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You have nothing to hide: Replacing Telegram, Twitter & YouTube

Young people use Discord and enjoy networking in the communities there. Russians and Yankees use Telegram massively and replicate their memebionts across the world. Elon Musk is constantly producing buzz about Twitter. And so on. There are debates about some kind of “privacy” and “security” around it as well as how many people are using […]

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How meth saves lives and why it’s rational to ignore every (drug) policy

Aimo Koivunen and his story Try to put yourself in the shoes of a Finnish soldier navigating the harsh Lapland wilderness on a freezing winter’s day. It’s about 10 a.m., your unit has been on the move almost continuously for more than two days, skiing in knee-deep snow. Everyone is already completely exhausted, the temperature

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Dehydrated oxygen-hacking bacteria and blue-light-blocking glasses

One and a half billion years ago, more or less the whole Earth was covered by a single warm ocean. The air outside the ocean was filled with oxygen, a violent poison that uncompromisingly killed most living organisms that were exposed to it. But a few species of bacteria hacked this killing system and learned

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