Bits about Money
Bits about Money yearly recap and plans
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
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What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
Calculated Risk
Fed's Beige Book: "Economic activity increased slightly to moderately"
Fed's Beige Book
Economic activity increased slightly to moderately across the twelve Federal...
2 hours ago
Fed's Beige Book
Economic activity increased slightly to moderately across the twelve Federal Reserve Districts in late November and December. Consumer spending moved up moderately, with most Districts reporting strong holiday sales that exceeded expectations. Vehicle sales grew...
The Elysian
What movement does the world need now?
Your answers to December's writing prompt.
2 hours ago
Your answers to December's writing prompt.
Archinect - Features
Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera
Through storytelling and cutting-edge technology, the creative company Squint/Opera (formally a...
2 hours ago
Through storytelling and cutting-edge technology, the creative company Squint/Opera (formally a Journey studio since 2022) envisions a world where media architecture enriches urban life and reshapes how we interact with the built environment. From immersive experiences at the...
Archinect - Features
Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow...
2 hours ago
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow studios ICRAVE, 59, and VMI Studio under the banner of Journey, a "superpowered organization" bridging physical and digital design. Long before the merger, Squint/Opera had...
Map of the Week
Los Angeles Wildfire Extent
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in...
3 hours ago
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very detailed maps showing the extent of destruction. Here is a close up of Altadena from the Hurst Fire.
via New York Times -...
Mazdak
Bluesky’s Next Big Move: Introducing the Photo-Sharing App Flashes
A new contender for the future of decentralized social media
3 hours ago
A new contender for the future of decentralized social media
Calculated Risk
Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
3 hours ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025
A brief excerpt:
Yesterday, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025 I reviewed home inventory, housing starts...
Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification?
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
4 hours ago
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1
I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
Raptitude.com
The Tiniest Mission
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is:...
4 hours ago
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is: placing a jigsaw puzzle piece into the right slot, wiping your phone screen spotless, returning a tool to its designated hook, or making a nice diagonal cut across a lovingly-made...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Applied
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Today's News:
4 hours ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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You are all impure now!
Today's News:
Mazdak
Workspace AI Features Now Included for Free
Google has just dropped a major announcement that’s set to reshape how we use AI-powered...
4 hours ago
Google has just dropped a major announcement that’s set to reshape how we use AI-powered productivity tools.
Marcus on AI
AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux
The contrast couldn’t be starker
4 hours ago
The contrast couldn’t be starker
Calculated Risk
Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.3% in November
The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI.
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5 hours ago
The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI.
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On a year-over-year basis, the median CPI rose 3.8% (down from 3.9% YoY in November), the trimmed-mean CPI rose 3.2% (down slightly from 3.2%), and the CPI less food and energy...
Stat Significant
What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
5 hours ago
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’
A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem....
6 hours ago
A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches.
The post Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Artificial Ignorance
The greatest movies never made
A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
6 hours ago
A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
Birchtree
First look at my next big thing (members post)
I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
6 hours ago
I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
Product Identity
Looking for humanness in the world wide social
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
7 hours ago
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
Retail Design Blog
Nudo Salvaje Mezcal by Hi estudio
From the union of essential elements like earth, agave, and fire emerges the concept of NUDO, a...
7 hours ago
From the union of essential elements like earth, agave, and fire emerges the concept of NUDO, a representation that evokes...
Calculated Risk
YoY Measures of Inflation: Services, Goods and Shelter
Here are a few measures of inflation:
Click on graph for larger image.
Services were up 4.4% YoY as...
7 hours ago
Here are a few measures of inflation:
Click on graph for larger image.
Services were up 4.4% YoY as of December 2024, down from 4.5% YoY in November.
The second graph shows that goods prices started to increase year-over-year (YoY) in 2020 and accelerated in 2021 due to both...
Common Edge
Architecture Students on AI
What happens when a studio course offers AI tools and a real-world housing crisis.
7 hours ago
What happens when a studio course offers AI tools and a real-world housing crisis.
Retail Design Blog
Resalta Offices by VI-ZO architecture & design and Van-ark Design
Resalta’s new office in Ljubljana by VI-ZO architecture & design and Van-ark Design creates a green,...
8 hours ago
Resalta’s new office in Ljubljana by VI-ZO architecture & design and Van-ark Design creates a green, innovative space fostering collaboration...
Calculated Risk
BLS: CPI Increased 0.4% in December; Core CPI increased 0.2%
From the BLS:
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a...
8 hours ago
From the BLS:
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis
in December, after rising 0.3 percent in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the
last 12 months, the all items index...
