More Tons of Plastic Could Blanket Earth by 2040 | WIRED
- 20 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Built Apple’s G4 Cube. It Bombed | WIRED
- Opinion | What we’ve learned about how to catch — or avoid — covid-19 – The Washington Post
- The Plot Against America: The GOP’s Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election
July 23, 2020
- The Ghost Story Behind a Bucolic Catholic Retreat Center – Atlas Obscura
- What Could Happen If Donald Trump Rejects Electoral Defeat?
- “Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale”: Mark Zuckerberg’s Employees Reckon With The Social Network They’ve Built
- Why you should absolutely worry about the anti-privacy EARN IT Act
- Stephen Colbert’s extended interview with the lone sympathetic Trump is chilling nonetheless
- Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool
- Subscribe to read | Financial Times
- envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space
July 22, 2020
- Apple’s Hackable iPhones Are Finally Here | WIRED
- How to Check Your Devices for Stalkerware
- U.S. federal agents will surge into Chicago and Albuquerque, Trump says | CBC News
- How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire
- Chaotic Scenes in Portland as Backlash to Federal Deployment Grows
July 21, 2020
July 20, 2020
- Some Trump allies push for campaign shake-up to revive president’s imperiled reelection bid
- Trump’s sweaty Fox News interview shows his 2020 chances melting away | Richard Wolffe
- Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act
- Who Pulled Off the Twitter Hack?
- The Search for Prester John | History Today
- Satan’s Bank Note | History Today
- What if the Trinity test had failed? | Restricted Data
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- Sticking To It – Automattic Design
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- Researchers Created Tiny Camera Backpacks for Beetles
- David Shor’s Unified Theory of the 2020 Election
- Portland protests: Navy veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him goes viral | The Independent