"Salvage" is a stunning piece of music, really bringing to light Jason Lyles' lyricism and highlighting the film's influence on the artists's music. | Continue reading
This is a blast from start to finish. I haven't heard such screams of laughter since, well, the last Mischief production I saw! The Mind Manger is a crap magician dealing with his shitty home life, a tosspot stooge, and an audience full of idiots. Naturally, everything that can g … | Continue reading
A month or so ago, I explored some ways we could manage a likely onslaught of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV). Why do we need to think about this? Because revised EPA emissions regulations recently revealed by the Biden administration basically allow a PHEV to count for roughly 3/ … | Continue reading
I question charging for a manga streaming service that uses unmodified Google Translate "translations." But par for the course, I question it for lack of wisdom more than for lack of morality. | Continue reading
One of the most stunning concept cars the world has ever seen was shown for the first time at Auto Shanghai this week, when MG took the wraps the EXE181 concept – an aerodynamic electric hypercar with one of the best drag coefficients ever seen in any registerable, road-going veh … | Continue reading
Thumbs up or down in the gladiatorial arena, French history, the leading general in the Greek War of Independence, and the Wailing Wall. | Continue reading
Congress passed a bill this week that forces TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban. President Biden signed it into law Wednesday, starting a 270-day timer for TikTok to decide its future in the United States. There’s been talk about a ban like this for years, but now it’s ac … | Continue reading
More than anything else in this world, I just want to be good. I want to “be” someone, you know?I want to mean somethingto someone and more than this,I want to be beautiful. I want to be pure like a child when they see something new or when a child plays or laughs or smiles, […] | Continue reading
The past two weeks have been busy with EchoFeed. I launched it after a brief beta period, lots of folks started using it, I fucked up, fixed that, and it's sent over 1700 posts already. Lots of folks wrote about it, many of them as a test of EchoFeed which is very meta, including … | Continue reading
The US Department of the Interior is stepping up regulations to protect federal lands from the havoc of fossil fuel development and rampant disregard for endangered wildlife. It has announced a final rule to revise the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) oil and gas leasing regulat … | Continue reading
Tourism New Zealand is taking a novel approach to leveraging the power of social media to attract more event delegates to the destination. -Miguel Neves | Continue reading
An expression of catharsis and healing, What We Fear the Most by Attic Theory sounds like an optimistic message of confidence and aspire to inspire the listeners to push through the pain: the other side of the path is definitely worth it. | Continue reading
Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies. | Continue reading
With simple increases and decreases in temperature, the new battery can generate enough charge for practical applications in many industries. Engineers develop innovative battery technology that could change the future of remote devices: 'An integrated device that could harvest a … | Continue reading
This is the 35th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Veronique and her blog, veronique.ink To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every F … | Continue reading
While it seems that another humanoid robot is being released every week, we've yet to see one move as quickly or with as much precision as the model just released by Chinese company, Astribot. We dare you to not be impressed. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: … | Continue reading
Two Bulgarian political parties have submitted an amendment to the country’s Gambling Act, seeking to ban betting ads nationally. If… Continue reading Bulgarian politicians propose a national gambling ad ban The post Bulgarian politicians propose a national gambling ad ban appear … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s decision to invest heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) appears to have paid off after the company revealed significant gains… Continue reading Microsoft ramp up AI spending as it smashes Q3 earnings expectations The post Microsoft ramp up AI spending as it smashes … | Continue reading
It’s been around 6 months since the GNOME Foundation was joined by our new Executive Director, Holly Million, and the board and I wanted to update members on the Foundation’s current status and some exciting upcoming changes. Finances As you may be aware, the GNOME Foundation has … | Continue reading
No matter your composition, the lighting, and your attempts to manually set zoom or exposure, iPhone pictures all still have the same dull quality. They are not dull in the sense they’re not vibrant or detailed, but by default, with the “Standard” photo style, they’re all using t … | Continue reading
Mediation is in the spotlight right now, from the Post Office scandal to its impending integration into the civil justice system. But what is it? And how could it help you? The post For the love of: mediation appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, xAI, looks like it has some serious venture capital money behind it with the… Continue reading Elon Musk’s xAI closes in on $6 billion as AI race heats up The post Elon Musk’s xAI closes in on $6 billion as AI race heats up appea … | Continue reading
Oh Fallout, it was going so well. Seemingly forgotten about until approximately two weeks ago when people discovered the TV… Continue reading Surprisingly, people are surprised that the Fallout 4 next-gen update is packed with bugs The post Surprisingly, people are surprised that … | Continue reading
