How to Beat the LABYRINTH Two-Door Riddle You’re now fit to face your own two-door fate. Let’s just hope XKCD’s snarky third guard stays out of the equation. 05/9/2024 - 9:19 pm | View Link
Open-Source Cybersecurity Is a Ticking Time Bomb In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software products and operating systems, was found to have been ... 05/8/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
Forget Passwords, Use Passphrases for Extra Security The wags who write the xkcd webcomic ridiculed the latter approach, advising that you instead combine random common words to get a long password like CorrectHorseBatteryStaple, and then come up with a ... 05/7/2024 - 2:41 pm | View Link
What Would Happen If Every Lightning Bolt on Earth Struck the Same Place All at Once In their "What If?" series, Randall Munroe and Henry Reich explain what would happen if every lightning bolt struck the same place at once. 05/7/2024 - 7:16 am | View Link
This open source automation platform could unify smart home products Check out the up-and-coming Home Assistant, an open-source alternative to the current leading smart home control ecosystems ... 05/5/2024 - 8:01 am | View Link
xkcd Yes. You can get comics through the JSON interface, at URLs like https://xkcd.com/info.0.json (current comic) and https://xkcd.com/614/info.0.json (comic #614). How do I write "xkcd"? There's nothing in Strunk and White about this. For those of us pedantic enough to want a rule, here it is: The preferred form is "xkcd", all lower-case. 05/10/2024 - 8:24 am | View Website
xkcd: Google Solar Cycle xkcd: Google Solar Cycle. A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. What If? is on YouTube! The first video answers “What if we aimed Hubble at Earth?”. 05/9/2024 - 10:08 pm | View Website
xkcd: Escape Speed xkcd: Escape Speed. A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Today's comic was put together with help from Max Goodhart, Patrick Clapp, Amber, Kevin, Benjamin Staffin, and Janelle Shane . 05/9/2024 - 2:02 pm | View Website
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe. A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. What If? is on YouTube! The first video answers “What if we aimed Hubble at Earth?”. 05/9/2024 - 10:05 am | View Website
xkcd xkcd, sometimes styled XKCD, is a webcomic created in 2005 by American author Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". Munroe states on the comic's website that the name of the comic is not an initialism but "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation". 05/9/2024 - 8:25 am | View Website
Senator Tommy Turberville became the second public attack dog for Trump, when he admitted he was flabbergasted that the courtroom wasn't a jolly place of entertainment.
First of all, I'm disappointed in the courtroom I'm hearing. Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, he is former President Trump. Give him some respect. I mean, that's what that place is in there.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and suspended attorney John Eastman appeared on a podcast this week and discussed the 2020 election.
During a panel with right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon on Monday, both men suggested the 2020 election had been stolen from former President Donald Trump.
Giuliani also griped about his recent firing from WABC radio after breaking station rules about discussing the 2020 election.
"They fired us, and I began, without missing a beat, yesterday morning, 10 o'clock on Covering the Truth, Dr.
Look, we know that anything having to do with Trump is over the top, but even for Trump, this VP spectacle seems designed for the ultimate public debasement and humiliation for the participants. I guess that's the point.
"I really need this job. I hope I get it!" Dance, monkeys, dance!
Trump’s VP auditions are the reality TV show nobody asked for - Politicians out-pander each other to get a rose from Trump.
Canadian wildfires have roared back to life, sending harmful smoke into the northern United States — just like last summer’s historic fire season that also sent plumes of noxious haze southward. If you didn't have allergies at the start, you probably had them by the time the air finally cleared.
Twenty-eight-year-old Thai activist Netiporn Sanesangkhom, also known as “Bung,” died in a hospital in Bangkok on Tuesday after going into cardiac arrest. She had been hospitalized following a hunger strike she started in January to protest the country’s judicial system and imprisonment of political dissenters like herself.
Bung’s death comes amid waves of similar hunger strikes initiated by pro-democracy protesters detained in Thailand, which has come under criticism for its ironfisted treatment of activists at odds with the country’s conservative establishment.
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For decades, economic policy in most liberal democracies has been premised on two core beliefs: that free markets would maximize economic growth, and that we could address inequality through redistribution.
The recent revival of industrial policy, championed by President Biden, is a clear repudiation of the first of these beliefs. It reflects a growing recognition among economists that state intervention to shape markets and steer investment is crucial for fostering innovation, protecting strategically important sectors like semi-conductors, and tackling the climate emergency.
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But we must also reassess the second belief—that taxes and transfers alone can address the vast inequalities that have brought American democracy to such a perilous juncture.