Will Donald Trump renegotiate the AUKUS treaty or walk away? That’s the $368 billion question

Given the United States is Australia’s most consequential military ally, it is natural to consider what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the future of Australian defence policy – especially the AUKUS agreement. Judging by the initial comments by one of the m … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 26 minutes ago

Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future

Kitreel/Shutterstock What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter lives – often for better, sometimes for worse. They have con … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 28 minutes ago

Bird flu in raw milk

A batch of raw milk sold in California comes with a freebie drinkers might not want: bird flu. Whole raw milk from Raw Farm, LLC, tested positive for the virus and has issued a voluntary recall for the batch, which has a best by date of November 27. — Read the rest The post Bird … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 51 minutes ago

How the Air You Breathe Could Affect Your Cancer Risk

Studies at the University of Chicago are uncovering how environmental pollutants like air contaminants impact cancer risk, especially across different races and ethnicities. Their research is crucial for understanding cancer disparities and guiding targeted public health interven … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Autumn Morning Jog 

On morning kissed streets Mercuries fleet streak past As mothers perambulating, solidarity meet Whilst old men for whom the die’s cast Each other knowingly greet. The shopkeeper with wares Opening for the day As youth, hale and fair Blazing bright, much to say Easy rolling gaits, … | Continue reading


@waiterrant.net | 1 hour ago

Mercedes reinvents the brakes for electric vehicles

In the simplest terms, nearly every modern car on the planet uses disk brakes: a rotor attached to a hub with a caliper with brake pads fixed to the control arm at each wheel. The driver presses the brake pedal and hydraulic fluid is pushed down the brake lines into the caliper, … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 1 hour ago

Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge

After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team | Continue reading


@platformer.news | 1 hour ago

Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes

Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from uninten … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 1 hour ago

Your kids will love getting the Toybox 3D printer under the tree, now 25% ahead of Black Friday

TL;DR: Black Friday came early, so save 25% on the Toybox Alpha two 3D printer that comes with a catalog of 7,000+ prints and filament for $308.99 (reg. $415). Wondering what to get for your kids or nieces and nephews this holiday season? — Read the rest The post Your kids will l … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

Scientists Uncover Liver-Brain Link That Could Reverse Night Shift Weight Gain

Disconnecting nerve connections helps control overeating and weight gain linked to a malfunctioning “liver clock.” People who work night shifts or irregular hours and eat at unconventional times are more susceptible to weight gain and diabetes, likely because their eating schedul … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 1 hour ago

In The Car Podcast – November 23, 2024

I recorded this on 11/23/2024, so I am using that in the title, even though I am posting it 2 days later. Coves the election, what to do next, and what technical projects I think I will work on next. Links referenced in the podcast: Emptywheel: What next? Emptywheel: Lessons from … | Continue reading


@andysylvester.com | 2 hours ago

Modern CSV Lets You Manipulate CSV Files Directly

If you regularly work with CSV files, you should investigate Modern CSV, a cross-platform app that allows direct manipulation of data using menu commands, avoiding the trouble of importing them into a spreadsheet and writing formulas. While Modern CSV is powerful, it lacks a Mac- … | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 2 hours ago

Bring Back The UMD, You Cowards

Sony might be working on yet another gaming handheld The post Bring Back The UMD, You Cowards appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 2 hours ago

Scientists Develop New Type of Battery That Could Provide Energy on Mars

USTC researchers created a high-energy battery using Mars’ CO2-rich atmosphere, showing potential for long-lasting energy solutions in Martian environments. A research team led by Prof. Peng Tan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), part of the Chinese Ac … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Ina Garten Has the Most Brilliant Hack for Upgrading Canned Cranberry Sauce

“It has lots of flavor,” Garten says. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 3 hours ago

Astrophysicist Solves Decades-Old Mystery of Crab Nebula’s “Zebra” Stripes

An astrophysicist has cracked the mystery behind strange “zebra” stripes in radio signals from the Crab Nebula. This discovery sheds light on the behavior of a pulsar at the nebula’s center—a rapidly spinning neutron star that emits powerful beams of radiation. The findings could … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 3 hours ago

Shitty Rich Dudes Have Drastically Different Days

Life's rich pageant The post Shitty Rich Dudes Have Drastically Different Days appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 3 hours ago

Sent out a contract.  Nothing big.  

