"I try to refrain from big-headedness. I don’t need gongs and honours. I only take them for my kids, for the way I abandoned them...
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2024
"We're a small team of one developer and one designer, so it can take months to launch big features. It's risky to invest months of...
"Spoiler alert: AI answers are still wrong far too often for you to rely on. But, armed with the _research_ Perplexity used to come up...
"According to TBS News Dig, Japan sees over 20,000 bath-related deaths every year. In 2011, 3.7 times more people died in their baths in Japan...
"Fifty percent of species could be lost by 2080 if humans do not curb greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation" #climate #extinction #science 🍜 If Humans...
"Culture shock is a constructive thing. It’s the growing pains of a broadening perspective. To me, there are two kinds of travel: There’s escape travel,...
"Taken together, the donations and other celebratory gestures showcase an industry kissing the ring of an incoming president in hopes of something in return, says...
"As Big Tech continues to deliver empty promises instead of solutions to social ills—while dodging taxes, quashing regulations and fueling a yawning pay inequality gap—the...
"It’s hard not to think about that inevitable moment when your children stop looking at you with fascination. When their eyes no longer light up...
"Nokia's factory setting ringtone -- the 1902 Gran Vals by Francisco Tárrega -- was so ubiquitous in the 1990s and 2000s that birds learned to...
"To improve the experience for our customers outside of the U.S., and especially in Europe, we recently added a data outpost in Amsterdam. The shorter...
"Perplexity _really_ understands complex questions." #perplexity #ai #search 🍜 Perplexity: Pros and Cons – Nitin Khanna https://www.nitinkhanna.com/perplexity-pros-and-cons/
"Liminal Spaces is a wallpaper set created while playing with different shapes, textures, patterns, and perspectives. Each wallpaper is a collage of varying design and...
"In one of the most egregious examples, dozens of farmers from India were described in their visa documents as Bollywood filmmakers." #poland #visa #eu #corruption...
"Vrai AI aims to do the same AI-based detection for counterfeit medicines, which are linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, according to...
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"the home is the most dangerous place for women and girls." #women #violence 🍜 An average of 140 women and girls were killed by a...
"It comes with a certificate of authenticity and installation instructions for owners to replace the banana — if they wish — whenever it rots." #art...
"The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships...
"In several areas of the city, pollution levels were more than 50 times higher than the World Health Organization’s recommended safe limit." #india #pollution #health...
"I will keep using Bluesky and Mastodon for now. I find interesting content on both. But I will not live under the illusion that Bluesky...