This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let’s talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it. Sponsored by: Tiptop: A new way to pay that combines Instant Trade-In and Pay-in-4 at checkout. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow … | Continue reading
A very long time ago, I wrote about the original Ghost Busters, a live action series that predated Ghostbusters (the 1984 movie) by a few years. Well, Filmation made an animated series called Ghostbusters (later Filmation’s Ghostbusters for the home video release) and Secret Gala … | Continue reading
How climate change affects pollutants in the ocean. The ocean is warming, acidifying, and losing oxygen—well-documented consequences of climate change. However, less attention has been given to how these changes impact contaminants in the marine environment. A new study has inves … | Continue reading
Lameazoid Link List for Sunday 2024-11-10 10-Nov-2024 – Vintage Media Tie-In Games Brief Summary: “I played a few of these in my youth but not most of them. Is there a game from your childhood that y” 09-Nov-2024 – Marvel Needs to Stop Using Motherhood as Shorthand for Female Cha … | Continue reading
Photo by Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images Amazon’s next ideas for growing its grocery business could blur the lines between Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh by enmeshing the two businesses’ fulfillment networks in a new set of experiments, according to The Wall Street Journ … | Continue reading
Amazon is selling the M2 MacBook Air 13″ model with 16GB RAM for just $749.99, taking $250 off the $999 retail price from Apple. Like many great Amazon deals, they tend to shift quickly, so if you’ve been thinking of getting a 16GB model MacBook Air now might be the time. To get … | Continue reading
Amazon has launched two software updates this week, one for the older Kindle Scribe and another for the 2024 Kindle Basic. The update for the Kindle Scribe is identified by the version number 5.17.1.0.1. It is a minor update at best, and it is not known what changes or new featur … | Continue reading
Dasung today launched the Paperlike Color E Ink monitor which comes with a 12-inch color e-paper display. It comes with a 12-inch Kaleido 3 display though the standout feature of the monitor is its high 41 Hz refresh rate. That is the highest to be found on any commercially avail … | Continue reading
As quantum computing grows, researchers are urgently preparing for its impact on cybersecurity by developing quantum-resistant cryptographic protocols. This research, led by experts at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, focuses on safeguarding supercomputing inf … | Continue reading
Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs Chris Wellons shares detailed notes on his experience running local LLMs on Windows - though most of these tips apply to other operating systems as well. This is great, there's a ton of detail here and the root recommendatio … | Continue reading
What color is a tree, or the sky, or a sunset? At first glance, the answers seem obvious. But it turns out there is plenty of variation in how people see the world — both between individuals and between different cultural groups. A lot of factors feed into how people perceive and … | Continue reading
Amazon's Fallout TV show was surprisingly good, against all odds, and it seems that they're striking while the iron is hot. A second season of Fallout is on the way, of course, but Amazon has recently announced another show based on another beloved sci-fi game: Bioware's Mass Eff … | Continue reading
Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer, said something in a 2020 conversation that has stuck with me since. “Twitter is one of those products where I can see overuse making people have a long term, problem with the product emotionally. And that’s being exacerbated in the day … | Continue reading
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A 2023 avian flu outbreak decimated a Caspian tern colony on Rat Island and spread to harbor seals, posing a new threat to local wildlife. A 2023 epidemiological study revealed that 56% of a large Caspian tern breeding colony at Rat Island, Washington, succumbed to an outbreak of … | Continue reading
If you haven't freaked out yet about Trump resuming office, Al Franken's latest podcast episode, "The Coming Hellscape," might do the trick. His guest, political scientist Norm Ornstein, and longtime observer of American politics, says Trump's victory could be devastating to the … | Continue reading
Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple has begun selling repair parts for iPhone 16 and 16 Pro phones on its self-service repair store. That includes replacements for commonly damaged parts like cameras, displays, and back glass, and follows the release of official Apple iPhone … | Continue reading
The first Japanese shrine I visited during my business trip. From what I understood, the lanterns are ads by the sponsors, who are all local businesses from Gion. Visiting during daytime would be better. The last photo is one of the nearby shops just outside the temple. Not sure … | Continue reading
Friends on Facebook who have posted for 6-9 months about how the election of Trump v2.0 would mean the end of American democracy are now posting about how they expect to retake the U.S. in 2026 and 2028 via selecting candidates who aren’t as brain dead as Biden-Harris-Walz. The … | Continue reading
This cloud-themed gelatin dessert created by @mr_alicakes is so beautiful, it would almost be difficult to eat it. This translucent treat barely looks real and appears as if someone preserved a slice of an actual cloudy sky and brought it down to earth. — Read the rest The post T … | Continue reading
