Society's Backend
Resources to Get a Job in ML, Post-Transformer Architectures, What's in Store for 2025, and More
Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
53 minutes ago
Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
Flashbak
The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
3 hours ago
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
Birchtree
More YouTube goodies? More YouTube goodies.
Here we go again!
This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV
On the other...
3 hours ago
Here we go again!
This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV
On the other end of things, here's a QVC presenter destroying a TV live on camera. Cybertruck reveal vibes here too
If you've tried Balatro and haven't
Both Are True
When You're Done with that Condom, Just Throw it Anywhere
just a lil guy
3 hours ago
Calculated Risk
Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in...
3 hours ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales
A brief excerpt:
After the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) releases the monthly existing home sales report, I pick up additional local...
Birchtree
2025: The year of fitness (members post)
2025 is upon us and my goals for the new year are very clear: I need to get my fitness in order....
4 hours ago
2025 is upon us and my goals for the new year are very clear: I need to get my fitness in order. Here's the plan…
Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
4 hours ago
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
Calculated Risk
NAR: Pending Home Sales Increase 2.2% in November; Up 6.9% Year-over-year
From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of...
6 hours ago
From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of Increases
Pending home sales gained 2.2% in November – the fourth consecutive month of increases and the highest level since February 2023 – according to the National Association of REALTORS®....
Scarlet Ink
My 61k subscriber newsletter, about marketing, and a bit about relationships. An off-topic holiday...
An off-topic holiday newsletter. And a happy New Year to you!
6 hours ago
An off-topic holiday newsletter. And a happy New Year to you!
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less)
The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
7 hours ago
The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
Retail Design Blog
Creditreform Offices by Mint Architecture
Mint Architecture designed a timeless and loft-like office space for Creditreform in Offenbach,...
7 hours ago
Mint Architecture designed a timeless and loft-like office space for Creditreform in Offenbach, incorporating natural and contrasting materials within the...
The Works in...
Three percent more Monaco: Links in Progress, infrastructure edition
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat...
7 hours ago
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat tunnel.
Calculated Risk
Housing Dec 30th Weekly Update: Inventory down 2.5% Week-over-week, Up 26.8% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.5% week-over-week.
Inventory will...
7 hours ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.5% week-over-week.
Inventory will continue to decline seasonally until early next year and probably bottom in late January or February.
The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active single-family inventory...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: Vision Pro 👓
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major...
8 hours ago
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Vision Pro report card here.
Year one of Vision Pro
This is a bit of
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
8 hours ago
TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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8 hours ago
Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
9 hours ago
An Epic Start to the New Year
Retail Design Blog
L’Oreal Skincare Set by BXL Design
We designed a skin care product gift box for L’Oreal. The project service team held several creative...
9 hours ago
We designed a skin care product gift box for L’Oreal. The project service team held several creative brainstorming seminars and...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
Retail Design Blog
MR ER store by J&C Design
Chinese womenswear brand MR ER has opened a new branch on the premises of Yintai City, one of the...
9 hours ago
Chinese womenswear brand MR ER has opened a new branch on the premises of Yintai City, one of the leading...
Rest of World -...
Kenya’s bus fleets want to go electric, but manufacturers can’t meet demand
Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
10 hours ago
Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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10 hours ago
Seth's Blog
Calendars are a choice
Humans are unique. We give names to the days of the week (we even have weeks). We eat something...
11 hours ago
Humans are unique. We give names to the days of the week (we even have weeks). We eat something different for breakfast than dinner. We chronicle the passage of time. In fact, our chronicling of time is what makes it noticeable. Coordination can only happen when we’re in sync...
Apoorva Srinivasan
diffusion models for protein generation
Introduction
Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually...
11 hours ago
Introduction
Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually every important task in living systems. While nature has produced an incredible range of protein functions, these represent only a tiny fraction of what's possible in the protein...
Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
11 hours ago
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
11 hours ago
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
Paul Cudenec
Keeping it in the deep-state family
It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person...
12 hours ago
It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person bearing the family name on the Foundation’s board of trustees.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #49: How bat protection regulations broke Britain's planning system
Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should...
14 hours ago
Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should visit Jimmy Carter's hometown.
diamond geezer
Unblogged December
31 unblogged things I did in December
Sun 1: You'd think after all these years I'd be an expert in...
14 hours ago
31 unblogged things I did in December
Sun 1: You'd think after all these years I'd be an expert in getting the temperature of my bath just right, but today's was only borderline warm enough when I got in and swiftly cooled to aggravatingly tepid so I had to get out early. I...
TheCollector
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Be Able to Call It a Poem'
A few poets
are born into each generation. A measure of the rareness of their gift is...
15 hours ago
A few poets
are born into each generation. A measure of the rareness of their gift is the
proliferation of wannabes who make poetic gestures, relish the title “poet” and
write undistinguished prose. I was given an issue of American Poetry Review, a magazine I
haven’t looked at in...
The American Scholar
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
The post The Snow Maiden appeared first on...
16 hours ago
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
The post The Snow Maiden appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Etymology
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This will be in the compendium of SMBC etymology...