It is no surprise that meetings are getting larger, but what is surprising is that they have increased 25% from an average of 116 attendees to 145, according to newly released data from Knowland and Amadeus. -Andrea Doyle | Continue reading
Too Little, and Too Much, Self-Promotion by Manu Moreale Manu talks about self-promotion on his site, how it concerns him and whether others find it annoying, or see it as advertising. Read Post → I just read this post, and it’s something I’ve thought about a lot too. I have a Ko … | Continue reading
Australia wants to jail Elon. Women tie their tubes. Mike Johnson is sticking around. Plus: China might not have been honest about the pandemic. | Continue reading
Archaeologists used lidar to detect a cluster of rare Neolithic monuments hidden in farmland in Ireland. | Continue reading
"We are further leading the way in developing and deploying next generation clean energy technology." US and Japan team up to further development of nuclear fusion: 'Fusion is too important for needless competition' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Liked: Amy :emacs:: "I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you ar…" - Emacs.ch | Continue reading
Amazon’s Audible and Pottermore Publishing are coming together to produce a brand new audiobook series covering all seven Harry Potter stories. The new audiobooks are going to be available exclusively via Audible. Each of the audiobook titles is going to be released sequentially … | Continue reading
Members of the German Army will be recognised annually on June 15, for the first time since the Bundeswehr was founded in 1955. German MPs vote to recognise Bundeswehr with... | Continue reading
Healthcare service provider Kaiser Permanente disclosed a data security incident that may impact 13.4 million people in the United States. [...] | Continue reading
Out before dawn, I find moonlight in my chair. A song sparrow sings one phrase, possibly without waking up. A quiet trickle from the spring. | Continue reading
After a busy week without many photos, I briefly thought about writing about Judi Dench’s new book Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent, Amy Tan’s latest release The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Independent Bookstore Day (04/27/24) or some of the jazz musicians I’ve been listening … | Continue reading
Blizzard’s annual fan festival BlizzCon has brought us some memorable gaming moments over the years. Who could forget the much-jeered… Continue reading Blizzard cancels Blizzcon – the end of the show as we know it? The post Blizzard cancels Blizzcon – the end of the show as we kn … | Continue reading
A look at the month’s best new releases in crime fiction, mystery, and thrillers, via Bookmarks. * Don Winslow, City in Ruins (William Morrow) “Winslow has written a near-perfect saga: He’s created great characters who grow and develop while remaining true to their essence, and a … | Continue reading
My theory is that everyone has one of these stories. Perhaps it was a place you grew up in where random objects would vanish – you swore you put your keys on the sideboard and now there’s just a blank space where they were. Maybe your girlfriend lived in a house that produced une … | Continue reading
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well. ⚠️ This post link … | Continue reading
Would the real Australia please stand up? Are you a tropical paradise of blue skies and golden beaches, the Great Barrier Reef, koalas and kangaroos? Or are you the perilous continent of venomous snakes and enormous spiders, dense bushland and parched desert where travellers vent … | Continue reading
Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and large-eyed, way cool maiden/robot hybrids, but it often shows a level of daring, complexity and creativity not typically found in American mainstream animation. And the form has spawned s … | Continue reading
There is something Augustinian in Lukacs’ view of the past—that in a real sense, or at least in a manner of speaking, it exists only in the present, for it is only in the present that by remembering we call the past from nothingness into being. | Continue reading
President Biden just signed into law a bill forcing the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent ByteDance—or else face an outright ban. The measure was included in a bill providing a $95.3 billion foreign aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Proponents of the bill cite priva … | Continue reading
Ford recently launched a new $1,500 incentive discount for their all-electric SUV, the Mach-E. Ford is offering a huge discount on its 2023 Mustang Mach-E — but you have to own a Tesla to qualify first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Physicists have proposed modifications to the infamous Schrödinger's cat paradox that could help explain why quantum particles can exist in more than one state simultaneously, while large objects (like the universe) seemingly cannot. | Continue reading
Many asteroids can be traced back to their parent body – the planet or moon they broke off from. But for the first time, scientists now claim to have traced the origins of an asteroid back to the specific crater it was birthed from. Continue Reading Category: Space, Science Tags: … | Continue reading
Thanks to a federal judge, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis. | Continue reading
Flower shop on the corner of Shipka and San Stefano. Saw many students with robes and funny hats today in the area. No photos because I don’t feel comfortable taking photos or strangers. | Continue reading
From harassment to kidnapping and arrest, Indigenous advocates who face reprisals for their work say the U.N. must protect them. | Continue reading