https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:40:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ojmw0dibe https://flipso.com/p/ojmw0dibe?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:40:08 GMT Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led. [science.org] sulwuoe0f https://flipso.com/p/sulwuoe0f?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:20:08 GMT A reflective essay about accepting the ambitions you may never pursue, from snowboarding and kung fu to languages and hobbies, and finding contentment in deliberately choosing a smaller set of pursuits. [nik.art] mcyaab885 https://flipso.com/p/mcyaab885?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:00:09 GMT Ken Shirriff restores and powers a pluggable thyratron module from the IBM 604 electronic calculating punch, then explains how the gas-filled tube acts as a high-current switch and why IBM’s modular tube design mattered for maintenance and mass production. [righto.com] 9mj4sx89b https://flipso.com/p/9mj4sx89b?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:08:40 GMT Lab studies suggest that cutting protein can make animals leaner, healthier, and longer-lived, but the effect may depend on age and doesn’t prove the same benefit for humans. [knowablemagazine.org] b8so5nmu2 https://flipso.com/p/b8so5nmu2?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:00:32 GMT A comparative look at pre-colonial African agriculture and ironworking argues that common claims about a persistent technology gap are overstated. The piece examines hoe versus plow farming and bloomery versus blast furnaces, using colonial-era failures to show that older African techniques were often well adapted and economically competitive. [africanhistoryextra.com] vm90n1m9w https://flipso.com/p/vm90n1m9w?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:20:30 GMT A Classical Wisdom post pairing a discussion of Pericles and Athens’ so-called Golden Age with a weekly quiz on ancient Greek history, philosophy, and politics. [classicalwisdom.substack.com] t4kvqcjq4 https://flipso.com/p/t4kvqcjq4?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:38:58 GMT Surrogacy costs have surged since the pandemic, with a single birth often starting around $200,000 and rising far higher at the top end. As demand grows and the pool of surrogates shrinks, private equity is moving into clinics, agencies, and egg banks, turning a once-expensive path to parenthood into a luxury market. [airmail.news] zkq6nzku7 https://flipso.com/p/zkq6nzku7?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:00:31 GMT A 2019 site visit showed steel beams in a former restaurant space that may need replacement, not just cleaning up and repainting. [oldstructures.com] uutk667j5 https://flipso.com/p/uutk667j5?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:00:08 GMT A post hoc secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial found no overall cognitive benefit from high-dose versus standard-dose vitamin D3 during pregnancy, though verbal memory was modestly higher in the high-dose group. [jamanetwork.com] fg0yb78up https://flipso.com/p/fg0yb78up?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:20:32 GMT Jesus’ upbringing in Nazareth, his Torah education, manual labor as a tekton, family life, and the Temple episode at age 12 all helped shape his language, worldview, and sense of mission. [thecollector.com] ygu5wbnyf https://flipso.com/p/ygu5wbnyf?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:20:08 GMT Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) joins Chris to discuss his new book The Secret Life of Circuits, teaching electronics, and the overlap between security research, calculators, and hardware curiosity. [theamphour.com] lcb5csfrh https://flipso.com/p/lcb5csfrh?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:40:37 GMT A look at the Parthian Empire beyond its rivalry with Rome: a crossroads power in Mesopotamia and Iran, shaped by trade, horse cavalry, and cultural blending with Greek, Persian, Mesopotamian, Indian, and Chinese influences. [worldhistory.substack.com] h5oiaw2e6 https://flipso.com/p/h5oiaw2e6?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:20:08 GMT Five researchers were removed from the American Diabetes Association’s annual meeting after distributing reprints of a Diabetes Care editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific research. The group included journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz. [arstechnica.com] bw6ey3kyn https://flipso.com/p/bw6ey3kyn?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:20:08 GMT A deep dive into how 16-bit Windows managed memory through movable segments, handles, locking and unlocking, discardable code, DLL behavior, and the special compiler and loader conventions needed to make it all work. [os2museum.com] 9y1bj49s1 https://flipso.com/p/9y1bj49s1?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:00:08 GMT Biohub has released open AI models for protein structure prediction, design, and discovery, including ESMC, ESMFold2, and ESM Atlas. The system maps protein biology across billions of sequences and structures and was used to design lab-tested protein binders with therapeutic potential. [biohub.org] wp0zb96zw https://flipso.com/p/wp0zb96zw?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:00:28 GMT The PDP-1, built by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1960, helped launch hacker culture, early debugging tools, computer art, and Spacewar!, often cited as the first console video game. It was a compact, interactive machine for its era, with a display, light pen, and paper-tape peripherals, and it became a key ancestor of the minicomputer. [flashbak.com] zy9007sen https://flipso.com/p/zy9007sen?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:00:09 GMT A daytime copper theft severed WDGG(FM)’s transmission line in Boyd County, Ky., leaving the 100,000-watt country station off the air. The station is running on backup equipment at reduced power while repairs and a new transmission path are arranged, with costs estimated at $70,000 to $100,000. [radioworld.com] s37se1kfg https://flipso.com/p/s37se1kfg?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:40:08 GMT In Argentina, equine cloning in polo is no longer a rarity. It’s now a mature industry — although ethical dilemmas surrounding it persist. [knowablemagazine.org] z9etq57v2 https://flipso.com/p/z9etq57v2?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:20:20 GMT Liminalism has emerged as a crowd-curated internet aesthetic built around empty, in-between spaces: abandoned malls, fluorescent backrooms, hotel corridors, and other mundane places made uncanny by absence. The piece traces its rise through online communities like liminal photography and The Backrooms, and places it in a longer art-historical lineage running from Surrealism to Edward Hopper. [hyperallergic.com] d5sb3ozas https://flipso.com/p/d5sb3ozas?ref=rss Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:20:28 GMT Real artists do all the painting themselves, not like Rembrandt. Real writers write it out by hand, not like Jack Kerouac. Real musicians record it live, not like Steely Dan. The point: artists have always used technology; what matters is intent, responsibility, and creating a feeling in the audience. [seths.blog] 7ntqe9jdd https://flipso.com/p/7ntqe9jdd?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:00:08 GMT A recent college degree used to give U.S. job seekers an employment edge. That advantage ended in 2019, and recent grads now face higher unemployment than the workforce overall, with the gap at a record high. [randalolson.com] bmncwebw5 https://flipso.com/p/bmncwebw5?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:00:30 GMT Ted Gioia invites readers to suggest the definitive playlist of songs capturing American life, in honor of the approach to the United States’ 250th anniversary. [honest-broker.com] np35ek13k https://flipso.com/p/np35ek13k?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:20:07 GMT The booming industry of pet hospice is teaching people how to face the loss of their beloved companions—even when saying goodbye feels impossible. [newyorker.com] fpcqs0l0v https://flipso.com/p/fpcqs0l0v?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:40:09 GMT Decades after being placed for adoption, the writer reconnects with his birth mother and traces the family history behind their separation, revealing an adoption reunion shaped by coercion, estrangement and unresolved grief. [theguardian.com] cqalpzklv https://flipso.com/p/cqalpzklv?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:20:28 GMT Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate gradually imposed Sakoku to limit foreign influence, suppress Christianity, and reduce the risk of colonial intrusion and internal unrest. The policy tightly restricted overseas travel and trade until Commodore Matthew Perry forced the reopening of Japan’s ports in 1854. [thecollector.com] uy9v9q39g https://flipso.com/p/uy9v9q39g?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:40:09 GMT A compact 3-digit color format where each digit represents red, green, and blue. It explains how Splash works, why the limited range can reduce decision paralysis, and how to convert Splash values to hex or map them to a custom theme. [todepond.com] 7eveorh6r https://flipso.com/p/7eveorh6r?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:20:26 GMT AI didn’t create the web’s problems so much as intensify an older pattern of platform enclosure, extraction, and weakening social commons. The piece argues that the real risk is not machine consciousness, but people treating AI as if it were human while institutions and communities continue to erode. [hamishcampbell.com] acfma1wwp https://flipso.com/p/acfma1wwp?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:00:29 GMT The Red Terror was a Bolshevik campaign of mass repression during the Russian Civil War, carried out by the Cheka from 1918 to 1922. It targeted political opponents, peasants, clergy, landowners, and other perceived “enemies of the state,” with arrests, deportations, executions, and torture. [thecollector.com] xpil9dh62 https://flipso.com/p/xpil9dh62?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:20:10 GMT Rare-book collecting is booming as younger buyers seek tangible connections to the past. At the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s New York fair, dealers reported rising interest in first editions, ephemera, archives, and other objects with historical meaning. [engelsbergideas.com] 1j1hak07v https://flipso.com/p/1j1hak07v?ref=rss Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:20:32 GMT Europe should consider tariffs and non-tariff barriers on Chinese manufactured exports, especially high-tech goods tied to defense supply chains. The piece argues this could reduce strategic dependence, pressure China’s subsidy-driven export model, and have broader political and economic effects beyond simple protectionism. [noahpinion.blog]