Odds and Ends of...
LISTEN: The future of transport – with Michael Dnes
Where we're going, we need roads (and trains) (and maybe drones)
an hour ago
Where we're going, we need roads (and trains) (and maybe drones)
Marcus on AI
Hot take on an AI catfight
Yesterday OpenAI announced a huge infrastructure project, partly framed as pushing the U.S.
2 hours ago
Yesterday OpenAI announced a huge infrastructure project, partly framed as pushing the U.S.
Archinect - Features
Five Ways Architects Charge Fees, and Five Tips to Consider
In the architectural profession, some argue, financial management often takes a backseat to creative...
2 hours ago
In the architectural profession, some argue, financial management often takes a backseat to creative pursuits, leaving firms vulnerable to cash flow challenges and unsustainable business practices. Concerns about profitability, rising costs, and the perceived value of the...
Essays - Benedict...
Are better models better?
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot
of questions don’t have...
2 hours ago
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot
of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these
models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how do we manage these
things, and should we change what we expect from...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag
Sorry for the delay. - JP
2 hours ago
Sorry for the delay. - JP
Computer Things
The Juggler's Curse
I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1...
3 hours ago
I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1 I've gotten to the point where I can almost consistently do a five-ball cascade, which I thought was the cutoff to being a "good juggler". "Thought" because I now know a "good...
Castles in the Sky
You need to be wholesome-maxxing.
You need to be wholesome-maxxing:
4 hours ago
You need to be wholesome-maxxing:
Calculated Risk
NMHC on Apartments: "Looser market conditions for the tenth consecutive quarter"
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NMHC on Apartments: "Looser market conditions...
5 hours ago
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NMHC on Apartments: "Looser market conditions for the tenth consecutive quarter"
From the NMHC: Apartment Market Experiences Loosening Conditions, Decreased Deal Flow and Less Available Financing to Start the New Year
Apartment...
Contemporist...
19-Foot-High Wooden Bookshelves And A DJ Booth For A New Streetwear Store
Design studio El Departamento, has shared photos of 'Nude Library', Nude Project's new flagship...
5 hours ago
Design studio El Departamento, has shared photos of 'Nude Library', Nude Project's new flagship store at La Roca Village in Barcelona, Spain.
Calculated Risk
AIA: Architecture Billings "End the year on a weak note"
Note: This index is a leading indicator primarily for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE)...
5 hours ago
Note: This index is a leading indicator primarily for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investment.
ABI December 2024: Business conditions end the year on a weak note
The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score fell to 44.1 for the month as the share of firms reporting...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Propaganda
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
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6 hours ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
For the record, this was written ages ago please please don't go crazy in the comments.
Today's News:
TheCollector
The Black War: How Tasmania Was Born From the Ashes of the Black Line
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6 hours ago
Artificial Ignorance
R1 is reasoning for the masses
Why everyone's focused on DeepSeek's new R1 model - and what it means for AI geopolitics.
6 hours ago
Why everyone's focused on DeepSeek's new R1 model - and what it means for AI geopolitics.
Map of the Week
Latitude Twins
This map, on Reddit shows major North American cities replaced by European or Middle Eastern ones...
7 hours ago
This map, on Reddit shows major North American cities replaced by European or Middle Eastern ones with the same approximate latitude.
It illustrates the interesting climate fact that because of the Gulf Stream, Europe is much warmer further north. Thus Chicago is equivalent to...
Retail Design Blog
Hempure by Jose Manuel Vega
Hempure is one of those projects that, unfortunately, didn’t come to fruition, but that deserves to...
8 hours ago
Hempure is one of those projects that, unfortunately, didn’t come to fruition, but that deserves to be seen and appreciated....
Common Edge
L.A.’s Cultural Crescent and the Land That Draws People to It
The City of Angels is that rare metropolis where landscape shapes ways of being.
8 hours ago
The City of Angels is that rare metropolis where landscape shapes ways of being.
Wrong Side of...
Wandsworth Prison Blues
It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
8 hours ago
It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
Trying to Understand...
The Sword Is Mightier...
...than the pen. In Ukraine anyway.
9 hours ago
...than the pen. In Ukraine anyway.
Retail Design Blog
Private Equity Firm Offices by LP & Co Design
LP & Co Design transformed an 11,000 square-foot space in Washington DC, featuring various work...
9 hours ago
LP & Co Design transformed an 11,000 square-foot space in Washington DC, featuring various work areas, a café, and collaboration...
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Acts About in the Bible?
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10 hours ago
Retail Design Blog
The Manner hotel by Hannes Peer Architecture
Oozing a bold cinematographic chic – think Austin Powers, but infused with sophisticated European...
10 hours ago
Oozing a bold cinematographic chic – think Austin Powers, but infused with sophisticated European flair – The Manner has made...
Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Increased in Weekly Survey
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications...
10 hours ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications increased 0.1 percent from one
week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage
Applications Survey for the week ending January 17,...
Retail Design Blog
Curvy Dining by Unknown Surface Studio
A Blooming Flower in Bangkok’s Industrial Landscape. Curvy Dining, designed by Unknown Surface...
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A Blooming Flower in Bangkok’s Industrial Landscape. Curvy Dining, designed by Unknown Surface Studio, is a delicate white dining café...
TheCollector
The Paris Peace Conference: Who Were the Big Four?
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12 hours ago
Seth's Blog
Trusting AI
For generations, humans have been entrusting their lives to computers. Air Traffic Control,...
12 hours ago
For generations, humans have been entrusting their lives to computers. Air Traffic Control, statistical analysis of bridge resilience, bar codes for drug delivery, even the way stop lights are controlled. But computers aren’t the same as the LLMs that run on them. Claude.ai is my...
Open Culture
Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home
Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one...
12 hours ago
Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one does become highly attuned to its many subtleties. (Granted, some of the local phenomena involved, like the notorious Santa Ana winds, can produce far-from-subtle effects.) The late...
Atoms vs Bits
How To Make Decisions Under Stress
(To be clear: I don't know how to make good decisions under stress)
12 hours ago
(To be clear: I don't know how to make good decisions under stress)
History Today Feed
‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review
‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:21
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‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:21
History Today Feed
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:03
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Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:03
Open Culture
Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922
We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic...
13 hours ago
We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic principles that have guided so much modern design and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The school’s relationships with artists like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo...
The Ruffian
How To Love Classical Music
And Why You Should
14 hours ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Exhibitions in the US This Year (2025)
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14 hours ago
Paul Cudenec
The US admiral in the globalist axis of evil
James Stavridis, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation’s board of trustees, projects a wholesome...
14 hours ago
James Stavridis, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation’s board of trustees, projects a wholesome and all-American image for the organisation, with his impressive list of military decorations.
diamond geezer
London's most central sheep
It's time to tackle one of London's great unanswered questions.
Where is London's most central...
15 hours ago
It's time to tackle one of London's great unanswered questions.
Where is London's most central sheep?
I don't believe Charles III keeps sheep at Buckingham Palace, nor has anybody else nearby got a large enough back garden. London Zoo's website does not reveal the existence of...
TheCollector
The Harpies: Beasts of Vengeance in Greek Mythology
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16 hours ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Lawn As White As Driven Snow'
Houston’s terrain is geometrically
flat, which is why most houses have no basements. From the warmth...
16 hours ago
Houston’s terrain is geometrically
flat, which is why most houses have no basements. From the warmth of my living room
I watched a neighborhood kid try to defy gravity, seated on a plastic sled in
the middle of the ice-covered street, holding the reins and achieving...
The American Scholar
Cudillero
The post Cudillero appeared first on The American Scholar.
17 hours ago
The post Cudillero appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
Who is the internet for?
SEO, Clickless Search, and the AInternet
Imagine designing and building a home while its...
17 hours ago
SEO, Clickless Search, and the AInternet
Imagine designing and building a home while its residents continued living in it. What you create is highly customized to them because you observe them living in real time and make what they need. One day, while you’re still working,...
Moneyness
Canadian guilt, Russian oil
We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last...
18 hours ago
We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last week about "banned Russian oil" sneaking into Canada, it was read in despair by most of us. What an awful failure of Canadian sanctions policy.
As with a lot of sanctions...
Wuthering...
Finishing The Story of the Stone - What a blessing this is, to return to the scene of my childhood...
How I wish all long novels were published in sensible
multi-volume editions. I have finished...
19 hours ago
How I wish all long novels were published in sensible
multi-volume editions. I have finished The
Story of the Stone, 2,500 pages in five volumes, the last two translated by
John Minford. Cao Xueqin and his posthumous
editor Gao E again share credit for authorship.
Chapters...
Mazdak
Meta's Oakley Smart Glasses, TikTok's Revenue Nearly Doubled YouTube's Last Year, Hidden Hashtags on...
“What if Elon Musk or Larry Ellison bought TikTok?”
21 hours ago
“What if Elon Musk or Larry Ellison bought TikTok?”
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: Architecture Billings Index
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Unimpacted by New Executive Orders
Bonds...
21 hours ago
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Unimpacted by New Executive Orders
Bonds were thus able to hold onto the gains from last week with some additional improvement today. The average mortgage lender wasn't eager to adjust rates, however, with the top tier...
Notes on software...
Embedding Python in Rust (for tests)
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
22 hours ago
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
Strange Loop Canon
What would a world with AGI look like?
22 hours ago
99% Invisible
Sanctuary
In July 1980, a group of Salvadoran migrants crossed the border between Mexico and Arizona. They...
yesterday
In July 1980, a group of Salvadoran migrants crossed the border between Mexico and Arizona. They walked over a remote mountain range and halfway across a wide desert valley in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. There were more than two dozen of them—people who had left...
wingolog
here we go again
Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human
wrongs.
I am in my...
yesterday
Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human
wrongs.
I am in my mid-fourties, and so I have seen some garbage governments in
my time; one of the worst was Trump’s election in 2016. My heart ached in
so many ways, but most of all for immigrants in the US....
TheCollector
The Louvre Opens Its First-Ever Cimabue Exhibition
undefined
yesterday
David Heinemeier...
Waiting on red
Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little...
yesterday
Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little red man to turn green before crossing an empty intersection, in the rain, even at night. Nobody is coming! Why don't you just cross?! It seems silly, but the underlying philosophy is...
TheCollector
Andrew of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy
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yesterday
The Honest Broker
Google Is Now the East India Company of the Internet
Long ago, another company tried to control global connectivity—it had an unhappy ending
yesterday
Long ago, another company tried to control global connectivity—it had an unhappy ending
Calculated Risk
MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.47% in December
From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases Slightly to 0.47% in December
The...
yesterday
From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases Slightly to 0.47% in December
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 3 basis points from 0.50% of servicers’...
The Marginalian
Change, Presence, and the Imperative of Self-Renewal: Existential Lessons from Islands
“No man is an island,” John Donne wrote in his timeless ode to our shared human experience. And yet...
yesterday
“No man is an island,” John Donne wrote in his timeless ode to our shared human experience. And yet each of us is a chance event islanded in time; in each of us there is an island of solitude so private and remote that it renders even love — this best means we have of reaching...
Calculated Risk
Benchmarking the U.S. economy
Presidents receive too much credit and blame for the economy!
Benchmarking the U.S. economy that...
yesterday
Presidents receive too much credit and blame for the economy!
Benchmarking the U.S. economy that President Donald Trump is set to inherit
• While the U.S. economy still has challenges, especially lingering inflation and poor consumer sentiment, many important economic metrics...
Retail Design Blog
Alap Sardines by Rajib Bhuiyan Raja
Alap Sardines by Rajib Bhuiyan Raja
yesterday
Alap Sardines by Rajib Bhuiyan Raja
The Pragmatic...
Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?
Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in...
yesterday
Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Understand
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Okay SOME of the comics are...
yesterday
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Okay SOME of the comics are autobiographical.
Today's News:
Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
yesterday
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors.
Earlier, I wrote about the
ROM in the Pentium's floating point unit that holds constants such as π.
In this post, I'll look at some interesting circuits associated with this...
TheCollector
10 Crazy South African History Facts
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yesterday
Blog - Practical...
Why are the Dutch So Famous for Waterworks?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is the Veluwemeer...
yesterday
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is the Veluwemeer (velOOwemeer) Aqueduct in Harderwijk (HAR-der-vehk), Netherlands. It solves a pretty simple problem. If you put a bridge for vehicles over a navigable waterway, you often have to make it...
Math Is Still...
Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories
Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as...
yesterday
Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” help us think, imagine and remember episodes from our lives.
The post Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories first...
The Diff
General-Purpose Technologies Revalue Natural Resources
Plus! Meme Coins; Fees; Platforms; Opportunistic Offers; Private Accounting Fraud
yesterday
Plus! Meme Coins; Fees; Platforms; Opportunistic Offers; Private Accounting Fraud
Both Are True
Thank you, and remember, the universe is in your basement
a few words on David Lynch
yesterday
a few words on David Lynch
Calculated Risk
3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in December
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
yesterday
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in December
A brief excerpt:
The NAR is scheduled to release December Existing Home sales on Friday, January 24th at 10:00 AM. The consensus is for 4.20 million SAAR, up from 4.15 million in...
IEEE Spectrum
A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War
In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and...
yesterday
In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the United States did not have a global ocean-surveillance capability. Adding to the...
Hidden History
The 1968 Utah Sheep Kill
In 1968, a malfunctioning nerve gas test at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah killed several...
yesterday
In 1968, a malfunctioning nerve gas test at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah killed several thousand sheep and provoked an outcry. In March 1968, researchers at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah were scheduled to perform three experiments involving a lethal nerve gas known as...
Arduino Blog
MicroPython programming on Arduino just got easier
If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this...
yesterday
If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this Python-based language can be for microcontroller programming. Whether you’re a pro or just starting out, MicroPython opens up a new world of quick prototyping and clean, readable...
Common Edge
Space to Dream: Reflections and Projections from a New Generation of Designers
A Common Edge–led workshop engages architecture students to consider where they want to take the...
yesterday
A Common Edge–led workshop engages architecture students to consider where they want to take the profession.
Retail Design Blog
Virgin Media O2 Headquarters by Gensler
As the first major office investment since its merger in 2021, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) needed a...
yesterday
As the first major office investment since its merger in 2021, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) needed a sustainable, inclusive, and...
TheCollector
Olaf Tryggvason: The Christian Viking’s Life & Death
undefined
yesterday
Odds and Ends of...
Britain should ban TikTok
My uncharacteristically illiberal opinion
yesterday
My uncharacteristically illiberal opinion
Retail Design Blog
Marisfrolg Showroom by Zaha Hadid Architects
Located at the heart of Marisfrolg Fashion Group’s Shenzhen campus, the 2,900 sq. m Marisfrolg...
yesterday
Located at the heart of Marisfrolg Fashion Group’s Shenzhen campus, the 2,900 sq. m Marisfrolg Showroom interiors by Zaha Hadid...
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It
Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species...
yesterday
Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species and habitats on the ocean floor at different depths. This is primarily done by underwater robots that use optical imaging to collect high quality data that can be fed into...
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: New Lakes
Creating new lakes is a unique way to make amazing new cities. Where can we do that?
yesterday
Creating new lakes is a unique way to make amazing new cities. Where can we do that?
Retail Design Blog
Self Maker Showroom by BLURKER
SELF MAKER, located in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, is a brand that customizes curtains and blinds...
yesterday
SELF MAKER, located in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, is a brand that customizes curtains and blinds by providing professional and sensuous...
Rest of World -...
The global struggle over how to regulate AI
Big AI companies have come out hard against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West — but are...
yesterday
Big AI companies have come out hard against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West — but are receiving a warm welcome from leaders in many other countries.
Marcus on AI
The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded
See here.
yesterday
TheCollector
Rise of ‘Jamesian’ Ghost Stories: Who Was M.R. James?
undefined
yesterday
Unfiltered by Tim...
I'm 38. If You're in Your 20's or 30's, Read This.
1. When you turn 35 you'll see the difference between those who took risks and those who didn't.
yesterday
1. When you turn 35 you'll see the difference between those who took risks and those who didn't.
Open Culture
The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin...
For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the...
yesterday
For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the Friday that it opens. It’s how the film is thought of thirty years from now.” It just so happens that Pulp Fiction, which made Tarantino the most celebrated director in America...
Flashbak
Momoyogusa (A World of Things) by Kamisaka Sekka (1909-1910)
Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese 1866 – 1942) produced his woodblock print masterpiece Momoyogusa (A World...
yesterday
Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese 1866 – 1942) produced his woodblock print masterpiece Momoyogusa (A World of Things) between 1909 and 1910. The three-volume set of 60 images, commissioned by the publishing firm Unsōdō of Kyoto, borrows its name from the eighth-century poetic text...
History Today Feed
Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls
Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:54
yesterday
Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:54
History Today Feed
War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America
War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:53
yesterday
War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:53
Seth's Blog
Kinds of incompetence
The second worst is the unaware sort. The work doesn’t meet spec, and we don’t even realize it. The...
yesterday
The second worst is the unaware sort. The work doesn’t meet spec, and we don’t even realize it. The worst is uncaring. We know the work doesn’t meet spec, but we don’t bother to fix it. But there are other varieties, and some are worth seeking out: There’s the incompetence of...
alexwlchan
Looking at images in a spreadsheet
I’ve had a couple of projects recently where I needed to work with a list that involved images.
For...
yesterday
I’ve had a couple of projects recently where I needed to work with a list that involved images.
For example, choosing a series of photos to print, or making an inventory of Lego parts.
I could write a simple text list, but it’s really helpful to be able to see the images as part...
Open Culture
Download a 417-Megapixel Panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy—A Decade-Long NASA Project in the Making
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a majestic 417-megapixel panorama of the...
yesterday
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a majestic 417-megapixel panorama of the Andromeda galaxy, located some 2.5 million light-years away from our planet. Taking more than a decade to complete, the photomosaic captures 200 million stars, which is only a...
Noahpinion
Your memecoin is your slush fund
Crypto is, in fact, about sending people money.
yesterday
Crypto is, in fact, about sending people money.
diamond geezer
Route 347 withdrawn
I'd like to gripe at length about something ridiculously overcomplicated and unncessary that nobody...
yesterday
I'd like to gripe at length about something ridiculously overcomplicated and unncessary that nobody who might need it will ever notice.
Route 347 withdrawn from Saturday 18 January 2025
The 347 was London's least frequent bus, you may remember, operating just four services a...
Matt Mullenweg
What’s in My Bag, 2025
It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit...
yesterday
It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit about tech and a little bit about life. Here’s what made the cut, now I’m going to be factoring in weight of everything as well. The flat-lay this year was taken at my sister...
TheCollector
Where Did King Arthur Fight His Legendary Battles?
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yesterday
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Task of Doing Nothing Much at All'
I’ve always thought of
goofing off as one of the American fine arts, up there with western movies...
yesterday
I’ve always thought of
goofing off as one of the American fine arts, up there with western movies and
jazz. In high school, I worked summers and weekends in an aluminum casting
plant owned by a friend of my father. The work was hot and dirty, and we
sometimes worked twelve-hour...
The American Scholar
“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska appeared...
yesterday
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
The Value of Friction
What technology’s drive for seamlessness gets wrong.
I’ve been thinking lately about...
yesterday
What technology’s drive for seamlessness gets wrong.
I’ve been thinking lately about friction — not the physical force, but the small resistances we encounter in daily life. The tech industry has made eliminating friction its north star, pursuing ever more seamless...
./techtipsy
Why my blog was down for over 24 hours in November 2024
In November 2024, my blog was down for over 24 hours.
Here’s what I learned from this absolute...
yesterday
In November 2024, my blog was down for over 24 hours.
Here’s what I learned from this absolute clusterfuck of an incident.
Lead-up to the incident
I was browsing through photos on my Nextcloud instance. Everything was fine, until Nextcloud
started generating preview images for...
Mazdak
TikTok, Netflix, and the Future of Media: Key Insights from 2024's Biggest Winners
In 2024, the global media landscape experienced monumental shifts, with platforms like TikTok and...
yesterday
In 2024, the global media landscape experienced monumental shifts, with platforms like TikTok and Netflix setting unprecedented benchmarks in user engagement, ad revenue, and growth.
