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ajoy commented on World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip   smithsonianmag.com/histor... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
ajoy · 2 years ago
Really impressed with how Finland is "arming" the public with the tools to combat misinformation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/fact-from-fict...

Hint: They start real early.

Also this (from article) : "Fake news, Kivinen said, is not a great term, especially for children. Far more useful are three distinct categories: misinformation, or “mistakes”; disinformation, or “lies” and “hoaxes”, which are false and spread deliberately to deceive; and malinformation, or “gossip”, which may perhaps be correct but is intended to harm."

ajoy commented on An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)   github.com/MadRabbit/halm... · Posted by u/michidk
ajoy · 4 years ago
Something I was developing on my spare time :) : https://github.com/aj0y/fitjoy

The main difference with other layouts is that I take finger length into account. (Eg. the pinky is usually much shorter than your ring finger, so putting them all on the same row means your ring finger need to curl up more and less relaxed). Also tried to reduce changes to the most common shortcuts we (programmers) use.

Feedback welcome!

ajoy commented on The whitest paint could eliminate the need for air conditioning   news.yahoo.com/scientists... · Posted by u/graderjs
ajoy · 4 years ago
Related articles : L.A.’s New Reflective Streets Bounce Heat Back into Space ( https://reasonstobecheerful.world/reflective-white-streets-u... )

and counterpoint: White Roofs, Green Myth? ( https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-roofs-green-myth_b_2901... )

u/ajoy

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