Category: words

  • nevver: Magnificent Ruin

  • swannepoel: ‘OITNB’ Actress Speaks Out About Family’s Deportation “I was coming home from school […] and I got home and their cars were there and dinner was started and the lights were on but I couldn’t find them.Then the neighbors came in. They were just like ‘I’m sorry but your parents were taken away.’ […]…

  • The Confederate flag’s defenders often claim it represents “heritage not hate.” I agree—the heritage of White Supremacy was not so much birthed by hate as by the impulse toward plunder. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. An…

  • I honestly have nothing other than just sadness once again that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn’t exist. I’m confident though, that by acknowledging it – by…

  • designcube: Brutalist foam playground by Assemble

  • With psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, economists, and all sorts of social scientists climbing aboard the bandwagon of information theory, some mathematicians and engineers were uncomfortable. Shannon himself called it a bandwagon. In 1956 he wrote a short warning notice—four paragraphs: “Our fellow scientists in many different fields, attracted by the fanfare and by the new avenues…

  • “This bridge will show how 3D printing finally enters the world of large-scale, functional objects and sustainable materials while allowing unprecedented freedom of form. The symbolism of the bridge is a beautiful metaphor to connect the technology of the future with the old city, in a way that brings out the best of both worlds.”…

  • The Telegraph describes Ive’s change of position as a ‘promotion’. Ive was already the most influential person at Apple aside from Cook and his personality doesn’t exactly prescribe the need for a better title: Ive doesn’t really seem like a guy wanting an ego boost. Dropping the PR spin, this is a reorganisation so Ive…

  • Hatch estimates that 70-80% of the jobs being done on TechShop’s desktop 3-D printers are prototypes, not finished products. “You can iterate two or three times in a single day, and that’s incredibly powerful,” he says. “Sometimes it’s good enough. Sometimes it’s an interior component so it doesn’t really matter what it looks like.” But…

  • The company rates each battery to last for 2,000 recharge cycles, but expects to lose 20 percent of the original capacity after a quarter of that usage. So, after 500 cycles, Gogoro batteries are taken out of circulation — in order to ensure reliability for users, who are told to expect a 60-mile range from…