CONTEMPORIST
A New Restaurant Design Inspired By The Food It Sells – The Waffle
Multidisciplinary design studio Masquespacio has shared photos of their latest project, Novu Waffle,...
yesterday
Multidisciplinary design studio Masquespacio has shared photos of their latest project, Novu Waffle, an innovative gastronomic space in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With a focus on fun and immersion, Masquespacio has created a dynamic and cheerful environment where the waffle is the...
mtlynch.io
How to Resolve Local Hostnames in OPNSense
My router runs OPNSense Business. I like having an open-source router, but I have a few gripes with...
yesterday
My router runs OPNSense Business. I like having an open-source router, but I have a few gripes with it.
My biggest issue is that, by default, OPNsense can’t resolve hostnames on my local network.
Why can’t OPNsense resolve local hostnames?
For every other router I’ve owned in my...
Mind Mine
just show up
stop postponing the act
2 days ago
Mazdak
OpenAI’s Operator Tool: A Glimpse into the Future of Autonomous AI Agents
Imagine an AI tool that doesn’t just assist but takes over tasks like writing code, booking travel,...
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Calculated Risk
Monday Night Futures
Tuesday:
Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are up 32 and DOW futures are up 225 (fair...
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Tuesday:
Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are up 32 and DOW futures are up 225 (fair value).
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DD
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His pall Quantum Quail insists that even if history...
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What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
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Motion-controlled Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots will make you feel like Jackman in Real Steel
2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of...
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2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of time, but the concept was pretty neat. There is something exciting about the idea of fighting through motion-controlled humanoid robots. That is completely possible today — it would...
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Pollution & Deforestation in the Medieval World
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Overcoming Bias
Gender Norms Are Complex, Opaque
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Calculated Risk
1.73 million Total Housing Completions in 2024 including Manufactured Homes; Most Since 2006
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1.73 million Total Housing Completions in 2024...
2 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1.73 million Total Housing Completions in 2024 including Manufactured Homes; Most Since 2006
A brief excerpt:
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Relationship Advice for AI
You know what’s really helpful in solving my own problems? Writing them down, sending them to...
2 days ago
You know what’s really helpful in solving my own problems? Writing them down, sending them to someone, and not hearing back.
You ever do that? For me, it’s a bulletproof method to solving problems.
It’s akin to those moments when you go to someone with a problem, you talk it...
David Heinemeier...
MEGA
Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about...
2 days ago
Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about the prospect. Especially the young. In a poll by CBS News, it's the 18-29 demographic that's most excited, with a whopping two-thirds answering in the affirmative to being...
Calculated Risk
AAR: Rail Carloads Down YoY in 2024, Intermodal Up
From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators. Graphs and excerpts...
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From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators. Graphs and excerpts reprinted with permission.
For the full year 2024, total U.S. carloads were 11.34 million, down 2.9% (343,156 carloads) from 2023 and down 2.3% (265,491 carloads) from 2022. ... Carloads...
TheCollector
What Are the Ethical Values of Gen Z?
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Classical Wisdom
Martin Luther King and LOVE
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Fatih Arslan
Four years at PlanetScale
It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and...
2 days ago
It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and accomplishments during this period.
NeuroLogica Blog
The Hubble Tension Hubbub
There really is a significant mystery in the world of cosmology. This, in my opinion, is a good...
2 days ago
There really is a significant mystery in the world of cosmology. This, in my opinion, is a good thing. Such mysteries point in the direction of new physics, or at least a new understanding of the universe. Resolving this mystery – called the Hubble Tension – is a major goal of...
Citation Needed
No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin
Journalists’ flawed math and ignorance of crypto markets turn tokens into fake fortunes
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Journalists’ flawed math and ignorance of crypto markets turn tokens into fake fortunes
Scarlet Ink
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Anyone can be valuable if they have the right motivation, but strangely enough, being disagreeable...
2 days ago
Anyone can be valuable if they have the right motivation, but strangely enough, being disagreeable multiplies that value.
Retail Design Blog
Verse Wine by OA Design
Wine can be thought of as a complex tapestry of flavors and sensations, ranging from sweet to dry,...
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Wine can be thought of as a complex tapestry of flavors and sensations, ranging from sweet to dry, crisp to...
Common Edge
Letter From Malibu: Do We Stay or Do We Go?
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The recent conflagration threatens to permanently alter a rare example of California livability.
Calculated Risk
Housing Jan 20th Weekly Update: Inventory Up 1.2% Week-over-week, Up 24.8% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week.
Inventory always...
2 days ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week.
Inventory always declines seasonally in the Winter and usually bottoms in late January or February. If the previous week was the seasonal bottom, that would be very early in the year, but that has...
Birchtree
🕹️ I strongly recommend: Resident Evil 2 (members post)
Oh buddy, what a game!
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Retail Design Blog
One Zero Offices by Switchup
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Marcus on AI
Breaking news: AGI is not imminent!
Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
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Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
TheCollector
The Crazy Cult of Indian Guru Osho Bhagwan & His Mixed Legacy
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UX Collective
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Retail Design Blog
Yohji Yamamoto store by OSO
Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has...
2 days ago
Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has inaugurated a new boutique in another...
History Today Feed
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
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Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
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TheCollector
What Was the Massachusetts 54th Regiment?
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Seth's Blog
Lulled
Selfish is easy. Short term is easy. Complacent is easy. Turning our head and ignoring the problem...
2 days ago
Selfish is easy. Short term is easy. Complacent is easy. Turning our head and ignoring the problem is easy. Going along to get along is easy. But easy isn’t the point. Better is. Challenging the status quo is difficult, and worth it. Happy Birthday.
Open Culture
Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late...
2 days ago
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late David Lynch’s, from 1984 — though even according to many of Lynch’s fans, it could hardly have been worse. In a 1996 piece for Premiere magazine, David Foster Wallace described...
Retail Design Blog
Lucky Cookies Bakery by Studio NOR
The Lucky Cookies is a bakery specializes in traditional Chinese pastries. Located on the first...
2 days ago
The Lucky Cookies is a bakery specializes in traditional Chinese pastries. Located on the first floor of the famous Beijing...
Open Culture
Fred Armisen & Bill Hader’s Comedic Take on the History of Simon and Garfunkel
During their days filming Documentary Now!, a mockumentary series that aired on IFC, Fred Armisen...
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During their days filming Documentary Now!, a mockumentary series that aired on IFC, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader teamed up and created a fictionalized “history” of Simon and Garfunkel, telling the “real” story behind the making of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Mrs....
Paul Cudenec
Zionism versus the world
As I have said before, Israel’s current long-planned genocidal landgrab – and the complicity of...
2 days ago
As I have said before, Israel’s current long-planned genocidal landgrab – and the complicity of world puppet “leaders” – has fatally exposed the nature of the single global mafia.
Wrong Side of...
The Worst Year Ever
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Odds and Ends #53: Now TfL is betting on AI cameras to improve safety
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diamond geezer
Trumpers
As the 47th US President is inaugurated, join me for a walk down Trumpers Way over Trumpers Crossing...
2 days ago
As the 47th US President is inaugurated, join me for a walk down Trumpers Way over Trumpers Crossing via Trumpers Field to Trumpers Halt.
