Published on: 2025-06-19 08:09:58
When Nguyen Phuoc Loc first started dabbling in Chicano culture eight years ago, it was simply because he liked the way that the loose clothing offset his large head. Today, he considers himself Chicano through and through. The 30-year-old Vietnamese barber has never been to the United States. Yet he has filled his life and work with tributes to Mexican American identity and culture. The back of the barbershop he manages features a mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a cactus plant and a Mexican
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 03:16:30
Slide from opening keynote of Stripe Sessions 2025 There is a recent video of Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 stating that in 2024 Stripe did on average 1,145 pull requests per day. Not just creating them, but actually finishing them; "fully shipped into production". All whilst having less than a minute of API unreliability for the entire year. Stripe has roughly 8,500 employees (BI, 2025). 40% or so in engineering (Forbes, 2022). With some napkin math assuming a similar distribution
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-10 14:55:00
If you're at all tapped into food news, terms such as "cultured," "cultivated" or "hybrid" meats have probably already entered your consciousness. But does your consciousness know what to do with these labels? If you're getting big science energy from this terminology, you're not wrong. With summer grilling season on the brink, it's a good time to remind ourselves that the future of meat is upon us, and it involves a potentially massive overhaul of the way animal protein sources are produced in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 14:43:00
If you're at all tapped into food news, terms such as "cultured," "cultivated" or "hybrid" meats have probably already entered your consciousness. But does your consciousness know what to do with these labels? If you're getting big science energy from this terminology, you're not wrong. With summer grilling season on the brink, it's a good time to remind ourselves that the future of meat is upon us, and it involves a potentially massive overhaul of the way animal protein sources are produced in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 08:31:37
Margaret Mitchell is a pioneer when it comes to testing generative AI tools for bias. She founded the Ethical AI team at Google, alongside another well-known researcher, Timnit Gebru, before they were later both fired from the company. She now works as the AI ethics leader at Hugging Face, a software startup focused on open source tools. We spoke about a new dataset she helped create to test how AI models continue perpetuating stereotypes. Unlike most bias-mitigation efforts that prioritize Eng
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 23:26:00
If you're at all tapped into food news, terms such as "cultured," "cultivated" or "hybrid" meats have probably already entered your consciousness. But does your consciousness know what to do with these labels? If you're getting big science energy from this terminology, you're not wrong. With summer grilling season on the brink, it's a good time to remind ourselves that the future of meat is upon us, and it involves a potentially massive overhaul of the way animal protein sources are produced in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-09 19:09:15
The Literary Foundations of Civilisation Nestled in a café-bar-museum-event space in Fort Mason — San Francisco’s water-front, weathered military campus with sweeping views of the Golden Gate Bridge —is a floor to ceiling library housing the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilisation. A crowd-curated collection of the 3,500 books “most essential to sustain or rebuild a civilisation,” the Manual for Civilisation began with one question: If you were stranded on an island (or small hostile plan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 06:13:23
Before he was abruptly fired last month, Derek Copeland worked as a trainer at the US Department of Agriculture’s National Dog Detection Training Center, preparing beagles and Labrador retrievers to sniff out plants and animals that are invasive or vectors for zoonotic diseases, like swine fever. Copeland estimates the NDDTC lost about a fifth of its trainers and a number of other support staff when 6,000 employees were let go at the USDA in February as part of a government-wide purge orchestrat
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It’s not exactly news that Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is a viral sensation. He’s been debated, lusted after, and idolized. There are even calls for Dave Franco to play him in a movie. However, in an age of populist rage, it appears that web platforms are increasingly cracking down on content associated with him, for fear that the widespread idolization may turn violent. Slate recently noted that some forums on Reddit had been getting censored for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-25 20:01:45
is platforms and communities reporter with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word “Luigi” as potentially violent — even when the content isn’t. Earlier this week, a moderator from r/popculture saw Reddit’s AutoModerator system flag a post about the video game Luigi’s Mansion 3 because it included the word “Luigi,” giving them instructions to “check for violence.” A Reddit
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.
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Chipotle has gone back to the “metaverse.” The food chain said it is the first restaurant brand to premiere a national TV ad in the metaverse, which in this case means Roblox. The ad is dubbed Unfolded, an animated short film featuring a cover by Halsey with the message of supporting sustainable agriculture. Chipotle Mexican Grill had previously pledged $2 million to support educational programs at leading universities that advance the future of farming. Unfolded highlights ways Chipotle’s Foo
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