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One of the more potent moments of It’s Such a Beautiful Day is when Bill walks around his block several times in a row, noting the same things (such as how beautiful the day is) without remembering all the previous times he took the same walk.

A Tragic Bill of Health

December 3, 2021
Tumblr’s often framed as a dying platform, and its scarcely 200 million active users compared to the billion on Facebook and Instagram prove it, but that status has made it largely left alone by advertisers and data collectors

The Social Media Time Forgot

November 19, 2021
NFTs, like this CryptoPunk, are popping up everywhere—catching the concern of both environmentalists and the government.

Crypto Trade Cracked

November 12, 2021
A screenshot of the code and the finished product, weighing in at over 7,000 lines of code.

Lessons of a game dev

November 5, 2021
Despite how it may seem sometimes, it is human nature to want to help others.

Kindness displayed

October 29, 2021
Striking workers at the Kellogg’s plant in Battle Creek, Michigan. Photo by Alyssa Keown for Associated Press

Striketober surges across country

October 22, 2021
Des Rocs’ latest album cover, featuring his real good face ;)

A Real Good Album with some Real Bad Apples

October 15, 2021
The monster group as depicted by 3Blue1Brown

MegaFavNumbers & the Monster

October 1, 2021
The two leaders of surveillance, the director Christof of The Truman Show (top) and the figurehead Big Brother of 1984 (bottom).

Somebody’s Watching You

September 26, 2021
The first strikes in Portland included picketing just outside the processing facility. (Photo from Wikimedia.org)

The snack and the strike back

September 17, 2021
A small sampling of the types of flowers around campus—can you find any more?

What September showers bring

September 10, 2021
Landlords depending on rent payments began to suffer under the eviction suspension, so some of them took it to the courts.

Return of the landlord

September 3, 2021
The villainess herself, the downstairs Building 9 sink

The fault in our sinks

August 27, 2021
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