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“There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.”
— Rod Serling
THE TWILIGHT ZONE debuted tonight in 1959.
Okay people, it's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling"
My latest "LINKFEST" newsletter has dropped 📬
Includes:
- 🏗 moving a 1930s building while everyone in inside it
- 🕹 "Reverse Tetris"
- 🎾 the "marshmallow shot" returns
- 🧱 Brutalist Italy
- 💻 the $2.98 computer library
- 🐱 the world's oldest continually-functioning cat door
Read it for free online: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-10/
Subscribe here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson
Here's the tl;dr if you're a current or former LastPass user and haven't yet changed your important credentials that were in there late last year, it's time to do that NOW.
According to MetaMask’s Monahan, users who stored any important passwords with LastPass — particularly those related to cryptocurrency accounts — should change those credentials immediately, and migrate any crypto holdings to new offline hardware wallets.
“Really the ONLY thing you need to read is this,” Monahan pleaded to her 70,000 followers on Twitter/X: “PLEASE DON’T KEEP ALL YOUR ASSETS IN A SINGLE KEY OR SECRET PHRASE FOR YEARS. THE END. Split up your assets. Get a hw [hardware] wallet. Migrate. Now.”
If you also had passwords tied to banking or retirement accounts, or even just important email accounts — now would be a good time to change those credentials as well.
If I could send a message into the past, it would be to my family members: put names and dates on all those photographs!
My mom came up with a treasure trove of very old (some over 100 years old) photos -- no names or dates on anything. A lot of guessing over here.
"The Curious Power of Memorizing Poems"
My essay on the interesting cognitive effects of having a lot of poetry loaded into the live RAM of your mind
https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-curious-power-of-memorizing-poems-1b028a77a9f6
Here's a free "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-curious-power-of-memorizing-poems-1b028a77a9f6?sk=ac8c2df71f795c338a714f8d78d9724c
Let's take a moment to appreciate the fantastic art from "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot", which was 1st published by John Muir Productions in 1969.
You can read this book online via @internetarchive https://archive.org/details/howtokeepyourvol00muir
✍️ "Charles Darwin was far too busy looking for beetles to shine at the bits of the syllabus that bored him."
Mary Beard discovers that some of the brightest and the best were a bit rubbish at exams.
You May Now Turn Over Your Papers, a programme about exams, on BBC Sounds.
#ALevel #examination #education #school #GradeDeflation #GCSE #school #LabourShortage #skills
Let's contemplate for a moment that the computing resources on the Voyager spacecraft are from the 1960s, with clock speeds measured in KHz and RAM in kbytes, running hand-crafted software, crammed into 4K of 18-bit wide plated-wire memory (similar to but better than core mem).
The custom-designed hardware and (upgraded) software (and most instruments) are still functioning after 46 years in space!
https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html
https://hackaday.com/2018/11/29/interstellar-8-track-the-low-tech-data-recorders-of-voyager/
#Voyager #Space #Science #Computers
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I need one of these for my backyard.
Ad from the July 1959 issue of Better Homes and Gardens.
Will McKinley
Clive Thompson
BrianKrebs
Baratunde
Nicholas C. Zakas
Doctor M. Popular
BBC Radio 4
AkaSci 🛰️
A.C. Miller