First pagers, now walkie-talkies???

Morals and ethics aside, I'm not going to buy anything from #Israel, not even pearls or grapefruits, simply on the ground that they may explode on me someday:

https://www.wired.com/story/walkie-talkie-explosions-hezbollah/

Exploding *PAGERS*, you say?

That's so old news.

Walkie-talkies is where it's at, today.

What next? Toasters?

Unbelievable, really:

https://www.wired.com/story/walkie-talkie-explosions-hezbollah/

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/

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

"#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/

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

"Restraining profits is pro-market. It isn’t anti-capitalist to want those profits competed away, it’s pro-market"

https://theconversation.com/tech-billionaire-elon-musk-is-on-track-to-become-the-worlds-first-trillionaire-its-a-sign-markets-arent-working-238560

for 1st time in history, elites can make the majority of human beings economically non-competitive.

half the world has IQ < 100. The average uni degree has IQ of 115, which tells you how truly non-competitive humanity is compared to what’s coming.

https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/were-entering-an-economy-never-seen

That's MORE reasons to do this

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/there-is-only-one-thing-that-really

Yesterday I wrote that

“losing the ability to share as we do today pictures and notifications of every meal, party, relative, holiday, home improvement... and to receive the same "news" from every "friend" would be a feature, not a bug.”

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/wrong-questions-about-children-online

Two minutes ago, I found pretty much the same concept and invitation in a this great post by @freya India:

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/arent-you-lonely