Astral Codex Ten
How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates
...
8 hours ago
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 1. Guantanamo City
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
8 hours ago
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
Wrong Side of...
The Terrible Loneliness of Genius
The Canon Club: Vincent van Gogh
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The Canon Club: Vincent van Gogh
Trying to Understand...
When Ukraine Is Over ...
How will they turn out the lights?
8 hours ago
How will they turn out the lights?
Infinite Scroll
Stop Coping About TikTok
It's proving that it deserves the ban
9 hours ago
It's proving that it deserves the ban
Retail Design Blog
Club 21 flagship store by Studio Krubka
Once merely a popular holiday destination, and one offering a tad more fun than leading Southeast...
9 hours ago
Once merely a popular holiday destination, and one offering a tad more fun than leading Southeast Asian hubs Hong Kong...
TheCollector
Rigoberta Menchú: Fighting for Indigenous Rights in Guatemala
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Increased in Weekly Survey
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications...
9 hours ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications increased 33.3 percent from one
week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage
Applications Survey for the week ending January 10, 2025....
Retail Design Blog
Bun Pastry & Beverages by Architect Nonsense
Bun Pastry & Beverages is a small café located in Thaimuang District, Phang Nga Province, Thailand....
10 hours ago
Bun Pastry & Beverages is a small café located in Thaimuang District, Phang Nga Province, Thailand. The project stems from...
Rest of World -...
Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well
Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.
10 hours ago
Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.
TheCollector
What Practices Did the Puritans Enjoy?
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11 hours ago
Open Culture
Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in...
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been...
11 hours ago
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been more widely known. “With his distinctive hair, gentle voice, and signature expressions such as ‘happy little trees,’ he’s an enduring icon,” writes Michael J. Mooney in an...
Seth's Blog
Good advice
The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than...
11 hours ago
The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than you, your problems could be solved. Generally, the advice isn’t really the hard part. There’s endless good advice just a click away. The art is in creating the conditions for...
History Today Feed
Who Was the Real Henry III?
Who Was the Real Henry III?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
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Who Was the Real Henry III?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Will Writing
It's not as hard as you think
12 hours ago
It's not as hard as you think
Open Culture
Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?
We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a...
12 hours ago
We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a number anchored in science. Rather, it’s a product of marketing. According to a Harvard medical website, that figure goes back to “1965, when a Japanese company made a device named...
diamond geezer
Great British Rail Sale
I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to buy tickets in the Great British Rail Sale. This is one of...
12 hours ago
I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to buy tickets in the Great British Rail Sale. This is one of those rare bonanzas when rail companies significantly reduce the price of some of their advance tickets, usually in the winter months when fewer people are travelling. Often only...
diamond geezer
Midwinter Day
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
Midwinter Day.
Midwinter is today.
And midwinter is also...
14 hours ago
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
Midwinter Day.
Midwinter is today.
And midwinter is also 4th February.
astronomical definition of winter is the period between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Winter is 89 days long so we're looking for the 45th day after the...
TheCollector
10 Major Players of the Haitian Revolution
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15 hours ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Art Is Wild As a Cat'
Nige tells me he attended
a reading at Cambridge given by Stevie Smith not long before her death in...
15 hours ago
Nige tells me he attended
a reading at Cambridge given by Stevie Smith not long before her death in 1971.
“I remember [her],” he writes, “more for her extraordinary presence and her
eccentric, but very effective way of reading her work. . . . [A]t the time I
was a young...
The American Scholar
Casa Gorín
The post Casa Gorín appeared first on The American Scholar.
16 hours ago
The post Casa Gorín appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
Persuasion is Plural
Earn attention before you use it.
Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first,...
16 hours ago
Earn attention before you use it.
Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first, persuading someone to pay attention, and second, persuading them that your thing is worth their time, money, or effort.
Most marketers and designers focus their energy on the second...
./techtipsy
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device...
17 hours ago
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on.
The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it.
All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a...
The Honest Broker
A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship
Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
19 hours ago
Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
Mazdak
Big Tech Layoffs, Musk Acquiring TikTok, ChatGPT's New Features, ...
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
20 hours ago
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
Classical Wisdom
[Last Chance] The Essential Greeks
Starting TOMORROW - January 15th, 2025
20 hours ago
Starting TOMORROW - January 15th, 2025
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: CPI, NY Fed Mfg, Beige Book
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage...
20 hours ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage purchase applications index.
Consumer Price Index for December from the BLS. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be...
James Vaughan's blog
A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
21 hours ago
Rest of World -...
