Most important is to be more intentional in your digital media consumption. Do not let the algorithm decide what you should indulge. Choose consciously what enters your mind. Understand that you are not bored, you are being processed. It is not that you are lacking discipline that makes you easily distracted, it is because you are in the machine optimised for brainrot.
First, Amazon has to prove that people want to buy their cars not only online, but from the same place they buy toothpaste.
I’ve been writing the following since image stabilization first appeared: in situations where you don’t need it—e.g. when you’ve got a shutter speed that should freeze even that fast moving plane—stabilization is best turned off. While best case is that stabilization corrects all problems, the worst case is that it introduces new flaws. A likely case is that you get some edge aliasing.
Now the English huddle by the radiator, sucking up CO2 and mould spores. The houses struggle to feel warm because it’s 80% humidity inside.
The issue is the docks and loading facilities. They can only load about 4.5 Mbpd.
For decades, state and city leaders, many of whom have no private-sector experience themselves, have prioritized political agendas, pet projects and ideological experiments over practical prosperity. Consider the fate of Nicollet Mall.
New York Times dashboard: 2000 onward.
Christianity as we know it—the all-are-welcome Church, with fairly undemanding required rituals, no daily prostrations, no rules for separating cheese blintzes from corned beef, just confession, Communion, and prayer—owes more to Paul than to anyone else, perhaps even more than to the narrowly parochial and Jerusalem-centered Jesus. It was Paul, almost single-handed, and against the suspicions of Jesus’ original disciples, who journeyed and pleaded and made the faith portable. Quite a character! So much so that, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, the director Frank Capra was eager to make a movie of Paul’s life starring Frank Sinatra. And though it sounds ridiculous when you say it, the casting actually makes sense. Whoever Paul was, he must have had charm, energy, and intensity, and been equally popular with the first-century equivalent of bobby-soxers and of made men. Raphael’s great image of Paul preaching in Athens, arms outstretched, crowd rapt, could be the Chairman on tour in Greece.
Jernmarker, or iron fields, was chosen as the Danish word of the year in December after the solar backlash swayed municipal elections and prompted some councils to pull projects. The spectre of barren metal landscapes has since returned to the campaign trail as Danes prepare to vote in national elections on Tuesday. “We need more common sense in the green transition,” Støjberg said in the first televised debate between party leaders last month.
MN has become a consumer, not creator, culture.
The clearest illustration of this dynamic came in January 2024, when Sullivan flew to Bangkok to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and asked Beijing to use its “substantial leverage with Iran” to restrain the Houthis. The White House said it would “wait to see results.”. The results came quickly. According to Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, Beijing not only refused the request but also encouraged the Houthis to target other nations’ shipping. As Red Sea traffic collapsed, China-linked ships increased their transits and gained a commercial advantage. Sullivan had asked China to shut down an operation that was serving Chinese interests. Instead, it increased its mischief.
Minnesota Mao — a new documentary from the team that brought you The Fall of Minneapolis. Coming June 4.
Alcorn tapped into the paper’s public API to create a dashboard that provides some extraordinary insights.
Kelda Roys (state senator and running for gov.) a village resident calls in and says she is dismayed how Pres Imes is targeting Lotfi.Says she has known Lotfi for more than 10 years and has appreciate “the care she puts into things.” She’s also concerned about how village is portrayed in the news.
So the question is not whether to use files. You’re always using files. The question is whether to use a database’s files or your own. And for a lot of applications, especially early-stage ones, the answer might be: your own.
“Mr. Biden lives abroad.” Those four words in a filing from Barry Coburn confirmed what had long been rumored about his client: Hunter Biden has left the country as his former lawyers and creditors seek millions in unpaid debts. He added, “He cannot pay his current lawyers.”
But now, Microsoft is stepping back from the industry it helped create, telling some companies that it is pausing future purchases of carbon removal credits, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The news was first reported by Heatmap.
Dems have been playing this same simple game for years with their gullible followers. They pretend to want something their “base” wants, but always manage to fall a few votes short. Gosh darn! Vote Dem next time and we’ll get it for you! I wrote in 2010:
Only guy who kept his cool, until the very end, was the dude who had been riding for 6 days straight from California, where he’d just been released from serving 10.
There’s an old, bad idea that’s been trying to resurrect itself on X in the last couple of days. Which makes it time for me to explain exactly why, in the age of LLMs, open-sourcing your code is an even more important security measure than it was before we had robot friends. The underlying principle was discovered in the 1880s by an expert on military cryptography, a man named August Kerckhoffs, writing long before computers were a thing.
The largest municipal embezzlement in American history ran through one account with one signer. Every small-town government in America has the same setup.
Ex-UT football coach Darrell Royal had a saying that captures this moment for America: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Natural gas – abundant, affordable, powerful – was both the opportunity and the preparation in this instance.
Enriching uranium is an American cultural practice, anyone else doing it is appropriating our culture.
One of Murphy’s trick plays might actually work.
It’s become a Schrödinger’s Strait, open and closed simultaneously- depending on the observer. Iran declares it open, the US blockades it, then vice versa. We have satellites than can read newspaper headlines but the public lacks hard data on ship movements.
“If My people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
The “YIMBY” (“Yes in my backyard”) voting scale is intended to be an objective measure of the pro-housing alignment of Madison Common Council Members. However, you should be highly skeptical of any measure that purports to be “objective,” because every measure of attitudes requires some value judgement. Our measure is no different!
Your home is photographed and publicly visible on at least 5 websites right now.
Google Maps. Apple Maps. Bing Maps. Zillow. Redfin.
You can blur or remove it from all of them. Free. Takes 15 minutes.
In 1970, the UCC reported its highest ratio of members to churches: 291 to one. That’s actually a really healthy number. But now the figure has dropped to only 152 members per congregation. In other words, they aren’t closing churches fast enough to keep that ratio up. To maintain a ratio of 291, it would require the UCC to have only 2,350 churches. That would mean shutting the doors of over 2,000 congregations.