https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:03:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 7902mbki3 https://flipso.com/p/7902mbki3?ref=rss Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:03:16 GMT A reflection on how most dreams are constrained more by time, confidence, and relationships than by money. Kevin Kelly argues that many goals can start small, be prototyped cheaply, and grow through ingenuity, persistence, and direct relationships rather than massive capital. [kevinkelly.substack.com] 42yvdxs6n https://flipso.com/p/42yvdxs6n?ref=rss Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:20:22 GMT An essay arguing that AI will automate much of what rewards predictability, making originality, adaptability, and unconventional thinking more valuable. It explores why institutions favored normalcy in the past and how education, community, and the economy may need to change as weirdness becomes a strategic advantage. [essays.georgestrakhov.com] kt7u4wjqd https://flipso.com/p/kt7u4wjqd?ref=rss Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:40:14 GMT Nineteenth-century Paris tackled public urination with ornate pissoirs. American reformers later turned toilets into a temperance cause. [daily.jstor.org] i9nb8xb98 https://flipso.com/p/i9nb8xb98?ref=rss Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:36 GMT Depth against slogans: 6 weeks driving through Xinjiang, from Urumqi to remote villages and mountain roads, meeting locals along the way. [arnaudbertrand.substack.com] cp9j9epbq https://flipso.com/p/cp9j9epbq?ref=rss Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:00:19 GMT Agent-driven reverse engineering of five peripherals reveals a webcam with a hidden command channel, a microphone with a plaintext USB shell and weak auth, a monitor with patchable firmware, and a Wi‑Fi light that accepts unauthenticated memory writes. [schlarp.com] s2tum574c https://flipso.com/p/s2tum574c?ref=rss Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:00:20 GMT Richard I. Cook’s classic essay on why complex systems fail: layered defenses, multiple interacting failures, hindsight bias, and the way practitioners continuously adapt to keep systems safe. [how.complexsystems.fail] 68699w0zo https://flipso.com/p/68699w0zo?ref=rss Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:40:34 GMT A reflective essay on rural northern New York, the pressures of Substack-style writing, and an effort to use unexpected resources to help revive a struggling region. [shagbark.substack.com] vlfchf3l0 https://flipso.com/p/vlfchf3l0?ref=rss Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:20:21 GMT Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged that… [punyamishra.com] 1eudi7cfz https://flipso.com/p/1eudi7cfz?ref=rss Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:00:20 GMT Read widely and well. T. R. Napper argues that reading is the essential habit behind better writing: it teaches craft, sparks new ideas, and strengthens the attention and imagination needed to sustain long-form work. [nappertime.com] iszyv9iz0 https://flipso.com/p/iszyv9iz0?ref=rss Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:40:17 GMT A reflective look at Blade Runner’s lasting visual power, with examples of fan art, production design, and the film’s noir-inflected aesthetic. The piece argues that its composition, light, shadow, and attention to detail still inspire artists and filmmakers decades later. [nappertime.com] rtu6tdxei https://flipso.com/p/rtu6tdxei?ref=rss Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:00:23 GMT The broiler chicken may become a fossil marker of the human age: a globally abundant, industrially engineered bird whose bones, chemistry, and pathologies record how humans reshaped life on Earth. [thesilentape.substack.com] 8n113x7hh https://flipso.com/p/8n113x7hh?ref=rss Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:40:18 GMT Or, She (It?) thought I was a 400-year-old playwright … then things got weird. [rwwgreene.substack.com] 2f3j81vez https://flipso.com/p/2f3j81vez?ref=rss Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:20:21 GMT A climate paper’s headline estimate reportedly collapsed after researchers found it was highly sensitive to Uzbekistan data with apparent errors in the 1995–1999 period. The post discusses the retraction, the role of open data and methods, and why basic influence checks and data-quality diagnostics should have been run from the start. [statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu] 9hmvwajqr https://flipso.com/p/9hmvwajqr?ref=rss Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:20:20 GMT Scientists are questioning whether the traditional human genus labels — Homo, Australopithecus, and Paranthropus — really reflect true evolutionary branches. New fossils and analyses suggest a broader, more accurate classification may be needed. [nautil.us] yw23bajku https://flipso.com/p/yw23bajku?ref=rss Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:40:17 GMT A philosophical reading of Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” through Kant argues that an apology meant to win forgiveness or restore a relationship is self-interested rather than moral. The post examines the lyrics as a test of duty, sincerity, and whether saying sorry still counts when it is aimed at getting something back. [decodingvibes.com] iaz5ie0nq https://flipso.com/p/iaz5ie0nq?ref=rss Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:20:37 GMT Intimate, sharply observed portraits