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Revision as of 00:16, 20 August 2020
January
- https://www.overleaf.com/ - proprietary (but highly-recommended) WYSIWYM LaTeX editor web service (free for single user)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/ejxh2i/old_wimpys_grill_in_durham_is_reopening_with_a/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
- Why can't I remember the name of the Dunning-Kruger effect half the time??
- https://www.3dbuzz.com/ - lots of free video courses for download (paid site has shut down), don't know how long they'll be available
- https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ - this article has some value, but also is questionable in places
- https://github.com/synesthesiam/rhasspy "an offline, multilingual voice assistant toolkit inspired by Jasper that works well with Home Assistant, Hass.io, and Node-RED."
- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted - self-hosted software - list of what's available in many categories
- https://www.quora.com/I-was-at-McDonald-s-and-I-noticed-that-customers-were-choosing-to-wait-in-line-to-order-with-the-cashier-instead-of-using-the-available-kiosks-Why-do-you-think-that-is - bad retail-automation design
- https://means.tv/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50841104 - hydrogen power for transportation
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51014148 - Greenland
- http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ -- online SF/F mag
- https://www.popsbackdoorsouth.com/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/zipcar-into-the-wilderness/597217/
- https://social.bau-ha.us/@aurora/103467073698637618 - deleted eastern bloc TLDs
- http://www.whatisemerging.com/
- https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
- YouTube alternatives:
- Durham intentional community:
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-zfs-statements-arent-right-heres-the-straight-dope/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/is-lab-grown-meat-really-meat - cultured meat
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-america-s-new-apartment-buildings-all-look-the-same - five-over-one construction
- https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/103495577870332223 - ethics of data-scraping and Mastodon/federation
- https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615059/these-living-bricks-use-bacteria-to-build-themselves/
- https://venmo.com/about/product/ - like PayPal but maybe less evil? Nope, it's owned by them.
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51014028 - active recruitment of neurodiverse individuals
- https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/10/emily-dickinson-love-letters-susan-gilbert/ (via) - another true love example
- Pixelfed
- https://social.tchncs.de/@jookia/103322629792648647 "So in conclusion: Don't use Pixelfed, the main developer refuses to investigate or fix bugs and will close and lock issues without explanation."
- https://hackaday.com/2020/01/19/trs-80-clone-uses-modern-parts/ - TRS-80
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/frontier-an-isp-in-29-states-plans-to-file-for-bankruptcy/
- https://mydeveloperplanet.com/2018/10/31/git-lfs-why-and-how-to-use/ - Git LFS
- https://store.pine64.org/
- https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
- https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux/responsive
- https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/
- https://www.wired.com/story/behind-the-scenes-rotten-tomatoes/ - might offer some thoughts on crowdsourcing of value-judgement
- https://sentient-lang.org/library/array - AI language for solving math/logic problems
- https://www.imperial.co.uk/about-us/# - company that handles parking tickets in some areas of UK, as well as school truancy fees
- https://www.apollo.io/companies/Imperial-Civil-Enforcement-Solutions-Limited/54a1357d69702d36c9eed900%3F__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=98444309c62f7c23033f4dc2ac4894ce63b6c0c6-1580140428-0-AY07pLPOris5xmIBYwTHJbFE-wUxM5T2ohUFo8pcZYrbnTYxgXbb0UeuPqVOGbAunj8ax3beU3jax0BdR5ovgFMhUh8xJ5NrLBCM-EdWCzbkruHaKyQRvUiyqtk0dqqgQrNAXq_xR3W8vdlQQdZ1RR8zU7dNAA5eMzvKj15-_kyJ2smCCx9KrswUi5mJKLdkvvnJMMwL6C1fy3oe6x7dg16gHWEupz_t18CTfIMRZXN8MhAV6OaRdtxxcsH601k3wEQCeMnzSSnrVvr4KJYviLGrrqrjpc303Lk6wdaSZLBOLUgQ-bdm3bW-1hqdtMCJQLi0HSfjtUHcEC51nwvmxKQQBvvL6w_5L616a2QGiVS8WlaoL8gjtU0LIIsdX9gMlni3NT9NpN3vnFai3mMjMC9mIxC-94oXhsTIryLLdh6e?chart=count
- https://www.localgov.co.uk/Imperial-Civil-Enforcement-Solutions-Limited/48663
- https://geo.coop/articles/why-we-dont-need-cooperative-uber
- http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/neil_degrasse_tyson_8_books_every_intelligent_person_should_read.html - free ebooks
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/789465/generate-white-noise-to-calm-a-baby - SoX formula
- https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/01/transgender-children-development-consistent-current-gender-not-sex-assigned-birth/ "These findings, therefore, provide preliminary evidence that neither sex assignment at birth nor direct or indirect sex-specific socialization and expectations (e.g., rewarding masculine things and punishing feminine ones for assigned males) in alignment with early assignment necessarily define how a child later identifies or expresses their gender," the authors write.
