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Max Porter on the weapons industry and Palestine.

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A scorching monologue by Max Porter, exposing the seemingly ordinary people who forge the tools of genocide – the wrench-turners, ledger-keepers, and nameless faces behind the machinery of death.

Added on Feb 20, 2024 Details

Make your old Casio watch smart.

An intriguing upgrade for classic Casio LCD wristwatches. A motherboard replacement that allows for customisable watch faces and features like temperature tracking. It's open source and easily hackable. An alternative to the modern smartwatch.

Linked on 13th February 2024 Details

A great explainer for large language models.

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If you're feeling confused about the recent AI hype and would like to understand how large language models (most AI are LLMs) work, this presentation is one of the clearest I've watched. It's an hour long, so grab a coffee.

Added on Nov 30, 2023 Details

The 56 best/worst analogies written by high school students.

Exactly what the title says, with gems like "The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t".

Linked on 26th November 2023 Details

Chemicals in clothes could enter your body.

New research shows that sweat has the potential to extract chemical additives from synthetics that are contained in sports technical clothing. We often worry about chemicals in food, but they could infiltrate our bodies in other ways.

Linked on 25th November 2023 Details

Technology doesn't make our lives easier.

It's nothing new if you've ever taken a step back, but this is a well written perspective on the issue.

We live in a mega-scale corporate capitalist economy, and in such a setting technology is never used to save time. It’s used to speed up production and consumption in order to expand the system. The basic rule is this: technology doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster and more crammed with stuff.

Linked on 25th November 2023 Details