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
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
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
Archaeologists think veneration of the freshwater spring started in Neolithic times. | 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
The Fallout video game franchise is enjoying a massive boom in sales thanks to the new (and popular) Fallout TV… Continue reading Fallout franchise is dominating Europe’s games chart The post Fallout franchise is dominating Europe’s games chart appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing… Tags: mortgage, Upshot | Continue reading
A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the United States, short of first-degree murder. The idea of “climate homicide” is getting attention in law schools and district attorney’s offices around the country. A paper pub … | Continue reading
Matt Massicotte: Making just one type @MainActor can result in cascade of errors at all usage sites where the compiler now cannot provide that MainActor guarantee. This virality can make it really hard to incrementally adopt concurrency with targeted changes. Perhaps that’s not t … | Continue reading
From low birth weight to wildfire smoke, kids can bear the brunt of climate change. | Continue reading
Table Of Contents Free Speech and Political Correctness Political Correctness in Business Coinbase Basecamp Google Changes Course Elon Musk and AI Conclusion Free Speech and Political Correctness The USA is the land of free speech. I think that’s amazing. And think that people sh … | Continue reading
Now, climate change is adding urgency to those pledges. | Continue reading
Australia's robotic submarine program is a year ahead of schedule as the government takes delivery of the first Ghost Shark Extra-Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (XL-AUV) prototype, with three more to follow next year. Continue Reading Category: Military, Technology Tags: Subma … | Continue reading
“I feel like every single frame of the film is burned into my retina,” said Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett about the movie Stalker (1979). “I hadn’t seen anything like it before and I haven’t really seen anything like it since. Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film in the USSR seem … | Continue reading
Lovely customers, whose children had grown up and moved out, decided to completely renovate their existing apartment in Ramat Gan. The renovation of the apartment involved a comprehensive dismantling of the entire apartment's infrastructure Continue reading | Continue reading
It's all part of Staples' strategy to finally offer a solution to a key part of the fragmented, often frustrating recycling experience in the U.S. Staples' new plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Energy developers are more eager than ever to build new solar, wind, and battery projects in the U.S. As of December 2023, proposed projects encompassing nearly 2,600 gigawatts (GW) — or 2.6 tera watts — were making their way through the series of studies and steps required to pl … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals . Mining those metals from the earth creates damage and pollution … | Continue reading
Hi-Fi Rush, one of the first Bethesda games that was an Xbox console exclusive post-Microsoft acquisition, is now available on PS5. While some overzealous console fans have dreaded the news as part of Microsoft releasing its games on multiple platforms outside of Xbox, this is, t … | Continue reading
"Is there any way to fix this?" Distressed gardener seeks advice after realizing their major mistake with soil treatment: 'I feel absolutely awful' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Over the last few months, it has been challenging to balance my interests and focus. Indeed, I have wasted a lot of time moving things around and messing with my websites, but along with this I have found it difficult to do more than one ‘thing’ at a time. There’s something to be … | Continue reading
Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released the seventh annual issue of its comprehensive AI Index report, written by an interdisciplinary team of academic and industrial experts. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: Artifi … | Continue reading
I think it was Robert Paterson who first used “the intensity of the mundane” to describe the power of blogging. I still think the phrase captures what makes personal blogs different from the airbrushed realities of social media. Two bloggers who I think are great examples of the … | Continue reading
Record high temperatures across much of Central and Eastern Europe have once again sounded the alarm about the threat climate change poses to the region’s economies. It can’t go on, but it will. March 2024 saw much of Europe record its highest ever temperatures while globally Mar … | Continue reading
This was one of those posts I started writing, but in the process of putting text to console, I changed my mind about part of it, and figured out something much more interesting. Or at least, interesting to me. Text to console is my way of saying pen to paper. I say it because I’ … | Continue reading
This week we have a special visit from a mythical beast: the snarklemma. But first, a non-error Error'd. Obsessive Optimizer Ian K. "Walmart's nationwide network of warehouse stores means they can save time and money by shipping locally. FedEx has them covered: Their nationwide s … | Continue reading
"Average greenwashing." Frustrated customer calls out pen company for false advertising on packaging: 'The irony is stunning' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading