https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:20:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss p93v1vgy3 https://flipso.com/p/p93v1vgy3?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:20:26 GMT How asset owners, especially those who started with wealth, have pulled far ahead of wage earners as stock prices and housing values surged. [slowboring.com] 2cxqk5i8a https://flipso.com/p/2cxqk5i8a?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:40:26 GMT Europe should use clear immigration targets, favor high-skilled and work-based visas, tighten fraud checks, and limit low-value or high-cost pathways by matching admissions to economic capacity and integration outcomes. [unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com] rezpic7mq https://flipso.com/p/rezpic7mq?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:28 GMT A new study suggests chemicals from tire wear may pose health risks to humans when inhaled. Researchers exposed human immune cells to tire-derived pollutants and found rapid cell death and other harms, raising concerns that current focus on a single compound may underestimate the broader risk. [e360.yale.edu] q94nrlot8 https://flipso.com/p/q94nrlot8?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:40:12 GMT Jon Mooallem’s eccentric history of the failed plan to import hippos into the U.S. for meat, and the larger story of espionage, ambition, and American optimism behind it. [magazine.atavist.com] jn0it6s3b https://flipso.com/p/jn0it6s3b?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:20:09 GMT Paul McGowan’s point: musicality isn’t added to an amplifier; it’s what remains when you stop ruining it. The same idea applies to customer delight, curiosity, satisfaction at work, and trust: these qualities often survive by avoiding the mistakes that destroy them. [seths.blog] bvof5oqyk https://flipso.com/p/bvof5oqyk?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:20:28 GMT What tomorrow’s city builders are learning about equity, loyalty, and community in a world where countries compete more like products than inherited nations. The essay looks at startup societies and new city experiments, focusing on ownership, governance, and belonging as the keys to making people stay. [elysian.press] kba2f8chq https://flipso.com/p/kba2f8chq?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:00:27 GMT USS Croaker, a Gato-class submarine built in 1943, sank eleven ships during World War II before being converted into a Cold War hunter-killer submarine. After later service as a training and auxiliary boat, it became a museum ship and is now preserved at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park. [lflank.wordpress.com] fu0alnpga https://flipso.com/p/fu0alnpga?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:00:08 GMT BBC reports that Meta has largely ignored an EU-backed appeals body handling claims from Facebook, Instagram and Threads users who say they were wrongly banned. The body reviewed thousands of cases, but Meta provided useful evidence in only a small fraction, leaving many appeals unresolved. [bbc.com] sc2n62yqz https://flipso.com/p/sc2n62yqz?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:40:11 GMT A ham-radio experiment that sends teletext pages over AX.25 data links, bringing the 1980s information service back as a digital protocol for HF and VHF transmissions. [spectrum.ieee.org] 9wdryxgwl https://flipso.com/p/9wdryxgwl?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:09 GMT A field guide to surveillance technologies visible in downtown Seattle, including cameras, Amazon Go, automated license plate readers, and traffic-monitoring devices. The page maps a 1.3-mile route and explains what each system looks like, how it works, and why it matters for privacy and consent. [coveillance.org] amfwvc9s1 https://flipso.com/p/amfwvc9s1?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:22:30 GMT A long essay connecting Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with AI coding tools, arguing that software still needs craft, judgment, and standards of excellence even as “working” software becomes easier to generate. [sinclairtarget.com] reao65i9q https://flipso.com/p/reao65i9q?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:09 GMT A nostalgia-driven build log about restoring grid-based Spaces navigation on macOS, why the old Leopard-era layout felt better, and the permission and App Store hurdles involved in shipping GridLion. [blog.hopefullyuseful.com] yif3ou8i9 https://flipso.com/p/yif3ou8i9?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:40:27 GMT MIT engineers have developed a wearable ultrasound pacemaker that can stimulate heart cells through the chest. In lab and rat experiments, the sticker helped correct arrhythmias and restore regular contractions, pointing toward a potential surgery-free alternative to implanted pacemakers. [news.mit.edu] idfvxg0mm https://flipso.com/p/idfvxg0mm?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:58:53 GMT Marisa Kabas argues that anti-AI backlash is a valid human response to a technology being pushed by billionaires, brands, and platforms. She points to public boos at commencement speeches, AI-generated mistakes in publishing, and LinkedIn’s flood of polished AI boosterism as signs that many people are tired of the hype. [thehandbasket.co] fiqii4blm https://flipso.com/p/fiqii4blm?