Cory Doctorow wrote a nice opinion/sustain in the FT.
I hope some EU decision makers read it.
@ec.europa.eu #EU #Europe
#CoryDoctorow #pluralistic
www.ft.com/content/b882...
Trump’s dumb trade ideas backfire almost immediately via market reaction.
Unfortunately not every bad idea has the same tight feedback loop.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-stock-...
"This coronavirus belongs to a subgroup of viruses that are classified alongside the one that causes MERS & that can have fatality rates far higher than that of the virus that caused the Covid pandemic." These studies were done in a BSL-2 lab, rather than BSL-4 that airborne lethal viruses require.
www.vox.com/2015/3/2/812... by @mattyglesias.bsky.social from 2015 is insightful a decade later. Eg “some future president could have his political opponents murdered … and then issue pardons … the practical issue would be … what people, including the people with guns, would actually tolerate.”
ChatGPT generated explanation of visual cues of water temperature when heating water for preparing tea
I was wondering about how hyper specific water-temperature instructions for fancy tea fits with traditional tea making. Clearly you can geek out about this just as with coffee machinery. #TIL
AI is the "third humiliation of humanity" after Copernicus and Darwin.
From (imho) balanced thoughts on AI by Yascha Mounk: yaschamounk.substack.com/p/15-observa...
Well Garmin since you keep asking me to review my purchase of the Edge 1040 bike computer, here it is:
The instability and unpredictability of the 1040's software has been aggravating across updates. E.g. wifi updates to maps never succeed because the device turns off during the 10+ hour download.
I bought the Patagonia M10 rain pants after reading Colin Haley's blog post about their development colinhaley.com/nugget-3-the... ; I have yet to try them in "technical" terrain but they were amazing on a bike ride through freezing rain in Berlin and another hour through town.
What is preventing World War III? Ukrainians are containing the ongoing war in Europe to their own country; they are deterring war in the Pacific; and they are preventing spread of nuclear weapons. These scenarios have not played out because Ukrainians take risks
snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...
Caffeine is the world's most popular psychoactive drug, but no one has any idea how much they're taking. Which is wild. You just don't have a clue, and I'm not sure that's ok. I might be pro coffee, but I can't help but feel that caffeine is due a cultural reckoning.
Strava’s just announced some massive changes that will ultimately kill off a lot of 3rd party apps, impact other platforms, and reduce the value of Strava. Here’s why this matters, who’s it going to break, and more: www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/11/stra...
