Tabs for December 9th 2023
- Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Whistleblower Aid Client Reveals
- World’s first drive system concept. EVs open a huge amount of technological potential.
- Twitter the only platform not “bought and paid for,” says man who bought and paid for Twitter
- Sellafield hacked. Nuclear site in Wales near Dublin. They’re so reckless with this thing it boggles the mind it hasn’t been a diplomatic issue.
- Ukraine could lose this war. It’s been dragged on because of the West.
- Garden ornament turned out to be bomb. The story is weird. But it gets weirder when you find out the family didn’t want to vacate, even if the bomb went off.
- Spotify lays off huge number of employees. All while turning tens of millions of profit this year.
- In the aftermath of a violent attack in the city, Algerian Dubliners worry about a cloud of stigma
- Kiss will continue to perform… as avatars
- How QR codes are made
- Forecasts need to have error bars. This is an amazing idea.
- 10 years of haveibeenpwned
- Chroma Console. Gorgeous piece of kit.
- McVerry trust turns down donations. The article is written in a way to discredit the McVerry trust for turning down “free money.” When it should focus on the what-the-fuckery of a system that allows rich people to bribe their way into visas.
- How did your TD vote on the treaty?
- isEven() API. Hilarious.
- Education in circles. Sitting around is better than what we do today. It’s also, I would imagine, a better use of space.
- HTML the programming language
- Remember hotbot?
- Jack Dorsey is getting rid of annual reviews and PIPs at Block. I asked our workplace correspondent if it’s a trend. This feels like a way to obfuscate performance.
- Forest City: Inside Malaysia’s Chinese-built ‘ghost city’
- Most ‘Ireland is full’ and ‘Irish lives matter’ online posts originate abroad
- Screens are terrible compared to paper for cognition and creativity. I’m a huge fan of my ‘Remarkable’ e-ink tablet.
- Contrachrome
- Reclaiming shipping ports as public spaces. Dublin port, take note!
- Gaza is the terrifying dystopia sci-fi writers told you about