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• Jason Kottke

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism? “Is...

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism? “Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five points ahead in Arizona?”

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• WNYC Studios

Tweak the Vote

01:09:43
Back in 2018, when this episode first aired, there was a feeling that democracy was on the ropes.  In the United States and abroad, citizens of democracies are feeling increasingly alienated, disaffected, and powerless.  Some are even asking themselves a question t...

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• Jason Kottke

Loving that the FTC has adopted a click-to-cancel rule. “Under the rule,...

Loving that the FTC has adopted a click-to-cancel rule. “Under the rule, businesses can’t force customers to cancel a subscription using a method different from how they signed up.” So if you sign up online, they can’t force you to call to cancel. 🙌

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Experimental Astrophysics

Our experiment will be expensive, but we believe it will produce important spin-offs, especially if we manage to hit the sun from the right angle.

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• John Gruber

The European Union’s Interinstitutional Style Guide on Boldfacing for ‘Emphasis’

style-guide.europa.eu/en/content/-/isg/topic?identifier=5.8-emphasis

Here’s an interesting bit of follow-up. Last month, when linking to the European Commission’s announcement of “two specification proceedings to assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets Act”, I wrote a sidenote on the EC’s seem...

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• John Gruber

FIDO Alliance Is Working on Making Passkeys Portable Across Platforms

macrumors.com/2024/10/15/fido-alliance-portable-passkeys-across-platforms/

Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors: The FIDO Alliance is developing new specifications to enable secure transfer of passkeys between different password managers and platforms. Announced on Monday, the initiative is the result of collaboration among members of the FIDO...

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• Jason Kottke

Redbox went bankrupt and abandoned their DVD lending machines. Tinkerers have hacked...

Redbox went bankrupt and abandoned their DVD lending machines. Tinkerers have hacked the OS, procured machines from the likes of Walgreens, and hauled them home to repurpose or to get at the sweet, sweet fruit within (aka the DVDs).

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• John Gruber

Apple Passwords’ Generated Strong Password Format

rmondello.com/2024/10/07/apple-passwords-generated-strong-password-format/

Speaking of passwords, Ricky Mondello — who has long been a leading member of Apple’s “Authentication Experience” team — has an interesting blog post describing the algorithm Apple uses when it suggests new strong passwords: To make these passwords easier to type on subo...

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• John Gruber

DHH Argues Against Passkeys

world.hey.com/dhh/passwords-have-problems-but-passkeys-have-more-95285df9

David Heinemeier Hansson: Yes, passwords have problems. If you’re using them without a password manager, you’re likely to reuse them across multiple services, and if you do, all it takes is one service with awful password practices (like storing them in plain text rather...

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• Jason Kottke

The Biden administration has cancelled $175 billion in student debt for almost...

The Biden administration has cancelled $175 billion in student debt for almost 5 million people since Jan 2021. Could have done much more than that if not for Republicans suing to keep people in debt.

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• Jason Kottke

This mashup of Y.M.C.A. by the Village People and a track from...

This mashup of Y.M.C.A. by the Village People and a track from Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar soundtrack should not work as well as it does. “Young man, young man” (plaintive).

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• John Gruber

Things Are Not Going Well at Automattic

404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/

Samantha Cole, reporting for 404 Media: In July, before the latest WP Engine blowup, an Automattic employee wrote in Slack that they received a direct message from Mullenweg sending them an identification code for Blind, an anonymous workplace discussion platform, which ...

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• Jason Kottke

A Weird Form of Dark Energy Might Solve a Cosmic Conundrum. “Estimates...

A Weird Form of Dark Energy Might Solve a Cosmic Conundrum. “Estimates of how fast the universe is expanding disagree. Could a new form of dark energy resolve the problem?” (Written by two experts on dark energy.)

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• Jason Kottke

How Cranberries Are Harvested

This video seems like it was made specifically for kottke.org. In the first half of it, you learn how cranberries are harvested. In the second half, there’s gorgeous HD slo-mo footage of wakeskating through a cranberry bog.

And with a Tycho soundtrack no less…it’s all too perfect. (via ★interesting)

[This is a vintage post originally from Sep 2013.]

Tags: food · how to · slow motion · sports · timeless posts · video

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• Jason Kottke

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat. “Contemporaneous accounts...

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat. “Contemporaneous accounts provide no evidence the Founding Fathers envisioned a role for the federal government in vanquishing this unholy entity from the face of the earth.”

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• Jason Kottke

Ok, this is a genuinely shocking thing to hear: “There is a...

Ok, this is a genuinely shocking thing to hear: “There is a new species of shark or shark relative (skate, ray, or chimera) discovered approximately every two weeks.” —shark expert David Shiffman

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• Jason Kottke

The Binary Game tests you on quickly converting numbers from binary to...

The Binary Game tests you on quickly converting numbers from binary to decimal and from decimal to binary, from 0 (00000000) to 255 (11111111). “Before long you’ll be doing these conversions in your head.” My son turned me onto this — it’s fun!

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• Jason Kottke

“New research documents accelerating plant growth on the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby...

“New research documents accelerating plant growth on the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands.” 8000 sq ft of vegetation 40 years ago has grown into 4.6 sq miles.

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• Jason Kottke

Ravioli and Other Ravioli-Shaped Objects

a grid of objects that are shaped like ravioli and whether you can eat them with a fork, rest your head on them, puncture and slurp, or install in your phone

From XKCD: Ravioli-Shaped Objects. See also The Cube Rule of Food, the Grand Unified Theory of Food Identification.

Tags: food · XKCD

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Accidental Tech Podcast

609: You’re the Oreo Cookie

02:02:14
🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Tier List: Storage Media 🗣️ Follow-up: Marco updates AutoSleep iPhone leather backs Suti PhoneBack Nomad Magnetic Leather Back HDR photos from big cameras Apple laptops can run without a battery connected XKCD: Ravioli-Shaped Obj...