- https://twitter.com/jxxf/status/1219009308438024200 - earliest known y2038 problem incident, in 2018; also, how complex financial calculations are done
- https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ops-lessons.html
- https://floss.social/@Valenoern/103566381531722185 - the secret knowledge of making .deb files
- https://reclaimthenet.org/nextcloud-hub/
- https://turn-me-into-a-girl.com/ - self-affirmation tools for egg trans girls
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/30/linux_5_6_2038/ - Y2038
- http://www.drellenlittman.com/pb/wp_b4f2c210/wp_b4f2c210.html - ADHD articles
February
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925492716301561 - ADHD and trauma/PTSD
- https://gizmodo.com/do-you-think-in-words-1841390135
- https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page - the Plexodus Wiki (G+ migration wiki)
- https://aeon.co/essays/simone-de-beauvoirs-authentic-love-is-a-project-of-equals - philosophy of love; also cultural sexism in the 20th century
- https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/
- written in PHP
- downside: asks for gender, offers only binary options
- https://www.gq.com/story/greenland-food-in-face-of-climate-change - Greenland
- https://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-never-before-seen.html - photonic molecule
- https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/f0orf3/considering_the_absolute_state_of_this_app_right/ - Discord app going downhill
- https://twitter.com/commaficionado/status/1225138645839073286?s=19 - "Autism and the eternal feeling that you're letting everyone down": a thread
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/
- http://adhd-alien.com/ - cartoons about ADHD
- https://blog.revolut.com/swift-sepa-how-international-money-transfers-actually-work/
- https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/catalog-api - Square/API
- https://opensource.com/article/20/2/why-developers-code-night - focus-work and interruptions
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/top-10-myths-about-bedbugs
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29608/why-is-it-better-to-use-usr-bin-env-name-instead-of-path-to-name-as-my - shebang usage and env
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTqo4mCUUY - how to build a wood gasifier to fuel a generator (presumably propane)
- https://www.armakuni.com/ak-thinking/2020/1/27/how-to-spend-1000-in-2-days-using-aws-lambda
- https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/ -- a collection of source-code licenses requiring ethical use
- https://social.sunshinegardens.org/objects/b70551bc-72d4-4235-b17f-bb8e5e6a8977 - video about NDN
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw - $50 DIY water turbine
- https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-lost-notebook/
- https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html
- https://torrentfreak.com/dont-use-the-word-did-or-a-dumb-anti-piracy-company-will-delete-you-from-google-200216/ - this article apparently matches some takedown-bot's algorithm for infringement
- https://bittersoutherner.com/southern-perspective/2020/charles-bess-greensboro-woolworth-sit-ins-civil-rights - history, civil rights, US/NC/Greensboro
- https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/803011944/preparing-for-the-end-of-the-world-on-a-budget
- https://twitter.com/saraislet/status/1229562901347762177 - public key infrastructure (PKI)
- https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html - site is actually solar-powered and sometimes goes down, so archive.org
- https://blocktogether.org/ - another crowdsourced blocklist like Shinigami
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-talented-people-don-t-use-their-strengths - seems accurate
- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/cd-vinyl-distribution-crisis-950327/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-underground-inferno-that-created-a-ghost-town - US/PA/Centralia, coal fire, mandatory evacuation
- https://www.unix.com/man-page/Linux/1/mmv/ - mmv: recursive mv, kinda
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/anna-dostoyevskaya-on-the-secret-to-a-happy-marriage - Anna Dostoyevskaya: love, partnership, happiness
- https://mastodon.xyz/@douginamug/103704710344914802 - looking for an open-source quadratic voting app
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/james-taylor-i-was-a-bad-influence-on-the-beatles-lennon-love-and-a-life-in-song -- James Taylor, addiction, parenting
- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london - Airbnb
- https://vaneyckt.io/posts/safer_bash_scripts_with_set_euxo_pipefail/ - bash
- https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/open-source-software/guide-for-publishing-open-source-code.html - open source licenses and Canada
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest
- File:Emmengards Suicide Scale.jpg
- https://wheretofind.me/
- That other way of doing databases in PHP: PDO
- Nextcloud stuff:
- https://worxprinting.coop/ - union print shop - t-shirts etc.
