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Have you tried unplugging and plugging yourself back in again?

A conversation with David Zvi Kalman

3 months ago 43 votes
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5 months ago 39 votes
So you want to escape the algorithm

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6 months ago 107 votes
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6 months ago 68 votes
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And around we go... Making We're So Over, We're So Back

The process of making an single purpose art PC that uses an aluminum casting as the radiator for a water-cooling loop.

8 hours ago 3 votes
Tasks and projects

School is a training ground for task-based thinking. “Will this be on the test?” You finish your homework and then you can go out and play. This is one reason educators are flummoxed by chatGPT–it upsets the calibrated balance of effort in the task of homework and essays. The essay was not the point, the […]

15 hours ago 2 votes
Revisit One of the Most Polarizing Albums in Rock History: Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Which Came Out 50 Years Ago

Fifty years ago this month, Lou Reed nearly destroyed his own career with one double album. Metal Machine Music sold 100,000 copies during the three weeks of summer 1975 between its release and its removal from the market. More than a few of the many buyers who promptly returned it would have been expecting something […]

16 hours ago 2 votes
On reading the Terms of Service

Should you have to? I made a mistake. I used a QR code service a year ago, and now that my year’s payment is up, they’re going to delete the code. It turns out I wasn’t buying what they promised, and the fine print of their terms of service back them up. I won’t be […]

3 hours ago 2 votes
How Jackie Chan Filmed the Best Fight Scene in Cinema History

Though now in his seventies, Jackie Chan continues to appear on the big screen with regularity. For most world-famous actors, that’s hardly notable, but it’s not as if Sir John Gielgud, say, had spent decades filming scenes of hand-to-hand combat and sustaining severe injuries in the performance of elaborate stunts. Viewers of New Police Story […]

2 days ago 4 votes