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How to grow strawberries
buttondown.com · 29 people Worth reading
Feels so good to have a studio again. This week’s question comes to us from Anthea Tawia: I came to San Francisco to visit the company I work for—sadly I was...
"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.
They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."
(Original title: How to grow strawberries)
— @tante · Mar 02
Welcome (back) to Macintosh
take.surf · 27 people Worth reading
For at least 10 years, every Time Machine set up I have been in charge of, or tasked with maintaining for someone else, has eventually run into an issue where it stops backing up successfully. The only solution has been to start over, to not inherit backup state and to manually delete the old bac...
Jesper writes, in Welcome (back) to Macintosh, of his hope that Apple can “refocus its software and its humility too.” I don’t want to quote the best parts — just go read it if you haven’t yet.
— @brentsimmons · Mar 02
New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
sciencedaily.com · 62 people
Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—its acidity and high hydrogen peroxide levels—the tiny iron-based structure sparks not one bu...
> Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—its acidity and high hydrogen peroxide levels—the tiny iron-based structure sparks not one but two intense chemical reactions, flooding tumors with cell-damaging oxygen molecules. This dual attack overwhelms cancer cells with oxidative stress while sparing healthy tissue.
🎉
— @rysiek · Mar 02
Pokémon Pokopia is an expansive adventure disguised as a cozy life sim
theverge.com · 5 people Worth reading
Get ready to put that Ditto to work.
Pokémon Pokopia is an expansive adventure disguised as a cozy life sim
— @verge · Mar 02
Intelligent Life of Earth
existentialcomics.com · 8 people
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
Intelligent Life on Earth -
— @existentialcomics · Mar 02
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
sightlessscribbles.com · 8 people Worth reading
A fabulously gay blind author.
just had a very cathartic cry reading this
— @luna · Mar 02
Every Car Made After 2008 Has the Same Digital Security Risk
thedrive.com · 7 people
A recent study highlighted the cybersecurity risk in tire pressure monitoring systems—and it's not the first time this has come up.
Technology is so convenient for inadvertently destroying digital privacy.
— @JohnSullivan · Mar 02
Landmark consultation seeks views on major measures to protect children on social media, gaming platforms and AI chatbots
gov.uk · 11 people
Government launches a landmark consultation on UK children's digital wellbeing, covering social media age bans, curfews, AI chatbots and gaming.
# Landmark consultation seeks views on major measures to protect children on social media, gaming platforms and AI chatbots
With the Online Safety Act in place for only a short period, the UK government is consulting on more "online safety" measures.
Including, it seems, a digital "overnight curfew" for children.
— @neil · Mar 02
Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm
juancole.com · 7 people Worth reading
In the effort to keep GDP growing, many products are made to be used only once, to go out of style, or to break after minimal use
"Human activity has grown to challenge planetary limits, yet the official solution to any problem that arises is to grow more. Like fish unable to live anywhere but in water, our leaders find it hard to imagine any way of life outside the Growth paradigm. Production and consumption, income and expenditure define our lives."
— @gerrymcgovern · Mar 02
America Needs to Prepare for Elon Musk Like He's a State-Sponsored Cyber Attack
thefarce.org · 16 people
His anti-virtue approach: scramble, divide, conquer.
America Needs to Prepare for Elon Musk Like He's a State-Sponsored Cyber Attack
My look at what we must do to prepare, knowing that Musk is going to supercharge the social-engineering fuckery that helped Trump win 2024, and there's no one who is going to stop him. Except us.
— @lolgop · Mar 01
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