Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls but left them unreadable. A volunteer army of nerds has been racing to decipher them.
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The Accidental Journal
I’m bad at journaling, and I’ve never been able to maintain a diary. I recognize the value in those practices, and related exercises like “morning pages.
These Words Make it Obvious That Your Text is Written By AI
James Presbitero Jr. Have you ever read an article that made you say “This was made by AI”?
Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list
With the ReiserFS recently considered obsolete and slated for removal from the Linux kernel entirely, Fredrick R.
How social media algorithms ‘flatten’ our culture by making decisions for us
If you opened Facebook, Twitter or Instagram about a decade ago, you’d likely see posts from friends and family, in chronological order. Nowadays, users are hit with a barrage of content curated by an algorithm. Passionate about plants? Sports? Cats? Politics? That’s what you’re going to see.
How the meandering legal definition of ‘fair use’ cost us Napster but gave us Spotify
From DMCA takedowns to Content ID filters, record labels continue to crack down on online music sharing.
The hidden culprit driving America’s apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts
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A storefront for robots
Jennifer Dziura has two blogs: one for humans and one for robots. Originally on her personal site Get Bullish, Dziura shared career advice, discussed being a female business owner, and answered questions about dealing with difficult co-workers and racist family members.
Dr. Richard Moriarty, Creator of ‘Mr. Yuk,’ Has Died
Dr. Richard Moriarty, founder of the Pittsburgh Poison Center and creator of the familiar Mr. Yuk icon, died yesterday at the age of 83. His death comes a little more than a month after I wrote about a beer league hockey team in Pittsburgh called — with Moriarty’s blessing — the Mighty Yuks.