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"In the 90s, MIT's Athena system devised a system known as 'stopit' to handle online harrassment. One feature of the system was that the notice of reported abusive behaviour sent to the accused began with the phrase "Someone using your account...""

"Spoon theory is about what you have to give. Fork theory is about what you can take. A useful tool for neurodivergence."

"Until now, Japanese phone carrier Docomo has most often been widely credited as the originator of what we know as emoji today. It turns out, that might not be the case..."

Works with MC 1.14, hasn't been updated since 2019.

"A fascinating survey details the migration patterns of pop-culture obsessives."

API standard for connecting websites to payment processors.

Someone's trying to get automated micropayments going again.

95% of wildfires in CA have a human origin, most of them unintentional. ("Only" 10% are arson.) Power lines of course, but also things like driving on a bare wheel after a tire blowout, parking in dry grass (the tailpipe can be hot enough to set it off), leaving a campfire unattended, burning your camping trash, gender reveal fireworks, even pounding a metal stake with a metal hammer have sparked fires that burned out of control.
And most recently, pushing a burning car into a ravine. (Why???)

"They found that many of the changes led to the underperformance of a protein called aryl hydrocarbon receptor, or AHR.
This protein helps to control cells’ responses to threats like pollutants and bacteria. If the AHR isn’t operating properly, the body can overproduce immune cells called T peripheral helper cells which can then attack healthy cells."