South Hanwell about halfway between Hanwell and Boston Manor stations. Trumpers Way begins on Boston Road amid a cluster of low level shops,...
TheCollector
Song Hunter: The Life of Alan Lomax
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Influential Works That Are Almost Never Read'
John Ruskin would have a
difficult time of it in what passes for literary culture today. First, he...
2 days ago
John Ruskin would have a
difficult time of it in what passes for literary culture today. First, he was
phenomenally prolific, even by Victorian standards, and how many people would
read all five volumes of Modern Painters or the idea-rich sprawl of Fors Clavigera?
Second, Ruskin...
Christopher Butler
The Unpublishable
On self-censorship in a connected world.
On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”....
2 days ago
On self-censorship in a connected world.
On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”. Its content is right there on the label: Fragments of unworthy ideas have accumulated there for years, along with bits of things I’ve held back for other reasons — fear not least...
Quantum Frontiers
Ten lessons I learned from John Preskill
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes...
2 days ago
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes to make fun of John Preskill in public. CQIQC was hosting its biannual conference, also called CQIQC, in Toronto. The conference features the awarding of … Continue reading →
David Heinemeier...
Failed integration and the fall of multiculturalism
For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a...
2 days ago
For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a self-loathing blame game of "failed integration". That somehow, if the Danes had just tried harder, been less prejudice, offered more opportunities, the many foreigners with radically...
Melissa Penfold
THE MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in...
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How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de...
CrimethInc.
Reports from the Festivals of Resistance / Day of the Forest Defender
January 18 is the Day of the Forest Defender, honoring the life of Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán, who...
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January 18 is the Day of the Forest Defender, honoring the life of Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán, who was murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while protesting the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, and everyone else who has given their lives in the fight against those...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess.
I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
2 days ago
I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
Melissa Penfold
THE THINGS YOUR WEDDING GUESTS SECRETLY DESPISE
There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long...
2 days ago
There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long ceremonies. Overly long toasts. Cash bars. A bachelor or bachelorette trip that sends its attendees into credit-card debt. A destination wedding in a remote locale that the couple has...
Calculated Risk
Sunday Night: Markets Closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 19, 2025
US markets will be closed in observance of Martin...
2 days ago
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 19, 2025
US markets will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
WTI futures at $77.88 per barrel and Brent at $80.79 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $74, and Brent was at $81 - so WTI oil prices are up about 5%...
Jonas Hietala
Securing my partner's digital life
I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well.
Yet...
2 days ago
I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well.
Yet she still manages to surprise me.
For instance, a couple of weeks ago she came and asked me about email security:
I worry that my email password is too weak.
Can you help me change...
ntietz.com blog -...
My writing process, and how I keep it sustainable
Recently, a reader wrote to me and asked about my writing process and burnout.
They had an image in...
2 days ago
Recently, a reader wrote to me and asked about my writing process and burnout.
They had an image in their head that I could sit down at a computer and type up a full post on a given topic, but were unsure if that's the right approach when they start blogging.
And they were...
computers are bad
2025-01-20 office of secure transportation
I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times
on the road, and...
2 days ago
I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times
on the road, and these days, even in press photos: GMC trucks with custom
square boxes on the back, painted dark blue, with US Government "E" plates.
These courier escorts, "unmarked" but about as...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Utopia
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If only you had artificially increased inequality,...
3 days ago
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If only you had artificially increased inequality, you wouldn't have technically violated the rules.
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Working Theorys
Digital Tug-of-War
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
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On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
TheCollector
5 Great Books About Aboriginal History You Should Read
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Basta’s Notes
I'm going to run for president
And I want you to be angry, too
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The Honest Broker
In the Music Business, 80 Is the New 20
It's never been better for dead and dying musicians
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It's never been better for dead and dying musicians
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: The Ban Cometh
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TikTok banned, RedNote reversal, TrumpCoin and Gjörfbunkle
Mazdak
OpenAI’s Ph.D.-Level Super Agents
The AI landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and OpenAI is leading the charge.
3 days ago
The AI landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and OpenAI is leading the charge.
TheCollector
Beethoven and War: Soundtrack to the Napoleonic Conflict
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The MUST-READ Classics
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Birchtree
TikTok is gone for at least a couple days, so here's some YouTube videos to stave off the boredom
I don't use TikTok so I have no idea, but presumably some people are like "what do I even watch on...
3 days ago
I don't use TikTok so I have no idea, but presumably some people are like "what do I even watch on my phone now?"
LegalEagle with a good explainer over what's happening. For the record, I think this sucks and isn't how
Weighty Thoughts
My Book's Pre-Sale is Live!
Reserve an early copy and get other goodies
3 days ago
Reserve an early copy and get other goodies
Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 7.7% Year-over-year
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 11 January
The U.S. hotel industry reported negative...
3 days ago
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 11 January
The U.S. hotel industry reported negative year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 11 January. ...
5-11 January 2025 (percentage change from comparable week in 2024):
Occupancy: 49.2%...
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: Reviving Lakes
Some lakes died before they could birth cities. Could we revive the lakes, and give them a 2nd...
3 days ago
Some lakes died before they could birth cities. Could we revive the lakes, and give them a 2nd chance at creating cities?
African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
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For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Titus About?
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Flashbak
People of London’s Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s
Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist...
3 days ago
Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist and photographer Sheila Burnett has not longed moved to the area when she began to take pictures of the people who lived and worked there. In the 1970s, Sheila arrived in London...
TheCollector
What Is Year 1 of History? Comparing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Conventions
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Seth's Blog
Don’t steal the revelation
Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then...
3 days ago
Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then we see that we’re going to be better at it, and we’re not good at it yet. Then we figure it out and we’ve succeeded. Repeat. When we pre-process the information and simply test...
Paolo Amoroso's...
I accepted the Blog Question Challenge
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about...
3 days ago
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog.
I have accepted this fun challenge and...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Romania
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 3
I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3.
Following...
3 days ago
I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3.
Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, this week I read the remainder of the Odyssey. On the audiovisual front, I watched a movie that made me think differently about the poem’s...
diamond geezer
Some things I noticed this weekend
Five things I noticed this weekend
Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar's brutalist housing estate, is on...
3 days ago
Five things I noticed this weekend
Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar's brutalist housing estate, is on its way out. Its west flank was demolished in 2017/2018 and has subsequently been replaced by vernacular flats, and the east flank is now undergoing the same fate. About half has...
diamond geezer
Red/blue overlap
Today we have a Labour government and a Democrat President.
It is also possible that this...
3 days ago
Today we have a Labour government and a Democrat President.
It is also possible that this combination will never happen again.
I wondered how often we'd had a Labour government and a Democrat President.
Jul 1945 - Oct 1951: Attlee & Truman
Oct 1964 - Jan 1969: Wilson &...
TheCollector
Is the Flood Myth Universal? Flood Myths From Around the World
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Anecdotal Evidence
'I Love the Universe Because It’s Made of Stories'
The third issue of New Verse Review has just been published, and I take it all back: poetry is...
