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Today I learned of the broader disruptive capabilities of a mylar birthday balloon.

The dogs of DOGE Whining for relevance Shit on everything

Looks like a nice tool, but failed for me when reading a geoparquet file created using duckdb.

What about a bear on a bike?

This morning while jogging in the US I came to an intersection. Green lights and walk on in my direction. A car approaching from my left had a red light, the driver glanced to his …

How long before they realize just ditch the life support apparatus and plug into human brains.

Semantic clarity of written prose is hard, but this approach seems like making it easier for the machines rather than the other way around.

Excellent, I was looking for a Educational Records Bureau parser. Oh, wait...

What value is a contract if it can be cancelled on a whim?

It's astounding to me that such ignorance is even acknowledged.

Authority bias is very real, very problematic, and very well documented. As a consequence, those in authority must always be held to a high standard. Always doubt an assertion by a…

And then it was killed. FFS

Advanced civilizations should be indistinguishable from nature.

Nice app, but uninstalled immediately due to obtrusive advertisements.

Sadly the media="print" view does not provide usable output.

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/

Interesting article. Key takeaway for me was: “Masicampo and Baumeister (2011) provided further evidence that it is specifically unresolved goals and concerns that trigger habitual…

I was interested until the try for free locks you in to a subscription unless cancelled. Better to put the effort into learning jq.

In most cases the published articles is document that has some additional metadata added during the publishing process. Hence, there's an inherent disconnect between the article an…

See also https://app.birdweather.com/ which uses a community of stations using AI to match vocalizations with bird species. It was pretty easy to setup a Pi with a microphone using…

Interesting collection, but this statement gave me pause: "there was nothing out here but millions of buffalo and some scattered Indians"

Old is new, again.

There's some irony to an article about wedging into our monthly bank statements hosted by a site that asks the same...

Unsafe for humans likely means unsafe for many other organisms too.