Mastodawn

statsofrage Nov 4, 2024

Rebecca Watson Nov 4, 2024

same, it's election anxiety

statsofrage Nov 4, 2024

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/based-on-our-election-forecast-we-are-100-percent-sure-anything-could-fucking-happen

Based on Our Election Forecast, We Are 100 Percent Sure Anything Could Fucking Happen

Our election forecast model is the most rigorous data-driven tool available. It aggregates and weighs polls, draws on fundamentals like the economy...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

statsofrage Oct 3, 2024

Mark A. Rayner Oct 3, 2024

This is the face of joyful panic.

#dog #dogstodon #dogsOfMastodon #dogs #humor #humour

statsofrage Oct 2, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy

College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time

Two Harvard students have created a demo of how the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, LLMs, and public databases can be used to instantly doxx people.

The Verge

statsofrage Sep 24, 2024

https://flowingdata.com/2024/09/24/grocery-owner-territories/

Grocery owner territories

Any day is a good day for a map of predominant commercial chains. For The Washington Post, Kevin Schaul and Jaclyn Peiser show the most common grocery owners, creating territories within the United…

FlowingData

statsofrage Sep 23, 2024

Street Art Utopia Sep 21, 2024

How a 96-Year-Old Artist’s Colorful Paintings Saved a Village in Taiwan: https://streetartutopia.com/2024/09/21/rainbow-family-village-%e5%bd%a9%e8%99%b9%e7%9c%b7%e6%9d%91-in-taichung-taiwan/

How a 96-Year-Old Artist’s Colorful Paintings Saved a Village in Taiwan

Rainbow Family Village (彩虹眷村) - In Taichung, TaiwanIn Taiwan, a 96-year-old artist transformed his village with colorful street art, attracting so many tourists that the mayor decided

statsofrage Sep 9, 2024

https://www.vox.com/23142734/apalachee-georgia-school-shooting-gun-violence

America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained

The factors that lead to mass shootings like the one in Birmingham are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law.

Vox

statsofrage Sep 3, 2024

https://www.quantamagazine.org/perplexing-the-web-one-probability-puzzle-at-a-time-20240829/

Perplexing the Web, One Probability Puzzle at a Time | Quanta Magazine

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles.

Quanta Magazine

statsofrage Aug 26, 2024

Kevin Lyda Aug 26, 2024

Working from home is a massive climate benefit and a massive benefit for cities with poor public transit systems. It takes loads of cars off the road which reduces emissions and traffic. It blows my mind that we want to throw that away.

statsofrage Aug 23, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9

No one’s ready for this

With AI photo editing getting easy and convincing, the world isn’t prepared for an era where photographs aren’t to be trusted.

The Verge