3 days ago
The third issue of New Verse Review has just been published, and I take it all back: poetry is not
dead. The journal is crowded with work by good poets familiar – Jane Greer, Jared Carter, Ernest Hilbert, Amit Majmudar, Alfred Nicol – and previously unknown,
like Daniel Patrick...
Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
3 days ago
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ...
Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
Christopher Butler
Windows, Frames, and Other Realities
Through the lens of a child’s camera, decades of interface design, and thousands of years of...
3 days ago
Through the lens of a child’s camera, decades of interface design, and thousands of years of wondering.
My daughter has discovered the joy of photography through a clever little child’s digital camera. She’s particularly fascinated by its ability to overlay different frames...
journal – Winnie Lim
knowing how to be, when ill is also a skill
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty...
3 days ago
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty well, I developed some pain after a few hours had passed. I asked the...
Mazdak
Perplexity AI’s Bold Move to Merge with TikTok
As the United States inches closer to a potential TikTok ban, Perplexity AI has emerged as a...
3 days ago
As the United States inches closer to a potential TikTok ban, Perplexity AI has emerged as a surprising yet intriguing bidder to merge with TikTok US.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies
If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand....
3 days ago
If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand. Lots of people will want you to do things…
On Test Automation
My career and a thought experiment
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
3 days ago
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
A Smart Bear
"Stealth mode" and other f'ing brilliant strategies
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like...
3 days ago
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like competitors. Or customers.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - BOOM
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Guess who's celebrating tonight? You guys probably,...
4 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Guess who's celebrating tonight? You guys probably, because it can't be me because there is no such entity!
Today's News:
Last Place Comics
Weather Man
The post Weather Man appeared first on Last Place Comics.
4 days ago
The post Weather Man appeared first on Last Place Comics.
TheCollector
Astrolabes & Sextants: How Our Ancestors Navigated the High Seas
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Arduino Blog
The Swervebot is an omnidirectional robot that combines LEGO and 3D-printed parts
Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup...
4 days ago
Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup all the way to crawling legs. Alex Le’s project leverages the reliability of LEGO blocks with the customizability of 3D-printed pieces to create a highly mobile omnidirectional...
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Housing Starts Down 3.9% in 2024 compared to 2023
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Housing...
4 days ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
Housing Discussion with Altos Research's Mike Simonsen
Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in December
Part 1: Current...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer.
Computers use multiple types of adder...
4 days ago
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer.
Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed.
In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the Pentium's floating point unit.
This adder turns out to be a...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread
Skyscrapers, AI, Congestion Pricing, The Odyssey, History, Markets, Accounting, Loneliness, Slavery
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
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Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Linnaeus? (Life, Works, & Legacy)
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4 days ago
dthompson
Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke...
4 days ago
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke Safari/WebKit finally shipped it in December.
It provides a hierarchy of heap allocated reference types and a set of
instructions to operate on them. Wasm GC enables managed...
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of January 19, 2025
The key report this week is December Existing Home Sales.
----- Monday, January 20th -----
All US...
4 days ago
The key report this week is December Existing Home Sales.
----- Monday, January 20th -----
All US markets will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr.
----- Tuesday,...
Flashbak
Watch The Alphabet, David Lynch’s horrific 1968 short,
“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more...
4 days ago
“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more they’re going to help each other” – David Lynch David Lynch’s 1968 short The Alphabet was inspired by his first wife Peggy’s niece reciting her ABCs during a nightmare then waking...
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: The Salton Sea
Salton City and Bombay Beach could flourish with industry and tourism
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Salton City and Bombay Beach could flourish with industry and tourism
TheCollector
A Brief History of Aboriginal Australia: The World’s Oldest Culture
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The Ruffian
Notes On the Great Vibe Shift
The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
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The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
TheCollector
Secrets of the Deep: What Is the History of the Mary Celeste?
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4 days ago
Seth's Blog
Memo to the future
The experience of the now is often more vivid than a distant memory. As a result, we can make...
4 days ago
The experience of the now is often more vivid than a distant memory. As a result, we can make decisions in the future without enough regard for how we felt the last time we were in a similar situation. Here’s a simple hack that can inform your decisions… You know someone who...
Cremieux Recueil
Lessons About the Civil Service and Political Appointees
What does history tell us about how the executive branch can run the government?
4 days ago
What does history tell us about how the executive branch can run the government?
Noahpinion
Why I'm long-term bullish on the Middle East
A bold prediction, to say the least.
4 days ago
A bold prediction, to say the least.
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Buildings in the US
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200 things you could do this weekend
200 things you could do this weekend
The Traitors. Mix pot pourri. Draw a graph of sweet colours in...
4 days ago
200 things you could do this weekend
The Traitors. Mix pot pourri. Draw a graph of sweet colours in a tube of Fruit Pastilles. Move your savings to an account with a better rate of interest. Take your old DVDs to a charity shop. Buy new towels. Reread The Phantom Tollbooth....
TheCollector
Cerberus: The Three-Headed Dog of Greek Mythology (Myths & Origins)
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Anecdotal Evidence
'That Gravity Stayed Him Somehow'
In the second volume of his Johnsonian
Miscellanies (Clarendon Press, 1897), George Birkbeck Hill...
4 days ago
In the second volume of his Johnsonian
Miscellanies (Clarendon Press, 1897), George Birkbeck Hill collects anecdotes
from the writer and clergyman Thomas Campbell, including this:
“Talking of suicide, Boswell took up the defence
for argument’s sake, and the Doctor said that some...
Casey Handmer's blog
Moon Escape!
[One from the archives, a previously unpublished short story I wrote c. 2017 on the theme of BASE...
4 days ago
[One from the archives, a previously unpublished short story I wrote c. 2017 on the theme of BASE jumping.] Why anyone thought a prison on the Moon was a good idea was beyond me. Remote, dangerous, inhospitable, to be sure. But certainly not impossible to escape from, as I was...
Christopher Butler
100 Image Moodboard
My aesthetic sensibilities represented in 100 images.
These images are subject to change without...
4 days ago
My aesthetic sensibilities represented in 100 images.
These images are subject to change without warning.
Moneyness
Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams
Source: Better Business Bureau
The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad...
4 days ago
Source: Better Business Bureau
The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example. In November 2024, a charity inadvertently accepted a fake check from a would-be donor.
The charity's bank allowed the charity to deposit...
The Marginalian
Forgiveness
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare,...
4 days ago
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a resolution to write more poetry in the coming year, so we began taking turns each week choosing a line...
Wuthering...
Read and To Read, in 2024 and 2025
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best...
4 days ago
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best books, really, in translations
by Arthur Golding and Charles Martin. My
“best book of the year” answer will never be interesting. America’s librarian Nancy Pearl asked, somewhere
on...
Calculated Risk
January 19th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Decreasing
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm...
4 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
A Game Boy is the worst and best option for a car’s dash
If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and...
4 days ago
If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and indicator lights. But how many of those do you actually look at on a regular basis? Likely only one or two, like the speedometer and gas gauge. Knowing that, John Sutley embraced...
Citation Needed
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of...
4 days ago
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of everyday Americans as they suck up to the powerful billionaires who will soon be publicly calling the shots.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Thinking clearly about software
You can go a long way as a software engineer without ever managing to think clearly. The feedback...
4 days ago
You can go a long way as a software engineer without ever managing to think clearly. The feedback loop of writing and running code is so…
Casey Handmer's blog
Dittemore’s Law
A quick note to formalize some observations on elite organization dysfunction. The Space Mirror...
5 days ago
A quick note to formalize some observations on elite organization dysfunction. The Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center in Florida commemorates the 25 US astronauts who have died in flight. Ron Dittemore is the retired former Space Shuttle program manager who was...
SatPost by Trung...
Garmin's ~$40B Pivot
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
5 days ago
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
Willem's Blog
Master of Change
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
5 days ago
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
Birchtree
Comfort Zone predicts tech in 2025
In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025...
5 days ago
In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025 and oh my, does it get wild! Who's best clued into the tech coming this year? Who is just wish-casting their way to third place? This
Musings on Markets
Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued (for US Equities)
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years,...
5 days ago
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025. That rise was driven by a surge in US equity...
Birchtree
Ghost 6 is coming in 2025 and will include ActivityPub for everyone
The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far
This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a...
5 days ago
The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far
This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a flagship Ghost 6.0 release.
I have nothing else to add other than I’m happy with my choice of blogging back end.
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.1% to 3.0% Range
From BofA:
Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up...
5 days ago
From BofA:
Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up three-tenths to 2.1% q/q saar. [Jan 17th estimate]
emphasis added
From Goldman:
Following this morning’s data, we boosted our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.6%...
TheCollector
The Colosseum’s Inaugural Games: 100 Days of Spectacles
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Birchtree
The Vision Pro makes Touch ID more appealing
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID...
5 days ago
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID Back to iPhone
Because Face ID on iPhone does no good when Vision Pro is strapped to your face—an unfortunate detail I’m reminded of every time I
Mazdak
Whatever Happens to TikTok, Big Tech is Coming for Its Millions of Creators
TikTok, the platform that redefined short-form video and became a cultural phenomenon, is now facing...
5 days ago
TikTok, the platform that redefined short-form video and became a cultural phenomenon, is now facing an uncertain future in the United States.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Slop Society
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the...
5 days ago
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've
Mazdak
ChatGPT’s Newest Feature Lets You Customize Its Personality
OpenAI has announced an exciting update for ChatGPT users: the ability to customize the chatbot’s...
5 days ago
OpenAI has announced an exciting update for ChatGPT users: the ability to customize the chatbot’s personality and interaction style.
Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
5 days ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
Castles in the Sky
How I Make Room for the Year
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
5 days ago
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
5 days ago
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
Blog System/5
Hands-on graphics without X11
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
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Calculated Risk
Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in December
From housing economist Tom Lawler:
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.15 million in December,...
5 days ago
From housing economist Tom Lawler:
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.15 million in December, unchanged from November’s preliminary pace and up 7.0% from last December’s seasonally adjusted pace. Unadjusted sales should show a somewhat higher YOY % gain, reflecting this...
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It?
The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
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The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
Casey Handmer's blog
The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I...
5 days ago
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I was personally affected. Caveats aside, my family and I are safe, we evacuated for several days, and due to heroic efforts by professional firefighters and psychotically brave...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
5 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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Filth
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5 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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According to Green's Dictionary of Slang, the slang verb form of cock is attested in English as early as 1450 and in specifically Scottish sources by 1768. All I can figure is Macdonald was such a 'grandma' to use Tolkien's insult,...
TheCollector
The Real Bjorn Ironside: Ragnar Lodbrok’s Most Famous Son
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Classical Wisdom
The First Greek Philosopher
Beyond Mythology
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The Diff
Meme Markets
Plus! Equity Comp, Squared; Venture Debt; 5%; Crypto Leverage; Closed-End Funds
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Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switches: The Truth About TLB Flushes
Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
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Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows
January 17, 2025.
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Flashbak
The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”...
5 days ago
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh In The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors we look at writers who communicated in long hand, and sometimes wrote their books in the same manner. For...
Retail Design Blog
LAPACA Baturrocks by i g l o o studio
LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s...
5 days ago
LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s Best Chocolatier of...
TheCollector
World Monuments Fund Lists Moon as Endangered Heritage Site
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Calculated Risk
Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million...
5 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
A brief excerpt:
Total housing starts in December were above expectations and starts in October and November were revised up.
Total starts were down 4.4% in...
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Increased 0.9% in December
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production (IP)...
5 days ago
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production (IP) increased 0.9 percent in December after moving up 0.2 percent in November. In December, gains in the output of aircraft and parts contributed 0.2 percentage point to total IP growth...
Retail Design Blog
Delight Showroom
The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional...
5 days ago
The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional work environment with unique...
Society's Backend
Multimodal Biometric Authentication, Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2024, 5 Common Mistakes to...
Society's Backend Reading List 01-17-2025
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Society's Backend Reading List 01-17-2025
Calculated Risk
Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions
Housing Starts:
seasonally adjusted annual...
5 days ago
From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions
Housing Starts:
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,499,000. This is 15.8 percent above the revised November estimate of 1,294,000, but is 4.4 percent below the December 2023 rate of 1,568,000. Single-family housing starts...
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 3. Presidio
The fastest wealth creation in the history of humanity
5 days ago
The fastest wealth creation in the history of humanity
Cheese and Biscuits
etch by Steven Edwards, Hove
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a...
5 days ago
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a seafood-specialist gastropub and microbrewery (I bet there aren't too many of them around) which made the (pretty easy actually) journey down from Battersea more than worth my...
Retail Design Blog
NESS restaurant by OOAA
Along with Argentina‘s gradual but steady economic recovery, the Lomas de Núñez neighbourhood,...
5 days ago
Along with Argentina‘s gradual but steady economic recovery, the Lomas de Núñez neighbourhood, situated in the north of the sprawling...
The Marginalian
How to Make America Great: A Visionary Manifesto from the Woman Who Ran for President in 1872
In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June...
5 days ago
In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June 9, 1927) ran for President, with Frederick Douglass as her running mate. Papers declared her candidacy “a brazen imposture, to be extinguished by laughter rather than by law.”...
TheCollector
10 Ancient Greek Sculptures You Must Know
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IEEE Spectrum
How Antivirus Software Has Changed With the Internet
We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the...
5 days ago
We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the Internet itself: The first version of what would become McAfee antivirus came out in 1987—just four years after the Internet booted up. For many of us, antivirus software is an...
Retail Design Blog
Peckish Bakery by guudpin design
Blending Neighborhood Culture and Urban Scenery: A Fusion of Old and New Culinary Experiences –...
