Architect receives praise for monumental 'mini-forest' restoration project in heart of major city: 'The site basically becomes maintenance-free'

"Our project is about many things." Architect receives praise for monumental 'mini-forest' restoration project in heart of major city: 'The site basically becomes maintenance-free' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 33 minutes ago

The “Gorgeous” $10 Target Kitchen Find Shoppers Are Clearing off Shelves (In Eve

They’ll look so, so good on display. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Regenerative suspension... What happened to that?

Where there's relative movement, there's a chance to generate electricity, and vehicle wheels move up and down on their suspension the entire time they're in motion. We first encountered regenerative suspension 15 years ago – so how's it going? Continue Reading Category: Automoti … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 1 hour ago

The XZ Utils Backdoor has (finally?) penetrated the non-tech press

Those of us who are deep in the tech world remember about 6 weeks ago when all our social media and news feeds were talking about the XZ Utils backdoor. (Here’s a great writeup from my favorite tech site, Ars Technica) Really quick, bulleted recap: I was incredibly surprised to h … | Continue reading


@ericsbinaryworld.com | 1 hour ago

Snow Peak “Fire Tool Set Pro”

An eminently giftable, Japanese-made fire tool kit that should make your charcoal grilling and campfire tending a lot easier this summer. | Continue reading


@toolsandtoys.net | 1 hour ago

Mortal Kombat 1 Fan Creates a Kendrick Vs. Drake Battle

The dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 fan has recently recreated both … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

Big Garmin Edge, Fenix, and Epix Sale (US): Quick Thoughts

It’s May, which means it’s Garmin’s annual sales for their mostly outdoor focused products ahead of the summer season. Each year the company tends to put this set of products on sale, roughly 3-4 weeks ahead of Father’s Day in … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 hour ago

Homesteader shares little-known uses for leftover wood ash around your home: 'I had no idea'

"This is so awesome." Homesteader shares little-known uses for leftover wood ash around your home: 'I had no idea' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Tim Blake Nelson Teases a Practical, Real Leader in Captain America 4

While Marvel’s had no trouble incorporating unresolved material from previous movies into its recent fare, the studio took its sweet time bringing back threads from 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Abomination showed up in She-Hulk after a brief punch of a cameo in Shang-Chi, and next … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

Boeing Employees to Get Whistleblower Training From Their Union

Reuters reports that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace locals that cover workers at Boeing and fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems will be holding trainings Friday to better equip their members on rules and regulations regarding whistleblowing. Read … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

The “Stunning” $1 Dollar Tree Find Shoppers Are Racing to the Store For (in Every Color!)

They’ll add sparkle and shine to your next dinner party. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 2 hours ago

Ghost of Tsushima Gave Sucker Punch the Spotlight It Always Deserved

Ask anyone who plays video games extensively, and they more than likely have at least two studios they go to bat for. We all have developers who, in our eyes, can’t really do any wrong (even though they can and sometimes do); maybe it’s because they were responsible for a life-ch … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago

Dad shares simple AC maintenance tip that could easily slash your electric bill: 'My home is way cooler now'

This cleaning hack offers a refreshing solution that benefits homeowners and the planet alike. Dad shares simple AC maintenance tip that could easily slash your electric bill: 'My home is way cooler now' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Mountains of Jura appear from magical foggy landscapes with a self-titled LP

Referred to as "the Lynx album" by the band Mountains of Jura, the LP is a 7-track journey into the vast, emotionally diverse wilderness, much like the untouched scenery a lynx would inhabit. | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 2 hours ago

Today’s Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup featured bags of all sizes, shapes, and purposes. 🎒 All the better to carry our analog tools! 🖋️📓🗂️ We’ll meet again in June. Let me know if you’d like to join us! | Continue reading


@cygnoir.net | 2 hours ago

SATURDAY: Conned by the con men at Fox & Friends!

