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Kind: Reposts

Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.

  • Image representing post: Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones, and the Content Endgame

    Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones, and the Content Endgame

    Matt Zoller Seitz uses Avengers: Endgame and the final series of Game of Thrones to frame an examination of the vanishing distinction between film and television and what it means for audiovisual media.

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    • posted 9 May, 2019
  • remysharp comments on "Bringing back the Web of 1990"

    A MetaFilter comment I somehow missed in which Remy Sharp acknowledges my debugging of the CERN hackathon to reimplement WorldWideWeb. Squee!

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    • posted 9 May, 2019
  • Image representing post: Episode 25: ON CONSENT AND CUDDLING with my daughter Des

    Episode 25: ON CONSENT AND CUDDLING with my daughter Des

    Episode 25 of the Sexplanations Podcast features Dr. Doe's daughter Des, and it's adorable.

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    • posted 9 May, 2019
  • Image representing post: A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley

    A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley

    Why do so many startups fail? / Why are all the hosts on CouchSurfing male? / Are we going to be tweeting for the rest of our lives? / Why do Silicon Valley billionaires choose average-looking wives?

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    • posted 1 May, 2019
  • Image representing post: Guess that sex act #CONTENT

    Guess that sex act #CONTENT

    Dr Doe and TomSka do a video collaboration and look at slang and terms for sex, and it's awesome.

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    • posted 27 April, 2019
  • Image representing post: Lyme Regis To Limekilns: A 500-Mile Lime-E Adventure Across The UK

    Lyme Regis To Limekilns: A 500-Mile Lime-E Adventure Across The UK

    Lime Bikes' provide a write-up of Robin's journey from Lyme Regis to Limekilns by Lime Bike.

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    • posted 26 April, 2019
  • Towards an Information Operations Kill Chain

    Schneier proposes a model to apply the cybersecurity kill chain to the problem of thwarting information operations of the types that we're seeing day-to-day in the cyberwar landscape.

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    • posted 26 April, 2019
  • Two identical packs of Skittles

    Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles

    "Only" 464 packs of Skittles needed to be opened to find a pair. Yay?

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    • posted 26 April, 2019
  • Why do people choose frameworks over vanilla JS?

    This week on Twitter, Maxime Euzière asked why people choose large frameworks over vanilla JS. There are quite a few reasons. Some of them are really valid. Many of them aren't.

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    • posted 25 April, 2019
  • Frame from Tailsteak's 20-page comic "Escape Room"

    Escape Room [NSFW]

    If you've always wanted a comic combining B/D, gay sex, and escape room puzzles, by an awesome artist, you're in luck...

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 April, 2019
  • We're moving from Stage 2 to Stage 3 polyamory

    Alan M. cites Leanna Wolfe's claim that we're moving, culturally-speaking, from the second to the third phase of the polyamory movement.

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    • posted 24 April, 2019
  • Shakespeare's Dead

    Out of the ordinary: getting digital...

    Getting digital at the Bodleian; a piece celebrating the work of my team.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 23 April, 2019
  • G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors




    From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document":
    Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when it is removed or hosted on IT servers located abroad or …

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    • posted 23 April, 2019
  • The Marvel Cinematic Universe in Chronological Order (almost)

    Avengers Endgame: The Marvel Cinematic Universe explained

    The BBC have adapted a Marvel infographic to show the order you SHOULD watch their films in.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 21 April, 2019
  • Image representing post: Robin Varley is fundraising for Campaign Against Living Miserably

    Robin Varley is fundraising for Campaign Against Living Miserably

    Ruth's brother Robin is running a rental e-bike basically the entire length of England for charity. Here's Dan's take.

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    • 9 comments
    • posted 19 April, 2019

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