16 hours ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This will be in the compendium of SMBC etymology jokes, volume 8.
Today's News:
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
19 hours ago
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Celebrating the Centennial of Galaxies January 1 2025
On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer...
19 hours ago
On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer Henry N. Russell read a paper contributed by a young astronomer named Edwin Hubble (who was too junior to earn a trip across the country from the California observatory where he...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Build Something, Dammit! (#56)
Power vs. abundance; Chinese espionage; U.S. manufacturing woes; the growth of good jobs; Milei's...
20 hours ago
Power vs. abundance; Chinese espionage; U.S. manufacturing woes; the growth of good jobs; Milei's successes
Calculated Risk
Monday: Pending Home Sales
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024
Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for...
20 hours ago
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024
Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for December.
Pending Home Sales Index for November. The consensus is for a 0.7% increase in the index.
Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for December. This is the last of regional...
Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
21 hours ago
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool).
I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run.
To my great joy...
ntietz.com blog -...
Reflecting on 2024, preparing for 2025
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition.
This is the third time I'm writing one of these,...
21 hours ago
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition.
This is the third time I'm writing one of these, so I guess it's an annual tradition now!
This is where I reflect on the year that's been, and talk some about my hopes and goals for the next year.
Reflecting on 2024
This year has...
Ryan Mulligan
Some Things About Keyframes
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a...
21 hours ago
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations. Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations,...
The Convivial...
Life Cannot Be Delegated
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
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The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
Birchtree
OpenAI is early Googling late-stage Google
Chuck W. Nelson: Google's Search Results Are Infested, and Open AI Is Using Google's Playbook From...
21 hours ago
Chuck W. Nelson: Google's Search Results Are Infested, and Open AI Is Using Google's Playbook From the 2000s
In order for Google to keep its crown, it needs to remember what it was in the 2000s and a bit of luck.
Seeing Google grow from the
Eukaryote Writes...
Learn to write well BEFORE you have something worth saying
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
21 hours ago
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
TheCollector
Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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TheCollector
The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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yesterday
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
yesterday
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
Last Place Comics
Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3
The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
yesterday
The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Christmas Day
It’s Christmas circa 2004.
My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents...
yesterday
It’s Christmas circa 2004.
My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents and we’re more than content to have absolutely nothing to do — it’s Christmas day after all!
But not Dad. He’s in the bathroom laying tile.
Again, this is Christmas day and Dad is on...
Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory
How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and...
yesterday
How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and mm_struct
TheCollector
What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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yesterday
Mind Mine
are relationships actually “hard”?
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
yesterday
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
GeoCurrents
The Cook Islands: Seeking Independence and Sovereignty, Or Already Independent and Sovereign?
In late December 2024, the government of the Cook Islands, an autonomous Polynesian polity in “free...
yesterday
In late December 2024, the government of the Cook Islands, an autonomous Polynesian polity in “free association” with New Zealand, announced plans to introduce its own national passports and citizenship. Currently, Cook Islanders are citizens of New Zealand while being considered...
Calculated Risk
Question #6 for 2025: What will the Fed Funds rate be in December 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
yesterday
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
yesterday
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
yesterday
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
yesterday
Another of my essays in French.
IEEE Spectrum
The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024
2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said...
yesterday
2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going to...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: Apple Watch
This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
yesterday
This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Apple Watch report card here.
Series 10
It’s always fun when we get a new Apple
TheCollector
What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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yesterday
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bedtime
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
How did it accidentally become depressing comic...
yesterday
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
How did it accidentally become depressing comic week?
Today's News:
TheCollector
Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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yesterday
Seth's Blog
Secret recipes
“You can try this at home…” But you probably won’t. The secret recipe isn’t the reason Coke is...
yesterday
“You can try this at home…” But you probably won’t. The secret recipe isn’t the reason Coke is successful. And the recipe for KFC isn’t much of a recipe at all. The secret way you do the thing isn’t what keeps your clients coming back. It’s the part you do in public that matters.
TheCollector
10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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yesterday
diamond geezer
2024 index
dg 2024 index
Beyond London
Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to...
yesterday
dg 2024 index
Beyond London
Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to its radio masts [photos]
Crewe: The delights of the railway town were worth half a day... [photos]
Stafford: ...whereas this historic market town could have sustained me for...
TheCollector
The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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yesterday
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Future Spells Only Disaster'
Several
weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential
books...
yesterday
Several
weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential
books published in the twentieth century,” and listed some of the titles deserving
a place in that category. Most, I wrote, “are not found in the traditionally
defined literary categories; that...
Working Theorys
Writing Wrapped
I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).
yesterday
I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).
Koos Looijesteijn
How to get good at anything creative
yesterday
HTMHell
datalists are more powerful than you think
by Alexis Degryse
I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a...
yesterday
by Alexis Degryse
I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field.
It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
2 days ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
The Honest Broker
In 2025, Your Boss Will Launch a Podcast
I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
2 days ago
I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
2 days ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
TheCollector
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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2 days ago
Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
2 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in...
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
New Home...
2 days ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November
FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores
Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
2 days ago
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line.
