The reminder for the next Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup has been emailed. 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’re not on this list and would like to join us, let me know! | Continue reading
The recent Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release has garnered plenty of praise for its great performance on Intel/AMD hardware, both does the latest version runs as well on the ARM-based Raspberry Pi? I’m pleased to say it does. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Raspberry Pi is available in both server an … | Continue reading
Back in 2022, I wrote a post about looking for my electoral precinct and who represents me in Oregon. The original tool for “finding your legislator” has now moved to this URL. It allows the user to type in their address, then the tool displays the the Oregon House and Senate dis … | Continue reading
Juxt hold an occasional conference and this edition was focused on Fintech which isn’t an area that I know really well but have dabbled in a bit. Opening keynote Fortunately the opening talk by Fran Bennett of the Ada Lovelace Institute was on AI and draw a parallel between the P … | Continue reading
"This looks gorgeous, well done." Homeowner shares 'fantastic' progress photo of their yard's unconventional transformation: 'I wish more people did this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
FX is excited about the upcoming season for its Emmy-winning series “The Bear,” and it wants viewers to get excited so they’ve released a teaser trailer for season 3, along with the season’s premiere date. The Season “The Bear” tells the story of Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy A … | Continue reading
Reaction videos were (and still) are considered ‘low effort’. At worst a parasitic grift. Leveraging the creative work of others for social clout The post React + Re-Consume | 2408 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Parul Sehgal at The New Yorker: Butler is soft-spoken and gallant, often sheathed in a trim black blazer or a leather jacket, but, given the slightest encouragement, they turn goofy and sly, almost gratefully. When they were twelve years old, they identified two plausible profess … | Continue reading
Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid Of Gender? Posted on Saturday, May 11, 2024 5:15PMSaturday, May 11, 2024 by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Marion Turner at the LRB: Scholars of medieval literature and history have been thinking about the idea of the ‘global Middle Ages’ for twenty years or more. Books such as Janet Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350 (1989) laid the groundwork that h … | Continue reading
Harrowing clips like this are all too common, with tourists being much too bold around wild animals. Bystander captures video of terrifying encounter between parents and bison at Yellowstone: 'Ignoring all the warnings yourself is one thing, but bringing a kid too...' first appea … | Continue reading
Today is day 11 of WeblogPoMo2024, a month long daily blogging challenge. I’m challenging myself to write about a song each day, but there are many other people writing about other things. You should check them out! Today’s song is “Us” by Regina Spektor. My musical awakening beg … | Continue reading
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“American Idol” brings its annual “Disney Night” to Walt Disney World for an evening of performances featuring Disney songs, and here’s what you need to know. The Details When “American Idol” arrives for “Disney Night,” five singers are left in the competition: Abi Carter, Emmy R … | Continue reading
I wanted to make something bees and bombsesque for code sketch #4. Like their old school, minimal stuff. I started with some squares moving around a square path. I created the path just by making even increments along each side, and then moving the squares along each frame. That … | Continue reading
"I owe it to my children to tell them that I am doing absolutely everything I can." New York mom unites other parents to take action against crisis burdening children: 'I wouldn't do this if I didn't have hope' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
There’s a new human entering the Jurassic World franchise, and he’s gonna be fighting for his life in this new film. Read more... | Continue reading
This post is inspired by episode 015 of Hemispheric Views. When I started drafting this post, I got distracted trying to find the first game I ever played. Turns out it was Asterisk Tracker which you can read all about here. I played that game for endless hours on an Amstrad comp … | Continue reading
I recently wrote a short aside about stock options: But in general, for regular employees, I think options are rarely worth it. They typically require an up-front investment that many employees simply can’t make, so it’s a bit of a fake benefit to begin with, and their future val … | Continue reading
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Okay so. Originally they were going to lend me a Kia Forte, which is a tiny economy car, but that was returned in unsafe condition. | Continue reading
Ham radio general exam question pool as JSON I scraped a pass of my Ham radio general exam this morning. One of the tools I used to help me pass was a Datasette instance with all 429 questions from the official question pool. I've published that raw data as JSON on GitHub, which … | Continue reading
Get ready for a rollercoaster of TV fun in my latest post! From family and teen drama to sci-fi and sports action. Whether you're into heartwarming moments or adrenaline-pumping thrills, there's something for everyone to enjoy. So grab your popcorn and settle in for an epic binge … | Continue reading
