Calculated Risk
Two Bank Failures in 2024
There were four bank failures in 2024. The median number of failures since the FDIC was established...
4 hours ago
There were four bank failures in 2024. The median number of failures since the FDIC was established in 1933 was 7 - so 2 failures in 2024 was below the median.
Click on graph for larger image.
The second graph includes pre-FDIC failures. In a typical year - before the...
Classical Wisdom
6 Ancient Greek and Roman Classics Everyone Should Read
What is missing?
4 hours ago
anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
5 hours ago
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
The Marginalian
The Countercultural Sanity of the Irrational: Pioneering Psychiatrist Otto Rank on the Blind Spots...
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge:...
5 hours ago
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge: We move through the world by impulse and emotion, then look back and rationalize our choices, declaring ourselves creatures of reason. Western civilization, with its structural bias...
Flashbak
A Kodachrome Trip To Lord Howe Island in 1961
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped...
5 hours ago
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. Many decades later the album of kodachrome photos they took were...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Macaroni
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Hovertext:
At least she holds back how the heat death is...
6 hours ago
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At least she holds back how the heat death is pointless and without meaning!
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TheCollector
The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
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Confessions of a...
Live Session: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance
I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on...
6 hours ago
I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on a 64kB machine. Writing it wore me down.
Nat Eliason's...
Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
With me and Nathan Baugh
7 hours ago
Calculated Risk
Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market;...
7 hours ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025
A brief excerpt:
This 2-part overview for mid-January provides a snapshot of the current housing market.
tells the tale! I’m watching...
IEEE Spectrum
Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
7 hours ago
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot.
First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
The Diff
Good Accounting is a Positive Externality
Plus! Crossovers; Politics: Back on Meta; Structure; Gradual Tariffs; Property Rights
7 hours ago
Plus! Crossovers; Politics: Back on Meta; Structure; Gradual Tariffs; Property Rights
Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
8 hours ago
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For the United States, it began with the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But for Asians, the war began on June 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge in China. The Second...
Calculated Risk
CPI Preview
The Consumer Price Index for December is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for...
9 hours ago
The Consumer Price Index for December is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be up 2.9% year-over-year and core CPI to be up 3.3% YoY.
We expect a 0.25% increase in December...
Uncharted...
Where to Build 10 New Cities in the US, Part 1
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
9 hours ago
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
TheCollector
Popular Gladiator Weapons: Tools of the Arena
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Retail Design Blog
Paulista Store by Contract Workplaces
Paulista is an exclusive Brazilian-origin multi-brand women’s clothing store. The brand has...
11 hours ago
Paulista is an exclusive Brazilian-origin multi-brand women’s clothing store. The brand has established itself in Montevideo to bring a limited...
Rest of World -...
Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive...
11 hours ago
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care.
TheCollector
What Languages Are on the Verge of Disappearing?
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12 hours ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
Normalize Being Difficult to Get a Hold Of
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
12 hours ago
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
Seth's Blog
Annoyed
Annoyance is the inflammation that occurs after a mild emotional injury or wound. Like a physical...
12 hours ago
Annoyance is the inflammation that occurs after a mild emotional injury or wound. Like a physical inflammation, if it’s not cared for it can become infected. The difference is that an annoyance is easier for us to control. We can invest the energy to build a habit about what we...
Open Culture
Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation...
“Considering that, in a cartoon, anything can happen that the mind can imagine, the comics have...
12 hours ago
“Considering that, in a cartoon, anything can happen that the mind can imagine, the comics have generally depicted pretty mundane worlds,” writes Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. “Sure, there have been talking animals, a few spaceships and whatnot, but the comics have...
History Today Feed
‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:23
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‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:23
Retail Design Blog
Channel Capital Sydney Offices by PMG Group
Channel Capital engaged PMG to design and build their new workspace within the iconic Aurora Place...
13 hours ago
Channel Capital engaged PMG to design and build their new workspace within the iconic Aurora Place in Sydney. The project...
Paul Cudenec
Impact imperialists eye big 'opportunities' in India
Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees member Ravi Venkatesan was formerly chairman of Microsoft...
14 hours ago
Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees member Ravi Venkatesan was formerly chairman of Microsoft India, where he “helped build India into Microsoft’s second-largest presence in the world”.
Open Culture
Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts
Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had...
15 hours ago
Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had married his first cousin, Emma, and “wondered if his close genetic relation to his wife had had an ill impact on his children’s health, three (of 10) of whom died before the age of...
Odds and Ends of...
5 questions about the "AI opportunities action plan"
What the lobby should have asked.
15 hours ago
What the lobby should have asked.
diamond geezer
News with bonus AI context
Round London News
(with bonus AI context)
News from the South
Do These Benches Have Sutton's Least...
15 hours ago
Round London News
(with bonus AI context)
News from the South
Do These Benches Have Sutton's Least Attractive View?
This cluster of seven benches can be found at the northern end of the Beddington Industrial estate, close to Therapia Lane tram stop. The site has a...
TheCollector
What Is Ephesians About?
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Anecdotal Evidence
'I Learned Most By the Subject Matters'
Fifty years ago this month
I walked into Kay’s Books on Prospect Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio,...
16 hours ago
Fifty years ago this month
I walked into Kay’s Books on Prospect Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and
asked for a job. I was a twenty-two-year-old college dropout and for the
previous year and a half had worked as a cook in a restaurant. I had been
coming to Kay’s as a...
The American Scholar
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The...
17 hours ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The American Scholar.
Moneyness
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive....
19 hours ago
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallets than all other stablecoins, is locked-in as the stablecoin lingua franca, just like English has been locked-in as the global language of...
Astral Codex Ten
Subscrive Drive '25 + Free Unlocked Posts
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Calculated Risk
Tuesday: PPI
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher to Start New Week
The...
21 hours ago
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher to Start New Week
The more important consideration is the new round of potential volatility on the horizon. Whereas it was the jobs report last week, this week's critical data will be Wednesday's Consumer...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did...
22 hours ago
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…
TheCollector
What Is Colossians About?
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yesterday
Marcus on AI
AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence”
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
yesterday
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
TheCollector
Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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yesterday
Arduino Blog
This robot can dynamically change its wheel diameter to suit the terrain
A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious...
yesterday
A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious is gearing, with larger wheels increasing the ultimate gear ratio — though transmission and transfer case gearing can counteract that. But wheel size also affects mobility over...
