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"The “debate me bro” playbook is simple and effective: demand that serious people engage with your conspiracy theories or extremist talking points. If they decline, cry “censorship!” and claim they’re “afraid of the truth.” If they accept, turn the interaction into a performance designed to generate viral clips and false legitimacy. It’s a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose proposition that has nothing to do with genuine intellectual discourse."

"China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool"
Apparently Microsoft hasn't followed up on their own experiment, though they considered it a success.

2017: "Microsoft wants to submerge data centers to keep them cool and to harvest energy from the sea"
I should look up whether this approach panned out at all.

" I rewatched a few of his earlier movies, including his sweeping 2006 documentary about Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke. More than any other event of the 21st century—including 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis—Katrina is the catastrophe that best illuminates the dark path that has led us to 2025. To this day, no one can pin down exactly who or what was to blame for the disaster and its even more disastrous response; the failure was total and multilayered. And, as Lee's documentary made plain, it was the moment when Americans realized that their country was capable of fully abandoning them, even in their time of greatest need."

"Parity is a public LICENSE for software that requires users who build with your software to share their work with the community, too."

"From Orbital Mechanics, a visualization of the 2153 nuclear weapons exploded on Earth since 1945."

How to use Calibre and its plugins, plug Calibre-Web and Tailscale, to build a personal ebook library safe from DRM-induced deletion and sync it with a Kobo eReader.

Similar to Poppl Laudatio Condensed, the font used for the Debian logo.

"Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans"

"Connecting and sharing the appearances that tell the stories of encounters between notable people and historical figures."