The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm.
A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jimmy
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This will be a lot funnier in the year...
2 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This will be a lot funnier in the year 2072.
Today's News:
Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll Podcast: Substack founder Hamish McKenzie
An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
2 days ago
An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
TheCollector
A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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2 days ago
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
2 days ago
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Mac report card here.
MacBook Pro
The MacBook Pro continues to get a relentless stream of updates, as
TheCollector
Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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2 days ago
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024
Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in 2025.
----- Monday, December 30th -----
9:45 AM:...
2 days ago
Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in 2025.
----- Monday, December 30th -----
9:45 AM: Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for December.
Pending Home Sales Index for November. The consensus is for a 0.7% increase in the index.
Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity...
Moneyness
Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network
There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments...
2 days ago
There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial messaging network. Below is a version from the Economist, but I've seen other versions too.
Source: The Economist
When banks make...
TheCollector
Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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Irrational...
How to effectively refine engineering strategy.
In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice,
he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs.
His...
2 days ago
In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice,
he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs.
His premise is that you should cheaply test new ideas before fully committing to them.
Your organization can only afford firing a small number of cannonballs, but it can bankroll far more...
TheCollector
George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Seth's Blog
Fiblets
Organizations lie all the time. Big lies, sometimes, but usually small ones. Is the call volume...
2 days ago
Organizations lie all the time. Big lies, sometimes, but usually small ones. Is the call volume actually unusually heavy? Did a chef really prepare this meal just for me? These fiblets are so common that they become part of the culture, a trope that lets the user know that this...
journal – Winnie Lim
chiang mai’s scenes of creativity
Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long...
2 days ago
Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long history of their hill tribes and their crafts? I thought I’ll...
Noahpinion
Five possible reasons China's productivity slowed down
A repost, with some updates.
2 days ago
A repost, with some updates.
The Ruffian
Best of The Ruffian 2024
Catch-up service:
2 days ago
TheCollector
10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Blog System/5
Revisiting the NetBSD build system
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system...
2 days ago
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in December 2024
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in December 2024
1) TfL expect to introduce both peak and...
2 days ago
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in December 2024
1) TfL expect to introduce both peak and off-peak Stratford International-Beckton DLR services on a permanent basis once sufficient new trains are available to permit this.
2) Touchless push-button signage has been...
TheCollector
Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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2 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'All Is Not Dead'
Sadness
nicely coexists with happiness this time of year. Christmas is over. Memories
abound. We...
2 days ago
Sadness
nicely coexists with happiness this time of year. Christmas is over. Memories
abound. We underestimate ourselves when it comes to emotional capacity. Only
the insane know one emotion at a time, which is why bliss and clinical
depression are rare states and why Joseph...
Casey Handmer's blog
Salton Sea statistics
I wanted to gain better insights into the Salton Sea level, evaporation, inflows and outflows. Step...
2 days ago
I wanted to gain better insights into the Salton Sea level, evaporation, inflows and outflows. Step one was to gather publicly available data about its level, and collate it into a single graph. Here we see that despite the continual formation of Salton Sea advisory committees,...
SatPost by Trung...
11 Best Things of 2024
My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.
2 days ago
My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.
McMansion Hell
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
This is an essay in two parts.
Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian...
2 days ago
This is an essay in two parts.
Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian Jank (1869).
There exist in architecture clear precedents to the McMansion that have nothing to do with suburban real estate. This is because “McMansionry” (let’s say) has many...
diamond geezer
Weather 2024
the dg weather review of the year
used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too...
2 days ago
the dg weather review of the year
used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too much effort for too little reward so here's a breezier summary. All data is for Hampstead, as per usual.
temperature rainfall sunshine
Jancold snapaveragesunny
Febvery...
Calculated Risk
December 27th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm...
2 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
mtlynch.io
The Case for Open Borders by John Washington
If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you....
2 days ago
If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you. If you’re anyone else, you’re probably not the target audience.
HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API
by Schepp
Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
2 days ago
by Schepp
Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I...
2 days ago
At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I switched jobs from Zendesk to GitHub. In…
Birchtree
Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is...
3 days ago
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming:
With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0...
Birchtree
That time Apple made Auido Hijack way worse, but eventually made it better for everyone
Paul Kafasis: The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
I’m delighted to say that we have completed...
3 days ago
Paul Kafasis: The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
I’m delighted to say that we have completed our transition to ARK, and it now powers all of our audio capture apps on MacOS 14 and higher. Our glorious hassle-free future has finally arrived, and you can get
somethingaboutmaps
Journey’s End
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my...
3 days ago
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I wanted to share this project with all of you, but there were only...
TheCollector
Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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lcamtuf’s thing
Against the hydraulic analogy
The most popular tool for teaching electronics makes the trade harder to learn.
3 days ago
The most popular tool for teaching electronics makes the trade harder to learn.
GeoCurrents
The Forests of Northern Somalia?
Somalia (including Somaliland) is widely known as an arid and drought-plagued land. Climate maps...