- https://morethanone.info/ - plurality
- http://www.openculture.com/?p=1050885 - Feynman lectures on physics now available online (free)
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615226/were-not-prepared-for-the-end-of-moores-law/ - Moore's law
- https://opencollective.com/create - fundraising site (somewhat like Patreon), not sure what the ups & downs are except that their login system is annoying
- https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/
- https://jshint.com/ - JavaScript code-quality checker tool
- https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a29683686/lady-gaga-haus-laboratories-elle-interview/ - Lady Gaga, mental health, kindness punk
- Fiat Fiendum should have a page here, since we don't seem to have a web site anymore
- https://www.muckrock.com/organization/fiat-fiendum/
- https://www.patreon.com/fiatfiendum
- https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=611686259
- https://medium.com/through-the-courts/robert-mueller-report-the-department-of-justice-broke-law-in-reply-to-freedom-of-information-act-bc5c9b477239 - cites Sai (but misgenders them) and Fiat Fiendum
March
- https://www.facebook.com/430719097107277/posts/1392387474273763/ - Jillian Johnson's FB page
- https://wrongplanet.net/forums/ - autism/neurodiversity forum
- https://it-kollektiv.com/wrong-signal-das-falsche-signal-engl/ - problems with Signal
- https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/finder.php (via)
- https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge - provides an RSS feed for sites missing one; written in PHP
- https://www.polygon.com/comics/2020/3/6/21166717/noelle-stevenson-fire-never-goes-out-book-review-nimona-lumberjanes-comics-memoir-she-ra - Noelle Stevenson
- mail server things to avoid having outgoing messages spammed: SPF, DKIM, ARC (openarc)
- https://thunderboltsortofapenny.tumblr.com/post/190543643374/god-i-found-another-article-about-why-adhd-kids - ADHD, alexithymia
- https://www.quora.com/How-does-being-very-strict-on-your-children-affect-them/answer/Mark-Mostow - anecdote: effects of disciplinarian/authoritarian parenting
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-how-homeless-man-built-life-underground-bunker-hampstead-heath - homelessness in UK
- https://www.reddit.com/r/DrWillPowers/comments/fcxboa/the_story_of_how_i_screwed_up_a_dose_calculation/ - cis dude doctor experiences dysphoria
- https://cybre.space/@astraluma/103794630616589641
- https://archive.ph/T2SNX - some analysis and critical appraisal of Powers's work
- https://weirder.earth/@raye/103794913046260636 - how to distinguish Coronavirus from other ailments with similar symptoms
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/let-s-colonize-titan
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/gentle-parenting-explainer-no-rewards-no-punishments-no-misbehaving-kids - parenting
- NPC International: LinkedIn corporate site employment site
- Radiohead
- Discord alternative: Euphony protocol
- https://hbr.org/2018/07/5-mistakes-companies-make-about-growth-mindsets - growth mindset
- https://hbr.org/2020/03/stop-feeling-guilty-about-your-to-do-list
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-problem-with-hey-guys
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/growing-up-with-steve-miller - Steve Miller
- https://alexgaynor.net/2020/feb/18/scaling-software-development/
- https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-victims-abuse-become-abusers
- https://social.wxcafe.net/@amphetamine/103828032929788266 - also part of the amygdala hijack thread
- https://www.programmableweb.com/category/grocery/api
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/fiona-apples-art-of-radical-sensitivity Fiona Apple
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-four-things-that-make-practically-everyone-feel-loved-according-to-a-new-survey
- Informix Wingz -- superior product with inferior marketing; possibly something like Wikcess?