Calculated Risk
Las Vegas November 2024: Visitor Traffic Up 0.6% YoY; Convention Traffic Down 8.4%
From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: November 2024 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics
Punctuated by the...
yesterday
From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: November 2024 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics
Punctuated by the second annual F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix and the SEMA tradeshow, Las Vegas
hosted more than 3.3M visitors in November, slightly up over last year (+0.6% YoY).
convention attendance
was...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Locally-Installed CLI Tools In Node Projects
You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it?
Even though you did npm i from...
yesterday
You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it?
Even though you did npm i from your project root, if you run <tool> <command> it won’t work because that tool is not in your global path.
You could install <tool> globally, but then if you have <tool> in multiple...
Classical Wisdom
How To Beat Brain Rot
Combat the Word of the Year
yesterday
Combat the Word of the Year
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Star
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At zero stars, you just get flooded.
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yesterday
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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At zero stars, you just get flooded.
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GeoCurrents
Mapping China’s Debated Fertility Figures
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the...
yesterday
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the expected number of children per woman) was 1.2. Among sovereign states, only Singapore and South Korea are ranked below China (at 1.1 and 0.9 respectively). Some sources, however, contend...
TheCollector
Yves Tanguy: 6 Facts About the Outstanding Surrealist
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yesterday
Flashbak
Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children
Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They...
yesterday
Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They are grim’d as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see this Struwwelpeter. – Der Struwwelpeter (Shaggy-Peter...
Math Is Still...
Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages...
yesterday
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.
The post Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way....
The Diff
The Economics of Logos
Plus! Elsewhere in Reputation Markets; Knocking Down Data Walls; Closing the Arbitrage; Cost...
yesterday
Plus! Elsewhere in Reputation Markets; Knocking Down Data Walls; Closing the Arbitrage; Cost Avoidance; State AI Investment
Cheese and Biscuits
Vetch, Liverpool
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out...
yesterday
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out less than 50% of the usual cost is to go for a weekday lunch or early bird menu. Some of the most exciting dining spots in the country have some remarkably reasonably priced...
Calculated Risk
2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in December
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
yesterday
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in December
A brief excerpt:
NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to December 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...
Retail Design Blog
Lingyun Tang hot spring water by Lion Peng
Lingyun Tang brand, dedicated to hot spring healing aesthetics. The design focuses on a number of...
yesterday
Lingyun Tang brand, dedicated to hot spring healing aesthetics. The design focuses on a number of key dimensions, aiming to...
Retail Design Blog
Hewlett Packard Enterprise offices by Setter Architects
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a global leader in IT solutions, has relocated to new headquarters...
yesterday
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a global leader in IT solutions, has relocated to new headquarters in the Infinity Towers, Ra’anana....
Common Edge
Unlocking the Mysteries of Zoning
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive...
yesterday
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive into the prosaic realms of urban planning.
NeuroLogica Blog
Should the US Ban TikTok?
My recent article on social media has fostered good social media engagement, so I thought I would...
yesterday
My recent article on social media has fostered good social media engagement, so I thought I would follow up with a discussion of the most urgent question regarding social media – should the US ban TikTok? The Biden administration signs into law legislation that would ban the...
Calculated Risk
Housing Jan 13th Weekly Update: Inventory down 1.7% Week-over-week, Up 23.6% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 1.7% week-over-week.
Inventory will...
yesterday
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 1.7% week-over-week.
Inventory will continue to decline seasonally and probably bottom in late January or February.
The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active single-family inventory since 2015.
Click...
GitButler
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
yesterday
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
Blog - Bitfield...
How to know when it's time to go
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time....
yesterday
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the
next step in your career.
Construction Physics
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely...
yesterday
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money —...
Retail Design Blog
Tampere Psychiatric Clinic by CF Møller
The new psychiatric clinic at Tampere University Hospital is designed to create a healing...
yesterday
The new psychiatric clinic at Tampere University Hospital is designed to create a healing environment supporting patients and staff. This...
TheCollector
Is Sufism a Part of Islam or Separate From It?
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yesterday
UX Collective
Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
yesterday
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Retail Design Blog
Donut of Curiosity store
As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring...
yesterday
As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring a...
latest projects -...
Fluid Simulation Pendant
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
yesterday
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
Seth's Blog
Decisions and choices
Decisions are easy, choices are hard. A good decision is our best analysis of the facts, options and...
yesterday
Decisions are easy, choices are hard. A good decision is our best analysis of the facts, options and risks. If it’s too close to call, flip a coin, because it’s too close to call. On the other hand, a choice involves understanding our priorities, evaluating our preference for...
History Today Feed
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
yesterday
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
TheCollector
The Congolese Teen Exhibited in a US Zoo: Who was Ota Benga?
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yesterday
Open Culture
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic...
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason...
yesterday
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, which dramatizes the program’s 1975 debut. All of this has put fans into something of a retrospective mood, especially if they happen to have been...
wingolog
an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries
I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be...
yesterday
I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be amused.Whippet
Say you have a semi-space nursery and a semi-space old generation. Both
are block-structured. You are allocating live data, say, a long linked
list. Allocation fills the...
TheCollector
The Collector’s Guide for the Art Fair
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yesterday
Commoncog
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota on Human-AI Symbiosis
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented...
yesterday
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented approach to AI in real world domains.
Noahpinion
Should economists read Marx?
Yes, but not for the reasons Marxists think.
yesterday
Yes, but not for the reasons Marxists think.
Open Culture
Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack
Here’s a strange home video of Nirvana when they were unknown, playing inside a Radio Shack in the...
yesterday
Here’s a strange home video of Nirvana when they were unknown, playing inside a Radio Shack in the band’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. The video was recorded on the evening of January 24, 1988, after the store had closed. In those days the group went by the name of Ted Ed...
Wrong Side of...
Britain's Chernobyl?
How bad will the fallout be?
yesterday
How bad will the fallout be?
Odds and Ends of...
New event! How AI can (maybe) fix the government!
Book your tickets now!
yesterday
diamond geezer
Faster journeys for you
You may have seen a lot of these posters around the tube network recently.
