https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:00:11 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ds4282od8 https://flipso.com/p/ds4282od8?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:00:11 GMT How mirrors, portraits, cosmetics, and facial-recognition technology changed the way we see and present the human face. [newyorker.com] 6q4idz6fl https://flipso.com/p/6q4idz6fl?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:40:28 GMT A concise summary of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and its core argument about the role of producers, entrepreneurs, and creators in society. It traces how rising resentment, regulation, and moral condemnation of success lead the productive class to withdraw, and the system to unravel. [fs.blog] yqn0nswn2 https://flipso.com/p/yqn0nswn2?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:44:55 GMT Americans are reading less for pleasure, news is increasingly consumed in fragments, and literacy skills are slipping even as text floods daily life. The piece argues that the bigger shift is not simple illiteracy, but a postliterate culture losing sustained attention, deep comprehension, and the habits shaped by reading. [theatlantic.com] ywp831cga https://flipso.com/p/ywp831cga?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:40:23 GMT Sam Marshall is an artist, printmaker, author, and creative coach based in rural Northamptonshire. He works mainly in drawing, linocut, and etching, and teaches workshops in his studio and online to students around the world. He studied Fine Art at the Slade and later returned to printmaking through an etching course at the Royal Drawing School. [handprinted.co.uk] 47z8a59va https://flipso.com/p/47z8a59va?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:00:11 GMT IERS Bulletin C announces that no leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026. It also states that UTC−TAI remains −37 seconds from 2017-01-01 until further notice. [datacenter.iers.org] arg5x59x5 https://flipso.com/p/arg5x59x5?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:20:08 GMT Fenwick McKelvey traces how political simulations and computer models shaped election strategy, forecasting, and international relations from the 1960s through the late 1980s, and what that history says about today’s promises to fix politics with AI. [mitpress.mit.edu] kox0hhb7e https://flipso.com/p/kox0hhb7e?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:40:10 GMT The Army’s sustainment model was built for permissive, uncontested environments, but peer conflict will expose fuel, ammunition, and distribution networks to persistent detection and attack. Drawing on history and Ukraine, the piece argues that large, centralized logistics hubs are vulnerable and that future survivability depends on dispersed, mobile, signature-managed sustainment, better protection, and more resilient resupply systems. [mwi.westpoint.edu] cic58p8cs https://flipso.com/p/cic58p8cs?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:09 GMT A deep dive showing that UTS #35 transliteration rules, under unbounded semantics, can simulate 2-tag systems and therefore universal computation. The post demonstrates the construction with Collatz, Rule 110, and a prime-generating automaton, and notes that ICU’s runtime guard prevents runaway rewrites in practice. [seriot.ch] ad290n9y5 https://flipso.com/p/ad290n9y5?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:09 GMT In 1981, Donkey Kong became a breakout arcade hit and helped launch Mario. Its success also set off a Nintendo-Atari dispute over licensing that helped derail a potential Atari deal for Nintendo’s Famicom, reshaping the home console market. [dfarq.homeip.net] zoccq4r0b https://flipso.com/p/zoccq4r0b?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:40:09 GMT David Tracy set out to assemble a brand-new WWII Jeep from parts sourced mostly on eBay, then drive it 900 miles from Los Angeles to Utah for serious off-road trails. With a short deadline, a driveway workspace, and help from a few Jeep-savvy friends, the project turned into a race against time, missing parts, and mechanical headaches. [theautopian.com] d0k9081nd https://flipso.com/p/d0k9081nd?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:40:10 GMT Peptides from the venom of the Tasmanian cave spider and the giant Japanese funnel-web spider show promise as a new way to protect honeybee hives from varroa mites. Researchers also tested scorpion venoms and published the findings in npj Drug Discovery. The work is an early step toward an environmentally friendly treatment for a parasite that is devastating honeybee colonies worldwide. [connectsci.au] yp3znei2c https://flipso.com/p/yp3znei2c?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:00:29 GMT MIT engineers created an air-permeable hydrogel by using tiny silica aerogel particles to form interconnected tunnels. The material stays hydrated and stretchy while reducing sweat buildup and skin irritation, which could make bandages, wearable sensors, implants, and other hydrogel products last longer. [news.mit.edu] bf1asrfmf https://flipso.com/p/bf1asrfmf?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:20:25 GMT Damn Interesting founder Alan Bellows explains a one-off fundraiser aimed at restoring time for long-form writing and podcasting, with a lighthearted Magic 8 Ball analogy about the odds of success. [damninteresting.com] vonby84ra https://flipso.com/p/vonby84ra?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:00:10 GMT A WordPress touch event bug caused the reply box to pop up while scrolling on mobile, but only for users who scrolled with their left thumb. The fix was small—removing a couple of lines of JavaScript—but it finally eliminated a long-standing annoyance. [shkspr.mobi] 820l6jflu https://flipso.com/p/820l6jflu?ref=rss Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:40:09 GMT The FTC and several state attorneys general reached a settlement with John Deere over farmers’ and equipment owners’ ability to repair the company’s machines. The agreement is expected to make it easier for owners and independent repair shops to access the tools and information needed for maintenance and fixes. [apnews.com] 6fyr9kij2 https://flipso.com/p/6fyr9kij2?