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interfluidity
By Steve Randy Waldman. More infoUpdated
February February is one of the most beautiful and painful songs ever written, by Dar Williams. March is nearly over already, and I didn’t write in January. But I’ve not yet done a February roundup. This …
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Econbrowser
Analysis of current economic conditions and policy.
By James D. Hamilton, Menzie Chinn. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Employment Situation: Slower Employment, Wage, Aggregate Hours Growth From the Employment Situation Release: Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment (blue), NFP early benchmark (tan), and CPS employment adjusted to NFP concept (green), all in 1000’s, s.a.. Philadelphia Fed NFP early benchmark calculated by applying …
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Practical Engineering — Blog
With a focus on civil engineering and public works, Practical Engineering highlights the innovative structures and projects that meet humanity’s basic needs.
By Grady Hillhouse. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]On June 4, 2022, a small piece of equipment (called a lightning arrestor) at a power plant in Odessa, Texas failed, causing part of …
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Bits about Money
About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of.
By Patrick McKenzie. 🇯🇵 More infoUpdated
The business of wallets One of the best series of credit card commercials was the now-classic Capital One “What’s in your wallet?”, which reimagined the user as either an observer of or participant in family-friendly Viking raids. That always …
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blog.jlcarveth.dev
A log of my technical pursuits.
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zserge's blog
Home page of Serge Zaitsev.
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AI or ain't: LLMs Previously we covered early chatbots, bots talking gibberish, and self-taught number crunchers. But what we got so far is still boring. AI was promised to overthrow the world order and not just classify arrays of …
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Chris Jones | chrisjones.io
My name is Chris, I live in Halifax NS. This is my personal website.
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New book: Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing Title: Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing Author: Adam Moss Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Pages: 432 What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist’s head, Adam Moss traces …
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Symbolic Forest
Everyday witchcraft and occasional wizardry.
By Caitlin. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Typecasting One stereotypical nerd gadget I’ve never seen the point of, that I always assumed was the nerd equivalent of hand-woven gold hi fi cables, was the mechanical keyboard. I assumed they were, as the phrase …
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webcurios
a regular(-ish) newsletterblogtypething all about stuff on the internet that its author finds interesting and thinks you might too.
By Matt Muir. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Webcurios 03/05/24 Reading Time: 37 minutes Hello everyone, hello hello! For those of us in the UK, this weekend is a GLORIOUS THREE-DAY WEEKEND, and oh look what a surprise it’s going to rain all weekend FFS …
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anderegg.ca
Something (slightly) less boring than nothing.
By Gavin Anderegg. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
Rebinding Dune I’m a huge fan of video series where a competent professional shows off their craft in a calm and informative way. The YouTube algorithm seems to have figured this out, and recently served up a …
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Composite
Internet — information — criticism — poetry — connection — feminism — open source — open spaces — translation — digression — recursion — boats — wheelchairs — disability rights — ranting — the future.
By Liz Henry. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
San Francisco wheelchair repair program If you’re out on the street and your wheelchair breaks down, you need immediate help. (You can’t always rely on Love and Magic!) And similarly, if you’re stuck in your house because of a flat …
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Magical Trash
Documenting the trash cans of Disney theme parks and resorts for 13 years.
By Steve Tanner. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Navigate DCA’s San Fransokyo Square and “step into a vibrant, diverse locale full of neighborhood… Navigate DCA’s San Fransokyo Square and “step into a vibrant, diverse locale full of neighborhood restaurants and small businesses — home to Big Hero 6!”// Disneyland Resort, Disney California Adventure, San Fransokyo Square, 2024[Source: disneyland_on_film. …
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anthro{dendum}
A group blog devoted to ‘doing anthropology in public’ — providing well-written relevant discussion of sociocultural anthropology that everyone will find accessible.
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Thank You! Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of you. We say fortunate, because such encounters …
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Matt Gemmell
Thriller, Horror, and Suspense author.
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Sympathy Billy had always assumed that dying would be more frightening than this. Or at least painful. But apparently not. The method of his demise was certainly unexpected. He’d suffered a fatal stroke while leaving a …
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Babak Fakhamzadeh
A full stack developer, creates mobile apps and digital art.
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A world of good With this year’s WSA congress set to be held in the south of Chile, not even on another continent, I took the opportunity to book a cheap flight to the other side of this landmass, …