Signalling improvements...
yesterday
You may have seen a lot of these posters around the tube network recently.
Signalling improvements will mean faster journeys for you
And by 'in the future' they mean today, 13th January 2025, so hurrah for faster journeys.
improving the signalling on the four sub-surface...
TheCollector
The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave: What Can They Tell Us About the Past?
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yesterday
Anecdotal Evidence
'Thy Auld Damn'd Elbow Yeuks Wi' Joy'
It’s the sheer unembarrassed
redundancy of English I love. We have a dozen ways or more to say...
yesterday
It’s the sheer unembarrassed
redundancy of English I love. We have a dozen ways or more to say everything.
Synonyms are never scrupulously identical, and each encourages us to refine our
expression and avoid the lazy articulation of the herd. Even so childishly slangy
a word as...
Scarlet Ink
4 Patterns in Software Development Projects Which Lead to Failure
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
yesterday
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
Christopher Butler
The Geography of Interface
Is there a pattern language for digital spaces?
We navigate digital spaces as if they were...
yesterday
Is there a pattern language for digital spaces?
We navigate digital spaces as if they were physical ones. We “visit” websites, “go to” pages, get “lost” in apps, and find our way “back” to where we started. These spatial metaphors are so deeply embedded in how we think about...
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage
Some thoughts about machine learning
yesterday
Some thoughts about machine learning
ntietz.com blog -...
Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and...
yesterday
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and definitely not about computer ergonomics) requires me to use MIDI.
And to do custom handling of it.
So I need something that receives those MIDI events and handles them.
But... I'm going...
Blog posts of...
Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
yesterday
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
Applied Cartography
Truncating timedeltas in Django
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for...
yesterday
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance.
class Post(models.Model):
created_at = models.DateTimeField()
class Event(models.Model):
post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
created_at =...
Calculated Risk
Sunday Night Futures
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 12, 2025
Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are...
2 days ago
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 12, 2025
Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are unchanged and DOW futures are up 68 (fair value).
WTI futures at $76.57 per barrel and Brent at $79.76 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $73, and Brent was at $80 - so WTI oil...
The Honest Broker
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism
Let's make New Journalism new again
2 days ago
Let's make New Journalism new again
TheCollector
Are Supernatural Beliefs Real?
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2 days ago
Internal Tech Emails
"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure"
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be...
2 days ago
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be consigned to irrelevance.
African History...
A complete history of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of west Africa: from antiquity to the 20th...
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the...
2 days ago
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the Volta and the Niger, is home to one of the world's oldest surviving building traditions, called the ‘Sudano-Sahelian’ architecture.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gotchas in Naming CSS View Transitions
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly...
2 days ago
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly copying how Dave Rupert does it on his site where you get a cross-fade animation on the whole page generally, and a little position animation on the page title specifically.
To...
Flashbak
A Trip To Butlin’s In 1982
‘Our true intent is all for your delight’… – Butlin’s holiday camp motto Photographer Barry...
2 days ago
‘Our true intent is all for your delight’… – Butlin’s holiday camp motto Photographer Barry Lewis takes us on a holiday to Butlin’s Skegness in 1982. This was first ever Billy Butlin holiday camp. It opened at Skegness in 1936 – and still exists today. Lewis had worked for...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
2 days ago
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Probable
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The avocado of not being such a dick would've been...
2 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The avocado of not being such a dick would've been nice as well.
Today's News:
Ken Shirriff's blog
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers.
This metaphor was popularized by Richard...
2 days ago
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers.
This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's
"cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults.
However, this metaphor has three major problems.
First,
the pop-culture depiction of cargo...
TheCollector
What Was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
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2 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Stoicism and Buddhism
2 days ago
Calculated Risk
January 12th 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...
Arduino Blog
This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a...
2 days ago
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a fast food drive-thru meal. But that doesn’t mean drones are easy to control. That is actually quite difficult, but manufacturers are able to work off of established reference...
Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
2 days ago
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Anarchy Unfolds
We Don't Need Conspiracies
The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
2 days ago
The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
Birchtree
📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree...
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Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the
TheCollector
Peter (Simon) of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy
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TheCollector
What Was Colonialism? Causes and Impact
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Seth's Blog
“That will never work”
Every successful SNL sketch, every bestselling book, every landslide-winning candidate… every single...
2 days ago
Every successful SNL sketch, every bestselling book, every landslide-winning candidate… every single one… had skeptics. Someone in the writer’s room, or on the editorial board or even an investor looked at what was on offer and said, “no.” Not just, “I’m sorry, this doesn’t match...
watchTowr Labs
Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)
As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote...
2 days ago
As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in their Connect Secure (VPN) appliance. Specifically, we analyzed CVE-2025-0282.
Today, we’re going to walk through exploitation. Once again, however,...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Utah
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A Smart Bear
The Important Thing -- powerful enough to override all your deficiencies
This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a...
2 days ago
This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a startup in the first place.
diamond geezer
Onslow Square/Osborne Square
45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one...
2 days ago
45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one of the larger examples, tucked away between Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road. Turn left out of South Kensington station and you'll be there in two minutes. When Queen Victoria...
TheCollector
7 Works by Yves Tanguy You Should Know
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Anecdotal Evidence
'I Find a Demanding Medium Liberating'
One can argue that the
essential purpose of art, despite what the humorless say, is to give...
2 days ago
One can argue that the
essential purpose of art, despite what the humorless say, is to give pleasure
to its consumers. If so, I rather uncharacteristically denied myself a lot of it
by not discovering the poems of Turner Cassity until the final year of his life.
He is a poet...
journal – Winnie Lim
2025: may I have an uneventful year
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to...
2 days ago
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to progress uneventfully. I first started using the word “uneventful”...
Matt Mullenweg
Matt 4.1
Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big...
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Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teach
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The problem with college students these days is...
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anderegg.ca
WordPress is in trouble
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when...
3 days ago
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that...
TheCollector
Why Are Most Female Pharaohs Unrecorded in History?
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Zuck Kisses the Ring
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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
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Moody's:...
3 days ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High
1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December
Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year
Update: The...
GeoCurrents
Regional Demographic Convergence in India as the Country Slips Below the Replacement Rate
Most demographers agree that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of India has dropped below the...
