I visited TikTok.com at 11 pm Eastern time last night: I wasn’t a regular TikTok user, but I don’t remember any education- or work-related content there. If Americans aren’t viewing TikTok anymore will there be a huge boost in American productivity and GDP as a result of all the … | Continue reading
New automatic emergency braking requirements are set to go into effect in 2029. | Continue reading
If you've needed some creepy animated body horror since Owl House ended, Knights of Guinevere might be your jam. | Continue reading
Anti-establishment since at least the 1980s... | Continue reading
Steve Jobs: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For y … | Continue reading
People were impressed with this money-saving hack. Mom shares brilliant hack to make the most out of old party decorations: 'I definitely did not know this!' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors. | Continue reading
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By some accounts, India surpassed China as the most populous country on Earth in April of 2023. Yet it does not have quite the intensely focused economic agenda of the Chinese government, which is why the shelves at Walmart are not laden with goods labeled “Made In India.” There … | Continue reading
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok has announced it’s returning to US users. The company posted on X that it is “in the process of restoring service” after reaching an “agreement with our service providers.” Some of us at The Verge are seeing the app fully back … | Continue reading
"It smells great." Off-grid homeowner reveals secret to making powerful all-purpose cleaner: '[It] only costs pennies on the dollar' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The Airwing rigid sail from GT Wings harvests wind energy to reduce the use of maritime bunker fuel in cargo ships. The post Wind Energy To Push Dirty Bunker Fuel Overboard, Trump Or No Trump appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Drafts and Obsidian When using a Mac for writing, I'm all in on the notes app Obsidian, a plain text/Markdown editor. With it, I use various plugins to create a personalized workspace that provides me with all the tools I want. I use The editing toolbar Better word count Reading … | Continue reading
From the New York Times, immediately before the election, “Biden Wanted to Fix Immigration, but Leaves Behind a System That Is Still Broken”: President Biden’s legacy will largely be limited to his success in lowering border crossings. But his approach has drawn criticism, and so … | Continue reading
New research uncovered hidden passages under Sforza Castle, potentially confirming legends linked to Leonardo da Vinci’s designs. As part of a PhD thesis, the Politecnico di Milano conducted an advanced technological survey in collaboration with the Sforza Castle, with technical … | Continue reading
Twenty-third in the News Commons series Disaster coverage tends to go through four stages: Live reporting. TV stations stop all advertising and go into round-the-clock coverage. Radio stations drop the feeds from elsewhere and go wall-to-wall with live reports. Newspapers drop th … | Continue reading
A climactic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the dark, chilly year of 1831 was due to the massive eruption of a volcano north of Japan. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: … | Continue reading
"We will be able to deliver even greater value to a wider customer base." Honda and Nissan plan new supercompany to rival Toyota and Volkswagen — here's how it could benefit you first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
How does creeping stress ignite a cataclysmic earthquake? A new study has answers. | Continue reading
TikTok shut down in the U.S. late Saturday night following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law that banned the company over national security concerns. [...] | Continue reading
This is not likely to be useful to anyone beyond a tiny core group of eccentrics: film photographers are a tiny minority to begin with, and I understand most Y/N (young/new) film photographers have their negatives scanned and then go... Related Stories Film Friday(?): Film Simula … | Continue reading
Christoph Heine at Psyche: We found that people varied meaningfully in the strength of their self-insight motive. While it seems to matter a great deal to some people, others do not care about it that much at all. Perhaps you have noticed this among your friends and colleagues, w … | Continue reading
The final weekend of my sabbatical was spent, like the first one, at a Three Rings event. As a side activity to the volunteer work, everybody was asked to put their name on a paper plate and leave it on a particular table, allowing others to semi-anonymously add compliments, than … | Continue reading
Sometimes, chimney smoke can rise up in a perfect-looking, unbroken, straight line, high into the sky above. When this happens, it looks as if a white rope is dangling into the chimney from the atmosphere above. This cool phenomenon can happen with the right combination of weathe … | Continue reading
Voicesofjake participated in the "Wet Hair Challenge" by soaking his hair in -20°F Minnesota weather and lying down to make it freeze upright. | Continue reading
"My freezer is always full." Home cook shares ingenious hack to turn stale bread into mouthwatering treat: 'It's an easy way to save money' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
We all know that corporations do weird shit. In their never-ending quest to maximise profits, they’re happy to exploit us and try all sorts of wacky shenanigans. We’re all aware of this. We all know that they try to use all the weaknesses of our monkey brains against us. And that … | Continue reading
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Quarter of English councils may have to sell homes to balance books, study finds: As part of other efforts to balance budgets, 28% of councils said they expected to sell off existing housing stock, while 45% are already using reserves to cover day-to-day spending. Of the 76 counc … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok’s US shutdown last night appears to be affecting users outside the country as well. People have taken to social media in the hours since, complaining they can’t access the app despite living in non-US countries, and it’s not a … | Continue reading
As good a primer for the cold realities of climate change as I’ve seen.Insurance adjuster picks thru the rubble of LA’s fires. | Continue reading
I’ve optimized a few things with our Twitter / X import. If you never imported your tweets, now is a great time! Micro.one and Micro.blog copy all your tweets and photos (minus RTs and videos) to a space you can control. Full API access to the data, easy to embed on your blog. | Continue reading
Martin Arnold and Lee Harris in the FT: The world’s financial stability watchdog has warned that disasters caused by climate change are increasingly likely to trigger broader panic in financial markets. The world breached 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels for the first t … | Continue reading
Masayuki Morikawa in Vox EU: With the rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI), its impacts on productivity and the labour market have attracted attention. Many studies have been conducted on the impacts of industrial robots on productivity (e.g. Graetz and Michaels 2018, … | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to produce ethylbenzene, a crucial additive for sustainable aviation fuels, from waste polystyrene. This innovation could dramatically reduce the aviation industry’s carbon footprint and reliance on fossil fuels, promising a clea … | Continue reading
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump says he wants service providers like Apple and Google to put TikTok back online in the US, and proposed creating a joint venture where the US owns 50 percent of the app. “I’m asking companies not to … | Continue reading
The U.S. government's ban against ByteDance products has hit folks hard, but Second Dinner says Marvel Snap "isn't going anywhere." | Continue reading
Mr. Bloom's company website offers seed mixes for all areas of the United States. Urban gardener shares stunning before-and-after transformation from native wildflower project: 'I love them' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan. | Continue reading
Last time I wrote about my health, I had an inkling of what was going on with me, and now I have some diagnoses to work with. Thanks to my readers for their support as I grapple with my health changes. I knew I had some form of dysautonomia, but I was having trouble finding a doc … | Continue reading
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A data center moving into a community is like a prison setting up. Only worse. Super-high, aggressive security; ugly warehouse buildings. A prison will bring a decent quantity of jobs. Data centers bring hardly any jobs. What’s more, a data center will consume massively more wate … | Continue reading
In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to extend SQLAlchemy so that you can define database columns that are stored encrypted. In the solution I'm going to share, the columns that are designated as encrypted will transparently encrypt and decrypt themselves as data moves to a … | Continue reading
With one notable exception, our savings strategy in 2024 was identical to the year prior: max out our pre-tax retirement plans at work, i.e., Stephanie’s 403(b) and my Individual 401(k), and max out our traditional IRAs—if allowable. And allowable it… | Continue reading
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Molly White: The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech… let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Get your own domain name. I … | Continue reading
Emily O'Leary creates hand-hooked rugs shaped like sleeping dogs, appearing like animal skins that have historically decorated floors. | Continue reading