Kottke is a great curator; here's 52 interesting things he learned last year https://t.co/RRYh2K6hU4

Is there a name for this particular style of abstract chonky people art? I do not care for it 😣 (screenshot from gmail app on iOS) https://t.co/g6oQwLusmT

Let’s make them all come true 🍀🤞 https://t.co/fx7hFxqvjI

The App Store circa 1978. https://t.co/2kwwJPUNXC

reject spotify. embrace tradition. https://t.co/7VHFowGXrM

“We don’t do vaccines,” he told Fox News in an interview last year after he quit, referring to himself and his family. “We don’t do flu shots or any of that stuff.” as it turns out, actions have consequences https://t.co/NysLZPBEOP

Crows are amazing birds. So smart. https://t.co/HQHgqHOVd6

I wonder how many more years until Quora inevitably packs it in and gives up? I mean, they gave up internally years ago..

Freud reveals a few tips about successful lecturing. https://t.co/btTeOD5s0b

We live in dangerous times… https://t.co/MrWxOUSoQN

@oconnerj88 see my other link about the lack of new births. We are a rapidly greying population. Look at Japan's demographics. Stark. We're all going there (except Africa).

genetics tl;dr http://t.co/NFxLM6p8

@codinghorror Read this:
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I did not see this one coming: "The new-music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs." https://t.co/TBMP8p17bU

Once a problem far in the future, the population crisis is arriving earlier than expected after the Covid baby bust. 📉 Popu…

"These guidelines allow podcasters to say the vaccines cause death — not that they are *designed* to cause death. Similarly, they allow podcasters to say wearing a mask is ineffective, not that wearing masks will *cause* imminent, life-threatening harm." https://t.co/FrxLwXluWa

For anyone you know who thinks the data show that COVID19 vaxes aren't effective. https://t.co/4I95eADlm4

Antiques Roadshow: NFT Edition https://t.co/3kPgiDGY8L

I have some issues with this article. The kind of fearmongering around "'zero-click' attacks, which deliver spyware simply by sending a message to a user’s phone that produces no notification. Users do not even need to touch their phones for infection." https://t.co/tlpOFdP6sn

rewilding your attention by @pomeranian99 https://t.co/JWHiX03r6u

Canadian photographer Francois Brunell searches and photographs similar people, but who are not related to each other. H…

Podcasts are mostly kryptonite to me, but man.. this one with Dolly Parton is sorely tempting https://t.co/FEo0gZkGMI

The latest data on happiness from the General Social Survey is truly something else. Nothing remotely like it in the past f…

I just got another Yankee Flipper bird feeder, last time I had one was ~2001, and I am literally *giddy* with excitement and anticipation https://t.co/irwV2wBgTA

#Ransomware https://t.co/YpDxbT2eKy

TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation https://t.co/A6NkW9N4ny

Nice try printer. Nice try https://t.co/Uvg90P2Td2

We released @discourse 2.8 "Audion" today! Check out all the cool new features, totally 🆓 and 100% open source, as always: https://t.co/weJkk9i2SM

Which movies, while you watched them in the theater, you slowly realized were going to go on to be one of the all time GR…

conspiracy rock, y'all https://t.co/28AVE6lRTU

Which movies, while you watched them in the theater, you slowly realized were going to go on to be one of the all time GREATS? For me, most recently, Fury Road. Before that: Terminator 2, Silence of the Lambs, Big Lebowski, Fight Club. 🎥

man, I really do *not* wanna be that guy who spends the rest of his life retelling people how great that one thing he once did was. I hate that whole scene.

Seconded

You could spend hours here, and well worth the time investment https://t.co/9FkzABUbCV

Searching for Susy Thunder: Claire Evans tracks down a notorious 1980s hacker https://t.co/EWrzfnRZeD

My dad had a Parrot (Tutak in Armenian) named Jack and if you sprayed Jack with water he would start yelling and insult…

Ok, AWS Service Terms, stop freaking me out https://t.co/9LawtaNMo6

In 2010, we spent 24 min on our phones.
In 2021, 4 hours and 23 min, an 800% increase.
#chartoftheweek https://t.co/WMOd…

We moved and I am going to miss my barber Phil tremendously. If you are in or near El Cerrito hit up Phil for a haircut!…

The Sandbox is a UGC blockchain game that is the leading light of "Virtual Real Estate Games." It has > $100M in investme…

For someone like myself with extremely limited electronics engineering knowledge, this cool little project is a revelation! https://t.co/02PrgpEIow

A fantastic resource for anyone in software, see https://t.co/Modm4pWVgD https://t.co/hsjCwszE3a

“Loafa is coming to your nearest IKEA söön.” https://t.co/4DMZPwpQRa

Season 4 is now out. Bring your LED headlamps!! 🔦 https://t.co/8XbEE9HiHn

Wow, I didn't know Apollo 11 left a tiny silicon disc on the moon inscribed with 6,000 words from the leaders of 73 countries https://t.co/Mei9szlX4R

This is seriously messing with my head: the Dunning-Kruger effect might not be real! I read all of the linked papers, and…

One of my earliest contractual agreements, which my mom apparently saved. Sad thing is, that Atari 2600 pac-man turned ou…

Finally got this collection of early Atari 2600 game box art mounted on my office wall 😍🤩 https://t.co/Gr4reRUHCm

