Latest bookmarks (page 82 of 140)

"Book review: Linguistics in the Internet age charts a path from BBSes to T9 and beyond."

Interesting breakdown of the specific grievances cited in the Declaration of Independence. Remember, the preamble was only an introduction.

"Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech and/or braille."

"Scientists are using drones, bicycle power and a lot of ingenuity to test ways to plant trees in forests that have been decimated by wildfires."

"Hailed as one of the most significant archival discoveries of modern times, text seems to show the Paradise Lost poet making careful annotations on his edition of Shakespeare’s plays"

"first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves."

2020: "The landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act aims to keep aquifers healthy by requiring plans from newly formed local agencies. The policy represents a major shift, mandated by arguably the most important new California water law in 50 years. "

"Individuals can learn to use noise to “see” walls—if they can shift their heads to better track echoes"
A study on echolocation in humans.

Perspective on how social media works today:
"You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming, right? It’s a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is — by design — no graceful way to shut down. A program can only crash and try to recover from a crashed state, which might well be impossible. I came up with a term for the human version: beef-only thinking." "A beef-only thinker is someone you cannot simply talk to. Anything that is not an expression of pure, unqualified support for whatever they are doing or saying is received as a mark of disrespect, and a provocation to conflict. From there, you can only crash into honor-based conflict mode, or back away and disengage."