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Animal Crossing Fans Are Making it More Inclusive, and That’s Awesome
Animal Crossing fans are making Nintendo’s game more inclusive to less common skin types, and I think that’s just swell.
Matt Birchler
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The Journal That One Publishes Studies with Boring Conclusions
What if we tried to remove novelty bias in science by making it easy to get published when your study returns results that are not the least bit surprising?
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The Strange Data Behind How We Vote
When someone votes for someone, believes a certain deity, or thinks a certain athlete is the GOAT, they think it’s totally logical and their own choice. The data continues to show that while we certainly have agency, there are major forces pushing us in certain directions.
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How They Did Early Special Effects: Indian in the Cupboard
Miniaturization Secrets: Eric Brvig on Indian in the Cupboard - Before and Afters
And so that was the first time
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What Are we Even Debating?
After listening to the most recent episode of The Talk Show, I'm not really sure what the argument about iPads not being general purpose computers even means. It sounds to me like we're debating a technicality but don't actually disagree on the outcome.
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A New Look for BirchTree
It was time for a change, so I hope you like it!
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Have I Mentioned I’m Done with Call of Duty?
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Ad Promotes Far-Right Conspiracy Theory
The term more recently gained popularity in gaming
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Work From Home is Having a Moment, but it Will Fade (at least some)
The Long-Term ‘Work From Home’ Trend is Overstated – Tech.pinions
There’s another, less measurable benefit of working in an
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$156 Billion in Lost Value
The devaluation of assets in black neighborhoods
This report seeks to understand how much money majority-black communities are losing in
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Flying Around the World, Recreating macOS Wallpapers
Above is my recreation of the macOS Catalina wallpaper taken in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
And here's a
Slack Feature Request: Focused Working Mode
Slack is great, but it's also terrible. It's much better than email at talking to people,
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Forgetting Your Dark Past vs Celebrating It
Most Americans think recognizing the country’s flaws makes the U.S. stronger, not weaker - The Washington Post
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Jerry Seinfeld Brings the Heat
Opinion | Jerry Seinfeld: So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’ - The New York Times
Energy, attitude and personality cannot
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The iPad Cursor is an Achievement
The Magic Keyboard for iPad came out in April this year and I’ve been using it everyday. I know
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What if Users Had to Select a Search Engine?
Browsers Should Have No Default Search Engine - Initial Charge
This certainly wouldn’t solve all of our problems. Google
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There is Nothing Else, There is no Policy
Stuart Stevens, an ex-GOP operative, on why the party should be burned to the ground
That’s why I say
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We Might Be Getting that 120Hz iPhone 12 After All
Well, just yesterday I was weighing whether I'd prefer a high refresh screen or 5G in the new
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Top Shelf Hardware with a Clean Android Experience
John Gruber on Daring Fireball:
If all of this is true, what phone is someone supposed to buy if they