This was our second edition in Antwerp. At least for a while it will be our last one in Antwerp either. Well, at least in the wonderful Bourla Theatre as it will be restored for the next couple of years (the estimate is between 3 and 5 years). We are looking into other options fo … | Continue reading
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do a Novel writing month, but I have signed up for writingmonth.org with the idea that I want to write at least 10,000 words in my journal (this blog counts) and another 10,000 words at least for office work. For office work, I’ll only count wor … | Continue reading
"The more you enable these people structurally or systematically, the more footing they gain until they become a default" The post The Dragon Age Review Controversy Shows How Much YouTube And Twitter Have Poisoned Video Game Discourse appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
By Leo Babauta Last year, I turned 50 years old … and I found myself thinking about aging more than I ever had before. To be clear, 50 years old is still pretty young, but there’s something about the number that had me realizing that my 60s and 70s aren’t very far away, and it [… … | Continue reading
Great blow-up sculpture. Blog moderation policy. | Continue reading
Apple on Monday in the Irish press release for this week’s operating system updates: Mac users in the EU can access Apple Intelligence in U.S. English with macOS Sequoia 15.1. This April, Apple Intelligence features will start to roll out to iPhone and iPad users in the EU. This … | Continue reading
A newly characterized anti-viral defense system in bacteria aborts infection through a novel mechanism by chemically altering mRNA. | Continue reading
Pixelmator Team: A new home for Pixelmator Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple. This is huge for this company, and it’s well-deserved. Pixelmator has long-been a prime example of what a great Apple developer looks like, and I’ | Continue reading
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, where creativity knows no limits! Throughout November, dive into your favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages to bring your wildest game ideas to life. Whether you're a seasoned dev or just getting started, it’s all about h … | Continue reading
Aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the terminal will beam data over laser links during the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. | Continue reading
An app will accurately detect if your milk has gone bad using an off-the-shelf smartphone’s built-in vibration motor – and you don’t need to open the carton. According to the researchers behind the tech, it could help prevent sickness and liters of the white stuff being poured do … | Continue reading
A bird flu virus that has been circulating in dairy cattle for months has now been found in a pig in the US for the first time, raising the risk of the virus evolving to become more dangerous to people | Continue reading
No Food. No Water. Many homeless. More than 200 dead with many missing. Many remote areas still isolated. Military deployed.More flood warnings still being issued. Climate change is like fighting a war that never ends. New York Times: Late Thursday and Friday, rains spread to oth … | Continue reading
From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code Google's Project Zero security team used a system based around Gemini 1.5 Pro to find a previously unreported security vulnerability in SQLite (a stack buffer underflow), in time fo … | Continue reading
Inside a hunk of a material called a semimetal, scientists have uncovered signatures of bizarre particles that sometimes move like they have no mass, but at other times move just like a very massive particle | Continue reading
Traversing the width of Scotland in a canoe would be a challenge in and of itself, as would traversing it on a recumbent tricycle. Well, British adventurer Ben Kilner recently canoed the trip in one direction then triked it in the other, using the same amphibious vehicle for both … | Continue reading
Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand just how substantial their role in the carbon cycle may be | Continue reading
Through the Civil Discourse Project at MIT, scholarly debate serves as a model for productive discussions among MIT Concourse students. | Continue reading
Through the Civil Discourse Project at MIT, scholarly debate serves as a model for productive discussions among MIT Concourse students. | Continue reading
At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how you … | Continue reading
Spirit had it right in 1970. So far the message hasn’t quite taken hold. Katharine Hayhoe on LinkedIn: I’ve mentioned before how Coldplay was the first band to set a goal of cutting their tour’s carbon footprint by 50%. According to their latest update, they’ve cut their emission … | Continue reading
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I love watching companies when they’re thinking out loud. Because it gets me thinking too (not necessarily in the same direction). Case in point: two new products from Nintendo. Watch Nintendo’s announcement video for Alarmo (YouTube), their new shiny round red alarm clock with s … | Continue reading
Claude API: PDF support (beta) Claude 3.5 Sonnet now accepts PDFs as attachments: The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022) model now supports PDF input and understands both text and visual content within documents. I just released llm-claude-3 0.7 with support for t … | Continue reading
by Emily Green ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. TAPACHULA, Me … | Continue reading
The Mystery at Underwood House — Clara Benson This is, I’m sorry to say, one of those books that I look back at and can’t remember anything at all about. I see from online sources that it’s the second book … Continue reading → | Continue reading
One of my favorite childhood lunches just got more exciting! READ MORE... | Continue reading
The ScreenCastsONLINE giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Christian Arendt You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but ScreenCasts … | Continue reading
In four days, Pennsylvania will become just about the most important place on Earth. It is unlikely that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump can reach the White House without carrying the Keystone State; winning Pennsylvania bumps either’s odds of prevailing in the whole electio … | Continue reading
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short horror story in the form of a series of 1999-era screenshots about a Windows screensaver simulating life on an island # | Continue reading
Papers Please/Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope dropped a surprise spooky free web game inspired by 1980s LED handhelds # | Continue reading
This love-infused tune is part of Julia Kate's recently created string of songs, and the particular one remains special, for it's the most personal song to date. | Continue reading
for the last 19 years, Michael Pusateri has tracked children's Halloween costumes at his front door and published the stats online # | Continue reading
Pixelmator: Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator apps at this time. Stay tuned for exciting updates to come. Congratulations to the P … | Continue reading
1243 words. So far. Almost at goal. In meeting. Trying to be more involved, enthusiastic. Two hour meeting […] | Continue reading
a dozen surprise new games released to everyone at the same time on a regular schedule # | Continue reading
look in the direction you want to move, open and close your mouth to go faster # | Continue reading
Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found that Burmese pythons can eat even larger prey than was thought mathematically possible. Continue Reading Category: Biology, Science Tags: Animal science, Ani … | Continue reading
In the spring, I’ll be teaching the second semester of our philosophy grad program’s first-year seminar. This is the seminar all PhD students in the philosophy department take together as a cohort during their first year in the program. The fall semester of the seminar typically … | Continue reading
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro Plug … | Continue reading
Assistant Professor Ethan Peterson is addressing some of the practical, overlooked issues that need to be worked out for viable fusion power plants. | Continue reading
Improvements for the bundled calendar and contact apps, plus welcoming Fantastical to the Windows platform. ($56.99 annual subscription new, free update, 67.2/30.1 MB, macOS 12+) | Continue reading
Maintenance update with improvements for the time and productivity tracking app. ($108/$132/$192 annual subscriptions, free update, 26.8 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
This is the tenth part of a fiction serial, in 780 words. The day of the seance saw much activity in the house. A round table had been moved into the small parlour before dinner, and the heavy curtains had been closed. Despite the provision of modern gas lighting that Pomery had … | Continue reading
Web browser gains a couple of macOS-specific improvements. (Free, 153.2 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Annotations are one of the most important elements you can add to your chart or... | Continue reading
As usual, she spared no expense. The post Heidi Klum Went as E.T. For Halloween first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading