I hope this doesn’t ruin your day, but Baker’s Chocolate wasn’t created for bakers, it’s chocolate originally produced in Dorchester, MA by John Hannon with his partner Dr. James Baker. Hannon sailed to the West Indies in 1779 and never came back, so Dr. Baker changed the name to … | Continue reading
"Never heard of this, thanks for sharing!" Woman shares simple hack to neutralize odors using just one item: 'I use it everywhere' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles have been found in England, and they may have been part of a "sacred arc," an archaeologist says. | Continue reading
A new report on the F-35 revealed how maintenance crews have to constantly fight its terrible AI systems to get anything done. | Continue reading
author Steven Johnson used Gemini Pro to make an interactive fiction game out of his latest book and wrote about it # | Continue reading
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass, MailChimp, Okta, T-Mobile and … | Continue reading
Last month, over 11,000 people took Astral Codex Ten's survey to see if they could they tell the difference between 50 human-made art and AI-generated images. The results were humbling for humans, especially ones who professed a loathing for AI art. — Read the rest The post AI ar … | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies from the universe’s first billion years, challenging existing models of star formation. These galaxies, identified with the James Webb Space Telescope, exhibit unusually high star formation rates, suggesting more efficient … | Continue reading
"Of Gods and Angles" is another example of just how far our heroes have grown over the past five seasons, but Lower Decks' final-season musings on a similar theme could start to wear pretty thin. | Continue reading
Image: Eken The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing more than $700,000 in fines against Eken, a Hong Kong-based video doorbell manufacturer whose products were found to be susceptible to hackers, for an unrelated rules violation discovered during the commission’s … | Continue reading
YouTube as TV channels, click the book icon for a channel guide # | Continue reading
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2024 Bret and Gail opine: We were struck by what Gail Collins said midway through this week's Conversation with Bret Stephens. As their colloquy began, the pair swapped comments regarding the horrors of Hegseth and Gaetz and Gabbard and Bobby. Eventually, S … | Continue reading
It's one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? Six million dollars? | Continue reading
Sales of Australian author Charlotte Wood’s latest novel Stone Yard Devotional have enjoyed a boost, as a result of being both long and short listed for this year’s Booker Prize. The phenomena is sometimes called the Booker bump: Her publisher says that since winning the Stella P … | Continue reading
Fug or fab? The post Let’s Talk About Knee Socks first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
No one is what—or who—they appear to be in the kingdom of Vinevridth… The post Read an Excerpt From Rachel Howzell Hall’s The Last One appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Walking through Erbil's Arab quarter, it's not immediately obvious what has left the buildings mostly abandoned. Erbil is not a war-torn city. Unlike Mosul just 50 miles away, it was never bombed by the United States during the 2000s invasion, and not taken over by ISIS in the 20 … | Continue reading
Honda has opened a new dedicated factory in Japan to rapidly develop solid-state batteries for electric cars and other mobility devices. The post Honda Is Building Its Own Solid-State Batteries appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
In recent years I have come to accept the idea that I am in fact little more than a bag of flesh and bones, a fallible body propelled by a fallible brain. Sometimes I deal with my existential malaise by turning to the pages of The Atlantic, whose health and science team seems to … | Continue reading
Apple’s spent a lot of time investigating alternative ways of interacting with its devices, but one of my favorite is one of the newest: head gestures with AirPods.… | Continue reading
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Last week Dynomight published Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess pointing out that most LLMs are terrible chess players with the exception of gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct (OpenAI's last remaining completion as opposed t … | Continue reading
Der Beitrag Offener Brief aus der Kulturszene: Kritik an Sparplänen der Stadt (Brief im Wortlaut) erschien zuerst auf MUCBOOK. | Continue reading
Hackers have already compromised thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls in attacks exploiting two recently patched zero-day vulnerability vulnerabilities. [...] | Continue reading
