October 9, 2023
But when I stare at the girls as if I'm free
It's IRC, but you get to be a cat!
Unlike every other IRC client, where communication is done purely in text form, Comic Chat allows you to assume an avatar and use it to chat in the form of an ongoing comic strip. Every line you say can be punctuated with specific emotions/poses. It still works perfectly to this very day. Comic Chat is arguably one of the greatest communication methods out there for autistic people (if not the greatest). It provides all of the advantanges of being able to hear your conversational partner's words and see their facial expressions and body language, without being overwhelming and while still allowing one plenty of time to process everything.
Is you doing git commits on a criminal fucking conspiracy?
Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX (previouslies), is on trial for fraud. His former colleagues are walking the jury through the crimes they committed in the code they committed. [more inside]
Airlines Are Just Banks Now
Invasion of America
Invasion of America "Between 1776 and 1887, the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from America's indigenous people by treaty and executive order. Explore how in this interactive map of every Native American land cession during that period." [more inside]
The 2023 Nobel Science Prizes
count your blessings, ah ah ah
"All I’m doing is trying to protect myself and my work"
When these endeavors, some of which resulted in unauthorized adaptations of both his books and his own persona, came to light, occasionally exploding into unprecedented legal battles, the ever-resisting Salinger was regarded sort of as a cantankerous ghost of an author—a once welcome houseguest rattling dusty chains at the unassuming newcomers he thought were messing around with things he left behind .... Yet his belief that total ownership is not relinquished with public publication, as well as his radical enforcement of copyright law and reliance on the right to privacy, revolutionized the role of the “author” in modern culture, and consequently helped preserve both his identity and his works as masterful and mythic American originals. from Phonies: J.D. Salinger and Wielding Copyright as Self-Protection
“She was a great influence on the women’s spirituality movement.”
Rachel Pollack saw miracles in the world, and she was someone who taught other people to see them. (slXtra Magazine) [more inside]
Artificial intelligence technology to analyse status of wildlife
Artificial intelligence technology to analyse status of cryptic bird, bilby and kowari on outback station. The search for the plains-wanderer will involve AI and bio-acoustic recorders to detect it and other highly vulnerable species.
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