Over the past few weeks, Taylor Swift has planted clues about her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, which is finally released today. The announcement of the album at this year’s Grammys took everyone, including her devoted Swifties, by surprise. Not long after, she took … | Continue reading
Fire, my team at work, has been extinguished and I've been moved to Team Desire. I've struggled to find my feet, but I think I'm settling in now. | Continue reading
We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thousands of new companies around … | Continue reading
French activist Thomas Brail occupies a tree on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in protest at a major road development in September 2023. Emily Barritt, Author provided Life for environmental defenders is difficult. Politicians vilify them, courts constrict them, journalists mock the … | Continue reading
There is broad consensus that Chinese foreign policy has become more assertive and more centralised in the decade since Xi Jinping has ascended to the top of China’s leadership. This has also meant that Chinese foreign policy has become more personalised and that Xi’s own diploma … | Continue reading
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Erasmus+ scheme – a reciprocal exchange process that let UK students study at European universities, and European students come to the UK – is again under the spotlight. Campaigns for the UK’s re-entry to the sche … | Continue reading
It’s true that our 16th-century ancestors drank much more than Irish people do today. But why they did so and what their beer was like are questions shrouded in myth. The authors were part of a team who set out to find some answers. As part of a major study of food and drink in e … | Continue reading
The shift is moving the country closer to achieving ambitious climate goals. New report reveals nation's fastest-growing sources of energy: 'I think [their growth] is just something that most people don't recognize' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Some ingenious ideas are vying for the Green Alley Award this year The post The waste-busters: six European companies on a mission to design out waste appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Don’t shoot the messenger, but even if you’ve played your Xbox consistently for the past four years and you think you know it inside and out, you may still be surprised by what your console is capable of. Just like the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch, the Xbox Series X and Xbox … | Continue reading
I want to make one thing **very** clear. Despite my propensity for IoT gadgetry, I did not connect my toilet to the Internet! It's 2024. Why are you still scraping your arsehole with paper like some kind of 20th century throwback? A decade ago, I got a cheap bidet attachment. It … | Continue reading
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Three paintings about prostitution, a reception for Napoleon III, Cleopatra smuggled in a carpet, the Crucifixion, Napoleon I in Egypt, and a grim execution. | Continue reading
King of the River If the water were clear enough, if the water were still, but the water is not clear, the water is not still, you would see yourself, slipped out of your skin, nosing upstream, slapping, thrashing, tumbling over the rocks till you paint them with your belly’s blo … | Continue reading
A heavy white sky giving few hints of sunrise. In the distance, the faint bells of a wood thrush. A field sparrow’s accelerating rush toward silence. | Continue reading
Interested in watching an unfiltered Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) drive? Want to interact with us via chat while we go on this drive? (Of course, the person not driving will check the chat, not the person directly supervising FSD.) Want to provide some input on what we test with … | Continue reading
One needs to be careful when using a phrasal verb that has a wide range of possible meanings. For example, if you're corresponding with a woman who travels a lot and you comment, wishing to commend her mobility, "You sure do get around a lot", she may be offended and retort, "Are … | Continue reading
A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New research lays out a roadmap for finding where these hypothetical, planet-hopping aliens may reside. | Continue reading
"The direct impact of companies which Elon Musk has brought to Texas is as large as some significant manufacturing sectors, such as beverage or electrical equipment production." New report reveals statistics about Tesla's 'significant' impact on economy of Texas: 'It is rare' fir … | Continue reading
Today at Squirrel News, we highlight the seven countries which have successfully transitioned to 100% renewable energy, a tool aimed at preventing collisions with whales along the US coastline, and how AI technology is offering support to individuals facing homelessness in LA. | Continue reading
I can’t help but think that the world would be a nicer place if more people got involved in Joe’s kind of shenanigans. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Today's links Precaratize bosses: When the ruling class tells you what motivates them, believe them the first time. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. La … | Continue reading
Decarbonizing the global economy requires replacing stuff that emits carbon dioxide with stuff that doesn’t. At its heart, this challenge is financial: All these high-emitting assets ― coal plants, gas stoves, airplanes ― were at some point financed into existence by investors se … | Continue reading
