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" 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."

With just about every major web browser integrating some sort of "AI," this site decided it's easier to list web browsers *without* it. At this point it's just Vivaldi and Orion.

Every page of every issue of Byte Magazine, mapped visually

"In retrospect, one can’t be surprised that the first experiment to carefully examine the aether failed to find it. But it would be extremely surprising if, after decades of experimental verification, quarks were shown not to exist. In addition, as disciplines grow older and bigger, they end up naturally absorbing people with minority points of view. So instead of entire disciplines executing a U-turn, these minority beliefs shift and twist while becoming acceptable to the majority."