What It’s Like to Be a Panda — “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Stephen Hawking wondered, recognizing the quixotic nature of his quest for a theory of ever…
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There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel — A little over a week ago, Brad Lander—fresh off his recent ousting of incumbent Dan Goldman as the Democratic Party candidate for New York’s 10th congressional district—endorsed…
NYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for May 12: Tips to solve Connections #596 — Everything you need to solve Connections Sports Edition #596.
The airforce needs YOU! — (This post is part of a series on the subject of my hobby project, which is recreating the C source code for the 1989 game F-15 Strike Eagle II by reverse engineering the original binaries.)
Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead — It is called the drifting post, he explained, because the letters drift between heaven and earth. Set within a stretch of coastal woodland, in rural Japan, this post box receives letters written to…
Remaking My Life in 50 Swims — The sky was a hazy yellow gray, the AQI was a “very unhealthy” three hundred, and it was one hundred degrees as I loaded my car with an overnight bag and a hopeful last-minute tote holding a swimsu…
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life — ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game
The Art of Dignity Beyond Pride: How to Move Through Heartbreak Like Frida Kahlo — “Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her exquisite insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” The price we pay for the risk is the great equalizer of human…
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Morocco boosts Ceuta security amid calls for mass migrant crossing — Morocco has added barbed wire and more police near Spain’s Ceuta enclave after online calls for another mass crossing.
How Accusations Against Black Academics Point to the Real End of “Woke 1.0” — This week, the British academy was rocked by a scandal that curdled into a tragedy. Jason Arday, a neurodivergent Black Cambridge professor who was feted as a wunderkind by some and denigrated as a…
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for May 12, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
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A Room of Her Own: What Women Writers Sacrifice to Pursue Their Passion — In the mid-2000s, the Guardian weekend magazine ran a regular feature called “Writers’ Rooms.” As a secretly aspiring writer (is there any other kind?) I couldn’t get enough, poring ove…
PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity — Raising important questions about ownership
Tinywind — Pixel Pirate Sailing Game — Outsail the Royal Navy in your browser. Real sailing physics, 5-minute voyages, 30 historical treasures to recover. Free to play.
LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (Part 1) - AlphaPixel Software Development — LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (Part 1)
Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC — third-party OmniDrive firmware unlocks game rips from physical media on select players — Specialized firmware enables certain Blu-ray players to read the formatting of retro console games.
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The American Library Association is auctioning off some primo vintage READ posters. — This summer, the American Library Association is auctioning off a rare cache of its iconic READ posters to commemorate the org’s 150th year of doing business. Thanks to a partnership with Her…
Counterpoint: the best gaming writing isn't about winning. This archives every major game balance patch since 2010 — you can literally watch designers argue with themselves across years.
Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity — “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
Thranpages :: How Did I Do :: SimCity 3k in 4k — SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry, here's a complete guide to a perfect game of SimCity 3000 on modern Windows:...
Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia driver for Turing+ GPUs) — Hope eventually will came out!!
Tabletop RPG News & Resources - D&D - Tribality.com — Tribality.com provides D&D and tabletop RPG reviews, news, homebrews, tools, research, and other stuff for Gamemasters and Players.
Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story — Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer theyR…
How digital evidence preserves the truth about war crimes | Anastasiia Liulina | TEDxBroerstraat — In February 2022, Anastasiia’s hometown, Bucha, Ukraine, was occupied by the Russian army, forcing her and her family to evacuate. As evidence of mass killings emerged, she…
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
How a Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game — Backyard Baseball, a favorite game for 1990s kids, had been off the market for years. But Lindsay Barnett was determined.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Becca Rothfeld on Rachel Cusk’s Life of M, Emmet Fraizer on Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn, Charlotte Wood on Dorthe Nors’s Range, Walton Muyumb…
Orbs, Explained — Everything has changed for us with orbs. How do I make you believe me?
A Culture of Collaboration: The Legacy of Lunigiana’s Traveling Booksellers — In certain borghi (small medieval villages) in Lunigiana several centuries ago, some impoverished mountain people, pushed by necessity, began climbing the arduous paths of the Apennines and then de…
Peru rescues people trapped by landslides on highway for nearly a week — Peru rescues people trapped by landslides on highway for nearly a week.
this speedrunner mapped out every single softlock in zelda ocarina of time and honestly the commitment is making me question my own life choices 🎮😭
someone indexed every arcade game cabinet from the 80s with their actual cabinet art and you can filter by which ones actually ate your quarters 🕹️
Solo Dev's Train Sim Created Is Being Called The Best Ever Made — Steam reviews are blowing up for gorgeous Japanese train driving simulator Running Train
Will “American” Ever Be a Fully Distinct Language of Its Own? — More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street …
The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science — Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at…
Backloggd - A Video Game Collection Tracker — Keep a virtual backlog of your video game collection, then rate and review the ones you've played to share with your friends!
Read the Tape — the daily chart game — Five real hidden charts a day, same for everyone. Call each one, stake your share of the bonus pool, post your daily P&L.
Sigrid Nunez Thinks Every Writer Should Connect to Their Inner Child — “The reader,” says National Book Award-winner Sigrid Nunez, “will forgive the novelist certain things. Like, in a 400-page book, you can have a dozen flat sentences. But in a [short] story? No. You…
Stop Killing Games: The fight over who owns the games you buy — Stop Killing Games is challenging the idea publishers can shut down a game without making sure it's still playable.
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Does spending money make you feel bad? Read this comic — If spending — or not spending — money makes you feel shame or regret, you might be grappling with financial guilt. Financial planner Lauryn Williams breaks down three types and how to deal.
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The Saddest Happy Hours in N.Y.C. — Featuring live-band karaoke and B.Y.O.T. (bring your own tortilla) Tuesdays.
Watabou's Procgen Arcana: Dungeon — Free procedural map generators for tabletop role-playing games and worldbuilding
Dos Santos breaks 400m hurdles world record in Zurich — Brazil's Alison dos Santos breaks the 400m hurdles world record, clocking a time of 45.80 seconds at the Diamond League in Zurich.
US strikes Iranian oil tankers as Tehran targets American base in Jordan — Oil prices edged closer to $100 a barrel after an escalation in the tit-for-tat strikes between the US and Iran.
These 2 reasons pushed me to ditch cables for my home theater, and I'm never going back — Flexible layouts that let me move speakers and swap components without rewiring or wrestling with cable runs.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Unleash Your Hero! | Paizo — Pathfinder Second Edition is easier to learn and faster to play, with deep character customization options that let you build the perfect character.
PSA: ChatGPT outage is blocking users from logging in or creating new accounts - 9to5Mac — OpenAI has confirmed that users are encountering errors when trying to log in to their accounts or create new ones. Here are the details.
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JPMorgan Unit to Argue Any India Regulatory Breach Was Technical — A JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit facing allegations of non-compliance from India’s market regulator is likely to contend that the issue was technical in nature rather than manipulative, people familiar with the…
Best Magic The Gathering deal: Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster Box hits record-low price — That brings down each pack to around $4.66.
Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday — Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media sabbatical, I watched the Jason Arday story unfold with increasing horror over the last couple of weeks. With hundreds of stories…