Friday, 17 May 2024
quote [ Beyond misunderstanding its iPad consumer base, Apple’s infamous “Crush” ad deeply misunderstands the role of the hydraulic press in meme culture. ]
Can I have my iPad please
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Thursday, 16 May 2024
quote [ While Friedrich Nietzsche popularised the notion of an “eternal return” — in which one’s life would occur again, forever, exactly as it did before — the concept was itself a repetition. Claire Hall explores various shades of this idea in ancient philosophy, from Pythagorean metempsychosis to Stoic predictions about a cosmological reset. ]
Locked in an eternal recurrence, we are the wanton servants
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Wednesday, 15 May 2024
quote [ From 1998 to 2018, the CDC documented more than 200 illness outbreaks traced to raw milk, which sickened more than 2,600 people and hospitalized more than 225. ]
And raw whole milk that's nature's treat
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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
quote [ What does it feel like to lose, and then rediscover, the game of tennis? Photographer Josh Skinner takes the shots. Writer Peter Short returns the serve. ]
Let's go down to the tennis court and talk it up like, yeah (yeah)
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Monday, 13 May 2024
quote [ A new course at University of Hawaii at Manoa rethinks historic preservation, having enrollees design digital twins of notable structures so that people can experience them virtually ]
The historic building is overgrown with ivy
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Sunday, 12 May 2024
quote [ From the Midwest to a tiny town in Italy, the tradition of weather-predicting onions lives on. ]
And can go serve an onion
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Saturday, 11 May 2024
quote [ The experiment takes so long, two of the people running it died before seeing a drop. ]
Remember seeing this on a school trip to the science museum, the person in charge spun a story about how no one had ever seen it drop at the time how there were ghost stories and wild nights with storms.
Impush young me suggested a camera and he said that was in the planning stages.
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quote [ It's unclear what caused the retraction or how many threads have become displaced. ]
Neuralink hacking ur own brain
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Friday, 10 May 2024
quote [ Inside the hunt for habitable planets. ]
There are other earths
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quote [ it appears to him, in hindsight at least, as though Apple was cynically leveraging premium titles like the Apple Design Award–winning Monument Valley to build the iPhone’s reputation in the 2010s. ]
Interesting retrospective, same for some of the earliwr indie hits on PC, I guess.
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