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This is the OPML list of podcasts I follow. I keep it updated when I add or remove feeds. You are welcome to use this list, I publish it because I want to bootstrap this practice, of influencers sharing lists of podcasts they recommend. We can make this happen folks. Bootstrappin … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence successfully detected a woman’s breast cancer, after a routine scan evaluated by humans came back as ‘normal’. Sheila Tooth was given the all-clear after her most recent mammogram was examined by two experienced radiologists who determined that there were … | Continue reading
The ancient town of al-Natah, inhabited between 2400 and 1500 BCE, represents an early transitional phase from pastoral lifestyles to more complex urban settlements. A recent study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Guillaume Charloux from the French National Center … | Continue reading
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Those calls you get when THEY ask YOU to prove who YOU are, when YOU don't know for sure who THEY are. Yeah those. This is a rant about those. | Continue reading
In good news for those averse to injections, GLP-1 agonist medication is a step closer to being offered in oral pill form, with AstraZeneca revealing "encouraging data" out of its Phase I study of its obesity and diabetes drug AZD5004. Continue Reading Category: Obesity, Illnesse … | Continue reading
We don't know yet whether RFK, Jr. will have an official cabinet role in Trump's administration, but the Independent reports that Trump has "continued to promise his one-time third-party presidential rival free rein over health, food and medicines during his potential second admi … | Continue reading
This is the sixteenth part of a fiction serial, in 778 words. The yellow painted room was obviously the young woman’s bedroom. Jake drifted through the door when he heard a man talking. But only the girl was there, lying on the bed reading a newspaper that was in colour, with pic … | Continue reading
This article is an installment of Future Explored, Freethink’s weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Saturday morning by subscribing above. It’s 2035. You just started a job working at a US container port, but un … | Continue reading
TL;DR: Get ahead of holiday shopping by grabbing a loved one these HD digital camera binoculars for less than $100 until the end of today. While Thanksgiving is still a ways from now, it's not too early to get ahead of your holiday gift-shopping list. — Read the rest The post Don … | Continue reading
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Image: Disney Star Wars spinoff Andor is finally coming back for its second and final season on Disney Plus April 22nd, 2025, Disney announced during its D23 event in Brazil yesterday. And in a clear nod to Rogue One, the 2016 film it’s setting up, it has a new logo with the subt … | Continue reading
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Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The neutron star was identified using NASA’s NICER X-ray telescope, which captured e … | Continue reading
Ice wreaks havoc on surfaces, but we might have a new way to prevent it building up. Scientists at Northwestern University have shown that textured surfaces with thin layers of graphene oxide can stay completely frost-free for long periods. Continue Reading Category: Materials, S … | Continue reading
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Popular music changes all the time, but there’s been one consistent element in practically everything released in the last two decades: Auto-Tune is everywhere. What started as a simple audio processing tool in the 1990s has become the dominant for … | Continue reading
This video of what a mall in the '90s was like during the holidays feels strikingly different from what malls are like today. It also brings back a rush of nostalgia that I wasn't prepared for. Sadly, what stands out most to me in this video is the amount of talking and interacti … | Continue reading
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Get ready to create a colorful and fun caterpillar craft with our free caterpillar template printable! Perfect for children of… The post Print Our Cute Caterpillar Template appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Watching the recorded session about the use of LLMs of the personal knowledge management course I am following this fall provided an interesting question. Fellow participant H asked different models questions about a paper he uploaded (and also wrote, so he knows what’s in it). O … | Continue reading
This morning I strolled into the darkroom fully planning to mix a fresh batch of color film chemistry to develop some film tomorrow. I was certain I had at least one fresh pack. I’m all out! And, most places I purchase chemistry is out of stock. I guess I’ll use tomorrow to make … | Continue reading
A new technique enables data storage in synthetic polymers, allowing direct bit access without full sequence decoding, significantly increasing storage density and stability, demonstrated by encoding a university address in ASCII within a polymer. The need for data storage is gro … | Continue reading
Elevator voices full of anguish, as if a terminally bored AGI got stuck announcing floor numbers. It’s a thing. Last summer we stayed one night in the Residence Inn in Ghent, Belgium. Getting in, the elevator announced flooor zeeroooo in a wailing voice. And doing that for the ot … | Continue reading
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While growing evidence suggests that there’s a link between blood iron levels and the development of Alzheimer’s disease, new research investigating the effects of an available iron-reducing drug has raised concerns about its use as a treatment for the condition. Continue Reading … | Continue reading