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Flashbak
Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three...
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“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three fundamentals, that is, bases: the physical, the mathematical, and the practical or mechanical” – Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium The German student of light...
Contemporist...
A Stone Covered Home That Surrounds A Central Courtyard With Sunken Seating
YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a...
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YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a central courtyard with sunken outdoor seating.
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread
Longreads
Gwern has a lengthy meditation on effort, specifically the kind of effort involved in...
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Longreads
Gwern has a lengthy meditation on effort, specifically the kind of effort involved in doing what was previously thought to be impossible. It's not so much a unified theory of extreme effort as it is a comprehensive refutation of the existence of such theories. There...
TheCollector
Marcus Garvey: A Leader in the Pan-Africanist Movement
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diamond geezer
Footways Clerkenwell
The fine folk at Footways, the walk-friendly social enterprise, have just produced another of their...
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The fine folk at Footways, the walk-friendly social enterprise, have just produced another of their gorgeous free walking maps, This time it's for Clerkenwell, the historic Islington neighbourhood, and depicts all sorts of places to visit as well as the best ways to thread...
Birchtree
This remote has me questioning everything
I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the...
3 days ago
I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, but got the job done. But
Archinect - Features
How Mecanoo Delivers on Architectural Renders
The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects...
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The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects that faithfully convey the design and atmosphere of the project ultimately constructed. As modern rendering engines offer architects unprecedented capabilities to create dynamic...
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of January 12, 2024
The key reports this week are December CPI, retail sales, and housing starts.
----- Monday, January...
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The key reports this week are December CPI, retail sales, and housing starts.
----- Monday, January 13th -----
No major economic releases scheduled.
----- Tuesday, January 14th -----
6:00 AM: NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for December.
Producer Price Index for December...
TheCollector
The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon vs. Russia
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The Ruffian
The Death of Scenius
Urban Creativity Isn't What It Was
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TheCollector
What Were Hobart’s Funnies?
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Julia Evans
What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated
them. One person...
3 days ago
Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated
them. One person commented:
There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it
all came out of the box.
My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t...
Seth's Blog
Slow down to speed up
Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why it’s...
3 days ago
Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why it’s more accurate to call them “crashes” and not “accidents.”) That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have bold plans. That’s essential. It’s the last-second shortcuts that get us into...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Red Tape edition (#57)
NEPA; Carter's deregulations; targeted tariffs; YIMBY news; greedflation; a bad viral chart;...
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NEPA; Carter's deregulations; targeted tariffs; YIMBY news; greedflation; a bad viral chart; Acemoglu on H-1bs
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Tennessee You Should Visit
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diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #12
Major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue. They're now into their fourth month although it...
3 days ago
Major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue. They're now into their fourth month although it feels like forever, especially if you get stuck in queueing traffic.
The most obvious change is that workmen have finished filling in where the contraflow lane used to enter the...
TheCollector
The Eccentricities of Arthur Conan Doyle: Fairies, Apes, and Spiritualism
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Look at This, It's Wonderful'
There’s a written nonfiction voice I find
especially repellent. For the sake of convenience I’ll...
3 days ago
There’s a written nonfiction voice I find
especially repellent. For the sake of convenience I’ll call it “institutional.”
I encounter it most often in academic writing, but it has leaked into the larger culture.
For almost sixteen years I worked as a science
writer for a...
Matt Mullenweg
Status Quo
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
3 days ago
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
Mazdak
OpenAI Ventures into Robotics, Grok App Launch, Trump Convicted, and US Jobs Report Highlights
Big robotics news from OpenAI 🤖
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Big robotics news from OpenAI 🤖
diamond geezer
Borough squares
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How many Squares are there in each London borough?
National Street...
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How many Squares are there in each London borough?
National Street...
The Marginalian
Do Not Spare Yourself
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often...
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The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly...
Birchtree
It's time for some more YouTube videos just in time for the weekend
This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun
Shout out to Truth social,...
3 days ago
This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun
Shout out to Truth social, which got called out as having the best UX in this video...which is based on Mastodon
The internet's dad, Hank Green, is starting a new podcast
I'm
macwright.com
2025 Predictions
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial...
3 days ago
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial to AI
The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between
websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your
ranking on search engines was pretty easy -...
Society's Backend
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
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Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data
For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on...
4 days ago
For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on publicly traded companies and sharing what I find with anyone who is interested. It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat...
4 days ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat darker look at everyone’s favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same black takedowns Alexander and Cleopatra got) , which will hopefully be ready for next week. Before we dive...
Calculated Risk
Goldman on Employment Report and FOMC
A few excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note:
Nonfarm payrolls rose 256k in December, well...
4 days ago
A few excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note:
Nonfarm payrolls rose 256k in December, well above consensus expectations. ... The household survey was also strong. The unemployment rate fell 0.15pp to 4.09%, reflecting a 478k gain in household employment and an unchanged...
Citation Needed
Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and...
4 days ago
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and Polymarket reaches new lows.
TheCollector
Pol Pot: Overseer of the Cambodian Genocide
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The Elysian
We're writing a better future into existence
A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
4 days ago
A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
Marcus on AI
The impeccable logic of Sam Altman
From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further...
4 days ago
From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
Overcoming Bias
Toward More Direct Signals
As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should...
4 days ago
As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should address a key signaling question, about which I was recently reminded.
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 1.8% to 2.7% Range
From BofA:
Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved down three...
4 days ago
From BofA:
Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved down three
tenths to 1.8% q/q saar. The final estimate of 3Q GDP came in at 3.1% q/q saar, close to
our tracking of 3.0%. [Jan 10th estimate]
emphasis added
From Goldman:
We left our Q4 GDP...
Matt Mazur
2024 Year in Review
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
4 days ago
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
Rest of World -...
Global fact-checkers were disappointed, not surprised, Meta ended its program
Groups in Pakistan, Argentina, and Brazil have been diversifying revenue streams and many saw the...
4 days ago
Groups in Pakistan, Argentina, and Brazil have been diversifying revenue streams and many saw the change coming.
Blog System/5
Self-documenting Makefiles
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
4 days ago
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Arms on Vacuums
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
4 days ago
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.
RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
lcamtuf’s thing
Getting silly with C, part (void*)2
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
4 days ago
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
TheCollector
Luigi Cherubini’s Medea: An Ancient Greek Opera Diva
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Odyssey
Homer's Homecoming
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Math Is Still...
The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are...
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Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective unlike many of their peers.
The post The Physicist Decoding the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 100: CES
January 10, 2025.
4 days ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Management
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4 days ago
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I feel like if prayers came with a token fee people would consume a lot less.
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The Diff
The Loneliness Economy Wins Through Higher Sustained Productivity Growth
Plus! Bond Vigilantes; Deeper AI Search; Analysts; Shareholder Votes; Networks are Expensive to...
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Retail Design Blog
Isle Of Mull Soap by My Creative
Isle Of Mull Soap has been handmade in Tobermory by local couple Stu & Sophie since 2008. The shop...
4 days ago
Isle Of Mull Soap has been handmade in Tobermory by local couple Stu & Sophie since 2008. The shop sits...
Calculated Risk
Comments on December Employment Report
The headline jobs number in the December employment report was well above expectations, however,...
4 days ago
The headline jobs number in the December employment report was well above expectations, however, October and November payrolls were revised down by 8,000 combined. The participation rate was unchanged, the employment population ratio increased, and the unemployment rate...
TheCollector
Rare Rediscovered Watercolor by J.M.W. Turner Heads to Auction
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Retail Design Blog
Lockton offices by Spaceful
Lockton engaged Spaceful for a comprehensive workplace design for their new Pacific region HQ in...
4 days ago
Lockton engaged Spaceful for a comprehensive workplace design for their new Pacific region HQ in Sydney. The space was designed...
Calculated Risk
December Employment Report: 256 thousand Jobs, 4.1% Unemployment Rate
From the BLS: Employment Situation
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 256,000 in...
4 days ago
From the BLS: Employment Situation
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 256,000 in December, and the unemployment rate
changed little at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment
trended up in health care, government, and social...
NeuroLogica Blog
New Material for Nanoconductors
One of the things I have come to understand from following technology news for decades is that...
4 days ago
One of the things I have come to understand from following technology news for decades is that perhaps the most important breakthroughs, and often the least appreciated, are those in material science. We can get better at engineering and making stuff out of the materials we have,...
Retail Design Blog
ADERERROR store
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, South Korean fashion brand ADERERROR has revamped its retail...
4 days ago
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, South Korean fashion brand ADERERROR has revamped its retail space in Seoul‘s increasingly popular Seongsu shopping...
IEEE Spectrum
This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce...
4 days ago
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed...
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
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What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
TheCollector
What Is Affection in Philosophy?
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Retail Design Blog
Cheer Kindergarten by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro
This is an interior project for a newly established kindergarten located in Nanshan District,...
4 days ago
This is an interior project for a newly established kindergarten located in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China. The kindergarten is situated...
Rest of World -...
Exclusive: Foxconn stops sending Chinese workers to India iPhone factories
In addition, equipment shipments are delayed, potentially disrupting next-generation iPhone...
4 days ago
In addition, equipment shipments are delayed, potentially disrupting next-generation iPhone production in India.
Rest of World -...
Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries
In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
4 days ago
In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
TheCollector
Liberation of the Oppressed: What Is Liberation Theology?
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Seth's Blog
The magic of the commons
Sheep are not like ideas. 200 years ago, William Foster Lloyd began pointing out that if land is...
4 days ago
Sheep are not like ideas. 200 years ago, William Foster Lloyd began pointing out that if land is shared, ranchers will all have an incentive to overgraze their sheep–if they don’t, the thinking goes, the others will. Each farmer expands until the commons is ruined. And this...
Open Culture
In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term...
4 days ago
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term that evokes great, looming cultural, social, and technological changes. According to at least one French mind active at the time, among those changes would be a fin des livres as...
Paul Cudenec
The global mafia's not-so-good club
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and...
4 days ago
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and philanthropist”.
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Museums in Massachusetts
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Open Culture
How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust
In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a...
4 days ago
In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a German clown in Auschwitz. The result was so awful that he never allowed its release, and it quickly acquired the reputation—along with disasters like George Lucas’ Star Wars...
diamond geezer
T2025
Back in 2006 TfL published a 136-page long-term vision for London's transport system.
Mayor of...
4 days ago
Back in 2006 TfL published a 136-page long-term vision for London's transport system.
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone today set out a 20-year transport programme aimed at ensuring London's future economic prosperity.
The document was called Transport 2025 - Transport vision...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chattanooga?
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Anecdotal Evidence
'I Am Content to Enjoy the World'
I found an email I had sent
to my brother shortly before his death in August. After spending a week...
4 days ago
I found an email I had sent
to my brother shortly before his death in August. After spending a week in
Cleveland, visiting him in the hospital, I returned to Houston for a few days,
then flew back to stay with him in the hospice. During that first trip, we did
a lot of talking,...
Christopher Butler
Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World)
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of...
4 days ago
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of human interaction with information is evolving. Machines are becoming our primary intermediaries for searching, synthesizing, and summarizing information, often performing these tasks...
Mazdak
Google & Microsoft $1M donation to Trump inauguration fund, Microsoft job cuts, Amazon ad business...
Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and even Tim Cook are each donating $1M to President-elect Trump’s...
4 days ago
Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and even Tim Cook are each donating $1M to President-elect Trump’s inauguration fund.
watchTowr Labs
Do Secure-By-Design Pledges Come With Stickers? - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)
Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up.
It’s 2025, and the chaos...
4 days ago
Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up.
It’s 2025, and the chaos continues.
Haha, see what we did? We wrote the exact same thing in 2024 because 2024 was exactly the same.
As an industry, we are on GroundHog day
Calculated Risk
Friday: Employment Report
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier...
4 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Friday:
Employment Report for December. The consensus is for 160,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.2%.
University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia....
4 days ago
For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Writing a tech blog people want to read
My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing...
4 days ago
My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing that’s working, and a few things that have…
Stephen Wolfram...
Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The...
5 days ago
Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics” (2022) » “Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics” (2014) » The Simplest Axiom...
Birchtree
Comfort Zone: OLED Dreams and Studio Display Realities
Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I...
5 days ago
Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I defend a new purchase…oh, and we have some fun with desks that sadly ends in Vision Pro slander. Why does this keep happening?!
