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News

Futurology: Montreal’s 6.9 billion $ new railway network, the REM.

vlogbrothers: Vague questions that lead to the formation of simple opinions, that are likely to conflict with the opinions of others, are more likely to create conflict and to go viral. Also, often, the answers to those questions are invalid, because the questions themselves are wrong.

Asianometry: Soviet nuclear icebreakers.

SMBC: New cold war, Loot drop.

Sugar gliders.

Tech

Linus Akesson: The Commodordion is “an 8-bit accordion primarily made of C64s, floppy disks, and gaffer tape”.

Drew DeVault: In praise of ffmpeg.

matklad: Writing good troubleshooting wiki articles.

Yahtzee / Extra Punctuation: Monkey Island and the complicated art of puzzles.

r/gamedev: Funniest line of code you wrote while making a game?

Shitty tech ℹ️

ProPublica: Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why. via jwz.

GitHub Copilot investigation.

Most Windows OEM laptops are full of mal/bloatware that non-computerists are ill-equipped to disengage. HN.