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Sci/Tech

Amazon employees say you should be skeptical of Jeff Bezos’s worker satisfaction stat: It’s difficult to get honest feedback from workers who fear retaliation.
(vox.com) posted by propperprim in technology 39568 points & 1231 comments
'It's your device, you should be able to repair it': E-waste is the world's fastest growing waste stream. By 2030 global e-waste will reach 74 million tonnes.
(bbc.com) posted by SinbadMarinarul in Futurology 8543 points & 238 comments
Remembering Michael Collins: "He wore a document on a lanyard with 18 contingency plans for saving Aldrin and Armstrong because NASA believed he had the skill to carry them out...The burden of those lives literally hung around his neck."
(reddit.com) posted by jwb713 in space 5895 points & 146 comments
3D Print Your Own Wireless 2.1 Speaker System
(hackaday.com) posted by a_Ninja_b0y in gadgets 4345 points & 115 comments
American Mastodons walking across a plain on a rainy day (Art by Corbin Rainbolt).
(i.redd.it) posted by julianofcanada in Naturewasmetal 2610 points & 30 comments
Time for a new batch of health potions.
(i.imgur.com) posted by MaddyiCook in chemicalreactiongifs 1953 points & 22 comments

Maker

I’ve been printing a bit lately
(i.redd.it) posted by thekakester in 3Dprinting 2611 points & 166 comments
We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
(calpaterson.com) posted by calp in programming 1475 points & 414 comments
I made a website that helps people learn CSS grid interactively.
(v.redd.it) posted by Smogchalk in webdev 1375 points & 56 comments
They say, "An educational game to learn vim and vscode keys in logical, digestable levels." Surely looks like one!
(i.redd.it) posted by quackycoder in linux 1352 points & 52 comments

Etcetera

Discover New York in detail with this incredible panorama of 80 billion pixels!
(earthcam.net) posted by Perroquit in InternetIsBeautiful 6485 points & 331 comments
Burning eye
(i.redd.it) posted by kirokaze in PixelArt 2341 points & 23 comments
This Sunflower Car,
(reddit.com) posted by AnonymousWaterBucket in WeirdWheels 817 points & 30 comments
Behind the scenes shot of Brigette Helm. Metropolis (1927).
(i.redd.it) posted by ashe101ashe in RetroFuturism 813 points & 20 comments