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Somalia (including Somaliland) is widely known as an arid and drought-plagued land. Climate maps depict most of the country as having a hot and dry desert climate (“BWh” in the Köppen classification system). Much of southern Somalia, as well as a portion of the far northwest...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sporting
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
And the brain can be made into a fancy...
3 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
And the brain can be made into a fancy candlewax!
Today's News:
CONTEMPORIST
An Orange Spiral Staircase Is An Eye-Catching Feature Inside This Apartment
Architecture and interior design firm S+PS Architects, has shared photos of a penthouse apartment in...
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Architecture and interior design firm S+PS Architects, has shared photos of a penthouse apartment in Mumbai, India, that has two eye-catching orange spiral staircases. Stepping inside the penthouse, there’s an open plan living room with a variety of sitting areas and decor that...
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI stories that shaped 2024
Agents, deepfakes, Strawberries, and more.
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Agents, deepfakes, Strawberries, and more.
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Unitree Talent Awakening
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
3 days ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
Calculated Risk
FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding...
3 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores
A brief excerpt:
Here are some graphs on outstanding mortgages by interest rate, the average mortgage interest rate, borrowers’ credit...
TheCollector
The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1%
From Goldman:
We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter...
3 days ago
From Goldman:
We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). Our Q4 domestic final sales forecast stands at +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). [Dec 27th estimate]
emphasis added
And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow
The GDPNow model...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
Flashbak
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
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“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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Retail Design Blog
FRU:DOZA Protein Ice Cream by Brama Branding
Ice-Cream with Powerful Numbers Package design for a new line of ice-cream rich in protein – it...
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Ice-Cream with Powerful Numbers Package design for a new line of ice-cream rich in protein – it contains up to...
Calculated Risk
Question #7 for 2025: How much will wages increase in 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
3 days ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPad
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
3 days ago
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPad report card here.
iPad Pro
I'm so happy I get to say it was a
Retail Design Blog
Confidential Client Offices by Chalk Studio
Chalk Studio‘s Office X in Gurugram blends Zen design principles with nature-inspired elements like...
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Chalk Studio‘s Office X in Gurugram blends Zen design principles with nature-inspired elements like wood and greenery, creating a harmonious...
TheCollector
Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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A brief experience with the Cardputer uLisp Machine
<![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack...
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<![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack Cardputer that can run uLisp.
The M5Stack Cardputer is a card-sized, microcontroller-based portable system for home automation, hobby, and industrial applications. Although not...
Retail Design Blog
Jil Sander flagship store by Casper Mueller Kneer
Since Luke and Lucie Meier took over the creative reigns at Jil Sander in 2017, the Milan-based...
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Since Luke and Lucie Meier took over the creative reigns at Jil Sander in 2017, the Milan-based fashion house has...
Retail Design Blog
Odiseo Gastronomic and Leisure Center by Clavel Arquitectos
Odiseo is the result of the desire to create a big urban leisure complex, which wants to become a...
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Odiseo is the result of the desire to create a big urban leisure complex, which wants to become a reference,...
TheCollector
How Did Railways Help Standardize Time in Britain?
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Seth's Blog
Project/Product managers
You might be both. In big organizations, project management is a distinct skill. It involves...
3 days ago
You might be both. In big organizations, project management is a distinct skill. It involves timekeeping, record keeping and organization. The project manager knows the budget and the deadline, and ensures that constituents stay in sync. This is the construction coordinator and...
Electronics etc…
Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python
The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow
An Image Downscaler as Example Design
The...
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The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow
An Image Downscaler as Example Design
The Reference Model
The Micro-Architecture Model
Comparing the results
Conversion to Hardware
Combining symbolic models with random input generation
Specification changes
Things to...
Paul Cudenec
The single global mafia's bid for 'transformational change'
Paul Polman first drew my attention in 2019 when he was one of the “business leaders” who publicly...
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Paul Polman first drew my attention in 2019 when he was one of the “business leaders” who publicly voiced their support for Extinction Rebellion, the UK-based “climate” campaign group.
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
3 days ago
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
diamond geezer
The evolution of Christmas
The evolution of Christmas
mid 1990s Xmas: Go to the shops to buy everything you need for...
3 days ago
The evolution of Christmas
mid 1990s Xmas: Go to the shops to buy everything you need for Christmas
mid 2000s Xmas: Go to the shops to buy everything, except for a few books, CDs and DVDs from Amazon
mid 2010s Xmas: Get most of your Christmas stuff online, assuming it ever...
Casey Handmer's blog
Part 8 Shikata Ga Nai
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
3 days ago
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. “Shikata Ga Nai” Japanese for “What else can we do?” “It is what it is,” “There is no other choice.” The final chapter of...
TheCollector
The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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Anecdotal Evidence
'To Have Part of His Life to Himself'
“I am not
obliged to do any more.”
Retirement
is my choice. For most of my life I assumed I would...
3 days ago
“I am not
obliged to do any more.”
Retirement
is my choice. For most of my life I assumed I would drop dead at the keyboard in my office, mid-sentence,
but next week I retire. I have always enjoyed work, the
sense of contributing something to an enterprise, no matter how...
