2025-02-28
Antarctic Research Stations in Chaos
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been rampaging through the US federal government at an alarming pace, and it's leaving no stone unturned. As Wired reports, even scientists...
Grand Central Dispatch, Once and for All
This article breaks down Swift's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) by explaining threads, queues, and code blocks, along with sync vs. async execution, QoS, and deadlock issuesâusing practical exercises to solidify...
Dana Milbank responds to the WaPoâs pivot to focusing on âpersonal liberties...
Dana Milbank responds to the WaPoâs pivot to focusing on âpersonal liberties and free marketsâ with a piece *in the Post* calling Donald Trump âthe single greatest threat to âpersonal...
From Zeynep Tufekci, a reminder that people who get the measles âlose...
From Zeynep Tufekci, a reminder that people who get the measles âlose much of their immune memoryâ, which leaves them âmore vulnerable to many other diseases for years afterwardâ.
Trump Claims to Have Spoken With Starmer Regarding Apple Encryption Backdoor Demand
Ben Domenech interviewed President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office, after Trumpâs meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Spectator has published the entire transcript, and I read it...
World's Largest Call Center Deploys AI to "Neutralize the Accent" of Indian Employees
A French company that owns the largest call center in the world is using artificial intelligence software to "soften" the accents of its India-based agents in real-time as part of...
Best Online Reputation Management Companies in 2025
Online Reputation Management (ORM) companies specialize in suppressing, counteracting, and reshaping online narratives. We've analyzed the best ORM companies based on effectiveness, technology, and industry reputation. Here are the top...
AI Just Took Over Ad TargetingâAnd Itâs Smarter, Faster, and Less Creepy Than Ever
The modern advertising ecosystem operates at unprecedented scale, with billions of ad impressions served daily. Every user interaction a click, a view, a conversion generates an immense amount of data...
Behind the Blog: Stunt Blogging and the 'Fuck It' Paradigm
This week, we discuss stunt blogging, Signal pains, and murderous Reels.
More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Millerâs role the...
More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Millerâs role the ongoing coup. âMiller is carrying out the daily work of governance while Trump serves as head of state,...
Jeff Bezos Takes Control of the Washington Postâs Opinion Pages; Asserts Exclusive Focus âIn Support and Defense of Two Pillars: Personal Liberties and Free Marketsâ
Jeff Bezos, in a memo he shared publicly on X: I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: Iâm writing to let you know about a change...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Why Natural Language Coding Isnât for EveryoneâYet (2/28/2025)
How are you, hacker? đȘ Whatâs happening in tech today, February 28, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
Tesla Owners Now Disgusted By Elon Musk
Elon Musk has long been the linchpin of Tesla's appeal, commanding unbelievable hype that has elevated the automaker to a stellar stock position while giving it cultural staying power. But...
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
This is excellent reporting by the Times (although at times it makes Muskâs actions sound heroic rather than unconstitutional, criminal, and treasonous) on how Elon Musk took over a huge...
What If, Indeed
Hamilton Nolan, in a 2021 piece for The Columbia Journalism Review, under the headline âBezos Has Been Hands-Off. What if That Changes?â: Bezos has given the paper the resources to...
Gene Hackman Dies at 95
Loved this remembrance by Manohla Dargis in The New York Times: When Clint Eastwood needed a performer who could persuasively go boot-toe to boot-toe with him in his brutal 1992...
From Rolling Stone, a list of 20 essential movies starring Gene Hackman....
From Rolling Stone, a list of 20 essential movies starring Gene Hackman. The French Connection, The Conversation, Superman, No Way Out, Mississippi Burning, The Royal Tenenbaums. Phew. đŹ Join the...
Touch Grass is a screen time limiting app for iOS that requires...
Touch Grass is a screen time limiting app for iOS that requires photographic evidence of you actually touching grass to unblock apps on your phone. (Is there a âtouch snowâ...
The Digital Packrat Manifesto
DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Run Out of GPUs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has unveiled the company's latest large language model, dubbed GPT-4.5. The long-awaited AI model isn't just really powerful, it's extremely expensive for end consumers. OpenAI is...
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