Latest bookmarks (page 47 of 132)

30 Aug 2024 www.atlasobscura.com
"Together, Smith and Graves risked travel unchaperoned, often donning men’s clothing and cowboy hats. In their photos, they can be seen joyfully handling cameras, guns, and kingsnakes, while at the same time capturing on film all the wilderness they encountered."
30 Aug 2024 gizmodo.com
"I’ve been thinking about how to say this for a long time now — I love time travel stories, but I don’t love the kind of time travel stories where everything falls into place and you realize that the rubber duckie at the beginning of the story was actually put there by the guy at the end of the story."
28 Aug 2024 www.kcrw.com
"Just like cremation is a euphemism for body incineration, terramation simply means composting human remains. The big selling point: It’s a natural process that creates almost no pollution."
28 Aug 2024 spectrum.ieee.org
"It turns out that Benjamin Franklin was on to something in 1747"
28 Aug 2024 omarshehata.substack.com
"My rewrite of Scott Alexander's "Janus' Simulators" about the nature of LLM's"
27 Aug 2024 www.washingtonpost.com
"The “DC Comics Style Guide,” created in 1982, streamlined how DC’s characters appeared on merchandise. The collector’s item is now being reissued."
23 Aug 2024 ivonblog.com
Another PineTab2 user's setup, using GNOME and Phosh for desktop and tablet use via Danctnix Arch.