The American Scholar
Ho Ho Horror
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American...
3 days ago
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Elysian
This Chinese philosopher reformed politics in one generation
Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
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Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?
Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
3 days ago
Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
HTMHell
Misleading Icons: Icon-Only-Buttons and Their Impact on Screen Readers
by Alexander Muzenhardt
Introduction
Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a...
3 days ago
by Alexander Muzenhardt
Introduction
Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a product. You dive into the work with full energy, and just before the deadline, you manage to finish it. Everyone loves your work, and the feature is set to go live the next...
Lighthouse Blog
Browser extensions to add articles
3 days ago
alexwlchan
I deleted all my tweets
I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X).
I wasted a lot of time there, got into some...
3 days ago
I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X).
I wasted a lot of time there, got into some embarrassing arguments, and wrote things I now regret.
But it’s also where I met friends and partners, started my career in cultural heritage, and began my queer awakening.
Maybe...
Calculated Risk
Question #8 for 2025: How much will Residential investment change in 2025? How about housing starts...
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #8 for 2025: How much will Residential...
4 days ago
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #8 for 2025: How much will Residential investment change in 2025? How about housing starts and new home sales in 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
The Honest Broker
The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024
Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
4 days ago
Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
TheCollector
Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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4 days ago
Casey Handmer's blog
Part 7 Senzeni Na
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
4 days ago
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. [Edit: If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may find a career at my company, Terraform Industries, rewarding. We’re hiring...
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading
This post is a list of books that I read in the fourth quarter of 2024, including Euripides, The...
4 days ago
This post is a list of books that I read in the fourth quarter of 2024, including Euripides, The Stoic Emperor, The Intelligent Investor, The Trail, and more.
Infinite Scroll
A User's Guide to Building a Subculture
How communities form online
4 days ago
How communities form online
TheCollector
8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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Calculated Risk
Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with house prices in 2025?
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with...
4 days ago
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with house prices in 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices,...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPhone 📱
This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
4 days ago
This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPhone report card here.
iPhone 16 Pro
I really, really liked the 15 Pro lineup, and I would
anderegg.ca
An update on Mastodon and referer headers
Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys...
4 days ago
Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys following web analytics, it seemed a shame that Mastodon appeared never to send any traffic. I knew this wasn’t the case, but that lack of traffic data certainly wasn’t doing...
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 219,000
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 219,000, a decrease of
1,000 from the...
4 days ago
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 219,000, a decrease of
1,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 220,000. The 4-week moving average was 226,500, an increase of
1,000 from the previous week's unrevised average of 225,500.
emphasis added
The...
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
4 days ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
TheCollector
10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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4 days ago
Old Structures...
Top To Bottom
From Scientific American, December 8, 1894, an interesting view of two buildings: drawings that...
4 days ago
From Scientific American, December 8, 1894, an interesting view of two buildings: drawings that include both the above-ground portion of the buildings, more or less as you would see them, and the foundations as they could never be seen. The foundations are seen as if the earth...
Seth's Blog
Taxonomy as a service
When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out...
4 days ago
When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out which shelf to put it on. Should the extension cords go next to the hoses? After all, they both do the same thing, one with electricity and one with water… The purpose of putting...
TheCollector
How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Give Up These Things If You Feel Like You’re Stuck in Life or Had Enough
Plus one thing *not* to give up.
4 days ago
Plus one thing *not* to give up.
Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
4 days ago
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
alexwlchan
Not all blog posts are created equal
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write,...
4 days ago
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link.
Something...
Noahpinion
Indian immigration is great for America
This isn't ambiguous.
4 days ago
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
4 days ago
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
The Modern House
Seeking sea spray: a collection of nine covetable coastal homes
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside...
4 days ago
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside homes that would easily facilitate this bracing, peculiarly British tradition. Here, we’ve collected some of our most far-flung fantasies, from Cornwall to Norfolk and all the way...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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4 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Whole Time Reading, Reading, Reading'
“I’m not
doing any work, just reading or pacing up and down. However, I don’t really
mind having the...
4 days ago
“I’m not
doing any work, just reading or pacing up and down. However, I don’t really
mind having the time to read. It’s more enjoyable than writing. I feel that if
I could live another forty years and spend the whole time reading, reading,
reading, and learning how to write with...
Computer Ads from...
Merry Christmas 2024
and a Happy New Year
4 days ago
Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Mortgage rates...
4 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Mortgage rates as of Monday (a little lower on Tuesday).
initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. Initial claims were at 220 thousand last week.
HTMHell
The underrated <dl> element
by David Luhr
The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns,...
4 days ago
by David Luhr
The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns, but is unfortunately underutilized.
It was originally intended to group terms with their definitions, but it's also a great fit for other content that has a key/value structure,...
Notes on software...
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to
start playing beginner...
4 days ago
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to
start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so
friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing
consistently every week since I started for the first time this
August. It's been a...
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
5 days ago
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
5 days ago
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
Mind Mine
write like you are mortal
because you are
5 days ago
anderegg.ca
Halls of Torment: a thematically questionable downtime game
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however...
