Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented Labour’s first budget in 14 years by promising to put an “end to short-termism”. British governments typically see budgets as an opportunity to present policies providing short-term gain in terms of public popularity, even if they do little to i … | Continue reading
Why is it that some people seem to get over breakups really quickly, and others seem to dwell on them for ages? What turns a breakup into a heartbreak? – Ryan I often wonder what motivates Everyday Philosophy submissions. What made someone ask this question? Why turn to emailing … | Continue reading
The EUreka3D project advances conservation and public access to Cyprus’ Timios Stavros Church through 3D Digitisation The EUreka3D project partner UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology’s (CUT) Digital Heritage Research Lab (DHRLab) processed … | Continue reading
08:13 I did it. 500+ words already in my latest NaNo effort. First in years. The topic… yes. […] | Continue reading
Political violence is hardly new to America. Since the country’s inception, gunmen have shaped its political landscape, from the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan, to high-profile assassinations and the bombing of federal buildings. Yet the threat of political violence has deepened i … | Continue reading
Lord Clement-Jones: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cybersecurity risks posed by prompt injection attacks to the processing by generative artificial intelligence of material provided from outside government, and whether any such attacks have … | Continue reading
The headline: “A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a ‘Crime’ to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital.” Nieman Lab spent the last week reporting on crime news now. Of course, we could not cover the entire landscape of news about crime, but we delved into podcasts … | Continue reading
If you had any idea that satellite connectivity isn’t a key part of Apple’s strategy, well, the company’s satellite partner Globalstar has disclosed changes to its deal with Apple, including a new influx of $1.1 billion from Apple tied to capital improvements, and $400 million in … | Continue reading
Extraction of nickel, an essential component of clean energy technologies, needs stronger policies to protect local environments and communities, MIT researchers say. | Continue reading
Control your smart home devices with the Gemini mobile app on Android Google are adding smart home integration to their Gemini chatbot - so far on Android only. Have they considered the risk of prompt injection? It looks like they have, at least a bit: Important: Home controls ar … | Continue reading
No big deal, just two idiots sitting at a bar, trading rumors and conspiracy theories. Then you remember that one of them has a media platform with millions of followers, and the other could soon be Vice President of the United States. Probably as dense a collection of utter bull … | Continue reading
A quick report on the year so far... | Continue reading
The Diamond Hill is Al Shalliker condensing that ephemerality to its purest form, through delicate songwriting and laying it bare like an open book. And it's a pleasure to read it. | Continue reading
From new marine protected areas in Australia and Portugal to a "revolutionary" hospital for kids in Switzerland and new method to regrow forests with the help of animals: Here's our recap of the most important solutions-focused news from the past month. | Continue reading
Scientists in Canada have demonstrated a promising new device that can purify a gallon of water a day, for just a few cents per gallon. Better yet, it’s made of old tires, and can even generate small amounts of electricity. Continue Reading Category: Environment, Science Tags: Wa … | Continue reading
John O'Nolan: Democratising Publishing Having seen how things worked on the inside for several years, the conclusion I personally came to was that WordPress and Automattic were not truly about democratising publishing, after all. At the same time, I felt the product was becoming … | Continue reading
Microsoft Research New England is looking for advanced Ph.D. students who are bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time, to apply for our summer internship. They will join a team of social scientists who use qualitative or quantitative, empirical … | Continue reading
Relationships are a murky business. They deal in high stakes and high emotions and can often feel like sailing a roiling sea with a wildly spinning compass. Every action and every utterance is scrutinized and reinterpreted, and any kind of certainty is squinted at through a glass … | Continue reading
Part of existing as an “organic entity” such as a human is that we live our lives by cycles: Day, night. Winter, summer, Growth, decay. Sometimes we’re active, other times we need rest. But algorithms and computers never need rest – they are ‘on’ all the time. In a world that is … | Continue reading
Current conditions: New York City, Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley, along with much of the Northeast Corridor, are under red flag warnings for fire after a month of dry weather • Typhoon Kong-rey made landfill in Taiwan with winds over 125 miles per hour, injuring more t … | Continue reading
Throughout November I'll be releasing new weird sci-fi short stories. Each one is a stand-alone story. Think of them as technological campfire horror yarns, each with a little twist. Your feedback is highly appreciated. Everything you read is possible - there's no magic, just suf … | Continue reading
Middle class collectors came to like paintings of interiors, sometimes without any figures at all. Others were Orientalist, or told open-ended narrative. | Continue reading