of people the writer knows, each framed as an unspoken thought or truth they hesitate to say aloud. [skincontact.substack.com] 2tam47qeh https://flipso.com/p/2tam47qeh?ref=rss Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:20:18 GMT Siam preserved its sovereignty through diplomacy, selective modernization, and careful nation-building. Its rulers cultivated Western recognition of Siam as a “civilized” state, reformed law, schools, borders, and administration, and made territorial concessions when necessary to avoid outright colonization. [worksinprogress.co] e27fk22fh https://flipso.com/p/e27fk22fh?ref=rss Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:13:37 GMT Thomas Dullien reflects on three lessons that shaped how he thinks: scrutinizing your own incentives, rejecting overly deterministic views of the world, and treating reason and emotion as intertwined rather than opposites. [thomasdullien.github.io] j827cgjkf https://flipso.com/p/j827cgjkf?ref=rss Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:00:18 GMT Sugary fruits, honey, and starches may have supplied a significant share of early human energy, researchers say, helping fuel brain evolution. The article argues that carbohydrates were an important part of human diets alongside meat. [history.com] 9r0g56oqb https://flipso.com/p/9r0g56oqb?ref=rss Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:40:17 GMT Jon Ronson investigates Chris Mark’s bizarre Connecticut castle, where a teenage-sounding party invitation leads to a strange reality-show pitch, a “101 Princesses” concept, and unsettling questions about power, identity, and loneliness. [theguardian.com] 0q46dmx78 https://flipso.com/p/0q46dmx78?ref=rss Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:20:17 GMT Mouse research suggests early-life stress can alter DNA packaging in dopamine neurons, creating a lasting molecular memory that makes the brain more sensitive to stress later in life. [medicine.washu.edu] pyxbu0lwq https://flipso.com/p/pyxbu0lwq?ref=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:20:20 GMT The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys have released a 5.6-trillion-pixel color map of the sky, combining more than 263,000 telescope exposures and nearly 4 billion celestial objects. The public dataset will help astronomers search for rare phenomena, study dark matter and dark energy, and guide future DESI observations. [newscenter.lbl.gov] mx7wj9lfw https://flipso.com/p/mx7wj9lfw?ref=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:20:19 GMT A richly detailed biography that uses Berger’s archive and life to illuminate the critic’s influence, contradictions, and enduring ideas about art, politics, and looking. [theguardian.com] c6fyirnjb https://flipso.com/p/c6fyirnjb?ref=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:40:19 GMT Smarter people are no happier than everyone else, the essay argues, because intelligence helps with well-defined problems, while living a good life is a poorly defined problem with shifting rules and unclear goals. [experimental-history.com] 7nof8j0p4 https://flipso.com/p/7nof8j0p4?ref=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:40:19 GMT A ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found that Texas volleyball coach Ryan Richardson kept coaching teenage girls even after SafeSport deemed him permanently ineligible over sexual misconduct and other abuse allegations. The story examines how USA Volleyball, SafeSport, and regional officials failed to stop him from continuing to work with youth athletes. [propublica.org] wpid2gt32 https://flipso.com/p/wpid2gt32?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:38:12 GMT A retrospective on Netscape Navigator 3.0’s release anniversary, recounting how an intended bugfix update became a feature release after the planned rewrite faltered, and how that detour fed into the troubled 4.0 effort. [jwz.org] 3a3y7cvdq https://flipso.com/p/3a3y7cvdq?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:40:19 GMT Biology classes often flatten the subject into memorizing names and pathways, instead of showing the questions, experiments, and physical mechanisms that make living systems fascinating. James Somers argues that biology comes alive when it’s taught as a search for how cells, embryos, and immune systems actually work. [jsomers.net] igzrkgyin https://flipso.com/p/igzrkgyin?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:19 GMT A meditation on what makes art and writing feel “thick” rather than thin: works that reward close attention, reveal hidden structure, and keep unfolding the more time you spend with them. It uses Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, children’s books, Shakespeare, and even fire-eating to explore how depth emerges from choices, omissions, and the human cost of making art. [experimental-history.com] i3wdatf90 https://flipso.com/p/i3wdatf90?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:36:41 GMT Handmade paper sculptures by Manabu Kosaka, built entirely from paper through cutting, assembling, and refining into detailed sculptural forms. [coca11272000.wixsite.com] be02p7tz9 https://flipso.com/p/be02p7tz9?ref=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:20:21 GMT A young activist believed her father’s disapproval of her politics was the source of their rift. A chance family moment upended that story and set her on a search that revealed a far darker history — and, possibly, a different identity altogether. [theguardian.com]