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A Wikipediholic, wikiholic, Wikipediaholic, Wikipath, wikiaddict, or wikimaniac (in binomial classification, Homo wikiaddictus or Homo wikidependus), (considered by some to be a subspecies of Homo sapiens), is someone who suffers from Wikipediholism, or obsession (addiction in some cases) with Wikipedia or other wikis. One of the most common characteristics of the condition is the victim reading or editing Wikipedia articles with much more frequency than the average person.
Yesterday
HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free.
Create pedal boards, drum machines, sampled instruments. And don’t write a single line of JavaScript in the process. Unless you really want to.
How the Midjourney ultrasound project started a war between medicine and tech.
I side with doctors on this one, though for a reason that they didn’t seem willing to advance. We shouldn’t obsessively overmedicalize ourselves. There is an inherent harm in always seeing yourself as a patient, ailing unless proven healthy. More information can make you sicker.
2 days ago
A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty-four questions, thirty-four types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?
What lets the same algorithm work across all three domains is that they share two key properties:
- Closure under negation and intersection — so the difference between two candidates is itself expressible.
- Sampling from that difference — so the system can show the user concrete cases where the candidates disagree.
Have you ever been to a city and wondered how to find alternative, leftist, non-commercial events for politics and subculture? https:// vonunten.org got you covered! The nice people maintain a map of all calendars for cities and regions
Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn’t until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might.
In this provocative investigation into OnlyFans—the adult platform where subscribers around the world spent more than $7 billion in 2024—journalist Leon Neyfakh teams up with comedian and OnlyFans creator Gracie Canaan for a one-of-a-kind exploration into the current state of human connection.
Throughout, they discover that the site originally built for spicy adult content has quietly and surprisingly become something more complicated—an emotional marketplace where desire, performance, care, fantasy, and vulnerability seemingly blur together.
Fascinating anthropology.
3 days ago
Home Services (GNU Guix Reference Manual)
In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position.
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Lexical syntax
- Lexical syntax of comments
When our peers are struggling with their mental health, the best thing to afford them is compassion and privacy. If you find yourself in a position to help someone who is struggling, it’s best to offer them a compassionate confidence, to allow them to take the lead in their struggle, and connect them to the resources they want and need. If you have concerns, express them, but focus on the person’s right to self-determination in addressing their mental health.