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privacy

We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of crypto revolution

charts_and_numbers

> Beijing has stopped publishing hundreds of statistics, making it harder to know what’s going on in the country

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Data stops. Data stops. Data stops.

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-data-missing-096cac9a?st=j7V11b&reflink=article_copyURL_share

How Bad Is China’s Economy? The Data Needed to Answer Is Vanishing

Photography

Vintage lenses on modern camera vs Modern lenses on film camera

> the old lenses are very good on modern cameras up to around 18/24 M Pixels.

I have never seen this even with pretty old lenses. Maybe lack of sharpness but real loss of quality I have never seen

Real median wages grew 29% since 1979

It's "real" so it already takes that into account. The basket of goods and services may differ from person to person ofc.

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqNcZtGWIAAKKNG?format=jpg&name=medium)

https://www.epi.org/blog/wage-growth-since-1979-has-not-been-stagnant-but-it-has-definitely-been-suppressed/

I Bought a Leica M6 - My New Favorite Camera

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I don't need a Leica I don't need a Leica I don't need a Leica

The Entire History of Cat Memes

culture

Americans want to move to Europe — but just how easy is it?

science

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> The figure in this article illustrates exactly how most biology papers are secretly p-hacked. A large number of hypotheses is explored, and only the ones that form a coherent story are reported. 

> This is actually the main reason behind the replication crisis in biology IMO. ([source](https://x.com/DouglasYaoDY/status/1918198785232257298))

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02635-7

Replication crisis in biology: p-hacked hypothesises

tech

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’

China shows off its lithography progress by tattooing microbes

it has nothing to do with the 7nm nodes on silicone wafers, that's correct

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> Research out of China; they used ice lithography to fabricate 72 nm patterns on living tardigrades. 
> The wild thing isn’t just that they “tattooed” tardigrades. It’s that tardigrades are so resilient, and focused electron beams so precise, that 40% of them survived and went about their lives after the procedure.

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/april/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-tattoo-tardigrades.html