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Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights (+469)
abcnews.go.com

Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002) (+417)
www.dangermouse.net

You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it (+299)
blog.jim-nielsen.com

I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton (+287)
lithub.com

When do we stop finding new music? (+286)
www.statsignificant.com

VideoGigaGAN: Towards detail-rich video super-resolution (+282)
videogigagan.github.io

McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting (+271)
www.wsj.com

A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library (+249)
github.com

Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood (+194)
theconversation.com

The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party (+185)
aftermath.site

Daring Fireball

Dumbphones in 2024 – Kyle Chayka, writing for The New Yorker: Two years ago, they both tried Apple’s Screen Time restriction tool and found it too easy to disable, so the pair decided to trade out their iPhones for more low-tech devices. They’d heard about so-called dum…
www.newyorker.com

Ed Zitron: ‘The Man Who Killed Google Search’ – Absolutely scathing dissection of what’s gone wrong at Google Search, by Ed Zitron for his newsletter/blog: In an interview with FastCompany’s Harry McCracken from 2018 , Gomes framed Google’s challenge as “taking [the PageRank algorithm] from one m…
www.wheresyoured.at

Why Your Most-Used Keyboard Keys Get Shiny – Jeff Gamet on Mastodon: Know why you can’t clean the greasy spots off your compute keyboard? Because that isn’t grease. Lots of computer keys are made from ABS plastic, which is soft and cheaper than PBT plastic. Those shiny spots are where you poli…
mastodon.social

Senate Passes Bill to Force Sale of TikTok – Cristiano Lima-Strong, reporting for The Washington Post: Congress late Tuesday passed legislation to ban or force a sale of TikTok, delivering a historic rebuke of the video-sharing platform’s Chinese ownership after years of failed attempts to tac…
www.washingtonpost.com

Apple Renews ‘For All Mankind’ and Announces New Spinoff Series ‘Star City’ – Apple Newsroom: Following its critically acclaimed fourth season, which has been praised as “the best-written show on all of television” and “superior sci-fi,” Apple TV+’s hit, award-winning space drama series “For All Mankind” has landed a renewal …
www.apple.com

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