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"A new study found evidence that income inequality and historic redlining affect the types of birds people experience across Los Angeles County."

"Ever wonder why your emails look bad in Outlook? Learn about outlook email rendering and display issues you may face + how to fix them for email perfection."
Top issue: Outlook 2007-2019 for Windows render emails using Word instead of Trident or Edge.

From 2012. It's only gotten worse.

Round-up of different factions debating AI and what the actual risks are.
"Some are concerned about far-future risks that sound like science fiction. Some are genuinely alarmed by the practical problems that chatbots and deepfake video generators are creating right now. Some are motivated by potential business revenue, others by national security concerns."

Privacy-focused phone running /e/OS and with *physical kill switches* for camera/microphone and network connection

"They're not in the UI, but you can use URL tricks to search for combinations of tags, categories, authors, and so on."

"We don’t have a Web of Documents anymore."
"These days, the WWW is mostly a Web of Applications. An application is a broader concept: it can display text or images, but also lets you interact not just with itself, but with the world at large. And that’s all well and good, as long as you consciously intend these interactions to happen."

"Less about what comes in the box [today] and more about what you get over the years."
"Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one."

"The small, standout Pixel has only gotten better with time."