"We wanted to do everything we could to help after the fire happened." Conservationists use unlikely helpers to save iconic Joshua trees from extinction: 'Absurdity plus practicality' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
It’s been over a month since Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire came out, and once the credits rolled, discussion pivoted to what was coming next. Were Warner Bros. and Legendary going to split the two monsters off into their own isolated adventures, or would they do another straigh … | Continue reading
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I had Tor support in GoBlog for over three years now, but I decided to disable it on my blog (and the GoBlog blog) for now. Several times, Tor randomly started using a lot of memory on my VPS and even crashed my block one or two times. It could have been the Go library used to in … | Continue reading
One of the most frequent complaints about the current intersection of the web and society is that we share too much. Every day more and more content is shared in more and more online places. We share videos, we share pictures, we share audio and written words. And yet, if you tak … | Continue reading
"This new technology could be integrated into production chains quickly and inexpensively." Scientist develops biomimetic concept inspired by fish to tackle microplastic problem — and it starts with our laundry machines first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Things are a little crazy here in the US right now – as is our perpetual state of existence these days - so I thought now might be a good time to revisit my 2020 blog post about protesting, surveillance, privacy and security. For the cynics in the crowd, I want to make it clear t … | Continue reading
Julie has been very busy in the kitchen today! Bread Pudding. (Top left) Victoria Sponge Cake with fresh cream and lemon curd. (Those are both gifts, not for us) Two Chicken and Mushroom pies with Tarragon. (For the freezer) | Continue reading
Researchers spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station conducting an analog mission for potential future trips to Mars. | Continue reading
Few drugs have achieved the stardom that semaglutide, marketed in the United States as Ozempic or Wegovy, has today. A synthetic, injectable version of an intestinal hormone, it is the flagship of a new category of drugs initially developed for diabetes that rose to fame in the m … | Continue reading
Shrimp is delicious no matter how you prepare it, but for seafood that’s ready in less than five minutes, give it a dry-brine and a quick toss in the air fryer. | Continue reading
On a recent American Airlines flight from PBI to DFW, the flight attendants played a prerecorded announcement to the Followers of Science: “If you’re wearing a face covering, please remove your face covering before putting on an oxygen mask.” Other than learning what the world’s … | Continue reading
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"We are not making a lot of compromises to live like this." Unsuspecting suburban home has LEED Platinum certification for its remarkable passive living features: 'The model for how we need to live, now and in the future' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
New seasons of Doctor Who have always been a big deal, but this one has had even more anticipation behind it. Between Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor and the return of Russell T. Davies, there’s been the promise of a bold, new era for the sci-fi series, which started on Friday wit … | Continue reading
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I've recently been working with Google Cloud more, and so while developing a Cloud Function locally, I naturally tried to follow the official local development (with Pub/Sub) guide. As I'm (btw) an Arch user, I've set up the gcloud CLI using the google-cloud-cli AUR package so wh … | Continue reading
Thomas Meaney in Sidecar: If the battle of Điện Biên Phủ – the Stalingrad of decolonization – were in need of a symbol, you could do worse than a bicycle. One saddled with pieces of Katyusha rocket artillery, en route to be reassembled on the rim of the highlands overlooking the … | Continue reading
Musa al-Gharbi in Compact Magazine: To understand broad trends, it can often be helpful to dig into a particular case. With respect to the tumult over the encampments protesting the US-backed Israeli offensive in Gaza, it would be hard to find a more illuminating example than Col … | Continue reading
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay in Polycrisis: We live in a dysfunctional system in which money flows out of the countries that need it most and into the coffers of the wealthiest. In 2023, the private sector collected $68 billion more in interest and principal repayments than it le … | Continue reading
Ivan Krastev and Leonard Benardo in Foreign Policy: We live today amid the dregs of time. A sense of doom is shared on all sides of the political spectrum. Democratic politics in the West has turned into a clash between two extinction rebellions and two nostalgias: an extinction … | Continue reading
Last Monday, our columnist received the Alexander Hamilton Award for his ‘unwavering defense of Western values.’ Watch and read his brilliant acceptance speech. | Continue reading
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A cracking walk in glorious weather with some testing moments to spice it up. | Continue reading