5 days ago
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however you celebrate. During the downtime I got to play a game I’d been wanting to try for a while.
Last summer on The Besties podcast, Russ Frushtick mentioned that he was enjoying...
TheCollector
A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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The Marginalian
Birds, Loves, and Obscure Sorrows: The Best of The Marginalian 2024
Hindsight is how we connect the dots that figure our lives. To look back on even a single year is to...
5 days ago
Hindsight is how we connect the dots that figure our lives. To look back on even a single year is to see clearly the contour of who we are in its points of attention and priority. “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote, “is how we spend our lives.” How we spend our minds is...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some More 2025 predictions | Out-Of-Pocket
OOP readers always have some interesting ones
5 days ago
OOP readers always have some interesting ones
Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
5 days ago
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
Map of the Week
Merry Gridmas!
Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas...
5 days ago
Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas themed map showing land use with holiday emojis.
Also if you visit the Gridmas page you can watch the snow fall over Europe. You can pan and zoom around, however if you try to go...
Calculated Risk
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to All!
High Sierra webcam (it is snowing!)
beach in Newport.
Best Wishes to All!
5 days ago
High Sierra webcam (it is snowing!)
beach in Newport.
Best Wishes to All!
TheCollector
4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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5 days ago
Old Structures...
Happy Christmas
I’m not so sure about that vest.
5 days ago
I’m not so sure about that vest.
TheCollector
Was Jesus a Radical?
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5 days ago
Seth's Blog
Our new school
When I include links to various books and items on this blog, your purchases generate a small...
5 days ago
When I include links to various books and items on this blog, your purchases generate a small royalty that I earmark for worthy causes. This year, we were able to help BuildOn and the community in Khakh build a new school. It’s the first real school building the village has ever...
Old Vintage...
A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas
A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my...
5 days ago
A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my wife's family in regional New South Wales, Australia. A friend of the family had an "old Commodore" in their house and asked if I wanted it. Stupid question, yeah?
The...
Paul Cudenec
Stickergate and the crumbling of the system
By way of bringing a little festive cheer to my readers, I thought I would share this short extract...
5 days ago
By way of bringing a little festive cheer to my readers, I thought I would share this short extract from a rather lengthy historical account that I discovered on The FastForward Machine Internet Pre-Archive, first saved on January 1, 2052.
Flashbak
Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
5 days ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
TheCollector
When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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5 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
''He Knew It Was All Wrong for the Season'
Once I
listened to a guy who had decided to stop drinking while sitting alone in a
diner eating his...
5 days ago
Once I
listened to a guy who had decided to stop drinking while sitting alone in a
diner eating his Christmas dinner, separated from his wife and children. He
recalled the moment with good humor. What had depressed him was eating canned
corn. He had grown up associating good food...
The American Scholar
A Story for Christmas
The post A Story for Christmas appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 days ago
The post A Story for Christmas appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration
Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation...
5 days ago
Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation between two world systems, periods in which humanity loses the ability to comprehend itself and collapses into chaos in order to rebuild itself around a new organizing principle — there...
Mind Mine
the taste issue
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
5 days ago
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
HTMHell
Preloading fonts for web performance with link rel=”preload”
by Alistair Shepherd
Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent...
5 days ago
by Alistair Shepherd
Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent calendar last year you may have already read many of my thoughts on the subject. If not, read Getting started with Web Performance when you’re done here!
This year I’m back for more web...
Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
6 days ago
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
Calculated Risk
Lawler: Interest Rates Since the Federal Reserve Began Cutting Rates
From housing economist Tom Lawler:
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10-Year T1PS Yield
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From housing economist Tom Lawler:
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10-Year T1PS Yield
99% Invisible
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What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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Calculated Risk
Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show Massively Higher Population Growth
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show...
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From housing economist Tom Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Incorporate Revised Methodology for Estimating Net International Migration, Show...
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The complex derivative guys are given AAA ratings then surprised that they still sink.
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anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks
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The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering Christmas-mode, and have been looking for a better way to capture things I want to look at later. I’ve had this issue before, but solved it in an ad-hoc way. Previously I’d made...
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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Calculated Risk
Question #10 for 2025: Will inventory increase further in 2025?
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #10 for 2025: Will inventory increase...
6 days ago
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Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices,...
Birchtree
Grading my 2024 Apple predictions
First off, merry Christmas!
I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main...
6 days ago
First off, merry Christmas!
I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main product lines, iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, and the soon-to-be-released Vision Pro. I’ll be doing that again over the last few days of the year, but in the interest of
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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Old Structures...
Genteel
That’s the Hotel Marlborough at 36th Street and Broadway, shortly after 1900. The hotel opened in...
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Irrational...
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In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company,
Theoretical Ride...
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Part of that strategy’s diagnosis depends on understanding the expected evolution of
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Seth's Blog
The challenge of excess capacity
Marketing as we know it happened because of machines. Machines made factories dramatically more...
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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To Make Enough Money to Retire Early, Stop Doing These 7 Things
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Noahpinion
Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people
GDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good.
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Astral Codex Ten
Why Worry About Incorrigible Claude?
