Alain de Botton on how to get over rejection and heartbreak themarginalian.org/2021/06/02/sch…

An African programmer is building a video game. A Survival Game Inspired by Ancestral Africa. Your thoughts?

Ousmane Sembène on African art not needing to be legitimized by the European gaze. 1983 | 2006

I want this for reading with AI:  Circle what you don't understand and just ask

In China 🇨🇳, neighbors living peacefully in an apartment came up with a brilliant idea 🐾💡 when they saw that their cats were also friends: they built a special corridor for the cats 🐱➡️🐱 so they could play freely even when the owners were away. Now they can share both their

58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died. And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop. As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience." They built a wall in Washington

The man who INVENTED modern AI just made a billion dollar bet that ChatGPT, Claude, and every AI company on earth is building the wrong technology. Yann LeCun won the Turing Award in 2018 for creating the neural networks that made AI possible. He spent a decade running AI

Open access book, free download - Forest Encounters, edited by Urška Jurman & Mateja Kurir. 20+ contributors. "By acknowledging both the human and more-than-human perspectives, the book contributes to imagining and shaping a future of and for the forest.." forest-encounters.net/book-2/

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It’s shocking how openly and repeatedly the Western media tells you that they simply don’t consider brown people to be human. Among the first casualties of this war were 160 Iranian schoolchildren, but it takes a lost US pilot to bring a human dimension to the slaughter?

Absolute panic for the Gulf states. A prominent US diplomat warns that bombing Iran's nuclear plant will poison the entire Persian Gulf with radioactive material. This would instantly shut down the desalination plants that provide 100 percent of the Gulf's drinking water.

A drone umbrella that keeps you dry hands free.

This is EPIC BELT TREATMENT 🔥 Piers Morgan -- "Why won’t you condemn Hamas?" Rania Khalek -- "Would you ask an Austrian Jew in 1940s to condemn resistance to Nazis?" Man went for a trap… Got the table flipped on him 🥶

I rarely have reasons to be proud of France these days, but this is definitely one. France's parliament just voted - unanimously, 170 votes to 0 - a law that institutionalizes the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during the colonial era (the law covers a massive 157-year

A JAPANESE DEV BUILT AN APP THAT SHOWS A FAT CAT ON THE SCREEN AND FORCES YOU TO TAKE A BREAK.

This indie dev is making a game where you play as a caterpillar that refuses to become a butterfly. - Climb over any surface - Explore a magical forest - Stop the transformation It’s called I Am A Caterpillar. Would you play this?

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar

Same day, same outlet (the BBC): Somalis "hijack" ships. The US merely "boards" them. This is how consent is manufactured in real time.

Painter Kombat: Pablo Picasso vs Van Gogh

Google has a pirate enemy. He's one guy. His name is Raymond Hill. He built uBlock Origin. The world's best ad blocker. 63K stars. GPL-3.0. He literally refuses every dollar you try to send him. Then Google did the unthinkable. July 24, 2025. Manifest V2 disabled everywhere.