- https://markfgriffin.com/2015/02/need-help-identifying-song/ - song identification, Discogs
- https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox - for bypassing paywalls
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/details - potentially useful tag HTML/details
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/rebecca-solnit-on-hope-in-dark-times-resisting-the-defeatism-of-easy-despair-and-what-victory-really
- http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
- https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/ - Markdown library for PHP
- https://9thstreetjournal.org/
- http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/linked-jazz.html
- https://www.sparkleshare.org/ - self-hosted (serverless?) file-sharing
- https://getsession.org/ - appears to be a fork of Signal but without the phone number requirement
- https://libcom.org/
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/17/real-estate-for-the-apocalypse-my-journey-into-a-survival-bunker
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-still-in-one-piece/ -- Sinead O'Connor
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-being-bullied-affects-your-adulthood
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-inner-voice - thinking in words
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90479846/the-untold-origin-story-of-the-n95-mask
- https://monsterpit.net/@Brainship/103902068135322938 - about Autism Speaks
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH inspiration
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-common-type-of-incompetent-leader - experienced this at Pierce
- https://www.whatismystic.com/ - solar-powered distillery now producing hand sanitizer
- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/arts/this-is-fine-meme-dog-fire.html - the this is fine meme
April
- https://cybre.space/@vantablack/103796094845930042 - visual guide to Nine Inch Nails
- Some of my anxious/depressed patients are feeling unexpectedly better than before (reacting to covid-19)
- https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lawns-american-yard-us/index.html - lawn alternatives
- https://grocy.info/ - home grocery tracker thingy
- https://tidbits.com/2020/04/03/every-zoom-security-and-privacy-flaw-so-far-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/ - Zoom security holes, many of which have been fixed
- OpenELEC - open source entertainment center. There's also a fork for the Raspberry Pi, LibreELEC
- https://aeon.co/essays/marriage-is-dead-long-live-marriage-how-will-we-couple-up
- https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0 - pretty much not hoarding; supply chain logistics, particularly production for commercial use vs. home use
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/there-s-plenty-of-toilet-paper-so-why-are-people-hoarding-it -- but apparently a lot of people still think it's hoarding
- https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-need-to-understand-about-asymptomatic-carriers-if-were-going-to-beat-coronavirus - COVID-19 technical info
- https://actionnetwork.org/toolset
- https://ragmask.com/ragmask.pdf
- https://pitchfork.com/features/article/listen-to-music/ - seems relevant to GnuMusiq
- https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/ - how contact tracing works (without compromising privacy)
- https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-oio-160-a-dozen-more-things-you-didn-t-know-nextcloud-could-do
- https://medium.com/@alexhowlett/youtube-accidentally-permanently-terminated-my-account-4b5852c80679
- https://durhamdistillery.com/
- https://www.whatismystic.com/ - local (solar-powered!) distillery selling sanitizer
- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html - guidelines for DIY masks
- https://www.themarysue.com/bad-reviews-for-quibi/ - Quibi
- https://springhole.net/writing/protagonist-centered-morality.htm
- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/disinfecting-your-home.html - CDC guidelines for COVID-19 disinfectant
- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52264743 - Apollo 13 photos
- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52286165 - Greenland
- https://www.space.com/trump-moon-mining-space-resources-executive-order.html
- https://medium.com/@froger_mcs/senior-software-engineer-these-skills-are-expected-from-you-286c8a0334d0
- https://dragon.style/@frameacloud/104014513234625426 - organ transplants for medical transition
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-hypersane-are-among-us-if-only-we-are-prepared-to-look
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/coming-to-grips-with-the-implications-of-quantum-mechanics - wave-particle duality
- https://getgrav.org/downloads
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dark-history-of-our-obsession-with-productivity - we're ready for the next automation-driven productivity revolution
- https://www.wired.com/story/question-productivity-coronavirus/ - seems related
- https://501manifesto.dev/
- https://www.dailyxtra.com/why-are-queer-people-so-mean-to-each-other-160978 - also seems relevant here
- https://wattenberger.com/blog/react-and-d3
- https://jsonresume.org/schema/ - résumé data format
- https://social.holdmybeer.solutions/notice/9qUixYpXahRuFgcIJE RSS bridge project?
