Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria…

Lately, I’ve had several occasions to reconsider what I read and how and why I take notes. I’ve been constantly refining the process, getting rid of everything that’s unnecessary,…

The introduction of gin to England was a delirious and deleterious affair, as tipplers reported a range of effects: loss of reason, frenzy, madness, joy, and death. With the help of prints by George Cruikshank, William Hogarth, and others, James Brown enters…

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A group of environmental activists in France is gaining traction with a bold argument: Cruises shouldn’t exist.

Months after a military officer made sensational claims about unexplained objects in the skies, NASA released a report loosely outlining a scientific approach for analyzing UAP reports.

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Paved Paradise recounts parking’s pivotal history, exposing its environmental, economic, and social impacts.

Collective letter from game development companies: Turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization until new conditions are reviewed We are the collective voice of the game development industry—developers, game designers, artists, and business minds.…

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A newly released bodycam video from the Seattle Police Department (SPD) shows what appears to be two officers conversing and making light of an incident...

French supermarket chain Carrefour has slapped price warnings on products ranging from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea to pressure suppliers such as Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever to cut their prices.

Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'

I am the most senior technical employee at a small company providing software as a service to other businesses.
The company only has about 10 employees, so one of the directors does a lot of the sa...

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Let’s Encrypt helps to protect a huge portion of the Web by providing TLS certificates to more than 235 million websites. A database is at the heart of how Let’s Encrypt manages certificate issuance. If this database isn’t performing well enough, it can cause…