“Many of the basic research problems we take for granted in computer graphics contain insidious assumptions about race. These troubling issues pre-date computer graphics, and can be traced back to the film technology and techniques from the analog era. Far from being incidental, they directly determine the physical formulations and numerical algorithms we use to depict virtual humans today.

A convenient site for exporting words you looked up in a Kindle e-book reader to Anki and other formats. It includes the sentence the word came from and can provide translations into many languages.

The Japanese only started to eat salmon sushi in the 90s due to a Norwegian PR campaign, but you could find it in the US as early as 1975.

“two or three hundred feet tall, appeared for like a month every summer over the Empire state building. so much fun kneeling under it with my friends eyes rolling back into my head but kids these days would rather watch tiktok than worship the husk

A demo with music and graphics that runs on the Commodore 64's disk drive without the actual C64 being connected.

Some of the psychological effects or claims whose evidence turns out to be weak:

• The Dunning-Kruger effect
• The marshmallow effect
• Stanford prison, Milgram, Robbers Cave experiments
• The "hungry judge" effect (massively reduced acquittals just before lunch)
• Expertise attained after 10,000 hours' practice
• Tailoring teaching to students' preferred learning styles has an effect on objective measures of attainment
• Multiple intelligences exist
• Lots of screen time is associated with low wellbeing
• Left/right hemisphere dominance correlates with personality differences
• Stereotype threat suppresses girls' maths scores
• Brains contain one mind per hemisphere
• Facial feedback (smiling causes good mood)

“I intend this neither to be a defense nor a vindication of Teresa; rather, adding some much needed nuance and assessing some bad-faith approaches to the issues. My major historical/ sociological research here deals with the state of medical care in Teresa's charities.

In a Q&A session, Bill Gates suggested that eventually, we would have digital certificates to show our health records (which is something that could be implemented on our smartphones). The next day, a Swedish website for biohacking advocates, always looking for excuses to implant chips, claimed that Gates meant microchip implants.

A Baptist pastor read the biohackers' fabrications, identified the supposed chip as the mark of the beast from the book of Revelation, and talked about it in a video that quickly got 1.6 million views, calling the chip a "vaccine implant". The conspiracy theory then spread, helped by former Trump advisor Roger Stone, who on radio claimed that Bill Gates may have created the coronavirus as an excuse to microchip people.

“My mom got sucked into the world of internet conspiracies so I made this little movie about it.

Chinese firm Unitree Robotics revealed its latest creation: the Unitree Go1, a robust-looking four-legged bot that’s remarkably cheap, with prices starting at just $2,700. (For comparison, Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot costs $74,500.)

A Photoshop clone written in Javascript that runs in your browser.

A new malaria vaccine is 77% effective in a phase II trial. If results from phase III aren't much worse, then it could soon save hundreds of thousands of children's lives each year.