An artistic view of the Earth from space.

Over the last few years I’ve gradually given up on Twitter. This has been a long term process because of how deeply my professional and intellectual life was embedded into the service. Not on…

It's Jacaranda season! Starting in mid-October, the streets of Sydney begin to burst with a sea of purple as the Jacaranda trees show off their vibrant flowers until the end of spring. I've used the City of Sydney's Trees dataset to map out all the Jacaranda…

Common Lisp programming is often presented as “interactive”. In most languages, modifications to your program are applied by recompiling it and restarting it. In contrast, Common Lisp lets…

A Node + TypeScript + ts-node + ESM experience that works. - node-typenoscript-esm.md

OpenAI's board of directors approached rival Anthropic's CEO about replacing chief Sam Altman and potentially merging the two AI startups, according to two people briefed on the matter.

How to shuffle songs? - Spotify Engineering

A railway running through the forests of west Germany is seeing a very unusual sight at the moment - as a Piccadilly line tube train is running through the area.

Swiss government and European Union award 11.8 million CHF for next generation clinical trials of novel arthritis repair. The researchers at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, are actively recruiting for clinical…

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO **will be disabled** in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will *prevent using custom filters* and *stops on demand updates*…

YouTube has clarified in a statement that users who use ad blockers will have a suboptimal experience regardless of their browser.

A Department of Energy report promotes a new system that could remake the energy grid.

The NYPD has plenty of problems with accountability and transparency. The main problem is this: the public wants some of this and the NYPD wants none of this. So, it does stupid things repeatedly t…

What is “Circuit Breaker”?

“AI” (or more accurately language learning models nowhere close to sentience or genuine awareness) has plenty of innovative potential. Unfortunately, most of the folks actually in charg…

Giant batteries that ensure stable power supply by offsetting intermittent renewable supplies are becoming cheap enough to make developers abandon scores of projects for gas-fired generation world-wide.