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www.prepperdisk.com - brilliant for when the world goes full on 'The Last of Us' PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information....

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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

submitted 4 days ago • 725 comments

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

submitted 7 days ago • 216 comments

Interesting discussion of cork vs scewcap (vs diam) - not quite so cut and dried: worldoffinewine.com/news-feature...

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This is fine. 😐 on.ft.com/42eopqA

submitted 18 days ago • 42 comments

Deutsche Bank's George Saravelos has been having a very good crisis and his latest is... sobering. Take notes, kids, this is history in the making

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

How do you bankrupt a casino? Well now you know...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Always the Economist - picking the top of the market.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

submitted 25 days ago • 69 comments

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 27 days ago • 67 comments

AI crawlers are wrecking the open internet. My small side project - techpays .com - used to generate below 100GB of traffic per month. It’s on Render where 500GB/month included, above it’s $30 per 100GB. Meta’s AI crawler + other bots have pushed it to 700GB+ per month WTH

submitted 32 days ago • 24 comments

I think we need to be careful with phrases like Signal has been infiltrated - because there were explicit attack vectors used - linked devices (requiring physical phone access) and malicious QR links - again requiring the owner to scan those links. But it's not as simple as those words would imply.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Might come in handy at some point: european-alternatives.eu

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

YouTube subscriptions should be the channels I've specifically subscribed to. So why show me shorts of content that I've shown no interest in.

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What's funny about Tesla: their still-huge share price isn't just about cars. It's predicated in part on the idea that Tesla's Optimus robots will sell by the billions and do household chores for people. But who could possibly now think people will want Elon's robots in their homes?

submitted 47 days ago • 277 comments

Incredible, so now you can't criticise tech industry figures, you can't discuss Network State concepts.

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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

submitted 49 days ago • 201 comments

Job candidates at federal agencies are being questioned on their loyalty to Trump. Among the questions: Would you be willing to serve as a spokesperson for mass deportations? Which of Trump’s executive orders is your favorite? Who won the 2020 election? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 52 days ago • 92 comments

Mars climate scientist here. The oceans won't just return. We don't have a good explanation for how Mars had oceans when it did have a thick atmosphere in the paleo record billions of years ago. Everything in the last few months should prove that Musk is an idiot and knows nothing about anything.

submitted 58 days ago • 23 comments

Here’s what’s so funny: the initial ‘strategic reserve’ announcement was about SOL, ADA, and some other bullshit. Trump then came back an hour later and quoted his own post to say “and of course BTC and ETH we love those.” Just so absolutely transparent.

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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