On June 30, 2023, Amazon announced the closure of the Kindle e-book store in China. Almost a year later, we stand at the threshold of another deadline, June 30, 2024, when the Amazon cloud download services will cease operations in China. Put another way, June 30 is going to be t … | Continue reading
Email aliasing is one of the most underrated privacy techniques that has yet to go mainstream. For the privacy-conscious user, it offers a degree of separation between all your accounts, making it harder for data brokers to correlate your various accounts across different service … | Continue reading
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Anti-obesity drugs cause people to lose more than just fat. More than 73% of American adults are overweight, according to the CDC. This puts them at increased risk of death and many serious health issues, but losing weight and keeping it off through diet changes and exercise — th … | Continue reading
Concord is the all-new game from one of PlayStation’s more recent acquisitions – Firewalk Studios. First revealed back in May… Continue reading Concord – Release date, trailers, platforms, and everything we know The post Concord – Release date, trailers, platforms, and everything … | Continue reading
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2023 was a pretty big, fairly messy year for Dungeons & Dragons. As Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast overstepped in their attempts to make the actual tabletop game into a massive brand, said brand had a pair of significant bright spots in the utterly massive Baldur’s Gate 3 and th … | Continue reading
California has been a leader in the installation of solar power plants and wind power plants for many years now (despite its recent anti-rooftop solar shift via “Net Metering 3.0”). That has led to more and more of its electricity generation coming from renewables. The trend has … | Continue reading
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There has been much debate about what Apple’s upcoming AI-based features could look like. With WWDC’s keynote just eight days away, Mark Gurman has some information about how Siri could be transformed by new technology: The big news at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next … | Continue reading
How could I not buy these small notebooks? Made by my friend Peter from paper cut-offs from boxes he made and printed in Tuscany, they are made from Magnani 1404 paper. Magnani started making paper in Pescia in 1404 (they ceased operation in recent years, but another Magnani is s … | Continue reading
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Pointing to this recent article, “Nonreplicable publications are cited more than replicable ones” and associated press release, Carol Ting writes: There seems to be something slightly ironic here. The study would be very useful for educational purposes if the analysis … Continue … | Continue reading
Forget-me-not in Bulgarian is Nezabravka. I’m not sure how the plant got the same name in very different languages but here we are: | Continue reading
The Summer School will be held in Zlarin, Croatia, on September 20-24, 2024. The deadline for submissions to the Public Call is June 24, 2024. We are pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the IN SITU project Summer School “Place-based creative solutions for cultivatin … | Continue reading
Discover Cushing Terrell's 6,900-square-foot Denver office remodel. Featuring mountain views and Denver-inspired design, this space balances professionalism and whimsy, fostering a collaborative hybrid work environment. Continue reading | Continue reading
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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly The PDF editor in Firefox (confession: I did not know Firefox ships with a PDF editor) is getting an experimental feature that can help suggest alt text for images for the human editor to then adapt and improve on. T … | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Bubble from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Affienia, one of my Patreon supporters. | Continue reading
For those PC owners who have been waiting over a year now to get their hands on the exclusive Hogwarts… Continue reading How to start the Haunted Hogsmeade quest in Hogwarts Legacy on the PC The post How to start the Haunted Hogsmeade quest in Hogwarts Legacy on the PC appeared f … | Continue reading
In 1870, William Thomson, mourning the death of his wife and flush with cash from various patents related to the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, decided to buy a yacht. His schooner, the Lalla Rookh, became Thomson’s summer home and his base for hosting scienti … | Continue reading
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The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Bubble, suggested by Affienia, a Patreon | Continue reading
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It is not easy to live in the Age of the Anthropocene–the increasingly difficult challenges of everyday life, the unweaving social fabric and community bonds, and of course, the 6th mass extinction and ongoing climate change. Despite the media parading … The post Living with Clim … | Continue reading
