garrettdimon.com
I’ve long been on the lookout for a search engine that would let me filter out sites that I’ve found to be more noise than signal. After a little over a month of paid use, I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about Kagi.
I’ve been hearing more and more about Kagi lately and definitely like the idea of paying for a service rather than being the good that is sold.
washingtonpost.com
When Merkley said no to the face scan at Washington’s Reagan National Airport, he was told it would cause a significant delay, a spokeswoman for the senator said.
There was no delay. The spokeswoman said the senator showed his photo ID to the TSA agent and cleared security.
I try to leave time for this sort of thing, because I intend to push back in such scenarios.
washingtonpost.com
In fact, wear and tear on tires and brakes have been shown to produce increasingly more particle pollution, by mass, than car exhaust systems did in several real-world and test scenarios. Some of the particles are large enough to see with our eyes. Others are fine particles (known as PM 2.5, with diameters up to 2.5 microns) and ultrafine particles (known as PM 0.1, with diameters of 100 nanometers), which can enter through our bloodstream and harm our organs.
I always wondered about this when I was a kid as soon as I learned that tires wear down. Where does the material go? If we can’t see it, is it small and do we breathe it in?
Turns out: yup.
gamehistory.org
This is where libraries and archives should come in. Anyone should be able to easily explore, research and play classic video games, in the same way that they can read classic novels, listen to classic albums, and watch classic movies. But outdated copyright laws are preventing institutions like ours from doing our jobs.
allenpike.com
The point here is not to add another todo to your pile: oh great, now I need to do all my stuff, and I need to play too?! The point is that we should support ourselves and others in play. We should appreciate the value of goofing off. We should note the difference between passive entertainment and intentional play, and celebrate its place in our lives.
theguardian.com
“If such a meal is to extend life, what is the meaning of life?”
mopedtrip.com
In the summer of 1978 I (Walter Muma) undertook a 3-month 11,500-mile (18,660 km) journey by moped from Toronto (Ontario, Canada) to Yukon (Canada), Alaska (USA), and up the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, NWT (Canada), and back to Toronto.
This was the longest journey ever made on a true unmodified moped, until 2007.
anildash.com
If it weren’t for the deep harm they were doing to so many with these radical ideas, I’d have a lot of pity and empathy for the fact that they’re clearly acting out due to social isolation and the existential emptiness that must come from pursuing wealth and power to such an extreme degree that there’s no room left in life for someone to call them on their bullshit.
ted.com
Intellectual property laws of today are largely influenced by regulations created more than a hundred years ago in Europe. But there is one country in the world where IP is handled in a radically different manner as a result of the internet age: China. What can we learn from China in this age of innovation?
I’ve read books by Bunnie, yet this 20-minute talk gave me a new way of looking at the space. The biggest takeaway for me was the difference between a culture of inventory-based “what product can I find?” to a factory-based “what product can I make?”
nytimes.com
I guess my main takeaway is that DeSantis isn’t going to be the next president. He makes Trump seem tolerant, Ted Cruz seem likable, Mitch McConnell seem moderate, Lauren Boebert seem mature and Rick Santorum seem cool.