- Corona and the Commons
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/well/live/coronavirus-contagion-spead-clothes-shoes-hair-newspaper-packages-mail-infectious.html - COVID-19 practicalities
- https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters.html - Fiona Apple
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/is-lab-grown-meat-really-meat - artificial meat
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/technology/zoom-security-dropbox-hackers.html
- Sources for audio production equipment:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r51YroAFPds - DIY no-sew face mask
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/grace-o-malley-the-fearless-16th-century-irish-pirate-queen-who-stood-up-to-the-english - badass women
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRQxk9QA-o - ideal plan for reopening
- https://www.quora.com/I-found-inappropriate-images-on-my-14-year-old-son-s-computer-What-should-I-do/answer/Hannie-Ferch - a 16yo girl answers
- Absolutely cannot log in to upvote this.
- https://slate.com/business/2020/04/yeast-shortage-supermarkets-coronavirus.html
- https://merveilles.town/@s_ol/104016278284439336 - interesting thread about the state of computing system software
- COVID-19:
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/should-quantum-anomalies-make-us-rethink-reality
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/c6n1wd/let_me_unpack_some_of_the_subtle_and_vicious_ways/ - ADHD
- https://emsenn.net/makhasa-nursery/ - in US/NC/Chapel Hill
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/
- https://www.blackandpink.org/
- Krazy Kat:
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/27/how-to-avoid-amazon-the-definitive-guide-to-online-shopping-without-the-retail-titan - Amazon.com
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-eternal-revenue-stream-of-led-zeppelin - how the music industry looks at copyrighted "properties"
- https://inessential.com/2020/04/27/a_coding_challenge_cant_show_how_i_solve - the manifold problems with job-interview coding tests
- http://getpocket.com/explore/item/misophonia-when-certain-sounds-drive-you-crazy - misophonia (what is the relation to hyperacusis?)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/04/28/more-serious-analysis-of-online-conferencing-please-its-our-future/ - online conferencing on larger scales
- Durham County Coronavirus Data Hub
May
- https://phys.org/news/2020-02-green-technology-electricity-thin-air.html
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2010-9 (paywall)
- https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41586-020-2010-9 (not paywall)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2010-9 (paywall)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/maintaining-eye-contact-while-talking-overwhelms-the-brain
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-covid-vaccine.html
- https://www.mail-tester.com/test-tiw6kazrn - email server test
- Ithkuil -- interesting artificial language
- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/me_on_covad-19_.html - Bruce Schneier is highly skeptical of tracing app usefulness
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/stop-waiting-miracle/610795/ - COVID-19
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-we-ll-forget-john-lennon - collective memory or cultural memory
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-day-treva-throneberry-disappeared - very messed-up kid seeks love repeatedly, but is stuck in mental loop
- https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/ - playing around with musical temperament
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-05/mutant-coronavirus-has-emerged-more-contagious-than-original
- Jet propulsion by microwave air plasma in the atmosphere
- https://themicrogreenery.com/ https://squareup.com/store/the-microgreenery/ - US/NC/Durham
- https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-conducted-the-first-thorium-salt-experiments-in-over-40-years - thorium nuclear power
- https://www.economist.com/business/2020/04/23/microsoft-embraces-big-data
- https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them - practical COVID-19 advice
- http://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-1-minute-face-mask-diy-that-requires-zero-sewing - another no-sew face mask design
- https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-a-cloth-face-mask - another mask
- https://www.outsideonline.com/2412963/how-to-cook-chicken-breasts
- https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-world-s-only-feudal-lord-outclassed-the-nazis-to-save-her-people
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/8/21244090/pentagon-ufo-videos-navy-alexander-wendt
- COVID-19:
- https://www.vox.com/2020/5/22/21266756/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-risks-social-distancing-chart - general safety info
- https://covidactnow.org/us/nc/county/durham_county_orange_county
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-recovery.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/weird-hell-professor-advent-calendar-covid-19-symptoms-paul-garner
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/13/coronavirus-patient-dna-study-could-tell-us-why-some-fare-worse
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cities-bounce-back-coronavirus-pandemic-moodys-144452350.html - US/NC/Durham in best position to recover
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-trillion-worlds
- https://www.futurity.org/deep-neural-networks-early-bird-artificial-intelligence-2369432/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/8-facts-about-the-animals-of-chernobyl
- https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9s78fh/sick_of_getting_restart_required/e8mtfj0/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dismantling-my-dreams-one-brick-at-a-time - house-flipping
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/19-things-emotionally-intelligent-people-do?utm_source=pocket-newtab -- emotional intelligence
- non-offending pedophilia:
- https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/5/15/21252544/coronavirus-covid-19-hustle-work-productivity-ambition-loss
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-first-lesson-of-marriage-101-there-are-no-soul-mates
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/05/26/psychologists-dont-really-believe-that-do-they/ - the triune brain myth
- https://www.expressionsofchange.org/reification-of-interaction/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/after-60-years-i-95-is-complete - US/I-95
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/nobody-knows-what-lies-beneath-new-york-city -- mapping infrastructure; US/NY/New York
- https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/05/the-story-of-cheaper-batteries-from-smartphones-to-teslas/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/unraveling-the-many-mysteries-of-neil-diamond-s-sweet-caroline - Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
- https://medium.com/invisible-illness/spoon-theory-and-fork-theory-fce7b5602f1a - fork theory
- https://github.com/omarroth/invidious - another alternative YouTube front end
- https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/estonia-america-congress-online-pandemic/612034/ - Estonia and digital living
- bed bugs:
- https://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/bed-bugs.htm - seems like a mix of useful (but somewhat obvious) stuff, conflict-of-interest ("you need to buy this stuff that we can sell you"), and scare tactics ("the common Bed Bug can not be seen with the naked eye." -- uh, wut? Even freshly-hatched bugs are easy to see. They may be difficult to distinguish against a complex or dark background, but size is not the problem there).
- https://www.epa.gov/bedbugs/pesticides-control-bed-bugs
- https://fibertrap.com/product/fibertrap-v1/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/top-10-myths-about-bedbugs
June
- COVID-19:
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-28/coronavirus-lockdown-crushed-economies-jobs-energy-and-shops
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-social-distance-as-america-opens-back-up
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/practical-mindfulness/202005/prepare-behavioral-disaster-wave-resilience-if-and-when-covid-19
- https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/advice-on-reopening-activies-er-doctor.html
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/12/876224115/coronavirus-second-wave-nope-were-still-stuck-in-the-first-one
- https://rt.live/ - US infection spread rates by state
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/11/coronavirus-chronic/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/16/1953549/-Anti-inflammatory-steroid-proves-effective-in-reducing-deaths-from-serious-case-of-COVID-19
- https://durhampublichealth-durhamnc.hub.arcgis.com/ - COVID-19 in US/NC/Durham
- https://www.ft.com/content/d68d6292-0486-4bfc-bf5c-54ce850a3f7a - in South Korea
- http://named-data.net/project/archoverview/ - named data networking
- http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/isaac-asimov-predicts-what-the-world-will-look-in-2014.html - predictions (includes links to other sets)
- https://twitter.com/nickyhcastillo/status/1266243707797303296 - huge privacy issues in TikTok
- https://narratively.com/confessions-of-a-30-something-hanson-fanatic/
- https://www.cgdev.org/blog/kiva-not-quite-what-it-seems - Kiva
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/until-i-was-a-man-i-had-no-idea-how-good-men-had-it-at-work - workplace gender bias / sexism
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/saying-i-do-and-saying-farewell - love and grieving
- https://gefiltergate.com/ - General Electric water filter DRM
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/openzfs-removed-master-slave-terminology-from-its-codebase/
- http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/a-rare-smile-captured-in-a-19th-century-photograph.html - history of smiles in portraiture
- https://getsession.org/download/ - secure open-source messaging, possibly supports group chats?
- https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/h995fd/whatfiles_log_what_files_are_accessed_by_any/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-Ef54uTeU - photorealism in 3d rendering
- https://matrix.itasoftware.com - flexible flight search
- http://eshop.sintech.cn/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_12&products_id=933&zenid=9rrpa4eb79pc6tjl7b0ufeihd2 - in case of desperate need for a PCI slot and all you have is PCI-E express X1
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-can-you-do-when-you-re-flattened-by-depression-plan-for-it - depression
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/pinebook-pro-review-a-200-foss-to-the-hilt-magnesium-chassis-laptop/
- LG G W100 smartwatch:
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200615-the-record-breaking-jet-which-still-haunts-a-country - a fork in history that didn't happen
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/supermarkets-are-a-miracle/612244/ - supermarkets
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/my-dad-taught-me-how-to-deal-with-bullies-because-he-was-one - bullying
- Git:
- https://queer.party/@valenoern/104276804696068667 - practical semi-technical issues/reviews
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-github-now-open-source-developers-get-one-linter-to-rule-them-all/
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-sewage/italy-sewage-study-suggests-covid-19-was-there-in-december-2019-idUSKBN23Q1J9
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-scientist-still-fighting-for-the-clean-fuel-the-world-forgot - (haven't read) biofuel, probably
- https://writefreely.org/features/ - federated long-form Markdown blogging platform, written in Golang
- http://undergroundhousing.com/
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/youtube-music-library-transfers-your-purchased-music-is-not-welcome-here/
- IntelliJ IDEA - Java IDE
- https://radical.town/@felix/104410618372421043 - Peertube not being a great citizen
- https://twitter.com/clpolk/status/1277327365597626368 - love-bombing
- Technology Connections uses a Lumix G7 camera
- https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/the-stranger-than-fiction-secret-history-of-prog-rock-icon-rick-wakeman - Rick Wakeman
- https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/de28935c-4e4c-40fa-bf06-b7a583ac9777 - Strange Fruit
- https://htyp.org/User:Woozle/linkdump/2020#June - Qt licensing issues
July
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/let-s-colonize-titan
- "We can live underground on Earth. What’s the advantage to doing so on Mars?" -- to start with, all of Earth is owned by someone or other. Would it be legal to start an underground habitat in the Sahara?
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-four-stages-of-life
- https://www.linphone.org/products - e2e encrypted video calls, audio conferencing (but not video conferencing)
- https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-the-chronically-ill-re-mission-filmmaker-jennifer-breas-life-after-unrest/ - living with chronic illness
- COVID-19/vaccine:
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/researchers-translate-bat-talk-turns-out-they-argue-a-lot - animal communication
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/21/chris-frantz-talking-heads-david-byrne - Talking Heads
- https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/ai-machine-learning-light-speed-artificial-intelligence-a9629976.html - artificial intelligence
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/could-air-conditioning-fix-climate-change - futuristic solution for carbon uptake & fuel production
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-constantly-underestimate-how-much-they-benefit-from-being-kind - not sure how useful this is, but it's not the usual message
- https://www.derricklawfirm.com/blog/the-10-worst-insurance-companies-in-america.cfm - Allstate is worst, State Farm is #4
- https://www.cjr.org/analysis/nytimes-subscriptions-local-publishers-compete.php
August
- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53450688 - solar power in Afghanistan
- COVID-19:
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qpky/scientists-just-released-a-diy-coronavirus-vaccine-under-a-creative-commons-license
- https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/30/a-huge-experiment-how-the-world-made-so-much-progress-on-a-covid-19-vaccine-so-fast/
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/duke-university-face-mask-test-trnd/index.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
- https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v2.full
- https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-08-12/column-bill-plaschke-covid-19-experience - went to a restaurant one time and caught it
- and copper:
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-a-thriving-civilization-in-malta-collapsed-4-000-years-ago
- https://www.themarysue.com/grrm-hugo-awards-debacle/ - George R.R. Martin
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-true-story-behind-mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-and-her-mixed-up-files - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- https://meridianmillhouse.com/ - based in US/NC/Ranlo
- https://www.pathway.com/blog/the-growth-of-gluten-sensitivity-and-the-genetics-behind-it/
- Starlink:
- perfectswitch.com/isolators/single-rectifier-isolator-gen4-0/ - power storage equipment
- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21355768/gpt-3-ai-openai-turing-test-language
- https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/ - ADHD
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/17/pizza-hut-to-close-up-to-300-locations-operated-by-bankrupt-franchisee.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/holy-grail-metallic-hydrogen-is-going-to-change-everything
- https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/opinion/wire/ - Wire