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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diamond geezer
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100 years ago today, on Christmas Eve 1924, an Imperial Airways passenger flight crashed onto a hill...
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TheCollector
What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Honest Before Anything Else'
A reader
doesn’t understand how tastes in books and writers might evolve across a
lifetime, how...
6 days ago
A reader
doesn’t understand how tastes in books and writers might evolve across a
lifetime, how indifference might replace enthusiasm and love, indifference. He
mentions Hart Crane, a poet I’m unlikely ever to reread. I swooned over The Bridge in high school, spurred on by
our...
The American Scholar
“Snow” by Louis MacNeice
Poems read aloud, beautifully
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Poems read aloud, beautifully
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Society's Backend
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Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
Citation Needed
Issue 72 – A seat at the table
The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government...
6 days ago
The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government continues to worsen, and several media outlets botch their crypto reporting at a time it’s needed most.
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Richmond Fed Mfg
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Richmond Fed...
6 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Richmond Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for December.
NYSE and the NASDAQ will close early at 1:00 PM ET.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Thank You
Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)
Thanks so much...
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Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)
Thanks so much to everybody that has supported me in the last year. This newsletter started as a way for me to process the complex feelings I have about the technology industry, and still...
HTMHell
The search input: They almost got it right
by Steve Frenzel
This example is a classic - in a bad way - and can cause quite some confusion for...
6 days ago
by Steve Frenzel
This example is a classic - in a bad way - and can cause quite some confusion for users of assistive technology (AT). But it's also very easy to fix! It's the <input> element missing its dear friend, the <label>... 😭
Bad code
<input placeholder="Search" />
It's...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2024
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
6 days ago
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Genie
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Later they go out for dinner. He stares in the...
a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Later they go out for dinner. He stares in the distance while she happily scrolls through instagram.
Today's News:
Birchtree
Starship is a late contender for favorite new things in 2024
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a week ago
I don't have a huge love for Star Fox 64. I mean I played it with friends and I still have the cartridge all these years later, but it's not as big a part of my childhood as Ocarina of Time was. That said, the Ocarina
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Indiana I-69 Time Zone Crossing
If you’re driving along Indiana’s portion of Interstate 69, say from Evansville to Bloomington, you...
a week ago
If you’re driving along Indiana’s portion of Interstate 69, say from Evansville to Bloomington, you are going to cross a Time Zone boundary. It happens between Mile Markers 37.5 and 39.0, about forty minutes north of Evansville at normal highway speeds. But please note that the...
Arduino Blog
This autonomous go-kart only needs a camera to navigate a workshop circuit
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a week ago
Autonomous vehicles, and self-driving cars in particular, are probably one of the most enticing technologies of the 21st century. But despite a great deal of R&D and even more speculation, we have yet to see a self-driving car that can actually operate on real public roads...
Calculated Risk
MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.50% in November
From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.50% in November
The Mortgage...
a week ago
From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.50% in November
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance increased to 0.50% as of November 30, 2024. According to MBA’s...
TheCollector
Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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Tech and Tea
On gentle personal growth in 2024
Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year.
a week ago
Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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This is part four of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image.
Project...
a week ago
This is part four of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image.
Project Announcement
Pt. I: Design Iterations
Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible
Pt. III: The HTML
Pt. IV: URLs
The design of the game is simple:
Each page has one question with four possible...
Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
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Flashbak
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Calculated Risk
LA Ports: Traffic Increased Sharply Year-over-year in November
Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and...
a week ago
Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic.
Los Angeles and Long Beach in TEUs (TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units...
Retail Design Blog
McKenzie 10-Year Barrel Reserve Rum by Works Design Group
Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked...
a week ago
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Explore Patagonia's Untamed Beauty in Chile's Magallanes
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Road Trip in Chile's Lake District with Hikes & Hot Springs
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Artificial Ignorance
o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks
OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
a week ago
OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
Retail Design Blog
Nomura Real Estate Development Offices by FCV
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a week ago
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TheCollector
Can Perfumes Be Art? Famous Artists Who Designed Perfume Bottles
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CONTEMPORIST
Exposed Wood Posts & Beams Add A Warm Rustic Touch To This Small Cabin
Still Architects has shared photos of a small contemporary cabin they completed in the Muskoka...
a week ago
Still Architects has shared photos of a small contemporary cabin they completed in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada, where the Rosseau River flows into the lake. The 800-square-foot (74-sqm) cabin has a wood exterior with black accents. Its wood deck, with steps down to the...
Calculated Risk
New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate...
a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November
Brief excerpt:
The Census Bureau reported New Home Sales in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 664 thousand. The previous three months were...
Birchtree
X Premium Plus now costs well more than running my own damn Mastodon server
Jess Weatherbed: X Raises Premium Plus Subscription Pricing by Almost 40 Percent - The Verge
X has...
a week ago
Jess Weatherbed: X Raises Premium Plus Subscription Pricing by Almost 40 Percent - The Verge
X has substantially raised the price of its top-tier user subscription in multiple regions to help bolster the platform’s creator payouts. The increase for Premium Plus came into effect...