"sunless communities (like Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City) have far higher rates of opioid addiction" ☀️ https://t.co/ZRid90ekh4

Who wants to be a puzzle millionaire?? https://t.co/TG7OsrQvPF 🤣 https://t.co/W3QXbqUhQ4

I've been a senior programmer for over two decades. Here are a few tidbits for programmers:

Lmao https://t.co/DCSJmmAnva

@zogstrip someone very kind gave it to me 🤗

I built a 27" touchscreen collab box using the very fast Beelink GTR5 AMD mini-pc, Planar monitor, and Epomaker low-profile mechanical bluetooth keyboard! https://t.co/UCBZbKtb09 https://t.co/EEglbqQXA1

@theratsass I have the CODE here! https://t.co/kRO70O1Az2

Cats are liquid. They pour themselves into any space. https://t.co/P7ML64n1cn

These are terrible, terrible people. https://t.co/Dr6jxksNua https://t.co/W7gVv3xEtl

wait what? yearly 'rasslin kayfabe games are a thing now? https://t.co/HLMKMdkh0q

Full-blown medieval castles w/ functional water cannons https://t.co/MRt4xhMG4e

BREAKING: #Tether has just printed $1 billion unbacked USDT out of thin air to artificially manipulate the price of #Bitco…

"Today’s painting software has a significant flaw: colors do not mix like actual paints." https://t.co/9MjhFLQlwD https://t.co/19WRAGXs2Q

I know it's not as good as a NFT, but I have my very own lunar surface! 🌚 https://t.co/9IXVkJ4zjD https://t.co/nwA9iAo1vm

I got my Tidbyt and I love it! Fantastic little decorative and functional led array https://t.co/15bk1icH2D https://t.co/H7xeAXdALq

Remember the whole "videogames can't be art" argument with Roger Ebert? I think the further we go, the more clear it is that videogames are *absolutely* an artform -- https://t.co/yqSkXwhzdW

🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/5tvRuqGveE

"As a general rule, there’s a relationship between the size of an animal and its lifespan. The larger it is, the longer it lives .. there are only 19 species of mammal that live longer than humans when you take into account their size." https://t.co/fa0g9RC5AX

Huh. Yelp's profile page is.. quite a journey. I guess they think of themselves as a dating site? https://t.co/LEWIZAk1D2

🧑‍🎨 via https://t.co/uvUInH8geo https://t.co/kYJfYdSQH4

Well, I just finished reading Radical Focus by @cwodtke and it is indeed as they say. RF is 3X the book Measure What Matter…

We moved and I am going to miss my barber Phil tremendously. If you are in or near El Cerrito hit up Phil for a haircut! He delivers the goods, on every level. https://t.co/5o0zoFqCdf

Learning about the "West Elm Caleb" TikTok drama and realizing that could only happen in NYC where, for some bizarre reason, men are in high demand on the dating scene? 🤷‍♂️

Any salad can be a Caesar salad if you stab it enough

An NFT is like being the Foursquare Mayor of a JPEG

Current Henry is very happy that past Henry automated the generation of his website front page image, making it much easier t…

i did this for over a year and i didn’t get anything 🤷

Pikachu has been spotted in the wild! https://t.co/ZRxUy4PPBX

I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries. So I made a little search tool *specifically* for th…

"Would you rather write the script, read the script, watch the movie or write the review?" 🤔 https://t.co/WQVIfxnuCa

This @hankgreen video is a must-watch, explaining how TikTok's fixed creator fund is failing to adequately pay creators, a…

Back in my day, we used spare CPU cycles for folding proteins and searching for aliens

profile pictures: a visual history https://t.co/20xWdgF28r

Good programmers write code, great programmers steal code. #stackoverflowknows

https://t.co/wU6Zd8g2zt https://t.co/Dy4…

Where's Ozymandias when we need him? https://t.co/3vFIoePop1 https://t.co/YhI7VyM9GL

deplatforming *works* https://t.co/G8ePyCLtDn

17 of the Republicans who just used the filibuster to block the John Lewis Voting Rights Act voted to reauthorize the la…

becoming one of those "old programmers" as i relay another piece of folklore, this time about Kazushige Goto, a japanese pa…

I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was o…

reminder: https://t.co/zjgVtZxGav

Fascinating, deep dive on Joss Whedon controversy. The cast of Buffy regularly posted on message boards with fans of the show?! https://t.co/lfAuQ5sIla

If you're struggling, this is an achingly beautiful read. https://t.co/8kGda4W2r4

wat https://t.co/uzp1ZXoMLq

All day every day except on the third Friday of odd numbered months https://t.co/XMUM49rkT8

retweet if Flash Gordon (1980) changed your life https://t.co/UMSWmfdJwU

big shout out to my manager at Kinko’s in Van Nuys, who, in 2006, described Joss Whedon’s dialogue as “written as though…

Meanwhile, in Australia https://t.co/WlHcsKmYTK

"After a few years of experimentation with the material, Kapoor struck a deal with Surrey NanoSystems: he bought the exclusive rights to Vantablack’s use as an art material." https://t.co/8kil41YV4g

Sort of like "the Waffle House disaster scale"? https://t.co/jrkBynnoOZ

Somebody did a simulation of a giant 🍌 orbiting around the 🌍 at the distance of the ISS. And, surprisingly, it challenges o…