https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:40:10 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss velkjyhb5 https://flipso.com/p/velkjyhb5?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:40:10 GMT Verizon is migrating Gizmo watch users from Gizmohub to Verizon Family, but the new app still doesn’t support watch-only accounts. The old app is scheduled to be turned off on July 6, which would cut off texting, location sharing, and contact management for affected families. [jefftk.com] dl9m3ltic https://flipso.com/p/dl9m3ltic?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:40:11 GMT Chris Duncan’s death sentence, built on testimony from two discredited forensic experts, shows how Louisiana’s capital punishment system can go wrong as the state moves to restart executions. [boltsmag.org] 4yg7lp3i7 https://flipso.com/p/4yg7lp3i7?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:40:27 GMT A 1958 promotional comic from Buster Brown Shoe Company, distributed through shoe stores and printed by Western Publishing. Buster Brown visits Mars, meets a space dog, and returns with a story no adult at home quite believes. [dreamsofspace.blogspot.com] 7uhv8neth https://flipso.com/p/7uhv8neth?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:40:28 GMT Why we sometimes work to like things, how taste is formed, and why acquired preferences can be a form of self-cultivation rather than pretension. [ian-leslie.com] euwgj9kfz https://flipso.com/p/euwgj9kfz?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:20:09 GMT Ann Woodward’s 1955 shooting of her husband set off decades of scandal, gossip, and social exile. Though cleared by a coroner’s jury, she was haunted by Truman Capote’s savage retellings and by a reputation that never recovered. [observer.com] 2s0pr06ku https://flipso.com/p/2s0pr06ku?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:00:30 GMT Hydrogen has important industrial uses, but for most transportation it remains limited by storage, distribution, and efficiency. Fuel cells are more efficient than hydrogen combustion, yet battery EVs are still far more practical for cars and likely to keep that advantage. The strongest near-term use cases for green hydrogen are heavy industry and some heavy transport, not a broad passenger-car hydrogen economy. [theness.com] kzuuviiik https://flipso.com/p/kzuuviiik?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:40:10 GMT James Webb Space Telescope observations are upending ideas about the early universe, revealing unexpectedly massive black holes, strange “little red dots,” and galaxies that appeared far earlier and brighter than theories predicted. Researchers are testing competing explanations, from rapid black hole growth to direct-collapse seeds and unusually efficient early star formation. [quantamagazine.org] 3vbeo6ltm https://flipso.com/p/3vbeo6ltm?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:20:11 GMT https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/ [blog.archive.org] f587gq71c https://flipso.com/p/f587gq71c?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:40:10 GMT New skills are worth making time for, whether it’s touch typing, 3D modeling, music, calligraphy, woodworking, knitting, or a language. Learning takes patience and deliberate practice, but it can make life richer, build confidence, and give you something useful to keep improving over time. [marginalia.nu] be4qu0875 https://flipso.com/p/be4qu0875?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:30 GMT A July 4 reflection on the Declaration’s radical language and global significance, arguing that its claims about equality, unalienable rights, consent of the governed, and the right to alter or abolish unjust government helped reshape modern politics far beyond the United States. [acoup.blog] rehfqnwig https://flipso.com/p/rehfqnwig?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:00:11 GMT Columbia Engineering researchers say early visual cortex does more than relay signals: inhibitory neurons appear to help pass task context from higher-level brain regions into sensory processing, shaping what the brain sees based on what it needs to do. [engineering.columbia.edu] gflneqwqy https://flipso.com/p/gflneqwqy?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:00:31 GMT A Letters of Note roundup of letters written on July 3 across different years, featuring Simone de Beauvoir, D.H. Lawrence, May Sarton, Spike Milligan, J.R.R. Tolkien, and George Bernard Shaw. It closes with Shaw’s 1905 complaint to The Times after an opera performance, in which he objects to a woman’s extravagant hat. [news.lettersofnote.com] en2sj628j https://flipso.com/p/en2sj628j?ref=rss Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:20:10 GMT Researchers studying tall Dipterocarp trees in Malaysian Borneo found that height does not impair their hydraulic systems. The trees appear to compensate for the challenges of moving water upward with adaptations in their vessels and leaves, and they showed no height-related loss of growth during a severe drought. [news.exeter.ac.uk] r0pklb110 https://flipso.com/p/r0pklb110?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:40:09 GMT Steve Earle recounts his letters and prison visits with Jonathan Wayne Nobles, a convicted murderer he met only weeks before Nobles’s execution. The piece follows their final days together, from strained conversations in prison to the witnesses gathered for the lethal injection. [theguardian.com] 744xj7h3n https://flipso.com/p/744xj7h3n?