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How Cigar Factory ‘Readers’ Shaped Cuban Political Movements

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:54:49 GMT

quote [Lectors, or readers, once sparked revolution. Where are they today?] Entry Comment: Spliff bigga dan cigar inna cuba factory

The adventure games that inspired Yarnspin

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:05:40 GMT

quote [my story-telling game engine, designed to be very easy to use, and it can run as a local build or in your browser.] Entry Comment: Nice writeup on retro adventure interfaces for an engine that's powered by text files and a simple C compiler (didn't test, is multi-platform though) from Mattias Gustavsson

How To Build A Better World: The Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs, 1962

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:49:27 GMT

quote [Isaacs built the “Knowledge Box”, a total space in which we learn as we live] Entry Comment: Guess he is the boss of the knowledge box

My Friend Leatherface

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:43:20 GMT

quote [“People go after horror films not because they’re violent, but because a lot of times horror films have values that contradict normal values,” he said. “That’s why people are so outraged.] Entry Comment: Great read. All those laid off journalists produce more existential articles than you can keep track of. [Edit: ok, checking on Sarah Kendzior, that might have been a bit rude]

Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:36:25 GMT

quote [Proof you really can do anything if you want it bad enough] Entry Comment: Blasphemy! Sorcery! The black arts of surface physics. Note the lovely illustrations.

Saying Exactly What You Mean

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:01:04 GMT

quote [On trying to thread the needle of an honest statement during trying times full of chaos. (As always, Jesse Welles makes it look easy.)] Entry Comment: You've got to say what's on your mind

Slow social media

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:22:05 GMT

quote [Something like 300 friends sounds right. Any more than that and you're a collector, and not using the platform to foster connection. This feature alone already removes 90% of the marketing interests in the platform.] Entry Comment: cough-cough – ok, like, other than most of the HN commenters, I feel like the remaining few at this place have some worthwile insights on the topic. Thumb via Clawmarks

“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:00:27 GMT

quote [Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century, including by Carleton herself. Investigating the fraudster’s life, Laura Kolb finds a self-fashioning figure who both influenced the emergence of the English novel and serves as a strange precursor to our modern-day fascination with conwomen and counterfeits, like the heiress manqué Anna Delvey.] Entry Comment: 'Got a counterfeit dollar in my hand Your a princess your a star

Fiji’s Ants Are Struggling. Scientists Say They’re Part of the Broader ‘Insect Apocalypse’

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:02:01 GMT

quote [New research finds that 79 percent of Fiji’s endemic ant species—those that are native to and only found on the archipelago—are in decline] Entry Comment: And take a glance at the fancy ants

Robert Redford, Activist, Actor, Director, and Sundance Leader, Dead at 89

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:39:40 GMT

quote [Redford's golden boy aura made him perfect for roles like "The Great Gatsby" and "The Way We Were," but cost him others like "The Graduate."] Entry Comment: Robert Redford is the shiniest star