Linked List: November 2024
Saturday, 30 November 2024
- Acknowledgement of uncertainty ✶
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Jon Udell, writing in 2021:
The best way to improve news literacy may be the SIFT method advocated by Mike Caulfield, which shifts attention away from intrinsic properties of individual news stories and advises readers to:
- Stop
- Investigate the source
- Find better coverage
- Trace claims, quotes, and media to original context
“The goal of SIFT,” writes Charlie Warzel in Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole, “isn’t to be the arbiter of truth but to instill a reflex that asks if something is worth one’s time and attention and to turn away if not.”
Friday, 29 November 2024
- The user experience of Lego interface panels ✶
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My favorite Lego parts, other than the minifigures.
Via Daring Fireball.
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
- Daily global composite satellite map ✶
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Amazing. Here’s how it’s made.
Saturday, 23 November 2024
- Nuenki ✶
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Learn a language while procrastinating on the web.
- The Last Thanks ✶
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Photograph by MacArthur Fellow Wendy Redstar.
- Uxn ✶
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The Uxn/Varvara ecosystem is a personal computing stack based on a small virtual machine that lies at the heart of our software, and that allows us to run the same application on a variety of systems … Uxn is programmable in its own unique language, and the distribution of Uxn programs is akin to sharing game roms for classic console emulators.
Friday, 22 November 2024
- Ingenuity (helicopter) ✶
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Click on the animated helo-drone in the above Google search results page for a nice Easter egg. Use arrow keys for flight control.
- Operation Sol Raxxla ✶
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There’s a new hypothesis that Raxxla, an easter egg supposedly hidden in Elite for over a decade, is in Neptune’s moon Triton in the Sol System.
If you have a Sol system permit in the game consider helping find out if the hypothesis is true by doing your bit.
There’s measurable progress already, and when I transmitted this information to Cmdr Schippah, I received the following reply:
Blinking lights in the background.
A soft humming springs to life followed by a hissing sound, decompression of a pneumatic nature. The sliding of a door, footsteps on a metal surface in the dark.
A short silence ensues.
With a short intense burst the sound goes from a soft humming to a pronounced metallic purr.
Reactor… online
Life support… online
Engines… online
Shields… online
Weapons systems… online“Computer, commence interstellar communications. Open a channel to Hypertexthero.”
“Message as follows:”
“Greetings commander, It’s about time.”
“End message”
“And computer,”
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“Action stations.”
Friday, 15 November 2024
- Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update ✶
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Never played Valve’s second classic? Get Half-Life 2 and its sequel episodes for free on Steam until November 18th. And try clicking on the grav-gun on the bottom of the page and then clicking on any page element :)
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
- Enlightened Imagination For Citizens ✶
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Alan Kay:
In our world, we have enough power to topple our most important systems, but not the power to restore most of them.
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
- Learning in depth ✶
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One of the great paradoxes of education is that only when one knows something deeply can one recognize how little one actually knows.
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In her portfolio is a beautiful large sheet on which she had written, almost like a medieval manuscript, a copy of W. B. Yeats’s poem “The song of Wandering Aengus,” with an illustrations of the ‘glimmering girl / With apple blossom in her hair’ and of Wandering Aengus who had looked for her for so long, and thinking when he had found her that they would pluck ‘till time and times were done / the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.’
- Don’t Be a Sucker ✶
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Scope & Content: Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. Reel 1 shows a fake wrestling match and “crooked” gambling games. An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces one man in the audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2, a German unemployed worker joins Hitler’s Storm Troops. SS men attack Jewish and Catholic headquarters in Germany, and beat up a Jewish storekeeper. A German teacher explains Nazi racial theories; the teacher is dragged away by German soldiers.
Via Armin Ronacher.
- Booklets ✶
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Print, cut, fold, staple. Drop off at a little library, big library, bus stop, coffee shop, laundromat, workplace, dentist’s office, the mailbox of your crush…
Friday, 8 November 2024
- 1933 and the Definition of Fascism ✶
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Ancient and military historian Bret C. Devereaux:
And if hearing about these things that happened is unpleasant, well, Polybius offers the solution: “men have no more ready corrective of conduct than knowledge of the past” (Plb. 1.1.1). We must correct our conduct.