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"Excuse Me While I Go Fall In Love" was written by Mary Knoblock as an homage to her fans and serves as a prelude to her Halo album February. | Continue reading
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to pollster Frank Luntz and researcher Richard Reeves of the American Institute for Boys and Men, about the gender gap between Donald Trump and Kamila Harris supporters. | Continue reading
With an impressive discography featuring albums such as "Faces, Voices and Souls" and "The Mind and Echoes," Micheal Fordays is poised to redefine the music landscape with his highly anticipated upcoming album "The Odds of Magic," scheduled for release in 2025. | Continue reading
More interesting reading and viewing culled from a long list of unpublished posts. | Continue reading
This eery tale of romance will be part of the band's upcoming album as its debut single giving the first taste of what new stories The Agency... has prepared. | Continue reading
“For the last year, I’ve spent every working day trying to figure out where a high school kid was for an hour after school one day in 1999.” On October 3, 2014, the first episode of a new podcast dropped. Serial quickly generated a tsunami of interest in true crime, and in podcas … | Continue reading
If there was ever a brand able to delight your entire holiday shopping list, it’s Le Creuset. We’ve yet to meet anyone not wowed by the French company’s iconic enameled kitchenware and joyful color choices. (Even the names are wonderful: Pêche! Cerise! Artichaut!) And half the fu … | Continue reading
Welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #249 NYJavaSIG Our November event will be awesome! We have 2 great speakers. Stay tuned! Follow the NYJavaSIG on Twitter, and subscribe to the mail list to receive news about the events in first hand. You can watch the recording of thi … | Continue reading
tQ's staffers pick out their favourite albums and tracks of the last month, from sensory overload to melancholy meditation October is the time of year at which I'm asked to start thinking about my ballots for our albums of the year list. And yet, the torrent of new releases flood … | Continue reading
On the latest record from Citizens of YEAH!!!, we see a masterful work that plays by no rules other than his own; as any exceptional DIY project should. | Continue reading
Reviewing a new Light In The Attic compilation of Ukrainian music, Richard Foster explores how artists were able to find a voice and sense of identity against the strictures of Russian communism Where to, musician? In his magisterial work, Music In The Balkans, Professor Jim Sams … | Continue reading
Question: Why do you have the politics you have today? In real life, outside of my family and a couple of close friends, I rarely talk politics unless someone says something real backwards around me, in which case I speak up. I consider any endorsement of what passes for Republic … | Continue reading
And honestly, who doesn’t need a metal heron? Doing metal heron things? In a herontastic manner? I myself was not aware how much I needed one until I arrived here in Nantes. And now I’ve been wondering where this metal heron has been all my life. In other news, hello, I’m in Nant … | Continue reading
Somes memes to get the weekend started! | Continue reading
In 1964 when I was 12 years old, I heard a record by the British pop group, The Searchers. My dad told me it was a cover version, and he would try to find me a copy of the original, which he said was much better. Meanwhile, he got me a free copy of The … Continue reading Songs I … | Continue reading
In a recent earnings call Sundar Pichai claimed that at Google now 25% of Code is AI generated (“and then reviewed and accepted by engineers”). In the AI boosterism parts of the web (so basically X and LinkedIn) this number was celebrated: Even Google does AI code generation. So … | Continue reading
Challenges! I’ve done, or tried a couple over the years. The one I had the most success with is the #100DayToOffload one. I’ve already been doing it for 5 years in a row. Time flies! I heard before about #NaNoWriMo, but instead of joining that one, I’ll join the #WritingMonth, cr … | Continue reading
Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter photons, which could lead to advances in medical imaging, cooling systems and even nuclear reactors | Continue reading
MIT engineers’ algorithm may have wide impact, from forecasting climate to projecting population growth to designing efficient aircraft. | Continue reading
My 2024 end-of-year resolution — it’s like a New Year’s resolution but better — is to return to the front-end! I’ve been neck-deep in server-side JavaScript this year. I’ve had a blast but my true speciality and passion lies in the browser. Front-end web standards have never move … | Continue reading
Don’t be intimidated by physics: it is made of stories and metaphors. Learn these and the field will open up to you - by Jamie Zvirzdin Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Don Henley’s melancholy, uncanny ‘The Boys of Summer’ might be the ultimate song of the 1980s, says Toby Manning, as he takes a deep dive into the track four decades on One of the unique things about the 1980s was that history, as a process, felt curiously tangible. Something was … | Continue reading
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms and trivializations take over the discourse? Can we use words like “fascism,” for … | Continue reading
From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer | Continue reading
In a future where humanity has been driven underground by an apocalyptic event, a prisoner is haunted by the childhood memory of seeing a man gunned down at an airport. A group of scientists make him their time-traveling guinea pig, hoping that he’ll be able to find a way to rest … | Continue reading