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  • 🔗 Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula

    But getting rid of black plastic kitchen utensils is a low-stakes move, and worth it. Cooking with any plastic is a dubious enterprise, because heat encourages potentially harmful plastic compounds to migrate out of the polymers and potentially into the food. But, as Andrew Turner, a biochemist at the University of Plymouth
    I had no idea black plastic was often made from recycled e-waste and often includes flame retardants from it. Turns out, simple materials we’ve been using since forever are superior. That tracks.
  • 🔗 Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)

    You should be using an RSS reader: The one thing you can choose to do that will make your internet life better and make the internet better for everyone else, too.

    Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

    This day in history: 2004, 2009
    I’ve gotten out of the habit of using my RSS reader because Feedly would unauth itself every so often. Maybe I should lean back in again.
  • 🔗 UK to close last coal power station after 142 years

    The UK's last coal power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, is due to end operations on Monday.
    Coal for electricity generation is now a relic of history in the place that started it all. The first G-7 country to do so. I look forward for this being a true statement everywhere.
  • 🔗 Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

    Anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet has a good idea of
    how prevalent meme usage has become in online discourse. Finding new
    memes on the latest happening and sharing them with various friend
    groups to share in the humor is a long-enjoyed
    I’ve been thinking how cool it would be to be able to do something like this — using old iOS devices as servers, especially for the AI/Vision stuff it excels at.
  • 🔗 The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
    I was more of an xmms guy myself growing up (desktop linux), but I love how...human the artifacts are in these corrupted skins. More like this, please.
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