5 days ago
Blending Neighborhood Culture and Urban Scenery: A Fusion of Old and New Culinary Experiences – Peckish, the new bakery and...
Wrong Side of...
Britain is institutionally 'anti-racist'
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
5 days ago
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
alexwlchan
randline: get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of...
5 days ago
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of lines in a file:
$ randline < /usr/share/dict/words
ultraluxurious
$ randline 3 < /usr/share/dict/words
unexceptionably
baselessness
salinity
There are lots of tools that solve...
lcamtuf’s thing
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and...
5 days ago
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
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Seth's Blog
Embracing externalities
Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our...
5 days ago
Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our passions and our dreams. And organizations in search of efficiency, shortcuts or profits often argue for freedom as well. The freedom to organize their production and to go to market...
Maps Mania
Roads, Railways, Runways & Rivers
5 days ago
TheCollector
Discover This Historic Massachusetts Town Just Beyond Boston’s Reach
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diamond geezer
Capitalcard
Earlier this week I spotted this 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station.
It's an original from...
5 days ago
Earlier this week I spotted this 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station.
It's an original from January 1985, unexpectedly uncovered.
come loose in the bottom left hand corner and half a dozen even older posters were lurking underneath.
Travelcards only allowed travel on the...
Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
5 days ago
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is unlocking the potential of other technologies.
For example, all modern “desktop” OSs come with shell environments. If you know a bit of scripting, you can automate tasks in ways that go...
Odds and Ends of...
Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes
It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
5 days ago
It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
Paul Cudenec
The truth about Davos
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
5 days ago
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
TheCollector
Norse Mythology: Pantheon, Ragnarok, Creation, & More
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Great or Wonderful Thing'
“Too greedy of
Magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning...
5 days ago
“Too greedy of
Magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning welcome
Truths.”
Sir Thomas Browne in Pseudodoxia
Epidemica (1646), also known as Vulgar Errors, dismisses such
notions as the existence of unicorns and the impact of garlic on magnetism. In
the...
Open Culture
The Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials,...
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented,...
5 days ago
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented, we’ve just lost a great American filmmaker. From Eraserhead to Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive to Inland Empire, David Lynch’s features will surely continue to bewilder and inspire...
The American Scholar
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
The post Keepers of the Old Ways...
5 days ago
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
The post Keepers of the Old Ways appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
The Pigeonhole Principle
Why perfect organization is not possible.
I stare at the blank index pages of my new...
5 days ago
Why perfect organization is not possible.
I stare at the blank index pages of my new commonplace book, my pen hovering uncertainly. More than two decades of digital design work, and I’m stumped by the simple task of organizing an analog notebook.
Come on, I thought to...
diamond geezer
London's least frequent bus routes
The withdrawal of route 347, London's least frequent bus, is a excellent excuse to update the new...
5 days ago
The withdrawal of route 347, London's least frequent bus, is a excellent excuse to update the new top 10.
London's ten rarest bus routes *
scheduled TfL buses, in one direction, ordered by weekly frequency (no school journeys, no mobility services)
1) 389 Barnet →...
Mazdak
Biden Not to Block TikTok, Apple's Credit Card Dilemma, Google Says No to EU Rules, ...
The Biden administration has decided not to enforce the law that could force TikTok to go dark in...
5 days ago
The Biden administration has decided not to enforce the law that could force TikTok to go dark in the U.S.
Mazdak
The Future of TikTok in the U.S.: What Happens on January 19?
The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
5 days ago
The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
Calculated Risk
Friday: Housing Starts, Industrial Production
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Housing Starts...
5 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Housing Starts for December. The consensus is for 1.315 million SAAR, up from 1.289 million SAAR.
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization for December. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase...
Astral Codex Ten
Links For January 2025
...
5 days ago
Notes on software...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
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Good Enough
There's no “A” or “I” in “Jelly”
The second half of 2024 was definitely an inflection point in the world of software. Large Language...
5 days ago
The second half of 2024 was definitely an inflection point in the world of software. Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI started to permeate products everywhere, from chatbots to operating systems, and at times it felt like everyone was taking part in a race to...
mtlynch.io
Increase Your Reply Rate on Cold Emails to Me
The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before.
There are lots...
5 days ago
The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before.
There are lots of guides on writing cold emails. This one is a bit niche, as it’s about cold emailing a particular person: me. But I guarantee you that it’s the best guide you can find on this...
Birchtree
Meta, moderation, and whose freedoms come first
A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to...
6 days ago
A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to your reading backlog today, but I did want to comment on it after letting it simmer in my head for a bit.
Let me just start by repeating the
Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
6 days ago
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
TheCollector
Los Angeles Museums Launch Fire Relief Fund for Artists
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TheCollector
How Did the Black Death Change the English Language?
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Calculated Risk
Housing Discussion with Altos Research's Mike Simonsen
Here is a YouTube video of a discussion with Mike Simonsen.
Enjoy.
6 days ago
Here is a YouTube video of a discussion with Mike Simonsen.
Enjoy.
Flashbak
Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932)
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme...
6 days ago
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme cosmetic surgery became a fashion choice. Created in 1932 by sculptor and retail display designer Lester Gaba (1907-1987) for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, Cynthia caused a stir. When...
Escaping Flatland
A funny thing about curiosity
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to...
6 days ago
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But to go there you have to do things that others will think stupid and embarrassing.
The Marginalian
The Light in the Abyss Between Us
Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a...
6 days ago
Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a friend’s son came home from school to recount with something between shock and exhilaration how he realized while talking to a classmate that the notion of a mental image is not merely...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compete
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Mazdak
Can Google’s Gemini Overtake ChatGPT in the AI Race?
Google’s Gemini, the tech giant’s flagship AI chatbot, has been making headlines lately.
6 days ago
Google’s Gemini, the tech giant’s flagship AI chatbot, has been making headlines lately.
The Marginalian
On Love: Saint Paul and the Egret
Among the myriad things that didn’t have to exist — music, minds, the meadow lark — none is more...
6 days ago
Among the myriad things that didn’t have to exist — music, minds, the meadow lark — none is more symphonic, more defiant of logic, more capable of winging existence with life than love. Biologically, we could have done without it, could have spent the eons fertilizing cells...
TheCollector
6 Famous Musicians at the Center of Big Mysteries
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The Diff
Two Models of Forward-Deployed Engineers
Plus! Corporate VC; The New AI Model; The New AI Model, Continued; The Long But Volatile March;...
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Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
6 days ago
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
Mazdak
Google Challenges EU’s New Disinformation Rules
In a bold move that could reshape the future of content moderation, Google has informed the European...
6 days ago
In a bold move that could reshape the future of content moderation, Google has informed the European Union it will not incorporate fact-checking into its search results or YouTube rankings, despite the requirements of the EU’s new Disinformation Code of Practice.
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NAHB: Builder Confidence "Edges Up" in January
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47,...
6 days ago
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47, up from 46 last month. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good.
Builder Confidence Edges Up Even as Market Risk Concerns...
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