Watch on YouTube
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Precise
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
There, another philosophical conundrum solved in 4...
5 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
There, another philosophical conundrum solved in 4 panels.
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The Marginalian
The Hot Shower as Uncommon Prayer
One of the paradoxes of being alive is that it is often through the extremes of sensation, through...
5 days ago
One of the paradoxes of being alive is that it is often through the extremes of sensation, through the shock of having a body, that we come most proximate to the subtleties of the soul. Walt Whitman knew this: “If the body is not the soul,” he sang electric, “what is the soul?”...
TheCollector
Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Miss the Product for the Artifacts
Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger...
5 days ago
Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia?
Feels like the tech equivalent is: Don’t miss the product for the artifacts.
Here’s Ryan Rendle in a recent piece on design...
Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
5 days ago
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
Marcus on AI
AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either.
Much was quietly revealed yesterday
5 days ago
Much was quietly revealed yesterday
Calculated Risk
The Housing Bubble and Mortgage Debt as a Percent of GDP
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Update: The Housing Bubble and Mortgage Debt...
5 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Update: The Housing Bubble and Mortgage Debt as a Percent of GDP
A brief excerpt:
Two years ago, I wrote The Housing Bubble and Mortgage Debt as a Percent of GDP. Here is an update to a couple of graphs. The bottom line...
TheCollector
What Was the 1925 Serum Run to Nome?
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CONTEMPORIST
An Intentionally Muted Yet Refined Palette Of Natural Materials For A Home In Lake Tahoe
MacCracken Robinson Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Lake Tahoe,...
5 days ago
MacCracken Robinson Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Lake Tahoe, California with an intentionally muted yet refined palette of natural materials including cedar, oak, fir, and steel, allowing the house to harmoniously blend with the surroundings....
The Diff
Moderation, Inside and Out
Plus! General-Purpose Technologies; Growth and Concentration; Cross-Platform; The Amazon Model; More...
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Flashbak
Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire
Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of...
5 days ago
Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of Visual Artists” in her native Austria. In the interwar period, the painter worked as an illustrator on children’s books. One highlight among her later works is a poster she created in...
Calculated Risk
December Employment Preview
On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for December. The consensus is...
5 days ago
On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for December. The consensus is for 160,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.2%.
From Goldman Sachs:
We expect a below-consensus 125k increase in payrolls (vs. +160k consensus) in...
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 201,000
This was released yesterday (due to National Day of Mourning). The DOL reported:
emphasis added
The...
5 days ago
This was released yesterday (due to National Day of Mourning). The DOL reported:
emphasis added
The following graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly claims since 1971.
Click on graph for larger image.
The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The...
Astral Codex Ten
Bureaucracy Isn't Measured In Bureaucrats
...
5 days ago
NeuroLogica Blog
What Kind of Social Media Do We Want?
Recently Meta decided to end their fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram. The move has been both...
5 days ago
Recently Meta decided to end their fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram. The move has been both hailed and criticized. They are replacing the fact-checkers with an X-style “community notes”. Mark Zuckerberg summed up the move this way: “It means we’re going to catch less bad...
Irrational...
Uber's service migration strategy circa 2014.
In early 2014, I joined as an engineering manager for Uber’s Infrastructure team.
We were...
5 days ago
In early 2014, I joined as an engineering manager for Uber’s Infrastructure team.
We were responsible for a wide number of things, including provisioning new services.
While the overall team I led grew significantly over time,
the subset working on service provisioning never
grew...
Wrong Side of...
Twitter's White Terror era
The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
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The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
TheCollector
What Is Second Timothy About?
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Retail Design Blog
Immersive VR gaming arena and bar that has opened its first U.S. location in Seattle, Washington...
Mirra is an immersive VR gaming arena and bar that has opened its first U.S. location in Bellevue,...
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Mirra is an immersive VR gaming arena and bar that has opened its first U.S. location in Bellevue, Washington. This...
Irrational...
Service onboarding model for Uber (2014).
At the core of
Uber’s service migration strategy (2014)
is understanding the service onboarding...
5 days ago
At the core of
Uber’s service migration strategy (2014)
is understanding the service onboarding process, and identifying the levers
to speed up that process. Here we’ll develop a
system model
representing that onboarding process, and exercise the model to test a number
of...
Flashbak
Travels in the Air, 1871
“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above...
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“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above the infinite expanse of sky” – James Glaisher, Travels In The Air, 1871 Travels in the Air tells the story of balloon travel since the first ‘aerostatic’ flight by the...
diamond geezer
Vincent Square
45
45 Squared
1) VINCENT SQUARE, SW1
Borough of Westminster, 220m × 200m
Russell Square is smaller....
5 days ago
45
45 Squared
1) VINCENT SQUARE, SW1
Borough of Westminster, 220m × 200m
Russell Square is smaller. Trafalgar Square is half the size. Lincoln's Inn Fields is marginally longer but less broad. Eaton Square is half an acre larger but Square only in name, being extremely oblong....
Paolo Amoroso's...
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
5 days ago
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program:
Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client.
It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack.
I...
wingolog
ephemerons vs generations in whippet
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about
. I thought I was
done with them, but it seems they...
5 days ago
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about
. I thought I was
done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we
efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational
collector? ‘s answer turns out to be simple but...
TheCollector
What Is the Philosopher’s Stone?
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Unfiltered by Tim...
The Secret Life of People with High Agency (It’s Simpler than You Think)
It's bizarrely good for your health too
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Seth's Blog
The problem with marketing puffery
It costs more than you think. Last month, I hit the old stock on the Avery labels in my office...
5 days ago
It costs more than you think. Last month, I hit the old stock on the Avery labels in my office cabinet. I had a bunch of things to send out, and off they went. It turns out, who knew, that old labels stop sticking. It’s entirely possible some of my really important packages never...
Open Culture
Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various...
5 days ago
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have arisen over the years. It makes sense that those two worlds would collide, and now they’ve done so in the form of the just-launched...
History Today Feed
Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology
Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/09/2025 - 09:45
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Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/09/2025 - 09:45
Retail Design Blog
Chocolat Du Jour
The first store of the Brazilian chocolate brand Chocolat Du Jour in the city of Goiânia introduces...
