Video Processor. I’ve been experimenting with different automations and command line utilities to handle audio and video transcripts lately. In particular, I’ve been working with Simon Willison’s LLM command line utility as a way to interact with cloud-based large language models … | Continue reading
I’ve been looking at Scribbles today and I have to say I’m impressed so far. I registered so I could see the admin panel and the posting interface. The Posting interface is very nice. Anyone coming over from Blogger or WordPress will find it a breeze to use. As far as setting … | Continue reading
Chickens treated to inhibit the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway during development grow feathers that resemble ancient protofeathers—unbranched and underdeveloped. While some recovery occurs after hatching, these findings reveal how critical Shh signaling is to feather patterning an … | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal has a handful of charts that briefly explain trade… Tags: deficit, tariff, trade, Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
Yesterday, the reactive two-year-old masquerading as the president of the United States announced a breathtaking array of new tariffs designed to punish America’s friends and reward its enemies. Economists are tying themselves in knots trying to explain how these tariffs work, bu … | Continue reading
Folks, I can’t even today. I gotta tap out. I hope to be back with you tomorrow. Tags: kottke.org · video | Continue reading
Court Confirms That, If Proven, DOGE’s Ongoing Access to Personnel Records Is Illegal NEW YORK—A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Gover … | Continue reading
Using a mathematical model, scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and about people, places and things. Turns out, it may process both in a similar way. | Continue reading
Researchers have used a mind-reading brain implant to continuously play a paralyzed person's thoughts through a speaker, allowing them to talk again. | Continue reading
What if a notebook doesn’t keep up with your thoughts? Wait, what if you’re thinking about it all wrong and you’re attempting to move far faster than you can realistically while giving your tasks and ideas the thought they require? I still sit with a notebook in front of me daily … | Continue reading
A survey of workers who use AI has revealed the tools could be slowly impairing our critical thinking skills. | Continue reading
The father of a boy smeared as a racist in 2022 talks to our reporter who broke the story—and tells why he finally spoke out. | Continue reading
Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 electric sedan already had a polarizing “streamliner” design that only owners seem to love. Now the automaker has massaged the front a bit more for a new look for 2026. The latest Ioniq 6 has squintier daytime running lights and headlights that are lower down in … | Continue reading
The new Bigme Hibreak Pro Smartphone has received a massive software update. Full of fixes and new features. The post Bigme Hibreak Pro Has Received A Huge Software Update first appeared on Good e-Reader. | Continue reading
In Northern Michigan, an historic ice storm closed the Mackinac Bridge, as massive ice build up fell from towers, above, and exploded like bombs on the roadway below. I’ve seen a lot of ice storms but nothing ever like this. Michigan has mostly escaped the worst of the worst impa … | Continue reading
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Japan is known for its culture surrounding rice, a significant source of nutrition and symbol of life. Naturally enough, Japanese mythology features a number of episodes involving it, and some of such sites remain known to this day. According to the myths, major deity Ninigi brou … | Continue reading
Featuring what every teen girl wants: a live-in butler. The post Hijinks and Homicide: Richie Tankersley Cusick’s April Fools appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
"They didn’t have to make it like that, but they did so that you would keep buying it." Man shares easy electric toothbrush fix to avoid costly replacement: 'They make them so they could break' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Hey, Ivan here ! I work on developing visualizations at Datawrapper. A few days … | Continue reading
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I’ve be chatting live with musician Walter Martin on Monday, April 7th at 12pm central as part of “The Substack Sessions.” (As a failed musician, I never expected to be on a list with some of these names, but there I am…) | Continue reading
The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle Bronze Age | Continue reading
Apple has released the iOS 18.5 beta. Here are the new features and how to install it if you want to explore the update for yourself. | Continue reading
The leading Dutch renewable energy firm AIP is among the overseas investors that continue to see rich opportunities for solar energy in the US, regardless of federal energy policy. The post Another Trump #Fail As Solar Energy Prevails In The US appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
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Aimee Lou Wood of "The White Lotus" took part in the LADbible series "Snack Wars", comparing British snacks vs those from the United States. | Continue reading
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Nicholas Galitzine and Jared Leto star in the Hasbro adaptation, coming to theaters June 5, 2026. | Continue reading
The year is 2025 and the web is—or at least it appears to be—an awful place to spend time on. Negativity is everywhere, ads are omnipresent, influencers are permeating every single corner, everything is hyper-commercialised, and AI garbage is now unavoidable. To make things even … | Continue reading
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Two leading AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic, just announced major initiatives in higher education. It’s the constant one-upping we’ve all become familiar with: this week, Anthropic dropped their announcement at 8 AM Wednesday, while OpenAI followed with nearly identical news at … | Continue reading
When Donald Trump signed an executive order to gut the government-run agency overseeing Voice of America (VOA), among the first in line to celebrate were Russian and Chinese state officials. “Today is a celebration for my colleagues at RT, Sputnik, and other outlets, because Trum … | Continue reading
The world's first 13.3" color ePaper monitor - perfectly compatible with your computer for eye-friendly office work and reading. The post Bigme to Launch World’s First 13.3-inch Color e-Paper Monitor Soon first appeared on Good e-Reader. | Continue reading
Looking for a Boox Palma alternative? iReader is launching their competing e-reader. The post iReader to Launch Smartphone-Sized Mini e-Reader by June 2025 first appeared on Good e-Reader. | Continue reading
Digital artists, designers and vector illustrators among you may be be interested to know that an updated version of open source graphics app Inkscape is out. Inkscape 1.4.1 builds on the giant set of features last year’s release of Inkscape 1.4 brought with it with a number of w … | Continue reading
With President Donald Trump’s new tariff plan, your online shopping packages coming directly from China are about to get much more expensive. In February, the Trump administration moved to get rid of a little-known rule that allows US consumers to avoid tariffs on low-value packa … | Continue reading
The Mail app for iPad has been updated to include the Mail Categories feature with iPadOS 18.4. The Mail Categories feature is intended to automatically sort your email inbox within the Mail app into particular email categories, including “Primary”, “Transactions”, “Updates”, and … | Continue reading
Fiber internet providers are worried they won’t see the funds promised under a Biden-era initiative that would bring reliable internet service to rural areas. Louisiana fiber internet provider Cajun Broadband was granted $33 million as part of the plan, but the “money isn’t flowi … | Continue reading
If you’re looking for a new book to read that provides some historical context for current events, The Siege (Ben Macintyre, 2024) might be a reasonable choice. It’s about a spring 1980 takeover of the Iranian embassy in London. Why did an Iranian Arab (more on that below) and hi … | Continue reading
President Trump has announced a sweeping plan of tariffs against dozens of nations, including the Antarctic Heard and McDonald Islands, which are uninhabited by humans but very much inhabited by penguins. The fake liberal media criticized this as a mistake, but Trump’s tariffs ar … | Continue reading
If you're uncomfortable with grocery prices and the state of the U.S. economy in general, get used to it. Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary just predicted when things will turn around: not next week, not next month, not this summer… "That's a whole lot of growth, and you're going … | Continue reading
Most vaccinated people should still be highly protected against measles, but there are important exceptions. | Continue reading
"I mean, why?" Shopper baffled after spotting vape with strange built-in feature: 'What's the purpose?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
EFF has joined the American Civil Liberties Union and other legal advocacy organizations across the ideological spectrum in filing an amicus brief asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie for its past work on v … | Continue reading
The Recaps feature is now available on all Kindle devices in the U.S. and will soon be available on the Kindle app for iOS. The post What is Kindle Recaps? A Great New Feature for the Amazon E-Reader first appeared on Good e-Reader. | Continue reading