Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The complex derivative guys are given AAA ratings then surprised that they still sink. Today's News: | Continue reading
The combined crops are more drought-resistant and provide better nutrition for cattle, making them easier to digest. Research team makes surprising discovery after planting multiple crops in the same field: 'It's a promising combination' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
it's really hard not to be obsessed with these tools. It's like having a bespoke, free, (usually) accurate curiosity-satisfier in your pocket, no matter where you go - if you know how to ask questions, then suddenly the world is an audiobook — Paige Bailey Tags: gemini, llms, ai, … | Continue reading
I delivered the keynote at RubyWorld 2024 in Japan, where I covered the decentralized social web, Mastodon, and Ruby. It was a fun trip, and I look forward to more opportunities to talk about the social web in 2025. | Continue reading
There I Ruined It created a disconcerting mashup pairing "Jingle Bells" with Johnny Cash's version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt". | Continue reading
Merry Christmas from Abacoa, our MacArthur Foundation-developed corner of Jupiter, Florida. My soulmate: What if HOA rules won’t let you fly an Israeli flag (American flags only, though an exception was granted for a sacred Rainbow Flag during Pride prior to the Prideful homeowne … | Continue reading
Ah, Christmas Eve. The stockings are hung, the tree is lit (and let’s face it, so am I), and the house smells like a strange mix of pine needles and something someone left in the oven a little too long. It’s the time of year when we gather with family, share laughter, and – if [… … | Continue reading
On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to the historic Apollo moon landing in 1969. | Continue reading
At the end of Paul Krugman's latest substack post ("This Is Not a Serious Post", 12/24/2024), he gives us a link to a seasonal song, with the note "Some relatives from my parents' generation really did sound like that". The song is "Winter Wonderland", from The Roches' X-mas Show … | Continue reading
Screenshot from film Everyone wants to look their best, even creatures of fantasy. So step right and make yourself comfy for this post by Tau Wedel and see how everything can be better for almost everyone with the right haircut! | Continue reading
1/ The House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz found “substantial evidence” that the former congressman regularly paid women for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and used illegal drugs. From at least 2017 to 2020, Gaetz paid tens of tho... Subscribe: Get the Daily Upda … | Continue reading
European Space Agency's official web shop was hacked as it started to load a piece of JavaScript code that generates a fake Stripe payment page at checkout. [...] | Continue reading
Ubuntu Pro is an optional security feature that Ubuntu LTS users can enrol in to get critical updates for more than 25,000 packages that would otherwise sit unpatched. If you use Ubuntu 24.04 LTS you will have seen Ubuntu Pro security updates in Software Updater (or when running … | Continue reading
Yes, the “Don’t Look Up” writer-director is at it again, warning us, on social media, that the way things are going in the United States, a film like “Wicked” will be banned in a couple of years. lol. | Continue reading
From Scavengers Reign to Star Trek and Star Wars, the io9 crew looks back on the year's dearly departed characters and shows. | Continue reading
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Image: Atlus Metaphor: ReFantanzio is one of 2024’s best games racking up a stack of Game Awards including best RPG, best art direction, and best narrative. But one category in which Metaphor particularly stood out was its music. The soundtrack, produced by Shoji Meguro – the lon … | Continue reading
With a puffy-yet-crunchy exterior and a nostalgic sweetness throughout, this homemade fried Oreo recipe will transport you to your favorite fair, tailgate, and/or childhood memory. | Continue reading
Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian: One afternoon in the early 1980s, Tariq Ali, wearing only a towel, leapt into a room in Private Eye’s Soho offices. His mission was to liberate the magazine’s editor, Richard Ingrams, from a tiresome interview with Daily Mail hack Lynda-Lee Potter … | Continue reading
In late November, we started tabulating all of the year-end critics top 10 lists and turned it into a de facto, and ultimate, poll of polls. Here are the results. | Continue reading
Kobo’s Elipsa 2E is a good e-reader that offers an intuitive note-taking experience. | Image: Kobo Amazon might have released a new Kindle Scribe earlier this month for $399.99, but after testing it, I still don’t think it can compete with its rivals. If you’re looking for a good … | Continue reading
Blockbuster auteur Christopher Nolan’s next movie will be an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. Here’s what we know and don’t about it so far: The film will be a “mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX technology” distributed by Universal Pictures. The Odys … | Continue reading
Why not add to its shelf life? Mom shares money-saving hack to rescue nearly expired groceries from the trash: 'A great way to save' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Chicago have successfully captured detailed images of adhesion G protein-coupled receptors, along with an alternative method for activating them. This breakthrough paves the way for innovative drug design opportunities. Nearly 35% of drugs approve … | Continue reading
