Mark Stenberg, reporting for Adweek in January: Digital media company G/O Media is shopping around its portfolio of editorial assets in hopes of securing buyers for individual titles, part of a broader effort to divest the properties ahead of another challenging year for the medi … | Continue reading
Mary Jo Foley: In a perfect world, Microsoft would take security seriously again. It would be transparent about breaches. Its execs would stop gloating about increasing security service revenue at a time when Microsoft can’t secure its own employees, let alone customers, against … | Continue reading
Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents This story is from April 2022 but I realize now I never linked to it. Yandex Food, a popular food delivery service in Russia, suffered a major data leak. The data included an order history with names, addresses and phone numbers … | Continue reading
All the morning with my workmen with great pleasure to see them near coming to an end. At noon Mr. Moore and I went to an Ordinary at the King's Head in Towre Street, and there had a dirty dinner. Afterwards home and having done some business with... | Continue reading
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This is a recent instagram post of the Vietnamese singer Suni Ha Linh. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SUNI (@sunihalinh) The translation is accurate. búbèi dìngyì de huā 不被定义的花 "undefined flower(s) / non-defined flower(s) / flower(s) that is/are not defined" Who kno … | Continue reading
Affordable starter home is 3D-printed in just 18 hours Affordable starter home is 3D-printed in just 18 hours | Continue reading
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alpaca-clouds: Alright, let me talk about one thing in terms of accessibility in science fiction settings - and Solarpunk specifically - that also has more than one side to it: Cars and accessibility. Because it is more complicated than you’d thing. See: The fact that our world i … | Continue reading
Architect David Parsons has masterfully updated a Californian bungalow located in Sydney's Rosebery suburb, now known as the Rosebery Residence. As the principal of David Parsons Architect, he infused the property with a modern twist on indoor-outdoor living Continue reading | Continue reading
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Matt Houghey wrote a blueprint for his “Dream CMS” and we had him on ShopTalk to talk about it. That got me thinking about what features I’d want in my dream CMS. It’s fun to think of what a modern CMS might have like inline editing, asset serving, monetization/membership functio … | Continue reading
Enjoy ice-cold coffee all summer long when you snag this budget-friendly carafe brewer from Amazon. It's on sale for just $21, and it's perfect for small kitchens. READ MORE... | Continue reading
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Getting straight to the code: It looks a little beastly but I love clever tricks like this. Here, Terrence defines a web font with an array of font files that operating systems use for local emoji support. It’s not totally unlike leveraging a system font, only we have to do more … | Continue reading
“AI has fundamentally changed user expectations.” Really? As in we all expect AI to scrape content that isn’t theirs, hallucinate over the results, and spit out a degraded version of it? Sure, OK. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on April 25, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading
‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’: how radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone | Art | The Guardian ‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’: how radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone | Continue reading
Self-promotion is a weird subject. It’s one of those things that is strictly tied to who you are as a person. I am, broadly speaking, a shy and reserved person. I don’t like to be in the spotlight, I don’t like to draw attention to myself. I also really care about other people's … | Continue reading
I've been enjoying Biosphere as the soundtrack to my recent "concentrated work" spells. Knives by Biosphere I remember seeing their name on playlists of yester-year: axioms, bluemars1, and (still a going concern) soma.fm's drone zone. Bluemars lives on, at echoes of bluemars↩ | Continue reading
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The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down — