Things that I think are worth your time.
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10 Surprising Things about DuckDuckGo
I’ve been working at DuckDuckGo on their browser for Windows for a little more than 3 months now. Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo’s founder and CEO, recently shared a post with 10 surprising things about the company: Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo…
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Trump Widens the Breach
That is the final measure. In moments when the country looks up for orientation, Trump does not steady the room. He destabilizes it. He does not merely break norms; he erodes the conditions that make shared meaning possible. Where Reiner…
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Color themes with Baseline CSS features
This article by David A. Herron is a nice overview of some of the more recent CSS features for color themes. Color themes with Baseline CSS features (web.dev)
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North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival
One of my favorite holiday season events since moving to North Carolina is the Chinese Lantern Festival. We attended the first time for a Microsoft holiday event, but have returned several of the years since then, including last weekend.
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Condemning Millions for One Man’s Crime
Miller is justifying collective punishment and guilt by blood. I’ve witnessed those barbarisms elsewhere, in war-ravaged countries and in dictatorships, but never before during my lifetime as a matter of national policy here at home. Trump and his top aides…
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
The soul of public education is at stake. When the largest public university system licenses an AI chatbot from a corporation that blacklists journalists, exploits data workers in the Global South, amasses geopolitical and energy power at an unprecedented scale,…
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