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#booksky 💙📚 This is what I'm reading now: Trevor Noah, "Born a Crime".

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Just finished Strength in What Remains by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder. 🖋️📚💙 A very moving story of an exceptional young man who escapes genocide in central Africa to become educated and deal with the horrors of his past. Well written and readable, it affected me deeply.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week: • TikTok is maybe going to get banned for real? • Julian Kelly from Google explains their new Willow quantum chip (which I almost understand) • And the cult of Claude! Podcast: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/p... YouTube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyUV...

submitted 71 days ago • 6 comments

OMFG The great McKinsey was helping to addict people to opioids.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

A poster of Basha Al-Assad hangs on the remains of a shopping mall he decimated with his bombs. Tyrant, genocide -- what other words apply to this man?

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

NYC has incredibly heavy traffic. It's choking the city. Here's one idea that seems to offer a solution:

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

They say Elon Musk doesn’t have original ideas; he just copies other people’s ideas and puts money behind them to make them better, while he stiffs the original creators.

submitted 84 days ago • 134 comments

@gruber.foo This combines two of your favorite interests: Kubrick and typefaces. bsky.app/profile/pulp...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Let the lesson be learned, a bird can turn into a butterfly, but not into an X.

submitted 91 days ago • 184 comments