https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:20:29 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss g2i2josus https://flipso.com/p/g2i2josus?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:20:29 GMT A critique of how car-dependent, isolated neighborhoods can let people avoid encounters with neighbors in need, and how concentrated poverty and separated land uses make compassion harder to practice in everyday life. [strongtowns.org] bu9zy4au3 https://flipso.com/p/bu9zy4au3?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:20:09 GMT First study of how drugs affect behavior of fish in the wild adds to concerns about chemical exposure [science.org] zku5wjimi https://flipso.com/p/zku5wjimi?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:00:26 GMT Patrick Kurp reflects on Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, comparing it with Leopardi’s Zibaldone and arguing that books should be well-written and teach something. He quotes Pessoa on reading, writing, and literature’s relation to life, while noting both insight and pretension in the passages he cites. [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] paa3t131h https://flipso.com/p/paa3t131h?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:10 GMT Bonsai styles reflect how trees grow in nature, shaped by wind, light, cliffs, storms, and competition. This Longwood Gardens guide explains the five basic styles—formal upright, informal upright, slanting, cascade, and semi-cascade—along with related forms like broom, literati, forest, and raft. It shows how each style balances horticulture, aesthetics, and the tree’s natural character. [longwoodgardens.org] 8xquan17n https://flipso.com/p/8xquan17n?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:00:08 GMT Subsea cable repairs start by locating the fault, usually from outages and cable testing. Fiber-optic data cables are then pinpointed with light pulses, while power cables may need fault-detection instruments or an ROV. A cable ship retrieves the damaged section, engineers splice in replacement cable on board, and the repaired line is lowered back to the seabed. The article also explains why cables fail, how ships and fishing gear damage them, and the protections used to reduce future breaks. [onesteppower.com] hifxessbj https://flipso.com/p/hifxessbj?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:40:09 GMT A 1,200-year Kyoto cherry blossom record, long used as a climate signal, will continue after climate scientist Yasuyuki Aono’s death. Environmental biophysicist Genki Katata has agreed to take over the historic dataset, which documents how bloom dates have shifted earlier as temperatures have warmed. [nytimes.com] ilni4llih https://flipso.com/p/ilni4llih?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:20:44 GMT AI can produce fast, cheap approximations, but the author prefers durable, repairable work with quality and longevity over disposable, particle-board-like output. [nazhamid.com] hanym2mjv https://flipso.com/p/hanym2mjv?ref=rss Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:40:31 GMT A refurbished iPhone worked for a couple of months before the back shattered and the phone was later blacklisted by its original carrier, leaving calls and texts unusable. The upside was an accidental break from phone addiction, though the experience was still frustrating and came with a dead-end support saga. [atvbt.com] aasfvjwen https://flipso.com/p/aasfvjwen?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:00:08 GMT A practical guide to using octopus merge commits in Jujutsu to keep many branches, WIP changes, and dependent PRs organized in a single working merge while minimizing conflicts. [isaaccorbrey.com] 13o3vgpx5 https://flipso.com/p/13o3vgpx5?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:00:09 GMT The F-35 excels at penetrating defended airspace and coordinating strikes, but the article argues a force built around it is too costly, fragile, and hard to sustain for a long war against China. It calls for a smaller F-35 fleet paired with more unmanned systems that are cheaper to produce, easier to disperse, and better suited to attrition and contested logistics. [warontherocks.com] 1p6306mrw https://flipso.com/p/1p6306mrw?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:40:09 GMT AES-128 remains secure against practical quantum attacks, and post-quantum migration does not require increasing symmetric key sizes. The real transition priority is asymmetric cryptography vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm, not 128-bit symmetric ciphers or hashes. [words.filippo.io] 4f2soisxl https://flipso.com/p/4f2soisxl?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:40:09 GMT A history of how ad-tech, third-party cookies, and browser design turned the web into a surveillance system by default. Traces the rise of DoubleClick, the normalization of tracking, the compliance theater around cookie banners, and the physical cost of the tracker economy. Argues that default-on surveillance was an architectural choice, not an inevitability. [vivianvoss.net] 0be9ama3a https://flipso.com/p/0be9ama3a?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:40:10 GMT https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000sri7/ [earthquake.usgs.gov] bzmpl9ux6 https://flipso.com/p/bzmpl9ux6?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:20:08 GMT Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware that a reactor at Chernobyl had exploded less than 3 miles away, with the disaster unfolding around them. [bbc.com] qexkn52mb https://flipso.com/p/qexkn52mb?