The MANY names of colors

#AI devastation in developing countries

#driverless cars that will never happen

#women who cannot be angry

and much more, in today's #serendipity Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-18/

@feloneouscat ask that guy, not me. Me, I just love the principle. Current web development environments, libraries, tools, whatever... are embarrasingly overbuilt

This guy is nuts, but the good kind of nuts:

"Excluding national government laboratories, the home time lab of THIS SINGLE MAN now has the most accurate clock in the world":

http://leapsecond.com/

Kudos to every effot to bring a decent Web back:

"The thing is, HTML never went anywhere. It’s still here, albeit buried and abstracted under further layers of inaccessible, hostile, or complicated cruft. We need to make it the default again, where the dynamic overlays are additive, not essential."

https://rubenerd.com/the-promise-of-html-and-css/

PAGERS???

I can't believe what I'm seeing. Pagers, the tiny boxes from the 1990s that buzz and show a phone number when the owner of that number wants to talk with you?

THOSE pagers?

(yes, I'm weird. But right now what really freaks me out is that pagers were used so much, not the attack itself)

#lebanon

Introducing Teen CIGARETTES

Built-In Protections for Teens,

Peace of Mind for #Parents

Find the difference

#instagram

@Cosmichomicide indeed. But why didn't it materialize???

"#Cashless restaurants are racist. And delay #driverless cars too. Yes, they do"

by me (2020):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/02/cashless-restaurants-are-racist.-and-delay-driverless-cars-too/

Unknown effects of #wikipedia

#millennials considering #slavery to get out of #debt

other #workingPoor

blind #brexit

#farming like #StarWars

and much more in today's Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-17/

Why don't ALL #electricVehicles worldwide already use SWAPPABLE batteries to decrease recharging time AND the need for ubiquitous charging points is beyond me, really:

https://www.reddit.com/r/toolgifs/comments/1db3i99/swapping_battery_on_an_electric_taxi/

#copyright myths

#freesoftware suicidal errors

#opendata research

#SiliconValley running on Saudi

American #holocaust #ignorance

and much more #serendipity here:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-16/

#Russia Uses #Microsoft to Suppress Dissent...

In 2010:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html

#onthisday:

remembering a GREAT mountaineer

From Egyptian pottery to 3D printing

perils of extreme #democracy

Kill Switches in weapons

#Youth Dissatisfied with #Democracy

and much more in my #serendipity Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-14/

@evamarie @danalan it's sure thougher in the US than elsewhere, since the US is behind most western states on stuff that matters for quality of life.

Still, the point is that the current lifestyle unquestionably sucks and is getting worse and only new thinking, BEYOND the usual left vs right drama, about the root causes can fix it

@danalan @evamarie world bank, imf... there already are structures to manage certain transitions.

Sure, they must work with states. And for that to happen, there needs to be a critical mass of citizens everywhere that starts asking themselves the right *questions*

This is why it is crucial to circulate certain proposals systematically

@evamarie @danalan your thoughts on the last link of my message would be greatly appreciated

whatever other merits this study may have (still reading it) calling #marriage a market is deeply, DEEPLY flawed.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/sep/dating-marriage-has-online-dating-made-difference