John Marsh at Literary Hub: Can a book change a landscape? If ever a book did, it was The Great Gatsby. And if The Great Gatsby did, it did so thanks to one of its first and most ambitious readers, the urban planner Robert Moses. Next year marks the one hundredth anniversary of T … | Continue reading
Sometimes I spot posts like Chris’ Media Diet in my RSS feed and I’m always amazed by the fact the people manage to keep up with movies and TV series and the rest of the media landscape. I was chatting just a few hours ago with Mattia and I was telling him that these days I watch … | Continue reading
Pondering about the relationships between "Home the Place, Home the People, and Home the Self", Laura Mock finds her voice as the guiding star that leads her soaring self across the world at large and all its beauty. | Continue reading
Thankfully, the creators got to tell the story they intended The post Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Will Not Get a Second Season appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
A supervillain showdown. Selected readings *The Chicago Manual of Style — and grammar" (2/2/05) "An HR bureaucrat, whom cannot write" (4/21/10) "A "dumb copy editor" story from George Lakoff" (7/7/09) "Searching 43 stylebooks" (5/10/10) [Thanks to Laura Morland and Gene Hill] | Continue reading
This do-it-all appliance is loved by our editors for a reason — and now it’s just $130. READ MORE... | Continue reading
The short-term rental giant will help pay for the Colosseum Archaeological Park’s educational programs in exchange for use of the monument | Continue reading
'If you aren't ready to clearly communicate about the content included in each DLC and when it will be ready for launch, you shouldn't offer a Season Pass on Steam.' | Continue reading
The World's Smallest Woman and the World's Tallest Woman met for a lovely tea in London on Guinness World Records Day 2024. | Continue reading
A world map of where you don’t need a permit to buy a gun. This belongs to a class of maps in which the US is (inexplicably, infuriatingly) highlighted and almost everywhere else isn’t. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
The perfect two-bite appetizer. READ MORE... | Continue reading
"It's really simple." Handyman shares brilliant heating hack to slash your high energy bill: 'It made a big difference' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Classic mac, with a fun new twist. READ MORE... | Continue reading
A test flight of the megarocket unleashed a massive sonic boom—at least 10 times louder than the roar of a Falcon 9 rocket—as SpaceX sets its sights on launching it up to 100 times a year. | Continue reading
With U.N. talks coming to a close, some are accusing oil-producing states of weakening the world’s commitment to the green transition. | Continue reading
A sprawling multi-state carbon pipeline appears easier to permit and build than wind and solar farms in red states, despite comments the president-elect or his team may have said on the campaign trail. And the answer has to do with more than just the potential benefits for oil an … | Continue reading
The aliens think this kid is the leader of Earth The post Elio Trailer Beams Us Into an Extraterrestrial Case of Mistaken Identity appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Specifically in this case a Tenor Baritone guitar? I mean, I already have a tenor guitar (more than one), and I have a baritone guitar too. Why would I need a tenor baritone? That’s just silly. And yet. Here is one anyway. A mystery, it is. Anyway, hi. How are you? — JS | Continue reading
1. Nantucket County, Massachusetts – The Biden administration is rushing to finish permitting Ocean Winds’ Southcoast Wind project, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie, before Donald Trump returns to the White House. Questions remain as to whether it can be done. Sin … | Continue reading
Deno 2.1 introduces first-class Wasm imports, built-in tracing with OpenTelemetry, faster `deno compile`, and improved package management. | Continue reading
They're perfect for easy dinners! READ MORE... | Continue reading
Trump’s energy direction – We’re far enough into the Trump 2.0 transition that I can offer a few specific insights having covered him the first go-around. Trump’s pick for Interior Secretary Doug Burgum indicates any form of energy or resource extraction prevalent in his state of … | Continue reading
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have suggested they'll cut $2 trillion in government spending with DOGE. | Continue reading
We are making a turkey puppet today! Thanksgiving is right around the corner and what better way to celebrate then… The post Festive Turkey Puppet Craft For Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading