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The Book The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine I saw a reference somewhere online to Yuiri Slezkine’s The House of Government and thinking it was a book about a single building a giant 1931 block of flats in central Moscow opposite the Kremlin I ordered my kindle copy and started reading. I had no idea it was an 1100 page work covering the birth of Bolshevism and its first …

I am, by choice, a member of the Orthodox Church, though no longer active in it. I was a catechumen for a year, regularly attending classes and Church, and received the sacraments, and continued to attend for a number of years. I married in it. That marriage fell apart. I actually kept going for a few years after that, though less regularly. There are parts of it I still miss. …

The cycle of downplaying or mischaracterizing digital effects is becoming distressingly predictable. I wrote about it at length, using the marketing of "Gran Turismo" — a film I didn't work on — as my example. When the misinformation comes for a project that I worked on (which has happened many times in the past), it becomes particularly infuriating.In the lead-up to the release of "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew", Slashfilm wrote …

I was an academic expert invited to submit expert opinion & evidence to the Autumn 2024 closed consultation on the legal and criminal ban on puberty blockers. I’m one of the experts that Wes has claimed to have listened to in agreeing to make this ban permanent. Here is my submission: Proposed changes to the availability of puberty blockers Question 1: Do you agree with making it permanent? Strongly disagree. …

11 December 2024 James Darling’s A Proposal to Transform Co-op Membership for the Internet Age is great. My favourite bits - local, community produce: Imagine walking into your local Co-op and knowing it’s truly your store — not just because you shop there, but because you’re one of 2,475 members who actually own it. Picture seeing products on the shelves made by your neighbors — Audrey’s homemade cakes that you …

It is stating the blindingly obvious that recruitment is a people business and unlike other parts of the retail industry it is not a place that is renowned for embracing technology. Maybe it should be more welcoming of the capabilities of tech especially as the power of AI could help HR and recruitment teams deal with the increasingly high volumes of applications they are receiving. Even when there is a …

Slight traces can be half-guessed, half-gathered to compile a crude biography. Weil was initially published in the United Kingdom, so we can guess that her translator may well have been British. Craufurd was active as a translator from about 1951 to 1964, working mainly on religiously inflected texts from the French. From these facts—her likely nationality, her profession, her unusually spelled last name—we can narrow down the search through online …

Users don’t see (pay attention to) everything that is visible on a UISelective attention & content blindness in UX design — UX Knowledge Piece Sketch #65In this article, I’m going to discuss four types of “blindness” that have UX design implications: content blindness, banner blindness, change blindness and inattentional blindness.Before discussing each of these in more detail, let’s discuss how our attention works.How our attention worksLimited capacityAttention is a limited …

This Moon Phase calendar prioritizes the Moon Phase instead of the named months. https://starinastar.com/moon/moon-phase-calendar-perpetual.html The post Moon Phase Calendar appeared first on Star In A Star.

Since reflecting on one year at Microsoft almost 12 months ago, a lot has changed. Most visibly to the outside world, we’ve completely re-designed and re-engineered our Copilot consumer app from the ground up with a a craft- and quality-first mentality. The New Copilot mobile app Copilot Daily helps you catch up with world events Generating images is easier than ever Every element moves more gracefully, every response loads much …

At the intersection of playfulness and learning, math board games offer an extraordinary opportunity to immerse yourself in the captivating world of mathematics.

What is NP? Why is NP? Posted 12/11/2024 This post is about theoretical computer science. I’ve written it without getting too far into academic vocabulary, but this is a disclaimer that if thinking about Turing machines sounds dry as sand, this will not be the post for you. In computer science we are often interested in how difficult a problem is, defined by how the number of steps required to …

Let's address the existence of so called Ghost Engineers

Time to get the neck joint sorted out and think about what happened to the old one!