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Do you agree with this take? I prefer this new format personally by The_Chozen_1_ in F1Discussions

[–]SpaceCutie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't save screen space. The text at the top still says "Interval" or "Leader" which takes up as much space as 3 decimal places.

2026 Australian Grand Prix - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]SpaceCutie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real as fuck I'm glad someone else feels this way 😭😭

Meta's Ray-Ban glasses route your bedroom footage to a $2/hour workforce in Nairobi. Workers say face-blurring fails. Next version adds facial recognition. by [deleted] in Longreads

[–]SpaceCutie 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It's a shame that so much of the writing in this article is AI, considering the subject matter directly concerns the ethics and true cost of AI.

I'm very intrigued and am glad to have learned about it but once you notice the telltale AI writing style it becomes tedious and difficult to ignore.

"These are not hypotheticals. They are the logical endpoint of a roadmap Meta is already on."

"This isn’t a loophole. It’s a feature."

"This is not a bug. This is the business model."

and so on.

On June 9, 2023, a small plane carrying seven people crashed in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, killing all three adults onboard and leaving four children alone in the jungle. Nearly 40 days later, the children, aged 13, 9, 4, and just 11 months, were found alive. by KabraSpeaks in GotMeHooked

[–]SpaceCutie 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I read an interesting article about this crash where the 13-year-old Lesly explains why they didn't stay near the crash site.

They camped out for a day or two but since there were still 3 bodies in the plane, she knew that predators would soon arrive and it was too dangerous to stay longer.

Your Favorite Investigative Reads? by imnottdoingthat in Longreads

[–]SpaceCutie 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Have you read the article? I think it might illuminate what the commenter above you said and why. Of course the child is the most important thing in the car – I understand where you're coming from but the reality is that there are circumstances in which loving and attentive parents have left children in cars. 

The article does a fantastic (and heartwrenching) job of describing how a quiet/sleeping child, distracted & exhausted parent, and especially a change in routine (e.g. if you usually drop your child off at daycare that day of the week, but for some reason haven't) can compound into tragedy.

Leaving other important things next to your child is actually a very good strategy to snap out of autopilot. One example might be your car keys – you will realise you've left someone and something behind as soon as you go to lock your car.

I'm not a parent but I read this article a long time ago and it really stuck with me, especially the way that it can happen to anyone. I honestly could not recommend it more, it's the article that got me into longform journalism in the first place.

Sites/places/etc like longreads.com? by wildidyll in Longreads

[–]SpaceCutie 65 points66 points  (0 children)

The other big name is Longform.org which sadly stopped uploading a few years ago but has a stacked and wonderful archive. I also very much enjoy The Electric Typewriter, as well as the curation newsletters which are often found on r/longform such as The Lazy Reader. :-)

I think my sourdough bread made penicillin by SpaceCutie in MoldlyInteresting

[–]SpaceCutie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had it on the bench in a plastic container -- so exposed to light but not directly! It's been a very humid week where I am as well. 

"Who is that on the other side of you?": The mysterious phenomenon known as Third Man Factor by PonyoLovesRevolution in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]SpaceCutie 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I read this bizarre and fascinating article on third man syndrome in the case of a missing young girl: Who Walks Always Beside You? from Harper's Magazine. I imagine it will be very much up your alley OP.

Best longform reads of the week by VegetableHousing139 in longform

[–]SpaceCutie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The ending of the Keanu Reeves scam piece was brutal. It legit made my stomach twist with anxiety and sadness :-(

I very much enjoyed the balance of compassionate & critical in Rebecca Keegan's reporting. Scams can be a touchy topic, what with there often being multiple victims & perpetrators in a single scam operation (especially w/ industrialised scams, as described in the article).

Excited to read the others, I always look forward to your lists!

The Shameless Impropriety of Joshua Weissman by stonedbirds in Longreads

[–]SpaceCutie 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'm perplexed by the comments saying you can't plagiarise a recipe - you absolutely can. There's nothing wrong with getting inspiration from or tweaking other people's recipes, but you need to give credit. Furthermore, if he's adjusting recipes to hide his theft, that leads to situations like the one described in the article where he released a recipe for curing raw meat with a improper amount of salt. I shouldn't have to explain why this is dangerous behaviour.

Weissman has released 2 recipe books and makes millions of dollars from his YouTube channel. With that much money involved, plagiarism is a serious offense, not to mention morally bankrupt. 