5 days ago
The first store of the Brazilian chocolate brand Chocolat Du Jour in the city of Goiânia introduces a new concept...
Open Culture
Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 27), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses...
A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan...
5 days ago
A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $199) gives you access to 90% of Coursera’s courses, Guided Projects, Specializations, and...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Arizona
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Noahpinion
The Taiwan posts
Three classics from the Noahpinion archive
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Three classics from the Noahpinion archive
diamond geezer
45 squared
45
45 Squared
2025 = 45 × 45 = 452 which is why I'm visiting 45 of them.
n.b. I'm aware that a lot...
5 days ago
45
45 Squared
2025 = 45 × 45 = 452 which is why I'm visiting 45 of them.
n.b. I'm aware that a lot of Squares aren't actually square, more rectangular, but so long as it's called Square and approximately quadrilateral that's fine.
n.b. I won't be doing squares I've blogged about...
Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
5 days ago
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
TheCollector
The History of Communism in Vietnam: From the 1920s to Today
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wadertales
How are migration sites connected?
Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering...
5 days ago
Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering locations linked? Forty-four authors have collaborated to bring together ringing, colour-ringing and GPS tracking data in a paper entitled Site-level connectivity identified from...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Barbarous Terms and Expressions'
One of my favorite letters
in literary history is known as “A Letter to a Young Clergyman,” written...
5 days ago
One of my favorite letters
in literary history is known as “A Letter to a Young Clergyman,” written by
Jonathan Swift in 1619-20 and published on January 9, 1721. I remembered it
recently when a young reader/writer asked me what she ought to read to help her write more plainly,...
Calculated Risk
Thursday: National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, Unemployment Claims
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Thursday:
NYSE...
5 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Thursday:
NYSE and the NASDAQ will be closed in observance of a National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter.
Small Business Optimism Index for December.
initial weekly unemployment...
Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 363.5
...
5 days ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Julia Triay
Hi! I'm Julia Triay, I'm an illustrator and printmaker from Mallorca, Spain based in Norwich. I...
5 days ago
Hi! I'm Julia Triay, I'm an illustrator and printmaker from Mallorca, Spain based in Norwich. I moved to Norwich 8 years ago to study illustration. I fell in love with this fine city and made it my home. I recently quit my job to become a full time illustrator, which has been a...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What makes strong engineers strong?
As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
5 days ago
As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
Applied Cartography
January, 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
Headlining...
5 days ago
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
Headlining this month was my annual review; everything else is flotsam.
But, speaking of flotsam:
A quick development note on the order attribute in CSS
Notes on Linear and Fathom
Why...
DYNOMIGHT
Links for January
(1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a...
5 days ago
(1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a pond in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. After returning to DC, he mentioned to some White House staffers that a large rabbit had swum towards him “hissing menacingly” and he’d had...
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 3
Highlights
I published the first chapter of my book and was happy with the reception.
My attempt to...
5 days ago
Highlights
I published the first chapter of my book and was happy with the reception.
My attempt to hire a book cover designer flopped.
I may have figured out how to support large files on PicoShare.
Goal grades
At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Habit
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf was steadily making the...
6 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf was steadily making the discourse so befogged with mendacity that in the grim final moment the villagers wouldn't even believe their own eyes and ears.
Today's News:
Calculated Risk
Leading Index for Commercial Real Estate Increased 10% in December
From Dodge Data Analytics: Dodge Momentum Index Grows 10% in December
The Dodge Momentum Index...
6 days ago
From Dodge Data Analytics: Dodge Momentum Index Grows 10% in December
The Dodge Momentum Index (DMI), issued by Dodge Construction Network, grew 10.2% in December to 212.0 (2000=100) from the revised November reading of 192.3. Over the month, commercial planning increased 14.2%...
Archinect - Features
How Moshe Safdie’s Iconic Habitat 67 Was Reborn in a Virtual World
When Habitat 67 was first unveiled to the world almost six decades ago, it changed the landscape not...
6 days ago
When Habitat 67 was first unveiled to the world almost six decades ago, it changed the landscape not only of Montreal, Canada, but of architectural discourse on how modern buildings could be designed, constructed, and lived in. The structure also catapulted its young architect,...
TheCollector
10 Things to Do at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Designing a Logo
I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
6 days ago
I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/
Calculated Risk
FOMC Minutes: "The process [of reaching inflation target] could take longer than previously...
From the Fed: Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, December 17–18, 2024. Excerpt:
With...
6 days ago
From the Fed: Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, December 17–18, 2024. Excerpt:
With regard to the outlook for inflation, participants expected that inflation would continue to move toward 2 percent, although they noted that recent higher-than-expected readings on...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Discover 4,100-Year-Old Tomb of Pharaoh’s Doctor
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6 days ago
The Honest Broker
Open Mic: Tell Us About Anything You Want
It’s Open Mic Day at The Honest Broker. And it’s totally open today—you can talk about anything you...
6 days ago
It’s Open Mic Day at The Honest Broker. And it’s totally open today—you can talk about anything you want in the comments.
Matt Mullenweg
Studio Sync
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz....
6 days ago
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio...
Calculated Risk
1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in...
6 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December
A brief excerpt:
NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to December 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...
GeoCurrents
Recent Trends in Domestic Migration in the United States
A recent article in Newgeography by demographer Wendell Cox analyzes net domestic migration from one...
6 days ago
A recent article in Newgeography by demographer Wendell Cox analyzes net domestic migration from one state to another from July 2020 to July 2024. Aptly titled “United States Moves South,” the article includes an intriguing data table outlining the current trends. In this short...
Stat Significant
Which Celebrities Popularized (or Tarnished) Baby Names? A Statistical Analysis
Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
6 days ago
Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
High Signal
Living the digital nomad dream in Bangkok
Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle...
6 days ago
Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle at a fraction of the price back in the US. I chatted to him about growing his DropInBlog business into a SaaS success story.
Why did you become a founder?
My brain doesn&
High Signal
Making $15k a month from an AI app
Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a...
6 days ago
Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a Mac desktop app which lets you use LLMs straight from your Apple machine. I talked to Daniel about his tips for learning to code, how he made BoltAI and the
High Signal
From Blacksmith to $200k exit
Mohd went from being a blacksmith working for his father to creating his own software businesses....
6 days ago
Mohd went from being a blacksmith working for his father to creating his own software businesses. He's made $200k from selling NoCodeAPI.
High Signal
From client work to AI startups
Today's interview is with a founder who ditched client work in order to work on AI startups....
6 days ago
Today's interview is with a founder who ditched client work in order to work on AI startups. Fernando makes a good living from his AI apps
High Signal
Getting rich with SEO - how Ian Nuttall does it
Ian Nuttall is an SEO expert who has made 7 figures from entrepreneurship. He's also using AI to...
6 days ago
Ian Nuttall is an SEO expert who has made 7 figures from entrepreneurship. He's also using AI to advance his coding skills.
High Signal
Selling a YouTube tool for 6 figures- and what's next
Rox sold a YouTube A/B testing tool for 6 figures as a bootstrapped founder. Now he's building a...
6 days ago
Rox sold a YouTube A/B testing tool for 6 figures as a bootstrapped founder. Now he's building a video podcast platform.
High Signal
From agency to SaaS founder - how Jules is making the change
Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things...
6 days ago
Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things up with a move into SaaS.
TheCollector
Victorian Fashion: Were Corsets Really That Uncomfortable?
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6 days ago
Uncharted...
The Top 50 US Cities: Why Are They Where They Are?
The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated...
6 days ago
The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated ones
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025
And a review of last year's predictions.
6 days ago
And a review of last year's predictions.
Math Is Still...
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be...
6 days ago
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.
The post Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer. first...
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
6 days ago
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
Calculated Risk
Wholesale Used Car Prices Decreased in December; Up 0.4% Year-over-year
From Manheim Consulting today: Wholesale Used-Vehicle Prices Decreased in December
Wholesale...
6 days ago
From Manheim Consulting today: Wholesale Used-Vehicle Prices Decreased in December
Wholesale used-vehicle prices (on a mix, mileage, and seasonally adjusted basis) were lower in December compared to November. The Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index (MUVVI) fell to 204.8, an increase...
Arduino Blog
Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3
Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time...
6 days ago
Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time series data straight to AWS S3. With this seamless connection, organizing and analyzing your data is a breeze. In case you don’t know, Arduino Cloud is a robust, integrated platform...
Common Edge
Confronting the Leviathan in Vietnam
An architect’s search for clarity in a far-off land.
6 days ago
An architect’s search for clarity in a far-off land.
Birchtree
📕 I mildly recommend: Life as No One Knows It (members post)
A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
6 days ago
A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
Map of the Week
A Really Greater New York
New York City just introduced congestion pricing in an attempt to eliminate gridlock. There have...
6 days ago
New York City just introduced congestion pricing in an attempt to eliminate gridlock. There have been many other plans over the years to alter the city to improve traffic flow, also to create housing and solve environmental problems. One of the most ambitious plans was this one,...
Calculated Risk
ADP: Private Employment Increased 122,000 in December
From ADP: ADP National Employment Report: Private employers added 122,000 jobs in December
“The...
6 days ago
From ADP: ADP National Employment Report: Private employers added 122,000 jobs in December
“The labor market downshifted to a more modest pace of growth in the final month of 2024, with a slowdown in both hiring and pay gains. Health care stood out in the second half of the year,...
Retail Design Blog
AREMAR jewelry Showroom
Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured...
6 days ago
Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured surfaces, highlighted by a subtle...
IEEE Spectrum
Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector
Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d...
6 days ago
Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d think a simple and safe way of locating and removing the devices would’ve been engineered. But that’s not the case. In fact, up until World War II, the most common method for finding...
Trying to Understand...
The Long Run.
The future belongs to them.
6 days ago
The future belongs to them.
TheCollector
6 of History’s Biggest Traitors
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased in Weekly Survey
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications...
6 days ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications decreased 3.7 percent from one
week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage
Applications Survey for the week ending January 3, 2025....
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #51: Transport for London made a terrible decision and I hope they reverse it
Plus Britain's broken car market, what the LibDems should do next and how some lefty institutions...
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Plus Britain's broken car market, what the LibDems should do next and how some lefty institutions have a class problem,
The Pragmatic...
Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
6 days ago
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. We do deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software.
After each...
Infinite Scroll
Why Are So Many Online Trads Still Single?
We asked single trads to tell us their secrets
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We asked single trads to tell us their secrets
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
6 days ago
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
TheCollector
What Made the Harlem Hellfighters Legendary?
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Seth's Blog
Situational spending
Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in...
6 days ago
Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in different ways. And time is the wildcard. Situational spending is a trap that seduces us into forgetting that time passes and debt (or assets) remain. A couple about to wed might not...
Open Culture
Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez...
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early...
6 days ago
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early nineteen-sixties and subsequent electrified break with it, has been praised for not taking excessive liberties, at least by the standards of popular music biopics. Its conversion of a...
History Today Feed
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/08/2025 - 09:37
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The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/08/2025 - 09:37
Atoms vs Bits
Making Sense Of Life Through Reincarnation
Again the melody returns
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Flashbak
From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of...
6 days ago
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of revenge drama about living now.” – Masahisa Fukase One morning in the summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) photographed his wife since 1964, Yoko...
Open Culture
The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map...
6 days ago
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map of the world that adorned his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture). Hand-colored and shaped like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its...
diamond geezer
Coppermill Stream
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON
Coppermill Stream
Tottenham Hale → Stamford Hill (1¼ miles)
River Lee...
6 days ago
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON
Coppermill Stream
Tottenham Hale → Stamford Hill (1¼ miles)
River Lee Navigation Act authorised the creation of straighter cuts chopping off awkward meanders and the introduction of towpaths on both sides of the river. The sequential introduction of...
Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
(but forgot to mention it)
6 days ago
(but forgot to mention it)
Noahpinion
Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada's economy
No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
6 days ago
No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
The Ruffian
James Marriott on Neil Postman: Are We Making Ourselves Stupid?
A Conversation About 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'
6 days ago
A Conversation About 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'
Paul Cudenec
Basketball, neo-imperialism and Zionism
Sport today is just another sector of big business – just another way of making money.
6 days ago
Sport today is just another sector of big business – just another way of making money.
TheCollector
7 Women Artists Who Became Works of Art
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6 days ago
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