A little rain, also nothing substantial. A mood find me, frustrated with this job and how slow it’s […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 hours ago

5 Questions To Ask at the Thanksgiving Table

Thanksgiving—like baseball, “the cloud,” and your nephew’s can’t-miss crypto investment—is packed with data. Some of it’s boring—especially the stuff about calories. But many of the stats, facts and figures behind Thanksgiving are, at worst, interesting enough to serve as a life- … | Continue reading


@food52.com | 3 hours ago

Storytelling as practice

Writing in Practicing New Worlds, Andrea Ritchie documents a pattern of crisis response that, far from interrupting the crisis, merely serves to lengthen it. I will quote at length here: | Continue reading


@aworkinglibrary.com | 4 hours ago

The MIT Press releases report on the future of open access publishing and policy

Report aims to “ensure that open science practices are sustainable and that they contribute to the highest quality research.” | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 4 hours ago

The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 867

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 867 for the week of November 17 – 23, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Discourse policy change: Technical Support topics are now welcome Call for nominations: 2024 Ubuntu Technica … | Continue reading


@fridge.ubuntu.com | 4 hours ago

The Interknit

I just looked for the word “weave” among my half-million photos, and found this: We’ve been trying to solve identity problems online since the Internet showed up, roughly in the middle of the curve in the image above. It wasn’t much of a problem before then. Consider what Walt Wh … | Continue reading


@doc.searls.com | 4 hours ago

Seth's pocket-sized ghost stories are bringing Victorian chills back for Christmas

Each holiday season, I look forward to the new batch of Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories series from Biblioasis. This year marks the 10th anniversary of these beautifully designed pocket-sized books that revive the Victorian tradition of sharing spooky tales on Christmas Eve. — Rea … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 hours ago

Practicing New Worlds

Andrea Ritchie draws from Black feminist abolitionist politics, emergent strategies, and speculative fiction to light up a path for surviving racial capitalism, growing fascism, and the climate crisis | Continue reading


@aworkinglibrary.com | 4 hours ago

If You Find This Adorable $1 "Mason Jar" Kitchen Gem at Dollar Tree, Grab 6

Pack your snacks in style. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 4 hours ago

A blueprint for better cancer immunotherapies

By examining antigen architectures, MIT researchers built a therapeutic cancer vaccine that may improve tumor response to immune checkpoint blockade treatments. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 4 hours ago

Improving health, one machine learning system at a time

Marzyeh Ghassemi works to ensure health-care models are trained to be robust and fair. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 4 hours ago

Black Friday came early … the Seido knife set's price has been slashed by over 70%

TL;DR: Save over 70% on the Seido knife set, which comes with eight blades handmade in Japan for only $109.97 (reg. $429) ahead of Black Friday. Are your knives letting you down right at the start of the year's busiest cooking season? — Read the rest The post Black Friday came ea … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 hours ago

Here we go again…is Chrome “the new IE”?

Magic Lasso’s blog: Is Chrome the New IE? So Chrome becomes dominant – much like IE was back in its day – and web developers start focusing on building for Chrome and not open web standards. So let me just say at the jump that corporate blogs should | Continue reading


@birchtree.me | 4 hours ago

NASA Uncovers RNA Twist That Could Redefine Life’s Origin Story

Recent findings indicate that the chirality of molecules, critical to life’s structure, might not have been as fixed in early Earth as previously thought, suggesting a more versatile and adaptable origin for life. A new paper from researchers at UCLA and NASA’s Goddard Space Flig … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 4 hours ago

