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How to Spot a Bad Study, 2019: "On a basic level, the study has flaws, namely that it makes written claims that are not supported by the numbers, images and other data reported in the study itself. This isn’t a situation where a research group made a controversial discovery, and other scientists simply disagree."

From 2019: "The screening was meant to identify those patients who would most benefit from the program. But the white patients flagged for enrollment had fewer chronic health conditions than the black patients who were flagged.
In other words, black patients had to reach a higher threshold of illness before they were considered for enrollment. Care was not actually going to those people who needed it most. Alarmingly, the algorithm was performing its task correctly. The problem was with how the task was defined."

Antarctica, total eclipse at the horizon with someone in the distance standing directly in front of it. Fred Bruenjes (moonglow.net)

Photo by Petr Horálek.
"The full Moon's nearly vertical descent results from the observer being near Earth's equator." Soneva Fushi Island in Maldives, bioluminescent plankton.

Found in 2018, dated to more than 2,400 years ago at the bottom of the Black Sea.
"Oxygen levels in the depths of the Black Sea are so low that marine life is virtually nonexistent, keeping the ship preserved."

Vintage Computer Festival. Website is designed to look like an old 8-bit menu screen.

Article from 13 1/2 years ago, still readable because the website's still around and hasn't deleted all of its archives.
"A 350 year old copy of Shakespeare is about as readable as a new one. But a 35 year old floppy? Preserving data is essential to digital civilization, but how? " "SIRF: Self-contained Information Retention Format. SIRF is the digital equivalent of a physical container that archivists already know how to manage. SIRF containers hold preservation objects, a catalog and an object that labels the SIRF container. "

2013 article and discussion on password-reset approaches and their drawbacks.
"(1) New password is sent to the email address on file (2) New password can be set after answering a couple of "Secret Questions" (3) New password is set after "authenticating" out-of-band (via phone or fax)"

"It is, she says, like living with a split screen: on the left side is the present, on the right is a constantly rolling reel of memories, each one sparked by the appearance of present-day stimuli. With so many memories always at the ready, Price says, it can be maddening: virtually anything she sees or hears can be a potential trigger."

The 2019 article in The New Yorker mixes up some of the terminology (IndieWeb is more specific than the way they use it here), but otherwise it’s a decent intro to decentralized social media and what makes it different from Facebook/Twitter/etc.