Arduino Blog
See how this homemade spectrometer analyzes substances with an Arduino Mega
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a week ago
Materials, when exposed to light, will reflect or absorb certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum that can give valuable information about their chemical or physical compositions. Traditional setups use a single lamp to emit white light before it is split apart into a...
Retail Design Blog
Polène store by WGNB
Founded only in 2016 by Parisian siblings Mathieu, Antoine and Elsa Mothay, women’s leather goods...
a week ago
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The Diff
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Plus! Conflicts and Confluence; Bonds; Empire Building; China; The Capital and Talent Cycle
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Plus! Conflicts and Confluence; Bonds; Empire Building; China; The Capital and Talent Cycle
Retail Design Blog
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a week ago
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CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
a week ago
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
Calculated Risk
New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November
The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate...
a week ago
The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 664 thousand.
Sales of new single-family houses in November 2024 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 664,000, according
to estimates released jointly today by the...
XO Capital - Field...
Everything I've learned about buying small software businesses over the past 4 years
💡
We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase...
a week ago
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We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase price. So my notes below relate to a mostly linear path from $25k to ~$2M.
XO has been a tough ride. We had some wins, some losses and overall haven&
Paul Cudenec
The global mafia's NGO-backed industrial imperialism
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is president/CEO of the ONE Campaign.
a week ago
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is president/CEO of the ONE Campaign.
Herbert Lui
Deliberate play
When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those...
a week ago
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Ian Betteridge
Weeknote, Monday 23rd December
A week off work, yay! Obviously that has not stopped me checking and replying to a few emails. My...
a week ago
A week off work, yay! Obviously that has not stopped me checking and replying to a few emails. My team were also attempting to get me to help them cheat at the work Christmas quiz using WhatsApp. Shamefully, they didn’t even win. I had my first face to face physio session about...
Weighty Thoughts
Writing, Originality, and Why Does Anyone Care What I Write About?
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Wrong Side of...
Leaving behind the history written in letters of blood
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
Common Edge
Why Is NYC’s Mandatory Composting Program So Invisible?
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a week ago
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TheCollector
The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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Calculated Risk
Housing Dec 23rd Weekly Update: Inventory down 2.2% Week-over-week, Up 26.3% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.2% week-over-week. Inventory is now...
a week ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.2% week-over-week. Inventory is now 9.7% below the peak for the year (9 weeks ago).
Inventory will continue to decline seasonally until early next year and probably bottom in January or February.
The first graph...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Jersey Drones Are Likely Drones
The latest flap over drone sightings in New Jersey and other states in the North East appears to be...
a week ago
The latest flap over drone sightings in New Jersey and other states in the North East appears to be – essentially nothing. Or rather, it’s a classic example of a mass panic. There are reports of “unusual” drone activity, which prompts people to look for drones, which results in...
TheCollector
Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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UX Collective
Our top UX stories this year
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Old Structures...
Once Again, In Plastic
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a week ago
The restoration of Notre Dame deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it, but have I mentioned recently that my son and I have built the LEGO Notre Dame? We finished our small Notre Dame about a week after the official opening of the large one, but they had a head start...
Rest of World -...
The Philippines is creating a ChatGPT rival that speaks Filipino and Taglish
ITanong will be a local version of ChatGPT, its developers say, built with considerably fewer...
a week ago
ITanong will be a local version of ChatGPT, its developers say, built with considerably fewer resources.
Irrational...
Wardley mapping of Gitlab Strategy.
Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security...
a week ago
Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security platform.
This Wardley map explores the evolution of Gitlab’s users’ needs,
as one component in understanding the company’s strategy.
In particular, we look at how Gitlab’s strategy of a...
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
a week ago
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
Seth's Blog
Leading side by side
Orchestras are difficult. One reason is that we’re really good at noticing when they’re out of tune....
a week ago
Orchestras are difficult. One reason is that we’re really good at noticing when they’re out of tune. Just a tiny bit off changes our perception of the sound. The other reason is that if the performers wait for a leader in their section to go first, every entrance and every attack...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #48: The most important week of Labour government so far?
Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird...
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Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird Parliament.
diamond geezer
Eversleigh Road
At this time of year I like to blog about a festively-named London street, however mundane it might...
a week ago
At this time of year I like to blog about a festively-named London street, however mundane it might be. In the past I've taken you to Noel Street, Noel Square, three Noel Roads, Noel Park Road, Turkey Street, Christmas Street, Yuletide Close, Shepherds Hill, Angel Road, Stables...
TheCollector
What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Still to Suruiue in My Immortall Song'
Many of the best
things in life, so long as they persist, are accompanied by a shadow of...
a week ago
Many of the best
things in life, so long as they persist, are accompanied by a shadow of their
disappearance. If fortunate, we learn this lesson early. Their transitoriness
becomes part of their charm, whether a cat, a garden or a brother. We are
grateful and enjoy them...
Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
a week ago
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
Quantum Frontiers
Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost
You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a...
a week ago
You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a variation on it last October: how do you celebrate the man who studied (nearly) everything? Physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes impacted disciplines from quantum information theory to...
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