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May 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report
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Meta
May 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report | Meta
We’re sharing information about the two networks we removed in May as part of our regular CIB reports.
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Etymology of the Word “Lord”
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etymonline
Lord - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
"master of a household, ruler, feudal lord, superior; husband," also "God," translating… See origin and meaning of lord.
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1992: Silverwolf
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50 Years of Text Games
1992: Silverwolf
In 1985, a mysterious group of women calling themselves the "Games Mistresses" released the first of a series of text adventure games. The story behind their creation is the wildest one you'll read today.
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The SO_LINGER page, or: why is my TCP not reliable (2009)
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Diabetes Drug Metformin Reduces All-Cause Mortality and Diseases of Aging (2017)
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PubMed
Metformin reduces all-cause mortality and diseases of ageing independent of its effect on diabetes control: A systematic review…
This systematic review investigated whether the insulin sensitiser metformin has a geroprotective effect in humans. Pubmed and Embase were searched along with databases of unpublished studies. Eligible research investigated the effect of metformin on all…
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Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time
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University of Oxford
Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time
Physicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery revealed today. An extraordinarily precise measurement made by Oxford
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Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
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Blogspot
Silent data corruptions at scale
This paper from Facebook (Arxiv Feb 2021) is referred in the Google fail-silent Corruption Execution Errors (CEEs) paper as the most relat...
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As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
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The Atlantic
America Without God
As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea?
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Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython
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Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game
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Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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The Verge
Apple admits why its own Files app was ranked first when users searched for competitor Dropbox
"Who green lit putting the Files app above Dropbox"
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Bitcoin Is Traceable, Pipeline Investigation Shows
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NY Times
Pipeline Investigation Upends Idea That Bitcoin Is Untraceable (Published 2021)
The F.B.I.’s recovery of Bitcoins paid in the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack showed cryptocurrencies are not as hard to track as it might seem.
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Making invisible glue code first-class
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Metaobject
Glue: the Dark Matter of Software
"Software seems 'large' and 'complicated' for what it does". I keep coming back to this quote by Alan Kay. The same feeling has been na...
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California homeowners made more money in equity than workers made in income
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Twitter
sam deutsch
the average California homeowner made more money in equity last year than the average California worker made in income. seems bad imo, but it's no wonder private equity is trying to get into the market-it's quite profitable! twitter.com/heidigroover/s…
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The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020)
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Medium
The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format
A reflection on assumptions & product failure
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The code on the laptop in the stock photo at
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is user-editable
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Andrew Taylor
The pretend code on the laptop screen in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable. twitter.com/JillWohlner/st…
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Twitch: Lessons Learned
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Twitter
Emmett Shear
In honor of the 10th anniversary of launching Twitch, I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way. Each of these insights could probably be expanded into an essay, of course. Like the ones you would want me to expand on in the future.
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Roger Waters rejects endorsing Instagram after direct ask from Zuckerberg
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BitChute
Roger Waters Says "Fuck You" to Mark Zuckerberg
Roger Waters was offered "a large amount of money" to allow the use of "Another Brick in the Wall - Part II” to promote a film about Instagram.
Waters detests vehemently Zuckerberg's censorship. The tech giant prevents the story of Julian Assange…
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Comic Mono – a legible monospace font
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GitHub
GitHub - dtinth/comic-mono-font: A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood
A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood - dtinth/comic-mono-font
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Scientists find second ‘short sleep’ gene (2019)
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UCSF
After 10-Year Search, Scientists Find Second ‘Short Sleep’ Gene
UCSF scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” have discovered a second.
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A few thoughts on Fuchsia security
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blog.cr0.org
A few thoughts on Fuchsia security
I want to say a few words about my current adventure. I joined the Fuchsia project at its inception and worked on the daunting task of buil...
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