🎢 Wow, the geeks have done it again! They've built a *digital playground* so you can tinker with a double pendulum—because who doesn't want to spend their precious time watching virtual pendulums swing? 🤹‍♂️ Just remember: when you finally understand it, you'll be one step closer to achieving absolutely nothing! 🏆
https://theabbie.github.io/DoublePendulum/ #digitalplayground #tinkering #doublependulum #techgeeks #virtualfun #playfulphysics #HackerNews #ngated
Double Pendulum

Interactive Double Pendulum Playground Using SVG

Oh, look! Social media's having a midlife crisis and trying to pick a side like it's choosing a high school clique. 🙄 Apparently, running back to Elon Musk's digital playground is the new cool, because who doesn't love a good sectarian soap opera? 📱🎭
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/social-media-is-navigating-its-sectarian-phase #socialmedia #midlifecrisis #ElonMusk #digitalplayground #popculture #drama #HackerNews #ngated
Social Media Is Navigating Its Sectarian Phase

Kyle Chayka writes about how social-media platforms are navigating—and shaping—contemporary political divides.

The New Yorker
Yes, do it because you can!
75%
No! You already have this Mastodon.
0%
Well, I don't know. Up to you.
25%
Maybe people find it annoying, no single flagship.
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🎢🤹‍♀️ Behold the dizzying carnival of Cory Doctorow's digital playground, where #antitrust laws float in zero-gravity and the #privacy claims are as substantial as #vaporware. 🚀✨ Like a magpie with a new shiny trinket, we're all supposed to marvel at the dazzling defiance of political physics—now with more links and fewer trackers! 🧩🥳
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting #CoryDoctorow #DigitalPlayground #PoliticalPhysics #HackerNews #ngated
Pluralistic: Antitrust defies politics’ law of gravity (28 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

🎭 Ah, the harrowing tale of a journalist who bravely entered a digital playground of make-believe and emerged... almost slightly inconvenienced. 🤡 Apparently, "nearly breaking" now involves playing some glorified Monopoly with extra screen time. 📉🔍
https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-the-game-undercover/ #journalism #digitalplayground #makebelieve #technews #onlinegaming #humor #HackerNews #ngated
I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me

I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.

WIRED