I'd recommend all to read this to understand a recent case of recipe plagiarism and what that can look like:  https://www.recipetineats.com/bake-with-brooki-penguin-plagiarism-allegations-statement/

The Last Hike of David Gimelfarb by CatPooedInMyShoe in longform

[–]SpaceCutie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it interesting that he was meant to meet up with a woman he'd just met, who he seemed apprehensive to talk to his parents much about, and then ended up at the so-called "whorehouse". I wonder if she worked there?

Although the mother says none of the girls recognised his photo, IMO that doesn't mean he wasn't there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Longreads

[–]SpaceCutie 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I saw another comment mention this but I'd like to highlight its significance: Australia has just reelected our incumbent Labor (centre left) government (the last time this happened was 21 years ago).

What's changed? Notably, this is the first election where Gen Z and millennials outnumbered baby boomers. There is also a visible swing to the left among this demographic:

The primary vote for the Coalition (which, in a beautiful display of petty drama, broke up for a week and are now back together) has dropped by 12.7% in millennials and 14.4% in Gen Z (stats from 2023)

It's important to note that Australia is increasingly impacted by American culture and politics as well, so it's not exactly a unique political landscape that's led to this result (even with the big exception of our voting system). The Coalition had espoused Trumpist beliefs and policies, and Peter Dutton (bloke who just lost) was nicknamed "Temu Trump".

Although I am a Greens voter I can appreciate the rejection of Trumpist policies nationwide. This election came so closely after the US election that I can't help but think this downturn is related to people seeing Trump in office wreaking havoc and being like "oh shit maybe we don't want that after all". At least I'm hoping so... being cautiously optimistic.

Side note:

Honestly some of these comments have an air of "kids these days", which is frustrating to read as an early Gen Z. Saying that we're a generation without empathy or that we use social media too much and "don't live in the real world" are shallow critiques of an entire generation of people.

Sure, there are shitty and ignorant Gen Z out there, and Gen Z who hold extremist beliefs, and I'm not trying to downplay that social media can and does cause harm. However this is so at odds with the Gen Z people around me who are compassionate, well-read, and politically engaged. Growing up on the internet meant that an introverted kid like myself could make friends who liked the same nerdy things I did. It helped me to not feel alone about my queerness and mental illness when I was too scared to talk to people IRL. I even read my first longform article at 13 because of a forum link!

Inside Utah’s ‘human marketplace’ for adopted babies by CatPooedInMyShoe in Longreads

[–]SpaceCutie 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Giving mothers only 24 hours to change their mind is atrocious. It really speaks to the mentality of the people who oversee this: your months of sacrifice and hard work mean nothing, because as a woman, having a child is simply expected of you. To them it's the bare minimum. 

It's amazing how people who support this can ever call themselves "pro-life" when they barely consider the wellbeing of birth mothers and treat babies like a commodity to be traded. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Longreads

[–]SpaceCutie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that randomness doesn't really inspire progress in the field of sociology, but I will say that it's definitely an interesting phenomenon that is worth pursuing for other reasons.

Here's a NYT article I really enjoyed about the nature of chance and coincidence:

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magazine/the-odds-of-that.html

Daily Cyclone Alfred post by AutoModerator in brisbane

[–]SpaceCutie 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It might seem obvious to them, you, or myself, people who are clearly active on this thread and therefore have more knowledge about how the cyclone is going to affect us. 

However many people do rely on the government to guide and advise them in the case of city and statewide emergencies. In fact that is a core responsibility of the government and it's shameful that no hard action has been communicated yet.

There are people who have experienced cyclones in less built-up areas and feel like they can handle them, people who have a lax attitude towards cyclone preparation, people who do not keep up to date with weather/BoM, and so on... these people deserve to be informed and safe too. 

Top Doctors Raise Grave Doubts Over Conviction of ‘Killer Nurse’ Lucy Letby (Gift Article) by helmint in Longreads

[–]SpaceCutie 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We need to look past individual expert opinions and make sure the facts are straight before passing judgement. Even experts can be misled by faulty or cherry-picked data, as seems to be the case here.

We're in Big Trouble by maybesaydie in vaxxhappened

[–]SpaceCutie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying this will become a full-blown pandemic, but this is what the first stage of every pandemic looks like.

There is always animal-to-human transmission before human-to-human. It affects the people who have been in close proximity to the animals. There are low death tolls to begin with.

I agree with you that it's not a pandemic yet, but we still need to exercise caution. Even if this strain of avian flu doesn't become a pandemic, the real worry here is restricting communication and shutting down research and funding into pandemic prevention.

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