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🤗 I love to post about web development, UX, AI, startups, and always some random and fun stuff

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does this mean I can tax deduct my bicycle as medical expense?
https://press.coop/@NPR/112472610793939542

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In today's mindbender

All Eels in America and Europe Come From the Bermuda Triangle

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eels-come-from-bermuda-triangle

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one can hope
https://mastodon.social/@arjunbasu/112468303663387257

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I’ve not used Facebook Marketplace in 5 years!

5 years ago I used it to sell my used iPad Pro.

Yesterday I decided to use it again to sell my used iPad Pro (I just upgraded to M4).

Anyway, today I open up my email, and first thing in my inbox is an email with the article titled “Is Marketplace the least evil part of Facebook?”

I don’t know the answer to that, but is that not a weird sequence of coincidences?

https://thehustle.co/originals/is-marketplace-the-least-evil-part-of-facebook

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At last some sense!

The Israeli Defense Establishment Revolts Against Netanyahu

(he's from the same right-wing party, so I'm not expecting much, we'll see where the wind blows come June 8 the deadline he set)

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/05/israel-defense-netanyahu-gaza-gallant/678391/

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“Older people who aren’t picky eaters appear to have better brain health than those who prefer more limited diets, according to a large study of British adults.”

(I wouldn't test this on people who eat British food, but I accept the challenge)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/05/15/balanced-diet-mental-health-brain/

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“A recent study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science explores how individuals assess the plausibility of conspiracy theories. The research reveals that a suspicious mindset is strongly linked to perceiving implausible conspiracy theories as plausible, while cognitive skills and rational thinking dispositions are negatively associated with finding such theories credible.”

I'm not sure we needed a study but ok …

https://www.psypost.org/the-divergent-psychology-of-plausible-versus-implausible-conspiracy-theories/

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Malicious compliance much?

Man strikes back against Seaside order with boat mural

https://www.ksbw.com/article/man-strikes-back-against-seaside-order-with-boat-mural/60749038

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Downsides of open source software (OSS):

– Many factions—e.g. many Linux distributions & desktops. Because OSS attracts people that want to write their own software so that it exactly matches their needs(?)

– UIs seem often less polished. Because OSS has more programmers than UI designers(?)

Other than that: It’s ironic how much open source helps companies—especially small ones. IIRC, the first internet boom would not have been possible without open source projects such as Apache.

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@rauschma polished UI has more programmers than designers, difference is they follow a process that OSS won't tolerate (starting with product management)

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@rauschma by volume of users it already does because the majority of OSS comes from companies (eg iPhone/Mac both use Darwin)

by attention span it doesn't and it never will because of the principle"free as in free of any project manager involvement” and (like it or not) that's never going to change

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I know one of these is a Cybertruck I'm just not sure exactly which one … is it the one on the left? or the middle image?

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Boeing being Boeing — I wasn't expecting anything else …
https://press.coop/@NPR/112462750509794939

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metaskills/experts — create and deploy assistants and link them together to create an advanced Multi AI Agent Systems with expanded memory and attention to detail

https://github.com/metaskills/experts

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Good news: Neuralink is accepting applications for a second human trial participant to test its device for "unexpected problems”

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/17/tech/neuralink-trial-participant-elon-musk-noland-arbaugh/index.html

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Weekend Reading — Objection-oriented programming

https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-objection-oriented-programming/

This week we find a power-up box, replace GitHub Actions with Maven XMLs, avoid the worst website in the world, revisit RTO policies, “listen” to OpenAI employees, watch our Slack private messages, do laundry for free, and fall asleep to a YouTube video.

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if you're wondering why orcas are attacking boats, maybe the better question is — why are we starving them?

"The only line on the graph that “eeps them on the curve, Bain tells me, is to limit fishing. That’s the only action that will get the whales more fish right away. "

https://nautil.us/an-a-to-z-of-hungry-killer-whales-594929/

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United Airlines releasing a new safety video that will surely catch your attention with its live-action Rube Goldberg machine!

Of they could just discard all their Boeings and worry less about safety procedures, but I guess a catchy video gets some exec promoted so that will do

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251669132/united-rebooted-safety-video-distracted-passengers

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Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview

“Getting good data is the whole ball game for Google and any other search engine.”

I have surprising news for you about how much Google really cares about “good data”

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Look, if anyone understands what it's like when white people perform racist acts against their next door neighbors it would definitely be South Africa:

South Africa concludes ICJ arguments, demands a full Israeli retreat from the Gaza Strip

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-16/ty-article-live/u-s-backs-israeli-defense-chiefs-call-for-netanyahu-to-reject-military-rule-in-gaza/0000018f-7f05-dd4f-ab8f-ffad91770000

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A what?

Parts of downtown Toronto were without power for a few hours Wednesday after a squirrel came into contact with a utility pole.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-hydro-outage-1.7204934

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How Taco Bell Won ‘The Restaurant Wars’

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/story/how-taco-bell-won-the-restaurant-wars/

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"Shipping something that works and solves the problem is often better than waiting until said thing is perfect.”

https://www.donnfelker.com/done-is-better-than-perfect/

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