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:00:11 GMT A California farmer is giving away more than 100,000 pounds of white nectarines amid a legal battle with a marketer that claims exclusive rights to the variety. The dispute centers on whether the fruit should have been sold through the company under a licensing and marketing agreement, with a trial scheduled later this month. [apnews.com] p308wi2gw https://flipso.com/p/p308wi2gw?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:40:11 GMT Sartre’s 1945 lecture defended existentialism after World War II, arguing that people are free, responsible for their choices, and condemned to invent their own values. It became one of the most famous lectures of the 20th century and still speaks to questions of meaning, morality, and bad faith. [aeon.co] p8w6a78dl https://flipso.com/p/p8w6a78dl?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:20:09 GMT Costco’s low-SKU, high-volume model offers a counterpoint to Amazon’s logistics-heavy retail strategy—and a case for simpler, more efficient goods distribution, including lessons for public grocery stores. [phenomenalworld.org] ppejs6bet https://flipso.com/p/ppejs6bet?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:00:16 GMT A talk for schoolchildren about manufacturing, prototyping, and how ordinary objects get made. The post argues that factories shouldn’t inspire distance and awe, but make building feel accessible: complicated things can be understood, designed, and produced by regular people. [interconnected.org] qshjcygw7 https://flipso.com/p/qshjcygw7?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:40:09 GMT A writer traces how U.S. farm policy pushed oats out of American fields and helped shift the market to Canada, where farmers and millers built the supply chain that now feeds most North American oat products. The piece follows the rise of the modern oat trade and asks whether it can be remade for U.S. growers. [ambrook.com] nxl86qftc https://flipso.com/p/nxl86qftc?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:20:12 GMT Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism argues that Musk became the world’s first trillionaire by selling a future of techno-sovereignty, fortified enclaves, and selective power that few people would actually want to live in. [nybooks.com] fflxppac3 https://flipso.com/p/fflxppac3?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:20:37 GMT A look back at the Declaration of Independence shows how its language can still frame the value of facts in public life and journalism. [poynter.org] 5okizd5kh https://flipso.com/p/5okizd5kh?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:00:10 GMT How the New World screwworm devastated livestock for generations, how USDA researchers helped eliminate it with sterile male flies, and why the parasite is now returning to the U.S. after a barrier in Central America failed. [construction-physics.com] 98n39rabg https://flipso.com/p/98n39rabg?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:40:11 GMT AI hype is creating a fake baseline, making ordinary but useful workflows feel insignificant while encouraging exaggerated claims about agents and automation. The result is more confusion, less trust, and growing pressure on workers and companies to oversell what these tools can actually do. [elenaverna.com] j1cjxqhvz https://flipso.com/p/j1cjxqhvz?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:00:09 GMT A first-person account of how Monticello’s effort to tell the fuller history of Jefferson and the enslaved people who built and lived there drew a right-wing backlash, online harassment, and institutional silence. [prospect.org] xjivvup57 https://flipso.com/p/xjivvup57?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:00:12 GMT A wearable oxygen-supplying suit gave cockroaches enough protection and respiration to move underwater for up to 3 hours, creating an amphibious cyborg insect that can travel across land and water. [nature.com] pau07yeri https://flipso.com/p/pau07yeri?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:49:39 GMT A satirical startup fable about founders, engineers, sales promises, and how a product can fill with features while the original problem never gets fixed. [weli.dev] tn516r3cw https://flipso.com/p/tn516r3cw?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:20:09 GMT A blind accessibility specialist showed how Microsoft’s read-only SharePoint, Power Automate, and Outlook workflows can become unusable for screen reader users. The project led to removing unnecessary labels, improving alt text and headings where possible, and rerouting status updates so users never had to fight through inaccessible pages. [iinteractive.com] epch93o09 https://flipso.com/p/epch93o09?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:00:26 GMT Youyu County in Shanxi turned a sand-blown landscape into a forested ecological barrier through decades of afforestation, even as officials weighed short-term industrial gains against long-term environmental protection. The piece uses Youyu’s 76-year effort to illustrate the CPC’s idea of a “correct view on governance performance.” [beijingscroll.com] zzlcfqb3w https://flipso.com/p/zzlcfqb3w?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:00:10 GMT Women in some Northwest Buddhist centers say spiritual authority has shielded predatory behavior by teachers, and that abuse allegations have often been minimized or ignored. [thewesternedge.media] dx4q2pnxw https://flipso.com/p/dx4q2pnxw?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:20:10 GMT Protect your right to run local AI. Sign in ten seconds, call your state office in two minutes. [righttointelligence.org]