Located in Vila Madalena—a neighborhood known for its vibrant social and cultural scene—Lechuza House was built on a challenging plot characterized by its sloping, corner location and triangular shape. Continue reading | Continue reading
Intro I recently book a flight with Lufthansa. Unfortunately, there was a strike and my flight was canceled. And when your flight is canceled then you get your money back. Easy. Or so I thought. It was not easy at all and highlighted some interesting processes at Lufthansa that s … | Continue reading
Google remembers it's a workplace. NPR CEO is the gift that keeps on giving. Why does Kari Lake sound reasonable on abortion? And much more. | Continue reading
Qubits can be made by floating a suspended electron over a pool of liquid helium rather than being embedded them a solid-state crystal — which leads to impurities and errors. | Continue reading
Die IST-Hochschule für Management führt ein neues Wahlpflichtmodul ein, welches den Studierenden ab dem Sommersemester 2024 Zugang zu erfahrenen Film- und Fernsehproduzent:innen biete. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think veneration of the freshwater spring started in Neolithic times. | Continue reading
HOAs aren't known for adopting solar; in fact, many oppose it. Homeowner seeks advice on reducing exorbitant energy bills against stringent HOA: 'I don't even know the feasibility of it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Social media stars are downplaying fears of deforestation and boredom in Nusantara. | Continue reading
We celebrate Scala's 20th anniversary in 2024 and invited experts to share their Scala Stories. Jacek Kunicki is a Senior Software Engineer, conference speaker, and SoftwareMill Academy lead. You can follow him on X: @rucek How did you first get introduced to Scala, and what did … | Continue reading
Societal transformation and the future of association meetings were the themes an ICCA conference, part of Business Events Industry Week, held in the most apropos setting, ASAE's headquarters. -Andrea Doyle | Continue reading
Samih Sawiris und seine Aktivitäten rund um die „Goldgrube Andermatt“ begleiten mich seit Jahren, kann man dort doch in Echtzeit studieren, was sich regionalwirtschaftlich tut, wenn ein großes Investment getätigt wird. Was passiert mit einer Region, in die ein derartig großer Ein … | Continue reading
It should be no surprise that with Fortnite being as big as it is it seems to be the most… Continue reading Fortnite leak – has Epic’s Battle Royale’s roadmap for 2024 been uncovered? The post Fortnite leak – has Epic’s Battle Royale’s roadmap for 2024 been uncovered? appeared fi … | Continue reading
Since March 18, prospective organ donors in Germany have been able to register online. So far, the transition has proven a resounding success. Online organ donor register sees... | Continue reading
Harper on the trails…NHL Playoffs…Chirpy birds and blooming flowers…In the Land of Saints and Sinners with favorite Liam Neeson…Freud’s Last Session with favorite Anthony Hopkins… | Continue reading
This post contains practical information about the CFP, you can scroll down for that, but we do recommend you read the whole post before submitting a talk or session. In 2019 we organized the first Heart of Clojure, a conference for the Clojure community, in Leuven, Belgium. On t … | Continue reading
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. As well as many famous paintings he is associated with, he was also known for frequent self-portraits, showing the changes in his face as he aged. As I … | Continue reading
No cats or dogs today, just a random selection. | Continue reading
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It’s spring. It’s officially spring in New York, where CrimeReads is based. Maybe you, like me, wear sunglasses year-round. But maybe you are just busting yours out for the season. There can be no denying that accessory’s association with warm weather. Nothing elevates a look lik … | Continue reading
When Prohibition came into force in 1920, it was meant to end the production, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Instead, it was the beginning of perhaps the most infamous criminal period in US history because, very simply, most Americans liked a drink – and many did … | Continue reading
We now live, as one often hears, in an age of few musical superstars, but towering ones. The popular culture of the twenty-twenties can, at times, seem to be contained entirely within the person of Taylor Swift — at least when the media magnet that is Beyoncé takes a breather. Bu … | Continue reading
This approach is much easier on the environment, producing less air, water, and soil pollution and destroying less of the natural landscape. Government invests in technology that uses plants to mine metals instead of digging — here's how it could revolutionize mining industry fir … | Continue reading
By precisely measuring the mass of neutrinos — ghostly particles that stream through your body by the billions each second — physicists could find some glaring holes in the Standard Model of particle physics. A new experiment has taken them one step closer. | Continue reading
Pruning is difficult because we are forced to make a conscious decision to remove something that has been part of a growing plant. But these cuts are necessary and even life-giving. | Continue reading
by Connor Goodwin ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. With recor … | Continue reading