Stack Overflow will test paying experts to answer questions. That's one of many radical experiments they're now trying to stave off an AI-induced death spiral

WTF.

Stocks, exchange-traded funds, and real estate are some common assets that make up a diverse investment portfolio. Now, it seems investors are adding trading cards to that portfolio

"Berlin is not a pretty place. The winters are a total nightmare, no sunlight, no warm face. Its cuisine is all about fast food. Large parts of town smell like a public toilet; overdosed tourists randomly pass out on the street. It’s not a city where you would sit out on a cafe terrace to people-watch. But also it’s now nearly impossible to find an affordable flat you could call home"

studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heating

Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first

How did the world get like this? Eight books to help explain the way we live now

"But for the foreseeable future we must hang together or we will surely hang separately, metaphorically or otherwise"

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"tatsächlich zeigt auch das Fernsehen - wie Marshall McLuhan schon in den 1960er Jahren gezeigt hat - höchstens Ausschnitte der Realität. Es zeigt jene Ausschnitte, auf die die Kameras und ihre Objektive gerichtet waren. Was außerhalb des Kamerafeldes geschieht, bleibt ungesehen, unbekannt - und es sollte lange Zeit auch unbekannt bleiben. Doch vor den Kameras ist es eng geworden"