The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. We’re…

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

The auction will support the medium that brought the Joy of Painting host's creativity into US homes for decades, Bob Ross Inc says.

After the news cycle recently exploded with the announcement that Google would require every single Android app to be from a registered and verified developer, while killing third-party app stores …

A quick cli noscript to tell you if your usb-c cable is bad

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

TiVo, the digital video recording pioneer, has moved on from its legacy DVR technology, focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches and recommendation, including free ad-supported streaming options and…

by John Allen PaulosElection season has put an increased focus on the stock market, but little attention is ever paid to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (the

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology hard drives.

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hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry