Larry Sanger, one of the original founders of Wikipedia, has openly stated that Wikipedia is clearly biased1. Although the free online encyclopedia i...

Two physicists have calculated that the universe has a higher entropy — and is therefore more likely — than alternative possible universes. The calculation is “an answer to a question that is yet to be fully understood.”

Mohammed bin Salman now has immunity against a lawsuit due to his new role as prime minister.

After successful clinical trials of psilocybin for treating depression, there are now calls for its wider use

Musk jokes through crisis, says record numbers "logging in to see if Twitter is dead."

Say hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world's largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing ...

There are long-standing concerns that peer review, which is foundational to scientific
institutions like journals and funding agencies, favors cons...

Nature - How, and whether, to keep atomic time in sync with Earth’s rotation is still up for debate.

How many people took their new boss’s offer and quit their jobs at Twitter last night? We don’t have a number to put on that, but Alex Heath has this email that was just sent from Elon Musk to Twitter’s software engineers. The strangest part of all this…

I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Actuated is now in pilot and aims to solve most if not all of the friction.

This week on ‘Burials and Beyond’, how to dispose of a body. As much as I’d delight in upholding such a click-bait-y introduction, clarification is – sadly – imminent. Unless you’re inclined to mur…

Entire departments crucial to the day-to-day operation of Twitter were part of a large scale employee resignation on Thursday.

How deep learning models are moderated

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.