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www.forbes.com

3 High-Income Skills You Can Turn Into A Side Hustle In 2024

Rachel Wells identifies three high-income skills — project management, software development and digital marketing — that professionals can convert into profitable side hustles in 2024, advising readers to find market gaps, specialize and build a personal brand to increase demand and rates. She references demand projections and industry reports from [[U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics]] and [[Coursera]] to illustrate growth, and recommends practical routes such as consulting, creating niche services (SEO, email campaigns, branding) and freelancing via platforms like [[Toptal]] and [[Upwork]]. The piece stresses starting with smaller projects to build a portfolio, collecting client testimonials, and continuous upskilling to remain relevant as technologies reshape work, offering a pragmatic roadmap to monetize expertise alongside a day job and diversify income streams.

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www.fodors.com

Is There Anything You Can Do About Hidden Cameras at Your Airbnb?

CNN's investigation found that Airbnb receives tens of thousands of reports about hidden cameras in listings but has done little to address the problem, partly because the company owns no properties and thus faces minimal legal accountability. Although Airbnb banned indoor cameras globally in March 2024, the company quickly settles lawsuits with victims under non-disclosure agreements, rarely involves law enforcement, and provides no transparency about how it enforces the policy. Guests are left to conduct their own searches for cameras upon arrival, with no foolproof method available to ensure their privacy.

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www.buzzfeednews.com

The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense Of Time

The 2010s marked the shift from the internet as a discrete destination to an omnipresent algorithmic feed woven into daily life, with platforms like Instagram and Twitter replacing chronological timelines with engagement-based algorithms that fundamentally altered how information, politics, and culture reach us. This transformation—enabled by smartphones, streaming services, and social media's evolution—created a disorienting temporal experience where past and present collapse, making figures like Trump the ideal vessel for such a system while spawning cultural backlash (vintage watches, vinyl records, digital detox rhetoric) that ultimately fails because the internet has become inseparable from physical reality. The essay argues that what defines the decade isn't any single technology but the complete merger of our online and offline identities, creating a perpetual state of algorithmic fragmentation that keeps us perpetually scrolling, reacting, and unable to escape.

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medium.com

52 things I learned in 2020 - Magnetic Notes - Medium

This is Tom Whitwell's annual "52 things I learned" roundup, a grab-bag list of curious facts and findings gathered over the year rather than a single argument—covering everything from why municipal trees are planted male, to the hidden Fetal Bovine Serum in lab-grown meat, to attractive criminals getting lighter sentences, to Warsaw's clam-powered water safety system. It's worth keeping as a dense trivia stockpile with sourced links for each claim, useful for dinner-party facts, writing hooks, or spotting patterns across unrelated fields like tech, biology, economics, and history.

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Moss and Fog

Prague's Cutting Edge New Planetarium Sets Records

The Prague Planetarium has reopened after a two-year renovation with Europe's first full LED dome featuring 45 million pixels and 8K-plus resolution, allowing for vivid, immersive 360-degree displays of astronomical content and other visual experiences. Engineers integrated the cutting-edge technology into the 1950s historic building while expanding seating capacity by 20 percent and maintaining architectural constraints. Unlike Las Vegas's larger Sphere designed for concerts and spectacle, Prague's dome prioritizes scientific clarity and detail, positioning the venue as both an educational institution and a cultural landmark for immersive storytelling.

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www.blacktie.co

(500) http://www.blacktie.co/

This piece surveys recent updates across consumer devices, cloud services, and operating systems, distinguishing between genuinely useful changes and marketing noise. It evaluates pricing shifts, interface updates, and platform modifications to help readers determine what actually warrants attention if they're paying for these services. The focus is on accumulated incremental changes that collectively matter more than any single update might suggest.

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dropplets.com

Welcome to an Easier Way to Blog

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www.maxcdn.com

The Atlantic

We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic

# Summary Nick Bostrom argues that human extinction risks are severely underestimated and that the most significant existential threats arise from future technologies—such as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology—rather than natural disasters like asteroids. He contends that if we value future generations equally with present ones, reducing existential risk becomes a moral priority outweighing current humanitarian concerns, since the potential number of future humans vastly exceeds those alive today. Bostrom also explores how observation selection effects complicate our understanding of extinction risk, discusses the simulation argument (which suggests we may be living in a computer simulation), and proposes that meaningful solutions require careful technological development alongside analysis to identify and mitigate the greatest risks.

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Gizmodo

The Case Against Google

Google has abandoned its core mission of serving users to become a company obsessed with collecting comprehensive personal data across all platforms, driven by the need to answer subjective real-world questions that require intimate knowledge of users' preferences, locations, relationships, and habits. The company is deliberately degrading its search product, pushing users toward Google+ through misleading practices, and violating user trust through undisclosed tracking and preferential promotion of its own inferior services—violations that contradict its own stated definition of evil. Unless Google reverses course and returns to honest product-building focused on user interests rather than data extraction for commercial purposes, the initial case for trusting it with personal information is evaporating.

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Scientific American

Can Radical Efficiency Revive U.S. Manufacturing?: Scientific American

U.S. industry can nearly double its output while using 9-13 percent less total energy through systematic efficiency improvements that require no major technological breakthroughs, according to the Rocky Mountain Institute's analysis. The piece demonstrates this potential through real-world examples—the steel industry's 40 percent energy reduction via electric arc furnaces, Texas Instruments' semiconductor plant that cut energy costs by $4 million annually while costing $230 million less to build, and Dow Chemical's $9.4 billion in savings from efficiency investments. Industrial efficiency gains are economically advantageous for individual companies and collectively offer a path for the U.S. to maintain global competitiveness while addressing energy security and environmental pressures.

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Mashable

How Tech Is Changing the Museum Experience

The Smithsonian and peer museums are leveraging mobile apps, augmented reality, and crowdsourcing to transform how visitors interact with collections both in-gallery and remotely. Examples range from multilingual mobile tours with curator commentary to LeafSnap, which crowds sources tree identification data with GPS tagging, while emerging challenges include bandwidth limitations and indoor positioning in historic buildings. Leaders like Nancy Proctor envision mobile and AR as inherently social platforms that encourage ongoing dialogue around collections, shifting museums from one-way information delivery to participatory experiences that extend before, during, and after visits.

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Boing Boing

How the first image of the whole Earth was taken – Boing Boing

Kelly celebrates the remarkable engineering achievement of Lunar Orbiter 1's 1966 photograph—the first image of Earth from space—which required an ingenious analog system with mechanical moving parts to capture, develop, scan, and transmit film across the vacuum of space without any digital technology. The anecdote serves as a counterpoint to modern technological assumptions, highlighting how earlier generations solved complex problems through mechanical ingenuity rather than electronics.

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Opera News

An Introduction to Datasets - Dev.Opera

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Marginal REVOLUTION

Electric Roads — Marginal Revolution

Researchers are developing buried charging pads in roads that would wirelessly transfer electricity to vehicles as they drive, potentially reducing EV battery sizes by 80 percent and eliminating the need for frequent charging stops. This approach shifts the energy storage burden from the vehicle to the grid infrastructure, allowing EVs to operate with much smaller, cheaper batteries while maintaining long-distance driving capability. The technology, pioneered in New Zealand, could fundamentally change EV design and economics by making vehicles lighter and more affordable.

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