Heavily overcast and cool. Several deer are running back and forth in the woods, giving me glimpses of their red summer pelts. A thrasher sings a few bars and falls […] | Continue reading
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This compare-and-contrast between the fantasy of technology and the real world is brilliant, especially that what VCs and tech bros (who—despite their pretensions of hyper-rationality—are the technological fantasists here) see as “disruption” is generally and usually experienced … | Continue reading
The other weekend I took our 10-year-old to her first Pride parade, and she blew my mind with the level of allyship she's already achieved. | Continue reading
1) And the times that we count on are mounting, and the minutes we plan for are quick. And the days that we hoped for are fleeting, but the good memories we can buildnever fade. And I find myself, here in the doorway, looking outwards at the sunrise, while the days behind me have … | Continue reading
This is a decent slice of sci-fi. It's the sort of story that probably could have been written any time in the last 100 years. The sole survivor of the human race is picked up by friendly aliens and spends his life as a specimen of scientific and cultural curiosity. And then... e … | Continue reading
Thanks to the work and support of his wife, he made an excellent recovery and returned to painting. But this had taken its toll, and he died in 1925. | Continue reading
and finds it! Back in early February, I asked the Lexicography at Wenlin Institute discussion group if they could help me find a rare Chinese character in Unicode, and I sent along a picture of the glyph. It won't show up in most browsers, but you can see the character here. You … | Continue reading
Dan Halpern, "Trump’s charm offensive in the Bronx", The Economist 5/29/2024: As the former president glowered and dozed through his criminal trial a few miles south in lower Manhattan, the Trump campaign emails had been growing weirder and weirder. Their subject lines were an an … | Continue reading
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Potentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into the history of the Red Planet and the early solar system, new research suggests. | Continue reading
Nottingham, we’re putting on a show! Join us in beautiful St John’s, Carrington, for a high summer evening of Japanophilia on Sat 20th July. Tickets on sale now. Reply via email | Continue reading
In addition to this Lost Art Press blog (long live the blog!), we also write three other blogs hosted by Substack. These blogs go deep into woodworking topics we are passionate about. They’re not for everyone. But they might be for you. For the entire month of June we’ve removed … | Continue reading
A different kind of anime list from CBR where they picked their 10 best short(er) anime series, including Yuri!!!, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, and my all-time favourite, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Here’s what they had to say about FMA: […] Determined to fix what they have done, … | Continue reading
Explore the innovative Redmond home renovation by Paul Michael Davis Architects. Merging old and new, this project highlights an inverted roof design, a green wall, and a piano area. Continue reading | Continue reading
In the fourth century BC, the great orator Demosthenes gave a speech about democracy that still holds true today. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope peers into NGC 4449, a small galaxy showing explosive star formation that astronomers can't quite explain. | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? May has come and gone and with it the end of Weblog Posting Month 2024 (WeblogPoMo). I managed to post each of the 31 days in May and stuck to the “media” them I set at the start of the month. Weblog Posting Month allowed me to dial back from my recent p … | Continue reading
This morning, WordPress has decided to pick on me for some reason. In the last 20 minutes, I have been asked to log into my own account no less than 5 times, and been sent verification codes to my mobile, only to be told that they are incorrect when I enter them. I have now … Con … | Continue reading
This is the second part of a fiction serial, in 776 words. The Colonel looked irritated, the two MPs looked smug, and Corporal Owen was staring at his boots, unable or unwilling to look Clive in the eye. Colonel Alexander closed a file on his desk. “Well sergeant, I have here a v … | Continue reading
The rain finally stopped by Saturday morning, but out on my walks there is still thick mud, and some deep standing water. It is brighter and warmer today, but who knows how long that will last? I recently read a long-range weather prediction that stated by 2050 it will rain const … | Continue reading
Dublin, October 23-26, 2024. The deadline for the Call for presenters is June 15, 2024. The Call for presenters at the European Cultural Tourism Network conference 2024 is now open. The 17th ECTN conference with main theme “European Collaboration for Smart and Sustainable Cultura … | Continue reading