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:40:31 GMT Australia’s boat-arrival crackdown is widely credited to offshore processing, but the bigger effect came from navy turnbacks. The article compares two policy waves and argues that turning boats back, not sending asylum seekers to Nauru, was what actually reduced arrivals. [worksinprogress.news] 0ngh5jhr7 https://flipso.com/p/0ngh5jhr7?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:40:30 GMT Scientists are exploring ways to regrow limbs and organs, including gene therapy, stem cells, transplants, and bioengineered replacements. New research suggests some regeneration pathways are shared across animals such as axolotls, zebrafish, and mice, raising cautious hope that human regeneration may eventually become possible — though likely only after major technical hurdles are solved. [theness.com] os7zigsmt https://flipso.com/p/os7zigsmt?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:40:42 GMT A meditation on how the push toward single-family homeownership can erode walkability, spontaneity, and close social ties, even as renting offers a different kind of good life. [commonedge.org] 76wri1pvs https://flipso.com/p/76wri1pvs?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:20:09 GMT Learn how researchers in Ithaca, New York, uncovered one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting bees, revealing a hidden network beneath the grass. [discovermagazine.com] sq9udorea https://flipso.com/p/sq9udorea?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:24 GMT Sean Carroll talks with philosopher Peter Singer about utilitarianism, animal rights, effective altruism, and the ethical questions raised by how we treat sentient beings and make end-of-life decisions. [preposterousuniverse.com] cgv8fyc6n https://flipso.com/p/cgv8fyc6n?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:40:28 GMT Robin Craig explores food and kink through personal scenes, shame, control, care, and the erotic charge of being fed or feeding someone else. Illustration by Olivia Sterling. [vittlesmagazine.com] 6h96z79q3 https://flipso.com/p/6h96z79q3?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:20:31 GMT Noah Smith revisits industrial policy and argues the term has become too broad to be useful. He contrasts developing-country FDI promotion with rich-country technology policy, then examines China’s heavy subsidy model and its risks, including price wars, margin compression, and bad debt. [noahpinion.blog] 9dudhq5e8 https://flipso.com/p/9dudhq5e8?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:40:09 GMT Kevin Lozano interviews Ben Lerner about his new book Transcription, a hybrid work shaped by an interview gone wrong, and the themes of fatherhood, memory, and middle age that run through it. [vulture.com] o1fvut03h https://flipso.com/p/o1fvut03h?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:00:25 GMT A reflective post on death, memory, and the odd comedy in human mortality, moving from a brother’s hospice death to passages from Jules Renard and Sir Thomas Browne. [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] 9put5r0yp https://flipso.com/p/9put5r0yp?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:00:10 GMT Listening is harder than turning people-research into frameworks. The post argues that product and design teams often over-systematize the work instead of actually listening, then lists common mistakes: treating listening as just doing what people say, flattening differences in expertise and resources, assuming static needs, confusing words with thoughts, judging people, and ignoring group dynamics. [ashley.rolfmore.com] 9cwpgg4zu https://flipso.com/p/9cwpgg4zu?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:20:28 GMT Vintage photos by Paula Grimaldi Reardon capture New Jersey biker culture in the 1980s and 1990s, with bikes, tattoos, bars, go-go dancers, and outlaw motorcycle scenes. The piece also explains how Reardon became known as “Pulsating Paula” and includes quotes about her work and darkroom process. [flashbak.com] 0ogmwa66e https://flipso.com/p/0ogmwa66e?ref=rss Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:20:08 GMT Initial findings from scanning Excel files in 600 published scientific papers, including several cases of duplicated or scrambled data and corresponding author responses. [sciencedetective.org] q1s8mopg1 https://flipso.com/p/q1s8mopg1?ref=rss Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:40:09 GMT A brief history of fish sauce, from Ancient Asian recipes, Roman times, and through to today's many (delicious) uses. [legalnomads.com] w0pn51x5w https://flipso.com/p/w0pn51x5w?ref=rss Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:40:11 GMT A. J. Ayer recounts his near-death experience after a bout of pneumonia and reflects on what it might mean for consciousness, personal identity, and belief in an afterlife. [philosopher.eu] cxq66gsij https://flipso.com/p/cxq66gsij?ref=rss Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:20:09 GMT Blue Origin achieved its first New Glenn booster reuse, but the rocket’s upper stage put the payload into the wrong orbit, undercutting the launch’s overall success. [arstechnica.com] qgyqy315i https://flipso.com/p/qgyqy315i?ref=rss Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:00:29 GMT Sugar went from rare luxury and medicine to a mass consumer stimulant, shaping aristocratic display, global trade, plantation slavery, abolition politics, and modern diets. [worldhistory.substack.com]