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Moroccan journalist targeted with network injection attacks using NSO Group’s tools ~tech privacy Article 4515 words 2 votes
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OpenMW 0.46.0 released (FOSS engine for TES:III Morrowind) ~games Article 4398 words, published Jun 15 2020 8 votes
Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter ~tech social media Article 4080 words 7 votes
Time to upgrade your monitor - Optimizing a display setup for programming ~comp Article 4239 words 14 votes
The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime ~humanities.history Article 8171 words 8 votes
Jurassic Park dinosaurs illustrated with modern science ~science biology.paleo Article 5979 words 9 votes
Confessions of a former bastard cop - An essay by a former police officer on why police are like this ~life Article 5462 words 29 votes
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Jet stream: Is climate change causing more ‘blocking’ weather events? ~enviro climate change Article 3278 words 5 votes
The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely ~science biology.marine Article 3049 words 8 votes
"My Immortal" as alchemical allegory ~humanities religion philosophy Article 7098 words, published May 27 2020 9 votes
Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages ~humanities.history Article 12 972 words 11 votes
Bandcamp is waiving their fee on sales today, with many artists and labels having special releases, discounts, or donating their own proceeds ~music Link 16 votes
"Pursuit as Happiness", a previously unpublished short story by Ernest Hemingway ~books short stories Article 5986 words 5 votes
Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science ~science biology.paleo Article 5698 words 11 votes
Bitcoin mining's three-body problem - An analysis of the three principal forces that drive the mining industry ~finance cryptocurrency Article 5436 words 8 votes
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on ~humanities.history Article 14 406 words, published Jun 3 2014 32 votes
Farming and selling gold in RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive their country's economic crisis ~games Article 3917 words, published May 27 2020 7 votes
The definitive history of Commander, Magic: The Gathering's most popular format ~games.tabletop card games Article 3008 words, published May 28 2020 5 votes
Spend some time down the rabbit hole of author-as-gameshow contestant, from Herman Wouk to John le Carré ~books Article 3776 words, published May 28 2020 3 votes
Making a SNES game in 2020 - The story of building Yo-Yo Shuriken, including designing and developing the game itself with modern tools and manufacturing a physical cartridge release ~comp Article 6187 words 4 votes
Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists ~science sociology Article 4578 words 7 votes
What an economic liberal and conservative learned from their friendship ~life Article 2695 words 5 votes
Frames of consciousness - Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on? ~science Article 3786 words, published May 18 2020 4 votes
Wise thoughts: Summaries of classic philosophical works in words of one syllable ~humanities philosophy Article 5962 words 7 votes
Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way ~transport Article 3534 words 6 votes
"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967 ~humanities.history Article 5844 words 9 votes
From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, nine-year-old dreams of becoming youngest Grandmaster ~games.tabletop Article 3539 words, published May 5 2020 6 votes
The Black American amputation epidemic ~health healthcare Article 7462 words, published May 19 2020 7 votes
The new theatrics of remote therapy. How does treatment change when your patients are on a screen? ~health.mental Article 4857 words 3 votes
Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work ~life Article 3129 words 13 votes