https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:40:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss j1mqxzh12 https://flipso.com/p/j1mqxzh12?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:40:08 GMT A collection of 120 programming aphorisms by Alan J. Perlis, originally published in ACM SIGPLAN in September 1982. [cs.yale.edu] 2b5490qf5 https://flipso.com/p/2b5490qf5?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:20:09 GMT A Seattle study found BPA, BPS, melamine, triclosan and related chemicals in most of 50 breast milk samples, adding to evidence of widespread contamination and raising concerns about infant exposure and regulation. [theguardian.com] 4rzvosdsu https://flipso.com/p/4rzvosdsu?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:00:09 GMT The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is less a pause than the start of a precarious realignment shaped by the Strait of Hormuz, economic coercion, energy dependence, and the limits of U.S. power. [bostonreview.net] 2vyvcwuc5 https://flipso.com/p/2vyvcwuc5?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:08 GMT Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all. [theatlantic.com] qw4ldtsok https://flipso.com/p/qw4ldtsok?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:20:30 GMT Students in Budapest launched protests on October 23, 1956, demanding political reform, Soviet troop withdrawal, and freer elections. When the secret police opened fire, the demonstrations escalated into an armed uprising as soldiers, workers, and other civilians joined the resistance before Soviet forces crushed it in early November. [thecollector.com] fnvkhfle0 https://flipso.com/p/fnvkhfle0?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:00:10 GMT A University of Zurich study of 112 monasteries in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria finds that longstanding practices of collective consultation and decentralized decision-making can help religious communities adapt to digitalization. The researchers say these organizational traditions support selective, purpose-driven use of technology while preserving monastic life. [phys.org] i6d8vw308 https://flipso.com/p/i6d8vw308?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:20:10 GMT Anthropic reports early results from efforts to improve Claude for chemistry, including benchmark tests on NMR prediction and structure elucidation against specialized tools. The post says Claude can help chemists interpret spectra, compare favorably on some 1D NMR tasks, and proposes next steps for chemistry-focused capabilities. [anthropic.com] m1zqc577q https://flipso.com/p/m1zqc577q?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:00:08 GMT A three-year update on reverse engineering the 2021 Honda Civic head unit, including the USB update path, the publicly known AOSP test key, new tooling for rebuilding update files, and open questions about supported versions and custom themes. [juniperspring.org] 1x2s4hxrh https://flipso.com/p/1x2s4hxrh?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:40:09 GMT UC Riverside philosophers argue that consciousness may be substrate-flexible — able to arise in life forms made of very different materials than Earth biology. Their paper extends the Copernican idea of cosmic humility to consciousness and leaves open, but does not claim, the possibility of conscious AI. [news.ucr.edu] azqdhcr8v https://flipso.com/p/azqdhcr8v?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:00:26 GMT A visual field guide to 176 chili peppers, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, tracing wild origins, domestication, heat levels, forms, and global culinary spread. [notesfromtheroad.com] blkcp3cyn https://flipso.com/p/blkcp3cyn?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:00:10 GMT A newly described deep-sea whale graveyard in the southeastern Indian Ocean spans roughly 1,200 kilometres along the Diamantina fracture zone and appears to be an actively forming site of preserved whale remains. [nature.com] nvkt4db3s https://flipso.com/p/nvkt4db3s?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:40:26 GMT Reading by Tim Foley: [caitlinjohnst.one] 9jyfmh83x https://flipso.com/p/9jyfmh83x?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:20:27 GMT Europe’s growth debate is increasingly turning into a debate about whether rich countries should deliberately accept lower living standards. The piece argues that degrowth is a European-centered movement that would weaken prosperity, undermine public services, and leave Europe less able to meet strategic challenges. [noahpinion.blog] 2dqoovb9u https://flipso.com/p/2dqoovb9u?ref=rss Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:40:26 GMT A visual history of UK rave culture told through preserved flyers, membership cards, and other club ephemera from the late 1980s and 1990s, including scenes tied to the Haçienda, Shoom, Fantazia, and other landmark events. [flashbak.com] 4q14mnz6n https://flipso.com/p/4q14mnz6n?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:40:09 GMT A review of Naomi Kanakia’s What’s So Great About the Great Books? argues that classic literature can deepen attention, serious thinking, and our sense of living in conversation with the past. [theamericanscholar.org] i1kc4w8yx https://flipso.com/p/i1kc4w8yx?