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024 Minnesota's new flag to follow: Yesterday, President Biden journeyed to the National Museum of African American History and Culture to offer an address. He was commemorating a major event. Early on, his offered the passage shown below. For the full transcri … | Continue reading


@dailyhowler.blogspot.com | 3 hours ago

Jackson Reed and The Silverbirds’s take on Prince classic “Little Red Corvette”

Jackson Reed and The Silverbirds' does an amazing job in capturing that vintage feeling and transporting it into modern days with such ease, it's astounding. It's a timeless song that just got revisited in the best possible way. | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 3 hours ago

[Checkin] Dan Q performed maintenance on GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing

This checkin to GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked in on this cache; found it wide open with the log book removed from its bag and thrown on the floor. Looks like minor vandalism. 😢 Gonna have to k … | Continue reading


@danq.me | 3 hours ago

SNCF is stopping sales of most international tickets – a decision rooted in incompetence, and communicated with malevolence

If you want to travel on 22nd May 2024 from Paris to Berlin (Germany), Verviers (Belgium) or Luzern (Switzerland), the app and website for SNCF ticketing, SNCF Connect, will show you prices and sell you a ticket. Try the same on 24th May 2024 and it will not. Here are […] The pos … | Continue reading


@jonworth.eu | 3 hours ago

Is Privacy Worth It?

When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they w … | Continue reading


@blog.thenewoil.org | 3 hours ago

The Acolyte's New Promo Whips Up a Sick New Weapon

In more than ways than one, The Acolyte is being poisitioned as a different Star Wars show than the other live-action offerings. Not only is it winding back the clock to the High Republic era, it’s also doing something different on the action front with some Force-powered martial … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

State opens new round of proposals for offshore wind farms: 'We are committed to seeing the economic development'

The three offshore wind projects that have already been approved could combine to power more than 2.3 million homes. State opens new round of proposals for offshore wind farms: 'We are committed to seeing the economic development' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Short Term Thinking | 2409

I propose that everything that occurs between the decision to plant a tree and the full expression of its canopy is short-term thinking. The post Short Term Thinking | 2409 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading


@thejaymo.net | 3 hours ago

Burn!

No, there hasn’t been much activity on this blog lately; since getting back from holiday at the end of last month, I’ve been reaping the consequences of managing more or less to stay off work email during the holiday, namely a terrifying backlog of things to do and respond to at … | Continue reading


@thesphinxblog.com | 3 hours ago

☕ This morning's cuppa: Golden Assam from The Jasmine Pearl Tea Company here in Portland. It's lighter than our usual Scottish Blend, and it's growing on me. | Continue reading


@cygnoir.net | 3 hours ago

Paddling workouts

I bought a kayak a couple of weeks ago. It’s one of those fold-up jobs by Oru, and I got it instead of a more traditional kayak because it’s very light and can easily fit inside my car instead of being strapped to the roof. | Continue reading


@leancrew.com | 4 hours ago

Twenty-six years of writing online! 🎉 The “on this day” plugin isn’t surfacing my first post, so here it is. In it, I recount my first bout with depression and internet addiction. It feels both dated and prescient. But hey, I’m still here. | Continue reading


@cygnoir.net | 4 hours ago

CATL Shenxing Battery Strikes Fear Into The Hearts Of Governments & Automakers

The CATL Shenxing PLUS battery is a big step forward for the EV revolution but a significant risk to traditional manufacturers. The post CATL Shenxing Battery Strikes Fear Into The Hearts Of Governments & Automakers appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 4 hours ago

Peak ICE Fleet Is Closer Than We Believe

Let’s start with some brief history on the transition to EV sales, and then get to the big topic: transitioning the ICEV (internal combustion engine vehicle) fleet to electricity. The world passed peak ICEV sales back in 2017 EVs were only a small fraction of total vehicle sales … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 4 hours ago

Happy Birthday: Part Thirty-Nine

This is the thirty-ninth part of a fiction serial, in 757 words. It seemed the questioning by the SIS people was a formality. Had Alison been her friend? Did she have many conversations with her? Was she aware what work Alison had been doing? It followed some kind of format, and … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 4 hours ago

Me. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 4 hours ago

Leaked documents shed light on concerning details of pipeline construction plans: 'The locals were very shocked'

Pipeline construction in the area could destroy heavily relied on fish stocks as well as increase coastal erosion. Leaked documents shed light on concerning details of pipeline construction plans: 'The locals were very shocked' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 5 hours ago

