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Lying host Rachel Campos-Duffy is married to Trump’s pick for transportation secretary, Sean Duffy.

Research from Massachusetts General Hospital, I believe, in the United States, possibly underscores what many of us already suspect: that prolonged use of social media may not be the best: This kind of study cannot prove that your hours of doomscrolling is directly making you Tik’d off, but in light of known associations of irritability and mental health issues, maybe we should put down our phones just a little more. …

Hearing politics getting thrown around during this fire is tired. I’ve heard Rick Caruso, Patrick Soon-Chiang, Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump all play the blame game. As irritating as it is, it’s not the thing that is pissing me off the most right now. While we all know the answer to this question, I don’t hear this being voiced at all: WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE TO CROWDFUND …

When a mischievous maid’s stove doesn’t light up quickly enough, she splashes in some paraffin… and a bit more… and a bit more! An explosive comedy. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD and Bluray. An Earth-Shattering Kaboom George Albert Smith was on a roll in the 1890s and 1900s. His 1897 comedy The X-Rays used […]

OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) are a framework for validating alignment through the organization. As a company, as a department, as a team: what are we focused on this quarter? What are we trying to make true? Alignment looks nice when the team OKRs roll up to the department OKRs, and those add up to the company OKRs. This is logical. And terrible. Occasionally Summation Makes Sense In the Sales …

Guest Post from Nick Sovich. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------Bill Gasarch recently blogged on RANDOM THOUGHTS ON AI here . He is in the realm of theory. I am in the realm of applications so I asked if I could do a post on AI from that background. He agreed, and here's the post:1) Words MatterToday you tell a foundation model who to be and how to behave by giving it a system prompt …

“Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized.”Via https://bsky.app/profile/seamus.bsky.social/post/3lfkucto5522l

Taepyongga (Song Of Great Peace) Tracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:31 Saba Alizadeh - ClamourTemple Of Hope, 2025, 30M Records 03:10 Peter James - The End Of NightHomework - Year 9, 2024, Taâlem 08:16 Claire Rousay - IIThe Bloody Lady, 2024, Viernulvier Records 12:16 Park Jiha - Blown LeavesAll Living Things, 2025, tak:til/Glitterbeat 15:48 Michael Stearns - Morris Dreams Of A Past LifePurr24, 2024, Projekt Records 19:53 Ben Lukas …

Early crankcase design flawThe crank and cases were largely unchanged during the long run of the 89cc Honda engine, the main change being to the kick-starter. I got to learn about these changes first hand when working on by CT90 which - although it is a 1969 model – came with an engine is from a late K0 model, dating from around 1968. The original kick-starter design fitted to the …

Thought experiments are powerful thinking tools. To clarify the perhaps most important characteristic of them, I like to think of them as existing at the intersection of thoughts and experiments. Here is an obvious Venn diagram to show that relationship. It has some clear implications. Experiments are specifically about testing hypotheses or ideas. You get to control variables and assumptions – the environment and context of your experiment – then …

Happy Sunday, everyone! Hopefully, the new year dust is settling, and everyone is finding their rhythm again as smoothly as possible.This week, apart from perusing news and previews from CES, I’ve been playing with Minitap, an open-source Chrome browser extension that’s a full-fledged digital sequencer and beatbox, and listening to this gorgeous live Ólafur Arnalds concert filmed in the Icelandic wilderness. I also really enjoyed this great essay drawing storytelling …

Our major exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, features many examples of female figures working in professions and fields otherwise dominated by men. Among them, one woman’s story is particularly striking. Around the year 1403, the widow Joan du Lee sent a petition to Henry IV, King of England,...

I don’t know what’s coming as we’re now just days away from a major government transition. Everything already is starting to feel like it’s turning upside down. Deadly and devastating fires are burning through Southern California. Big Tech is currying favor with dangerous ideas and playing political games they’re not prepared or will likely accept responsibility for the lasting effects of — and there’s ominous clouds surrounding the future of …

The saga of one of the classic British sole manufacturers seems to be all. The owners of Itshide, perhaps most famous for their Commando rubber soles, has gone into liquidation, and all things points to this being the end for the over 100 years old Northampton-based company. With the industrialisation and development of rubber products in the late 1800’s, a lot of companies around the world started do produce rubber …