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:20:26 GMT A longtime Langley steakhouse set in an ice and curling rink facility in Brookswood. The post covers a recent visit with calamari, a 14 oz PEI ribeye, mashed potatoes, vegetables, and peppercorn sauce, along with notes on price and preparation. [shermansfoodadventures.com] bsq28etfy https://flipso.com/p/bsq28etfy?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:00:09 GMT UI animations should remain coherent at every moment, not just in the start and end states. Small visual glitches, desynchronized motion, and partially loaded or inconsistent frames can undermine user trust. [tonsky.me] k9r1uen81 https://flipso.com/p/k9r1uen81?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:20:28 GMT FIFA’s 2026 World Cup ticketing rollout has been marked by dynamic pricing, heavy resale fees, launch problems, and sharp criticism over how it balances revenue with fan access. [readtrung.com] 0z7wrih38 https://flipso.com/p/0z7wrih38?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:00:09 GMT A practical guide to Exif: where it lives in image files, what metadata it stores, why orientation matters, and how tools like exiftool help inspect or strip it. [brentfitzgerald.com] dl1qkq1wp https://flipso.com/p/dl1qkq1wp?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:20:27 GMT Wrong Side of History round-up #77, with reflections on Substack’s international readership, commentary on politics and culture, and links to recent essays on housing, cities, immigration, and public life. [edwest.co.uk] scfien6sy https://flipso.com/p/scfien6sy?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:40:28 GMT The World Cup tourists helping me see America [slowboring.com] 94ifrsvjx https://flipso.com/p/94ifrsvjx?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:00:28 GMT How pre-modern societies raised, sorted, equipped, and paid armies without modern bureaucracy, focusing on the coordination problem behind mobilization and two minimal models: self-recruitment and retinue-based recruitment. [acoup.blog] sfef2507v https://flipso.com/p/sfef2507v?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:40:09 GMT Deer antlers can record injury and “remember” it the next time they regrow, producing a branch in the same spot a year later. Michael Levin uses that phenomenon, along with related work in planarians and axolotls, to explore how cells store and revise body-pattern memory during regeneration. [thoughtforms.life] hedo9fylw https://flipso.com/p/hedo9fylw?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:20:25 GMT Yen-Ling Kuo’s Diff-DAgger method helps robots estimate uncertainty, recover from mistakes, and learn new tasks with less human supervision. [spectrum.ieee.org] 24tar8ae5 https://flipso.com/p/24tar8ae5?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:00:09 GMT Caity Weaver explores garage sales and thrift stores as windows into American life, using her own secondhand buys to trace the odd mix of comedy, nostalgia, waste, and loss in the culture of used things. [theatlantic.com] qonuehum6 https://flipso.com/p/qonuehum6?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:40:27 GMT And the New York Times is caught in the middle of the argument [honest-broker.com] 7uxivtz8s https://flipso.com/p/7uxivtz8s?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:40:09 GMT Kalief Browder was arrested at 16 after an accusation that he robbed a man of a backpack, then spent more than three years on Rikers Island without ever being tried. Jennifer Gonnerman’s account traces how a routine case became a devastating example of jail delay, court backlog, and the human cost of pretrial detention. [newyorker.com] a14k1qo1s https://flipso.com/p/a14k1qo1s?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:27 GMT A Greek folktale links Alexander the Great to his half-sister Thessaloniki, who is said to have become a mermaid after his death. The story traces how the legend grew around a real Macedonian princess and how it reflects ancient ideas about mermaids and the sea. [classicalwisdom.substack.com] y5i5f7ha9 https://flipso.com/p/y5i5f7ha9?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:20:22 GMT Using General Social Survey data, Allen Downey compares interpersonal trust across liberals, conservatives, and moderates over time. The long-run trend is downward for everyone, but the groups have diverged since the 2000s: liberals are now modestly more trusting overall, while the youngest liberal cohort appears less trusting than older ones. [allendowney.com] 7q4lt9j83 https://flipso.com/p/7q4lt9j83?ref=rss Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:20:08 GMT The House passed H.R. 6028, a bill that would remove the Library of Congress’s supervisory role over the Copyright Office, make the Register of Copyrights a presidential appointee, and shift key DMCA rulemaking power. EFF argues the change would politicize an office that should serve the public interest and says the Senate should reject it. [eff.org]