"Non-recyclable" plastic gets new life via sunlight and its own pigment

Many disposable objects are made of black plastic, which has so far proven to be very hard to recycle. US scientists have devised a new method of recycling black polystyrene, however, simply using sunlight and an ingredient that's already present in the plastic. Continue Reading … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 4 hours ago

كتب محظورة: تحليل الرقابة على موقع Amazon.com

المؤلفون: جيفري نوكل، جاكوب داليك، نورا الجيزاوي، محمد أحمد، ليفي ميليتي، وجاستن لاو. ملاحظة للقراء: هذا المستند هو ترجمة غير رسمية وهو نسخة مختصرة من التقرير الكامل تتضمن أقساماً مختارة. لذا يرجى الملاحظة أنه لا يشمل التحليل الشامل والمناقشات التفصيلية الموجودة في النسخة الأصلية … | Continue reading


@citizenlab.ca | 4 hours ago

Before and After: A “Dated” 1990s Kitchen Feels Twice as Big After an $8,000 DIY Transformation

Smart cabinet and countertop changes really open up the space. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 5 hours ago

The Best “Digital City” in America is….

No, despite being the Babylon of the post-information society, San Francisco is not the top digital city in America, according to a study that is subjective in nature but telling nevertheless. Chicago, thanks to high penetration and lower prices of broadband, has the best digital … | Continue reading


@om.co | 5 hours ago

What will it take to solve our planet's plastic pollution crisis?

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic pollution — here's what experts say it needs to include | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 5 hours ago

Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0

Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0 v0 is Vercel's entry in the increasingly crowded LLM-assisted development market - chat with a bot and have that bot build a full application for you. They've been iterating on it since launching in October last year, making it one of the most … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 5 hours ago

Ancient Fossil Discovery Reveals That Early Humans Ate Elephants 300,000 Years Ago

Scientists have linked a fossilized elephant skull from Kashmir with another from Turkmenistan, identifying them as a distinct species of Palaeoloxodon. These findings could fill gaps in the understanding of elephant evolution during the Middle Pleistocene. The giant fossil skull … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 5 hours ago

Maybe MetaHuman Was A Mistake

We do not need ultra realistic Geoff Keighley The post Maybe MetaHuman Was A Mistake appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 6 hours ago

I Use This 78-Year-Old Trick to Bring the Perfect Host Gift Every Time

It’s always a hit. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 6 hours ago

Honda fires up its own solid-state battery production line

Honda doesn't just want to power future vehicles with solid-state batteries; the company wants to develop and ultimately mass-produce the batteries itself. Solid-state tech represents a deep-anchored cornerstone of both its midterm electric vehicle plans and its greater goal of a … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 6 hours ago

Futarchy Futurism

I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs. | Continue reading


@overcomingbias.com | 6 hours ago

App Defaults 2024

It's been just over a year since Dual of the Defaults burst into our lives and my time was consumed by tracking nearly 400 blog posts. Rather than write out last years list again, here's what has changed since then: To-Do: I'm all in on Godspeed. Reminders is just a bit...annoyin … | Continue reading


@rknight.me | 6 hours ago

Art doesn’t have to be “valuable to the market”

John Green on episode 401 of his Dear Hank & John podcast (Overcast link): Art doesn’t have to only bring you joy, it could also bring you curiosity or interest or intrigue. But if it brings you something, whatever it beings you, that allows you to keep coming | Continue reading


@birchtree.me | 6 hours ago

This Lightweight Vacuum Actually Makes Me Excited to Clean My Floors

It acts as a handheld vacuum, too. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 6 hours ago

The “So Fancy” $4 HomeGoods Organizer I’m Using to Store Everything in My Kitchen

They have so many uses! READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 6 hours ago

Professor Emeritus James Harris, a scholar of Spanish language, dies at 92

The longtime professor is remembered for his influential role in MIT’s linguistics program and in the expansion of foreign language instruction at the Institute. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 6 hours ago

To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays

New research shows the filter-feeders strike a natural balance between permeability and selectivity that could inform design of water treatment systems. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 6 hours ago