Leaked documents shed light on concerning details of pipeline construction plans: 'The locals were very shocked'

Pipeline construction in the area could destroy heavily relied on fish stocks as well as increase coastal erosion. Leaked documents shed light on concerning details of pipeline construction plans: 'The locals were very shocked' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 5 hours ago

Neon Picks Up Osgood Perkins & James Wan's The Monkey

It’s Cannes season, and along with advanced screenings of upcoming movies, studios are looking at what films to buy for domestic or international distribution. One of the films on the market during the festival is The Monkey, which found a US distributor in Neon. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 5 hours ago

How is Intel able to sell CPUs if they’ve already told people that the current socket is obsolete?

Here’s a question at the intersection of marketing and electronics: who is buying Intel CPUs right now after Intel has told the world that they will render the current socket, and therefore all current motherboards, obsolete before the end of 2024? “Intel’s next-gen desktop CPUs … | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 5 hours ago

One more for the "passive voice" files

There have been many LLOG posts on misuse of the term "passive voice", going back to 2003. As far as I can tell, the most recent post was "'Is is the passive voice you don't like?'", 8/11/2021. In "'Passive Voice' — 1397-2009 — R.I.P", I wrote that the traditional sense of passiv … | Continue reading


@languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu | 5 hours ago

After A Long Time.

Father, I’m here again after my last,what is it called?Prideful exit. I find myself on my kneesat the end of my bed,wearing the dress of last night,perhaps my favorite for the memoriesattached to it, the caress it gives.The touch of having belonged at a time,a time of laughter an … | Continue reading


@siamorweng.wordpress.com | 5 hours ago

Newfound autoimmune syndrome tied to COVID-19 can trigger deadly lung scarring

A surge in cases of a rare autoimmune disease during COVID-19 waves in England led to the discovery of a new syndrome. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 5 hours ago

What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team?

Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 hours ago

AI counter app from my PyCon US keynote

AI counter app from my PyCon US keynote In my keynote at PyCon US this morning I ran a counter at the top of my screen that automatically incremented every time I said the words "AI" or "artificial intelligence", using vosk, pyaudio and Tkinter. I wrote it in a few minutes with t … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 5 hours ago

Writing activities update : May 2024

Version française Si je n’ai peut-être pas du en donner l’impression sur ce blog, il s’avère que j’ai été plutôt actif ces dernières semaines dans mes activités d’écriture. Dans mes récentes actualités, le fait le plus marquant reste la sortie de mon dernier livre, Les murmures d … | Continue reading


@zedas.fr | 5 hours ago

‘WienerAI’ Raises Over $2 Million in Crypto Presale – Best Meme Coin to Buy Now?

The crypto community has witnessed the appearance of yet another meme coin, and this one has a rather peculiar name… Continue reading ‘WienerAI’ Raises Over $2 Million in Crypto Presale – Best Meme Coin to Buy Now? The post ‘WienerAI’ Raises Over $2 Million in Crypto Presale – Be … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 6 hours ago

5-18-24

Found writing…. Date unknown ::: Have a bit or much of my old writing venom back. Not sure […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 6 hours ago

Pluralistic: Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander (18 May 2024)

Today's links Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander: Handcuffs for the invisible hand. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep rea … | Continue reading


@pluralistic.net | 6 hours ago

The Sneaky Standard

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. These … | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 hours ago

The Secret Ingredient in My Grandma’s Famous Salad Dressing

It’s not fancy, but it is delicious. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 6 hours ago

New AI generates CRISPR proteins unlike any seen in nature

Berkeley-based startup Profluent has trained an AI to imagine new, never-before-seen CRISPR proteins — opening the door to gene editors with capabilities beyond what we’ve found in the wild. They’re also making a brand new CRISPR system open source, so any scientist can now start … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 hours ago

YouTuber showcases driving experience in futuristic $12,000 electric car: 'It feels really comfortable'

"I feel like it really has potential." YouTuber showcases driving experience in futuristic $12,000 electric car: 'It feels really comfortable' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 6 hours ago