U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users
Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
23 hours ago
Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
TheCollector
The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857: Causes, Events, & Legacy
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yesterday
99% Invisible
Ancient DMs
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across...
yesterday
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across an epic poem or a historical chronicle, but very often the hardest documents to find are the ones that tell historians something about everyday life. About what it was like to be a...
Calculated Risk
Two Bank Failures in 2024
There were four bank failures in 2024. The median number of failures since the FDIC was established...
yesterday
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?
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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:...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
At least she holds back how the heat death is pointless and without meaning!
Today's News:
TheCollector
The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
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yesterday
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...
yesterday
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
yesterday
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;...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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!
yesterday
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
TheCollector
Popular Gladiator Weapons: Tools of the Arena
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yesterday
Retail Design Blog
Paulista Store by Contract Workplaces
Paulista is an exclusive Brazilian-origin multi-brand women’s clothing store. The brand has...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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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yesterday
Unfiltered by Tim...
Normalize Being Difficult to Get a Hold Of
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
“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
yesterday
‘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...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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.
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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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yesterday
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,...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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....
yesterday
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
...
yesterday
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: PPI
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher to Start New Week
The...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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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2 days ago
Marcus on AI
AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence”
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
2 days ago
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
TheCollector
Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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2 days ago
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...
2 days ago
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...
2 days ago
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...
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
Combat the Word of the Year
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Star
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
At zero stars, you just get flooded.
Today's News:
2 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
At zero stars, you just get flooded.
Today's News:
GeoCurrents
Mapping China’s Debated Fertility Figures
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the...
2 days ago
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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2 days ago
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...
2 days ago
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...
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The post Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way....
The Diff
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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...
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A brief excerpt:
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Retail Design Blog
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Common Edge
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NeuroLogica Blog
Should the US Ban TikTok?
My recent article on social media has fostered good social media engagement, so I thought I would...
2 days ago
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...
2 days ago
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?
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Blog - Bitfield...
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Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time....
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it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the
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Construction Physics
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Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely...
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TheCollector
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latest projects -...
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History Today Feed
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Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic...
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wingolog
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I just found a funny failure mode in the
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thought readers might be...
2 days ago
I just found a funny failure mode in the
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Say you have a semi-space nursery and a semi-space old generation. Both
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Noahpinion
Should economists read Marx?
Yes, but not for the reasons Marxists think.
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Open Culture
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You may have seen a lot of these posters around the tube network recently.
Signalling improvements...
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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.
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TheCollector
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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...
2 days ago
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
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Christopher Butler
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2 days ago
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And to do custom handling of it.
So I need something that receives those MIDI events and handles them.
But... I'm going...
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Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1
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Applied Cartography
Truncating timedeltas in Django
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2 days ago
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance.
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class Event(models.Model):
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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...
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Weekend:
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The Honest Broker
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism
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Are Supernatural Beliefs Real?
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Internal Tech Emails
"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure"
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3 days ago
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African History...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly...
3 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
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
3 days ago
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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...
3 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.
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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...
3 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...
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Weekend Roundup
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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...
3 days ago
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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
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Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
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Anarchy Unfolds
We Don't Need Conspiracies
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Birchtree
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“That will never work”
Every successful SNL sketch, every bestselling book, every landslide-winning candidate… every single...
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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...
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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
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3 days ago
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diamond geezer
Onslow Square/Osborne Square
45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one...
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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...
3 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
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Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to...
3 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
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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
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The problem with college students these days is...
4 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
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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...
4 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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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Moody's:...
4 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
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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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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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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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Footways Clerkenwell
The fine folk at Footways, the walk-friendly social enterprise, have just produced another of their...
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Birchtree
This remote has me questioning everything
I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the...
4 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...
4 days ago
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...
4 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...
4 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)
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4 days ago
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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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 days ago
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,...
4 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...
4 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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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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
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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.
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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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
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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...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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.
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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.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Management
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I feel like if prayers came with a token fee people...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
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
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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...
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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,...
5 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...
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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...
5 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...
5 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...
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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...
5 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?
5 days ago
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,...
5 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...
5 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.
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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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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....
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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
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Hovertext:
There, another philosophical conundrum solved in 4...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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
6 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
6 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...
6 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,...
6 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...
6 days ago
Plus! General-Purpose Technologies; Growth and Concentration; Cross-Platform; The Amazon Model; More Round-Trips
Flashbak
Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire
Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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
...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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
6 days ago
The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
TheCollector
What Is Second Timothy About?
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6 days ago
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,...
6 days ago
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...
6 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...
6 days ago
“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....
6 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
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