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A new paper was published in Science Advances today. Its title says what it is about: “Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course.” The study follows one by Danish colleagues which made headlines last July, likewise looking for early warning signals for approaching an AMOC tipping point (we discussed it here), but using rather different data and methods. The new study by van Westen et al. …

I’m thinking its fewer than I’d hoped. But I tacked my discussion onto a (fifteen year old!) geeklist on the subject.

Setting your own vertical or horizontal alignment guide isn’t something I’ve thought about much when writing my own SwiftUI code. When they were announced, and later demo’d during a dub dub session in SwiftUI’s early days, I remember thinking, “Yeah, I don’t get that. Will check out later.” Lately, though, I’ve seen two novel use cases where using one is exactly what was required. Or, at the very least, it …

“Bending the law,” of course, means adhering to the letter of the law while committing all sorts of unsavory offenses against the spirit of it. You might think a faction aligned with the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus would hold both the letter and the spirit of the law in equal, paramount regard … The post Planescape Faction Agent Tactics, Part 5 appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.

Now we all know that the way to save cask beer from its inevitable demise is to charge more for it, don't we? Well no. Of course not. Well, not in the general sense anyway, though of course there are exceptions.A couple of weeks ago I read with a sense of disbelief that yet again this daft idea gets prominence in trade news, this time as it often is, in …

There’s a new book out by Chris Dixon, an investor at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. I haven’t read it. (And after reading Molly White’s excellent review, I probably won’t.) But! Yesterday, Anil Dash mentioned something about the book that caught my eye: Fun fact: in his promo for this book, Chris repeatedly describes smart contracts on the blockchain as being equivalent to collective bargaining, presenting this as an …

The Apple Vision Pro represents the end of something. Or possibly the beginning. It’s an apex product from an apex economy. What we know about capitalism – liberal democracy, Western economic dominance – suggests some kind of discontinuity is coming, some kind of historic break or epochal crisis. A lot of people accept this. Meanwhile, the happy plateau we were expecting from the 21st Century never materialised and the steady …

One of the most enjoyable things to read in the music papers back in the day were the ritual encounters between the writers and the Metal Monolith - via the metal festival review. Enjoyable to write, not so much! Verily twas a short straw assignment: the rock paper equivalent of latrine duty.... And yet, and yet, in terms of the review filed, if not the actual lived experience, heavy metal …

We are hardly shocked when visiting different countries and cities to hear a variety of languages. However, the reality of multilingual spaces and societies predates our modern times, as a study of the Anglo-Saxon period shows.

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If you've ever approached a blank page with an idea for a long blog post, you'll understand me when I say that it can be daunting. I can't count how many times I've though to myself "maybe I should go get a snack" while staring at that blank page. We'll do anything to procrastinate that step. This time, I decided to try something new. I recently published a massive blog …

If you are reading this on the 8th of February or December, DON'T USE ANY OF YOUR NEEDLES!!A tradition for broken hearts needlesHarikuyō is a ceremony during which old needles are laid to rest, preferably in tofu or mochi. Or konjak. More on that later.The tradition has been going on since the Muromachi period, which started sometime in the early 14th century. Harikuyō is celebrated once or twice a year, …

Apple Vision Pro is out. Casey Neistat made his video on it. The last couple of days I was reflecting on this incredible pieced of technology. But it was more about changes in the society. Let's go back in time a bit. I grew up in Ukraine in '90s. Back then we had our public lives and private lives. And they were completely different things. There were only few times …

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By Roar Bjonnes Introduction This article looks at the development of green economics over the past decades and analyzes its various forms, including green economics, sustainable development, and green capitalism and concludes that none of these offers comprehensive system change and a viable solution to our current economic and environmental problems. Instead, the author argues, we need a new economic system beyond capitalism, one that can structurally replace it. The …