Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Ride the World's Longest Zipline in the UAE
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National Geographic
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Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk
Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk by by Raquel D'Apice (The Ugly Volvo) I see a lot of ideas online for things to do with your child, but most of them are a lot of work. Many of them involve an unnerving amount of craftiness and/or …
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Storytime: Rebel Lieutenant
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We've Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation
We’ve Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation by Julianne Aguilar (Longreads) Julianne Aguilar | Longreads | February 2018 | 14 minutes (2,894 words) Once upon a time, in 1999, when the internet was small, when it came through your phone and not just on your phone, when the first browser war had not …
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Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future Shock
Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future ShockYouTube (youtube.com)
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Launching An Entire Fireworks Display At Once
Tom Scott - YouTube (YouTube) Hi, I'm Tom Scott. These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time. (Want to get in touch about ...
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Payment Options
http://buttersafe.com/2018/02/20/payment-options/ (buttersafe.com)
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2018 CVE List
xkcd: 2018 CVE List (xkcd.com)
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Understanding Your Respiratory System
Understanding Your Respiratory System (Fake Science)
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After Section 702 Reauthorization
After Section 702 Reauthorization - Schneier on Security (schneier.com) For over a decade, civil libertarians have been fighting government mass surveillance of innocent Americans over the Internet. We've just lost an important battle. On January 18, President Trump signed the renewal of Section 702, domestic mass surveillance became effectively a permanent part of US law. …
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Web! What is it good for?
https://adactio.com/journal/9016 (adactio.com) You can listen to an audio version of Web! What is it good for? I have a blind spot. It’s the web. I just can’t get excited about the prospect of building something for any particular operating system, be it desktop or mobile. I think about the potential lifespan of what would be …
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TFW a Twitter bot solves a video game mystery
TFW a Twitter bot solves a video game mystery | The Video Game History Foundation on Patreon (Patreon) Official Post from The Video Game History Foundation: Something pretty fun happened yesterday that I wanted to share with you all: a bot on Twitter accidentally provided the clue that finally solved a 28-year-old mystery about a …
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Karpathy's Basilisk
Abstruse Goose | Karpathy's Basilisk (abstrusegoose.com)
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An Oxford book store is cashing in on the success of The Good Place by selling the moral philosophy and ethics books Chidi references in the series.
An Oxford book store is celebrating the success of The Good Place by selling the moral philosophy and ethics books referenced by Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper) in the series – and its efforts are going viral.
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GDPR and Google Analytics
GDPR and Google Analytics (adactio.com) Do you have permission for those third-party scripts? Enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming very, very soon. Look busy. This regulation is not limited to companies based in the EU—it applies to any service anywhere in the world that can be used by citizens of the EU.
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