Latest bookmarks (page 14 of 134)

"Twitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people. This isn't just a matter of who's in charge; it's a problem with the thing itself. Forcing users to adhere to a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters, encouraging conflict by discouraging tags, and leaving users powerless to clean up the resulting mess—all of this is bad shape. "

"Global EV sales surged to 1.7 million units in March, marking an impressive 40% leap from February, according to new data from Rho Motion."
Basically EV sales are up across the industry...except for Tesla.

"Perhaps the darkest day in the Torrance Refinery’s long history came on Monday, Dec. 3, 1979 — 50 years after it first opened."
Subscriber-only article

Samsung Galaxy Tab S2
Model: SM-T710 (wifi) - gts28wifi - 8.0" screen, Exynos 5433 SoC, no LTE

"LOST took inspiration from Stephen King, the Bible, science, and more -- here's how these themes can lead to a deeper understanding of the series."

From 2010. I wonder how much of it is still relevant?

"A rocket scientist couldn't figure out Windows. That's why the Start menu was invented — based on research with chimpanzees."

A believer in psychic powers asks a skeptic this question. 10 seconds later the skeptic suggests:
"Everyone leaves the room but the blind man. He takes a picture of himself, and holds up a number of fingers (1 to 5) at random. The sighted person comes back into the room, looks at the picture and says “you were holding up X fingers”." Simple. Repeat with various different constraints and you'll have your proof. Now apply the same standards to psychic powers.

"The practical utility of open source software has become mainstream.  The time is ripe to reinforce the deeper ethos of participation, opportunity, security and choice that drove the open source movement.  "

Prop and set design, from electronic clipboards in TOS to the PADD starting in TNG, including remarks from designers Michael and Denise Okuda and Doug Drexler.