A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools.

I’ve run 13.1 miles countless times. I’ve done …

Learning together, by and for the fediverse

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The features enabled by things like CarPlay are more than welcome, but I can’t be happy with this touch-first, phone-like shitty UI trend.

This is a quick one - don't want to see that annoying Gemini bar at the bottom of every new Google Doc? Learn how to turn it off!

Why would we program AI that wants to harm us? Because we might not know how to do otherwise.

"For me, demands for silence, for avoidance, or for bowdlerization will be offered no deference."

Self hosted Habit Tracker featuring goals and challenges with friends - jofoerster/habitsync

If you’re looking for the short answer, it’s 1965 and/or 1967. The answer I offer in The Color of Paper is less precise: “Until the late 1960s, the skin of Black characters was typically rendered w…

Fascinating!

Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduler on SQLite. One file, zero servers.

Digital networked society needs friction-in-design regulation that targets the digital architectures, supposedly smart (data-driven, algorithmic) systems, and interfaces that shape human interactions, behavior, and will (beliefs, preferences, values, intentions). The
relentless push to eliminate friction for the sake of efficiency has hidden social costs that affect basic human capabilities and society. A general course correction is needed.

In this article, we clear the First Amendment brush and reveal an open and mostly underappreciated regulatory territory to explore. We argue that friction-in-design regulation should be understood as Twenty-First century time, place, and manner restrictions, akin to laws that prohibit using megaphones in the middle of the night, require permits before marches, and prohibit adult theaters in residential neighborhoods. This does not mean that friction-indesign regulation would escape First Amendment scrutiny altogether, of course. But it would trigger intermediate rather than strict scrutiny, so long as the friction-in-design regulation remained content neutral.

Outlines an approach to reasoning about reliability risk

Find a Sidewalk Joy spot near you with the Sidewalk Joy Map! On this worldwide map you'll find Trinket Boxes, Free Little Art Galleries, Puzzle Libraries, Mug Exchanges, Little Free Fibraries, Seed and Plant Swaps and so much more! The worldwide Sidewalk Joy Map was started and is run by Rachael Har

Create beautiful flowcharts, sequence diagrams, ERDs, Gantt charts, mind maps and more with Pretty Fish — a free, open-source Mermaid editor with live preview, themes, multi-page workspaces, and instant SVG/PNG export.

🥫 It does what it says on the tin.

Race After Technology (Polity) cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity.

CrossPet — Your pocket e-reader with a virtual chicken. Open-source firmware for Xteink X4. - trilwu/crosspet