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Come closer, grandchild. Thanks for visiting me one last time before I die. I’ve lived a great life. I climbed Mt. Everest, founded a Fortune 500 company, and had six amazing children. But there’s one mistake that haunts me: not spending more of my life creating, entering, and re-entering passwords.

I’m ashamed to admit that for decades, I coasted by with a couple of passwords scribbled on a Post-it next to my laptop. That is, until websites started requiring passwords just to check the weather or read the news. Suddenly, I needed a login for everything. That’s when I realized: Nothing makes you feel more alive than registering for an account, making a password, instantly forgetting it, and repeating the whole process for every transaction. You haven’t really lived until you’ve reset a password four times just to peruse a forum on bathtub grout.

When workers send emails including words related to Israel’s war on Gaza, messages are delayed by hours or never arrive at all.

The post Microsoft Says It’s Censoring Employee Emails Containing the Word “Palestine” appeared first on The Intercept.

Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub had been asked what it meant to him to be a “Jewish political artist.” The painter’s quick reply was that he wasn’t a “Jewish political artist,” he was just a “political artist.” In the end, though, Golub came to believe that he had let himself off too easily, that his answer was too pat. Yes, he was a political artist. His paintings had focused not just on Latin America but on war-torn Vietnam and racism in the United States and South Africa. But he had consciously avoided Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.  Golub admitted that... Read more

Source: The Horrors Inflicted for 500 Years appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

US forces are being positioned, red lines drawn, and the targets selected. As Israel threatens Iran, Washington may already be backing the play.

The post Staging for a Strike? US Quietly Moves Bombers as Israel Prepares to Hit Iran appeared first on MintPress News.

Since 1988, we at Dippin’ Dots have proudly sold the official ice cream of the future. And ever since, we’ve been waiting for the future to arrive at Little League concession stands and any place that smells like popcorn and feet. But now that the future is here, we regret to announce that we are extremely disappointed.

First and foremost, we are dismayed that fashion hasn’t veered into the cyber-futuristic trends we’d hoped for. Where are the metallic jackets and structured, space-appropriate body suits? Are ’90s JNCO jeans supposed to bring back the ’90s economy? Because here at Dippin’ Dots, we think you look ridiculous.

Candidly, we expected baby names of the future to include a lot more X’s and Z’s. Zephyra or Xera are great names for kids who eat Dippin’ Dots. Instead, your most popular baby name is Noah. What does that say about where society is headed?

This one seems obvious, but computer intelligence was meant to help make your food, not take your jobs. Didn’t you watch Star Trek? AI should make a mean Earl Grey, not bring about the collapse of civilization.

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Though relationships are grounded in shared memories, some gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world

- by Gillian Murphy & Ciara Greene

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In my mother’s hoarding house, I found something I wanted to keep

- by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

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Universities should reject Republicans’ requests for information about Chinese students, academic worker unions said.

The post Trump Is Coming for Chinese Students. Who Will Protect Them? appeared first on The Intercept.

The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

The post U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data appeared first on The Intercept.

- by Gianluca Didino

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Chemistry becomes art in Thomas Blanchard’s timelapse video

The post The Visual Language of Crystals appeared first on Nautilus.

Thirstwaves are drying out croplands

The post A Dangerous Kind of Weather appeared first on Nautilus.

Erik Satie had a way with words. There have been few composers who found such obvious glee in the use of language. In written performance indications appended to his scores, he would ask musicians to play ‘without your fingers blushing’ or ‘on the tips of your back teeth’. Eschewing the standard terminology of classical notation […]

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