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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell Updates instantly via WebSub

Let’s Tie All Planets Together

Let’s Tie All Planets Together
Let’s Tie All Planets Together
What if we tied all the planets together with one giant rope? Their different speeds, spins, and the Sun itself would quickly turn the Solar System into chaos. Let’s go! #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #whatif #physics #planets So...

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Global News Podcast

US: 'achievable objectives' in Iran in four to six weeks

28:27
President Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, didn't give details of what these objectives were. But she said that when the goals of the war were realised, "Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender, whether they say it themselves or not". We hear...

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Quoting Ally Piechowski

Questions for developers:

  • “What’s the one area you’re afraid to touch?”
  • “When’s the last time you deployed on a Friday?”
  • “What broke in production in the last 90 days that wasn’t caught by tests?”

Questions for the CTO/EM:

  • “What feature has been blocked for over a year?”
  • “Do you have real-time error visibility right now?”
  • “What was the last feature that took significantly longer than estimated?”

Questions for business stakeholders:

  • “Are there features that got quietly turned off and never came back?”
  • “Are there things you’ve stopped promising customers?”

— Ally Piechowski, How to Audit a Rails Codebase

Tags: technical-debt, software-engineering, rails

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Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorship Openings

daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/

Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling them back in 2007. They’ve succeeded, I think, because they make everyone happy. They generate good money. There’s only one sponsor per week and the sponsors are always r...

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These Are the People in This Neighborhood

Can’t stop, won’t stop. On the heels of the refreshed Rolodex from earlier in the week, I’ve pushed another “Just Enough Social” feature to the site: members bios & profile pics. Here’s what that looks like: Members can find a link to their profile by 1) clicking on y...

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Google’s Threat Intelligence Group on Coruna, a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit of Mysterious Origin

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/coruna-powerful-ios-exploit-kit

Google Threat Intelligence Group, earlier this week: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new and powerful exploit kit targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS version 13.0 (released in September 2019) up to version 17.2.1 (released in December 2023)...

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‘The Window Chrome of Our Discontent’

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Nick Heer, writing at Pixel Envy, uses Pages (from 2009 through today) to illustrate Apple’s march toward putting “greater focus on your content” by making window chrome, and toolbar icons, more and more invisible: Perhaps Apple has some user studies that suggest otherwi...

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: There's a Catch

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: There's a Catch
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: There's a Catch

The price is the most "ultra" thing about the S26 Ultra MKBHD Merch: http://MKBHD.com Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: https://geni.us/6Bh61 (Affiliate Link) Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5 Phone provided by Samsung for review. ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD http://instagram.com/MKBHD http://facebook.com/MKBHD

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Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...

Lots of great defecation physics here: “66 percent of animals take between 5 and 19 seconds to defecate. It’s a…small range, given that elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog’s, at 10 milliliters.”

Dan’s Polaroids

06.03.2026

The river Rhine in Bonn. In sunshine. A plant in the forefround, a bridge in the back.
The Rhine in Bonn.

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The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...

The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. Enrollment is now open; the class will deal with questions like “Which regimes are using this tournament to launder their reputations?”

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SETI might be missing alien signals because...

SETI might be missing alien signals because “stellar ‘space weather’ may blur ultra-narrow radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations before they leave their home star systems”. SETI usually looks for “extremely sharp frequency spikes”.

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The Verge Interviews Tim Sweeney After Victory in ‘Epic v. Google’

theverge.com/23996474/epic-tim-sweeney-interview-win-google-antitrust-lawsuit-district-court

The Verge: Sean Hollister: What would you say the differences are between the Apple and Google cases? Tim Sweeney: I would say Apple was ice and Google was fire. The thing with Apple is all of their antitrust trickery is internal to the company. They use their store, t...

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Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right to Criticize Google’s Play Store Until 2032

theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge: But Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. It’s right there in a binding term sheet for his settlement with Google. On March 3rd, he not only signed away Epic’s rights to sue and disparage the company over anything covered in the ...

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Anthropic and the Pentagon

Anthropic and the Pentagon

This piece by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders is the most thoughtful and grounded coverage I've seen of the recent and ongoing Pentagon/OpenAI/Anthropic contract situation.

AI models are increasingly commodified. The top-tier offerings have about the same performance, and there is little to differentiate one from the other. The latest models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, in particular, tend to leapfrog each other with minor hops forward in quality every few months. [...]

In this sort of market, branding matters a lot. Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei, are positioning themselves as the moral and trustworthy AI provider. That has market value for both consumers and enterprise clients.

Tags: bruce-schneier, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, ai-ethics

Global News Podcast

Trump demands Iran's unconditional surrender

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President Trump says there will be no deal with Iran, only unconditional surrender, as the US and Israel continue their bombardment of Tehran and other Iranian cities. The Iranian authorities say more than 1,200 people have been killed since attacks began last Saturday. In ...

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“For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad”

Here’s a gem from the archive of the NY Times. One day in September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhattan Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Colonel, then estranged from the company he founded, strolled into the kitchen afte...

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The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of...

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects, including Egyptian temples, Greek oil flasks, van Gogh paintings, and cuneiform tablets.

Radiolab Updates instantly via WebSub
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Snail Sex Tape

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In this episode, we consider a creature we often don’t think much about—the snail. And not just snails, but their sex lives. Which, as it turns out, is epic. There is persuasion and subterfuge, spaghetti penises and co-copulation. And this very surprising habit—erm kink—of m...