August 2021 Archive
9121.
Central Park Accidentally Offed Its Celebrity Owl (curbed.com)
9122.
WhatsApp attacks Apple’s child safety ‘surveillance’ despite government acclaim (on.ft.com)
9123.
Larry Page applied for $10m NZ residency three months before medevac flight (stuff.co.nz)
9124.
Will the U.S. Ever Go Metric? It Already Has, Sort Of (wsj.com)
9125.
Why it’s time to stop saying “my work is my life” (fastcompany.com)
9126.
Stanford researcher proposes tech to produce vaccines to stop the next pandemic (news.stanford.edu)
9127.
Who Created Maslow’s Iconic Pyramid? (scottbarrykaufman.com)
9128.
How do you make a weather satellite? [pdf] (nasa.gov)
9129.
Oscar Mayer Is Including 10k Dogecoin in This Promotional Hot Dog Pack (hypebeast.com)
9130.
Other People’s Mistakes (collaborativefund.com)
9131.
New Laptop – ThinkPad P14s (domenkozar.com)
9132.
A new book explores “cultish” language (economist.com)
9133.
A History of the Erlang VM (2011) [pdf] (erlang-factory.com)
9134.
How many humans would it take to keep our species alive? (nbcnews.com)
9135.
The Gap Between Humans and Apes (2008) (pbs.org)
9136.
Exploration of deep intraterrestrial microbial life: current perspectives (academic.oup.com)
9137.
Covid lab leak: Did the media fall victim to a misinformation campaign? (bmj.com)
9138.
Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance (nbcnews.com)
9139.
Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse (davidrozado.substack.com)
9140.
YouTube got unlisted videos thanks to a high school teacher (2010) (blog.youtube)
9141.
Squest: Web portal to expose Ansible Tower based automation as a service (hewlettpackard.github.io)
9142.
A brief history of computing in Formula 1 (mclaren.com)
9143.
Approximate Minimal Bounding Sphere (johndcook.com)
9144.
IPCC Interactive Atlas – Visualization of climate change data (interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch)
9145.
Show HN: Rust CLI tool for migrating Jekyll blog posts to a Gatsby website (github.com)
9146.
How to effectively sabotage a functioning organization (OSS memo, 1944) (twitter.com)
9147.
Playstation 3 Emulator Adds AMD FSR Upscaling (tomshardware.com)
9148.
What if every air conditioner was stopping climate change as it kept you cool? (fastcompany.com)
9149.
Amazon Launches Local Register, a Square Competitor with Lower Rates (2014) (techcrunch.com)
9150.
The Weaponization of Copyright by Police Officers, the Need to Automate Fair Use (lumendatabase-org.medium.com)