E Ink tablets are great for those who like to jot, scribble or doodle, and don't want to waste reams of paper. But even modern e-notes can be more sustainable. Supernote's 10-inch Manta model is modular, and can be upgraded or repaired as needed. Continue Reading Category: Mobile … | Continue reading
A new survey of electric vehicle owners around the world finds that only 1% of electric vehicle owners would buy a pure gas-powered (or diesel-powered) car for their next vehicle. The survey comes from the Global EV Drivers Alliance (GEVA), and this is GEVA’s first survey on the … | Continue reading
[“Most Unusual Winter City” would probably generate less buzz.] Boston was recently named the most beautiful winter city in the world. Initially, I was surprised. Eventually, I was just amused. Now, at present, the city is nicely covered with a blanket of snow. That’s certainly a … | Continue reading
Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are sheer perfection as an amnesiac former assassin and PI who foil a terrorist plot. | Continue reading
A NYC couple was discussing how to take public transit to a party in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the most hilariously accurate way possible. | Continue reading
This Christmas, one of our greatest living historians explains how one ‘radical message’ came to define the entirety of the Western world. | Continue reading
Russia, China, and the U.S. are all investing in nuclear weapons and an old fear from a bygone age is back in a big way. | Continue reading
TL;DR: Play 70,000+ games on a retro console that's available for $99.99 (reg. $159). Remember the days of mashing buttons, dodging pixelated enemies, and yelling at the screen when your sibling cheated at Street Fighter II? Those glory days are back, but now in 4K with the Super … | Continue reading
The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids. | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: What Would the Founders Have Thought About TikTok and Online Porn? (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) SCOTUS case threatens rural health broadband... … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, the actual full-length trailer was unveiled online, and it didn’t fared any better. It’s well on its way to the million mark as it currently has 817k dislikes, and only 30k “likes.” That’s quite the ratio. | Continue reading
With Paul Kinlan’s Full Feed RSS I can now subscribe to Khoi’s site where the RSS entries are more than one sentence. It does make me think… would this annoy Khoi? Does he have it that way on purpose, perhaps because he really wants the site to be read on the site? Do I feel […] | Continue reading
Through personal stories and cultural analysis, Mester tackles a problem facing many Americans: the compulsion to buy more than we need. Author's new book calls out key issue gripping America: 'It comes from a lot of places and affects a lot of people' first appeared on The Cool … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images We got a healthy dose of Star Wars and Marvel shows on Disney Plus this year, but the more mature series from Hulu helped balance things out. Read the full story at The Verge. | Continue reading
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In 2008, University of Virginia microbiologist Martin Schwartz recalled a meeting with an old friend, one who had been a PhD student with him and had left to attend Harvard Law School instead. At one point during their meeting, he asked why she dropped out. “She said it was becau … | Continue reading
Hank Azaria sang the classic Christmas carol "Little Drummer Boy" performing each line as a character he voices in "The Simpsons". | Continue reading
A Peruvian police officer dressed as The Grinch got busy this week in the capital, Lima, helping his fellow non-Grinch officers busting a drug gang. Just look at him banging the hell of that door before getting his hands on three drug traffickers. Video via: The Associated Press | Continue reading
‘Wizard’ was co-written by Assayas and Emmanuel Carrère, whose novel “Limonov” was recently adapted to the big screen by Kirill Serebrennikov. The cast assembled for ‘Wizard’ includes Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Zach Galifianakis and Tom Sturridge. | Continue reading
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For your Christmas Eve podcast listening queue, we just posted Core Intuition 623. Daniel and I talk about shipping new features like Micro.blog’s photo collections, preparing the next MarsEdit release, and the Micro.one teaser. 🎄 | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2024 So too with our tribunes today: Different chroniclers of the first Christmas have left different stories behind. Wisely and helpfully or possibly not, Nicholas Kristof writes about this matter in this morning's New York Times. His column takes the form … | Continue reading
We’ve all heard the 12 Days of Christmas song. The 12 Days of Christmas begin on the Winter Solstice, which is the 21st of December. It ends on January 1st, New Years Day. Except before it was the 12 days of Christmas, it was the 12 days of Yule. As I am no longer Christian, … Co … | Continue reading
Many seem to have taken issue with the uninformed and exaggerated depiction of “trans realities” in “Emilia Pérez” (via Vulture), but don’t tell that to James Cameron who admits having seen the Audiard’s musical now three times. | Continue reading