Fake Work provides a theoretically rich and often amusing picture of the banalities and absurdities of certain types of work. And those who have labored in such environments are likely to feel that she gets a lot right in her descriptions of those sorts of workplaces. Unfortunately, almost everything that Fake Work has to say ...
The Coriolis Effect is definitely real. It drives ocean currents and weather patterns. But does it make toilets flush and tubs drain the opposite direction when you cross the equator? No. ...
Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together ropes and planks of wood and trampling miles of barley in the dead of night, hundreds of times, over 13 years. It meant riveting 1/8th sheet steel into a 3 m-high monolith and depositing it in ...
A perfect firestorm: The social, political, and climate forces that keep Athens burning ( thebulletin.org )
The real reason the West is warmongering against China ( www.aljazeera.com )
If the work seems fake, does that mean the crisis is too? – A Review of Leigh Claire La Berge’s “Fake Work” ( librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com )
Fake Work provides a theoretically rich and often amusing picture of the banalities and absurdities of certain types of work. And those who have labored in such environments are likely to feel that she gets a lot right in her descriptions of those sorts of workplaces. Unfortunately, almost everything that Fake Work has to say ...
The Coriolis Force Won't Reverse Your Toilet ( toilet-guru.com )
The Coriolis Effect is definitely real. It drives ocean currents and weather patterns. But does it make toilets flush and tubs drain the opposite direction when you cross the equator? No. ...
This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed ( medium.com )
Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together ropes and planks of wood and trampling miles of barley in the dead of night, hundreds of times, over 13 years. It meant riveting 1/8th sheet steel into a 3 m-high monolith and depositing it in ...
Growing recognition of post-acute infection syndromes ( www.pnas.org )
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The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders ( spillhistorie.no )
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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity ( metr.org )
Inside the most dangerous asteroid hunt ever ( www.technologyreview.com )
The TESCREAL Bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence ( montrealethics.ai )
You love the outdoors. So why are you pooping all over it? ( www.theguardian.com )
The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi ( www.theguardian.com )
A bit usa centric at points, but similar things happened here and the commentry on the flaws in/breakdown of the IRBO is good. ...
She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started. ( www.nytimes.com )
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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation ( observer.co.uk )
Finding Peter Putnam ( nautil.us )
Conversations with a Hit Man: A former FBI agent traveled to Louisiana to ask a hired killer about a murder that haunted him. Then they started talking about a different case altogether. ( magazine.atavist.com )
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/44939407
Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis ( www.bldgblog.com )
I haven't checked in with this blog in a while. This last post is from almost a year ago.