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The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia by Lee Hutchinson (Ars Technica)

The untold story of the rescue mission that could have been NASA's finest hour.

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· 11 Shevat 5783 (Thursday 2 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

The Real Problem With A.I. from Spotify

Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender joins Adam to discuss why we should resist the urge to be impressed when it comes to big tech’s AI promises, and how our belief in the fantasy of A.I. could be worse than the reality.

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Wat by Gary Bernhardt from Destroy All Software

A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012

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The self-fulfilling prophecy of React (Josh Collinsworth)

The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?

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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Converting to Orthodox Judaism Is a Lot. Here's How 3 Women Did It. by MICHELLE HONIG (elle.com)

Living an Orthodox Jewish lifestyle is hard. Rabbis repeatedly test converts to give them a way out.

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Jewish comedian Modi Rosenfeld, a mainstay for Orthodox audiences, is gay. So what? (jta.org)

“Being gay, you can keep Shabbos, you can keep kosher,” said Rosenfeld, who attends a Modern Orthodox synagogue in the East Village. “You can keep anything you want to do.”

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Getting Serious About Police Reform by Mona Charen (thebulwark.com)

Training and accountability are key to ending this awful cycle.

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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

A Fundamental Disconnect by Aaron Gustafson (aaron-gustafson.com)

Yesterday at BlendConf, Scott Hanselman gave a fantastically-entertaining keynote entitled “JavaScript, The Cloud, and the rise of the New Virtual Machine.” In it, he chronicled all of the ways Web development and deployment has changed—for the better—over the years. He also boldly declared ...

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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

A Short Guide to MAGA "Conservatism" by Charlie Sykes (Bulwark+)

What it is. And what it isn't.

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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm (ericwbailey.website)

Performance, accessibility, and usability are more than just inconvenient truths you can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact on the quality of someone’s life…

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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Charles McGonigal and the Deep State by Jonathan V. Last (Bulwark+)

What if the Deep State was real?

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L O L G O P (@lolgop@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)

Republicans want a background check with every drop of menstruation noted for kids to play field hockey, but anyone can carry a gun around your kid anywhere -- no questions asked.