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:26 GMT Shuko Oda on Koya’s 16 years in Soho, how the udon restaurant grew into a modern London fixture, and why its blackboard specials and house-made noodles have helped it endure. [vittlesmagazine.com] 09h3poeo2 https://flipso.com/p/09h3poeo2?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:20:28 GMT Ian Leslie argues that Tony Blair’s intervention exposed Labour’s lack of serious thinking about governance, growth, and policy. He says Labour’s responses were defensive and superficial, and that the party needs to engage more honestly with the country’s economic and strategic problems. [ian-leslie.com] 0ezqketu9 https://flipso.com/p/0ezqketu9?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:40:24 GMT Amanda Holmes reads Amy Levy’s poem aloud in this Read Me a Poem episode. [theamericanscholar.org] 8lp3ovty4 https://flipso.com/p/8lp3ovty4?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:28 GMT Japan’s Tokugawa peace depended in part on concentrating the samurai elite in Edo, a huge city that functioned as both capital and gilded prison. The result was a tightly zoned, resource-hungry urban system that helped keep the peace while constraining movement, status, and growth. [worksinprogress.co] 1jtt57fi4 https://flipso.com/p/1jtt57fi4?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:00:08 GMT Money laundering is a vast, little-understood industry, and John Lanchester asks why so much of it still operates in the shadows even as cash use keeps declining. [lrb.co.uk] u77zvepyd https://flipso.com/p/u77zvepyd?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:00:08 GMT Greg Egan’s novella follows a wealthy technologist who recruits an AI researcher to help build artificial intelligence on a revolutionary photonic crystal processor, raising questions about consciousness, selection, and the ethics of creating minds. [gregegan.net] u1vayf3an https://flipso.com/p/u1vayf3an?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:40:09 GMT To most AI researchers, the frame problem is the challenge of representing the effects of action in logic without having to represent explicitly a large number of intuitively obvious non-effects. But to many philosophers, the AI researchers' frame problem is suggestive of wider epistemological issues. Is it possible, in principle, to limit the scope of the reasoning required to derive the consequences of an action? And, more generally, how do we account for our apparent ability to make decisions on the basis only of what is relevant to an ongoing situation without having explicitly to consider all that is not relevant? [plato.stanford.edu] 62vo1b8w1 https://flipso.com/p/62vo1b8w1?ref=rss Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:20:08 GMT So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully government controlled internet. [mullvad.net] hp3mkw4p7 https://flipso.com/p/hp3mkw4p7?ref=rss Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:00:32 GMT Astronomer Andrew LePage describes hearing a loud boom and shockwave from his Massachusetts home on May 30, 2026, then tracing it to a bright bolide over Cape Cod Bay. He explains how satellite and radar data pointed to a meter-scale meteoroid that disintegrated high in the atmosphere, making ground recovery of fragments unlikely. [drewexmachina.com] 7kazda7he https://flipso.com/p/7kazda7he?ref=rss Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:40:31 GMT Ted Gioia’s latest roundup of new music, including an Italian cinematic funk trio and a young Mississippi blues musician with a debut album on the way. [honest-broker.com] prgga8s0s https://flipso.com/p/prgga8s0s?ref=rss Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:00:09 GMT For loading and processing 8-bit RGB images, normalize by 255 if the source images come from elsewhere. Divide by 256 only when you control both encoding and decoding and want a mid-tread quantizer with zero centered between codes. Division by 255 keeps black at 0.0 and matches common GPU/image-processing practice, while division by 256 is a niche choice tied to the full 8-bit pipeline. [30fps.net] x8w21qqah https://flipso.com/p/x8w21qqah?ref=rss Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:00:32 GMT A live discussion on whether Stoicism or Skepticism offers a better guide to truth, resilience, and living well, featuring Massimo Pigliucci, Vittorio Bufacchi, and Robin Reames. [classicalwisdom.substack.com] 9dz7x66uc https://flipso.com/p/9dz7x66uc?ref=rss Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:20:09 GMT https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm [idlewords.com] cgkpj7kwr https://flipso.com/p/cgkpj7kwr?ref=rss Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:20:41 GMT Greg Girard photographed Hong Kong after dark from 1974 to 1989, capturing neon-lit streets and the city’s mix of old and new. [flashbak.com] g67d5cc82 https://flipso.com/p/g67d5cc82?ref=rss Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:00:10 GMT A hand-painted map of the Hawaiian Islands in Copic markers, watercolor, and ink. [notesfromtheroad.com] d98l9ymsz https://flipso.com/p/d98l9ymsz?ref=rss Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:40:09 GMT Experiments on sterilized soil kept producing carbon dioxide for years, suggesting that some life-like metabolic chemistry may happen outside cells and could offer clues to life’s origins. [quantamagazine.org]