quote [ Why Publishers Clearing House, a famously low-odds way of becoming rich beyond your wildest dreams, suddenly wants to pass down your winnings ? if you win. ]

quote [ in 2021 he built and launched fakercloud.com and started acquiring early users. Some of these users were programmers from a company called Retool, a VC-backed startup that had been a patron of the faker.js library as they used it in their own tech stack. According to Marak, within a matter of weeks Retool launched their own free variant of the fakercloud concept, using faker.js in its source code. ]

quote [ Every good comic book fan will have read some of the adventures of Corto Maltés and if so, will remember that one of the characters that the protagonist had to deal with in that first and germinal story that was The Ballad of the Salty Sea is the Monk, the chief of the pirates of the South Seas; a mysterious individual, who lives on his own island and whose identity is unknown because he is always hooded. ]

quote [ In 1966 competing teams raced up the Dru above Chamonix to save stranded climbers. The media circus that followed has never been equaled. ]

quote [ Don?t assume that a non-speaking autistic who doesn?t react to your presence in the room is unaware of the conversation.

Don?t assume that someone is not really autistic just because they make eye contact with you and can chat about the weather.

Don?t assume that a fluently-talkative autistic person is capable of processing what you have just said to them. ]

quote [ For more than half a century, the people of Easter Island lived under an oppressive colonial regime. Then a schoolteacher sparked an unlikely revolution. ]

quote [ Here?s how the company fought to get its identity back from extremists. ]

quote [ It shows how all these systems are built and glued together. Thank god I?ve found this footage, because the 66 years of distance have been quite enough to see what happened there. Every new ruler that comes to power sees it as his duty to rewrite history, but when they rewrite that history the only thing that they're actually concerned about is how they will be perceived in the future. ]

quote [ Tracing the uses of the risk compensation argument reveals a deep connection between the anti-regulatory rhetoric of conservatives and the moral tsk-tsking of prominent voices in the medical establishment over time, from the CDC to the surgeon general. Both arguments rely on a simplistic notion of personal responsibility. ]

quote [ If, by the dumb logic of my eating disorder, I was losing something special about myself by gaining weight, I was bolstering my self-esteem by creating crosswords, something I knew to be difficult, precocious, and exceptional. ]