Long-lost Charlie Chaplin film meticulously restored after 100 years
The original 1925 version of ‘The Gold Rush’ is now available in 4K.
By Andrew Paul
https://www.popsci.com/technology/charlie-chaplin-the-gold-rush-4k/
Movie books at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/49
Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet
Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion brought used science fiction to bring Mars to life
By Matthew Shindell
Camille Flammarion at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8763
Excavating a Language at the End of the World
How an old dictionary is revealing new perspectives on an Indigenous culture
BY KATARINA ZIMMER
Deep in the southern hemisphere, where frigid waves lap against the toe of the South American continent, the sea has no single name.
Anthropology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4343
Is "sovereign washing" the new "privacy washing"?
Microsoft, Google, and AWS recently published “sovereign clouds”.
❌ BUT digital sovereignty doesn’t come from shiny new product names such as these “sovereign clouds” - which still must hand out data to US without a warrant based on the CLOUD Act and FISA.
✅ Digital sovereignty comes from full European legal and technical control. Everything else is nothing more than sovereign washing.
At least 66 children in Gaza have starved to death during Israel’s genocide https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/29/at-least-66-children-in-gaza-have-starved-to-death-during-israels-genocide?traffic_source=rss #ShowTypes
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Ethics #USPolitics #Government #Nonprofit
A good piece (as usual) by @davidgerard https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/03/lets-put-more-ai-slop-into-advertising/
I actually think advertising (along with it's cousin- propaganda) is the one arena in which GenAI makes genuine sense as providing an improvement over human labor.
Most other jobs that "AI" can replace are not because the "AI" has the capability to be better than a human, but because it's significantly cheaper.
But advertising? Where being factual is not the priority and rapid deployment is rewarded? Yeah... makes sense.
Billionaires and the establishment threw all the money in the world to steal this election from New Yorkers. They lost badly. Never underestimate the power everyday people have when they organize ✊️
The cartoon bomb bullshit was 13 YEARS AGO!
Dia contains some pretty neat stuff, and keeps a lot of good ideas, but loses three of the features I particularly loved about Arc (autohiding vertical tab bar, one-press profile switching, the floating command palette). I think the writing is on the wall for those across browsers. Boooo.
You don't have to prefix things with "doom" anymore, that's just the default now. You can just say scrolling.
55 years ago today 😱
Iggy Pop, the original punk rock messiah, with the Stooges at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, June 23, 1970
Photo by Thomas Copi
#punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #iggypop #thestooges #history #punkrockhistory #otd
If you’ve paid attention to my ramblings over the last decade-plus, then you’ve heard me to talk about selfish accessibility.
It’s nice to see others embrace it.
“Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs”
https://nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/selfish-reasons-for-building-accessible-uis/
🚨 New Podcast 🚨
Andy Yen, founder & CEO of Proton, and Bruce discuss fighting Big Tech. This episode is an umbrella drink filled to the brim with hot topics.
"Meta has removed over 90,000 posts since 7 October within 30 seconds of Israel making the request. In other words, no consideration was put into these decisions, the requests were just accepted. A whopping 38.8 million posts were acted upon in total, meaning they were either removed, suppressed, or the user was banned"
#Israel #Palestine #Meta #Censorship
Israel is working with Meta to censor pro-Palestinian posts across the world
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-is-working-with-meta-to-censor?publication_id=1336368&post_id=161184837&isFreemail=true&r=55ldjt&triedRedirect=true
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
“The U.S. government has taken the view that they have the ability to search your devices without a warrant and without suspicion under what’s known as the border search exception to the Fourth Amendment,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @NBCNews. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-immigration-detained-visitors-border-search-device-visa-passport-rcna197736
