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
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
My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. The folks at 1Password recently attended the RSA conference in San Francisco and were struck by how infatuated everyone was with the promise of new, shiny solutions to fix new, shiny problems.… | Continue reading
It's a Festivus miracle! The post Rachel Zegler Covers Cosmo With An Actual GOOD Celeb-on-Celeb Interview first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
YAY!!! (Sorry, Yankees fans.) The post Well Played, Jubilant Men in Tight Pants: The Dodgers Win The World Series first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
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Back in the early 1960s, veteran US bike maker Schwinn tapped into the spirit of chopper-style motorcycles for a kids bike called the Sting-Ray. More than a decade later, the company blew up another storm with the similarly-themed Hurricane. Now that model has been reborn as an e … | Continue reading
Pixelmator Team, announcing a shocker: 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. … | Continue reading
I heard an interview with the Swedish author Per Hagman. As a new parent, he explained that nights out and similar activities no longer appealed to him. He described it as being "free from freedom". Even though I'm not a parent, I understand the feeling. It's one of the reasons 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
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
Plus, there’s now enough storage space to keep counters clutter-free. READ MORE... | Continue reading
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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
For the holiday prep nobody talks about. READ MORE... | Continue reading