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:00:10 GMT Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean. [nationalgeographic.com] kafpep3e3 https://flipso.com/p/kafpep3e3?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:20:08 GMT Environmental chemist Cassandra Rauert explains why studying microplastics in blood and tissue is so difficult: contamination can skew results, common lab methods can produce false positives, and much of the evidence on health effects is still weak. She also describes rebuilding a lab with steel and glass to reduce plastic contamination and discusses likely exposure sources at home. [e360.yale.edu] jogspnuz2 https://flipso.com/p/jogspnuz2?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:40:09 GMT Fenris Creations’ Ben Hunter discusses why open-sourcing the Carbon engine could benefit security, collaboration, and future development, including how LLM-assisted coding and Godot fit into the picture. [gamesindustry.biz] bxeab94h6 https://flipso.com/p/bxeab94h6?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:20:10 GMT Leading writers including Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, Geoff Dyer and Sarah Waters turn vintage postcards into tiny works of fiction, from love notes and confessions to comic fragments and family memories. [observer.co.uk] 5bado209z https://flipso.com/p/5bado209z?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:00:11 GMT At Weeki Wachee Springs, mermaids have performed underwater ballet and tricks for visitors since 1947, turning a natural spring into one of the most famous relics of old Florida tourism. Jack Burke visits the park and traces the show’s rise, decline after Disney-era competition, and survival as a state park. [huckmag.com] jfs38wjjy https://flipso.com/p/jfs38wjjy?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:20:10 GMT Carpenter ants amputate injured legs to reduce infection risk, and a Würzburg-led study found that the ants most likely to do this are workers transitioning from brood care to foraging. Researchers tracked six colonies and found that these more socially connected ants were the main caregivers for wounded nestmates. [uni-wuerzburg.de] fkeeo2cy3 https://flipso.com/p/fkeeo2cy3?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:00:30 GMT A detailed look at why parts of New Orleans’ Katrina-era flood defenses failed below their design water levels, focusing on levee seepage, foundation weakness, and I-wall design flaws. [practical.engineering] b1929l5du https://flipso.com/p/b1929l5du?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:40:10 GMT Guide to imaging floppy disks for long-term preservation, covering disk identification, hardware selection, cleaning, and imaging workflows for 8-inch, 5.25-inch, 3.5-inch, and 3-inch media. [digipres.org] yi41rw1ha https://flipso.com/p/yi41rw1ha?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:00:11 GMT Cory Doctorow argues that “I got it working” and code that others can reliably build on are not the same thing. He uses the contrast to explain why some AI-assisted coding helps with personal, disposable tasks while production software needs canonization: reusable, legible, maintainable work that adds to the shared technical commons. He extends that distinction to AI’s incentives, arguing it often produces reverse-centaur labor and technical debt rather than accretive progress. [pluralistic.net] xvi3zbka7 https://flipso.com/p/xvi3zbka7?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:00:10 GMT Ming Dynasty China left copious records, but they reveal far more about rulers, officials, and the historians who preserved them than about the lives of ordinary people. [aeon.co] 7xswguvn6 https://flipso.com/p/7xswguvn6?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:20:12 GMT GAO says DOE’s Environmental Management office has sometimes defined mission needs in ways that point to a preferred solution too early, which can narrow later planning and leave cheaper technically sound options unexplored. GAO recommends DOE revise mission needs that preselect a solution and include independent experts in mission-need reviews before agreeing to solutions with regulators. [gao.gov] 2eifi0zbb https://flipso.com/p/2eifi0zbb?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:20:14 GMT The École national d’horlogerie was founded after WW II as a way to help veterans reintegrate into society. Today, it’s about training professional watchmakers for the global market. [cbc.ca] 02vklkknv https://flipso.com/p/02vklkknv?ref=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:40:09 GMT Vancouver has become a frequent filming stand-in for San Francisco thanks to its Victorian neighborhoods, foggy coastal look, established production infrastructure and generous tax incentives. The article compares how productions decide between filming in Vancouver or the Bay Area, and why San Francisco still offers unique visual and logistical advantages for some shoots. [sfgate.com] svi0lfvgo https://flipso.com/p/svi0lfvgo?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:00:10 GMT A clear overview of the two parallel EU “Chat Control” proposals, how they differ, where each stands in the legislative process, and the latest timeline of negotiations and votes. [fightchatcontrol.eu] pxxyl25bh https://flipso.com/p/pxxyl25bh?ref=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:20:30 GMT A weeklong ski expedition in the Alaska Range turns into a weather-bound glacier camp: delayed flights, deep snow, avalanche concerns, camp chores, cribbage, whiskey, and improvised entertainment, all framed by big views and the Iliad. [passingtime.substack.com]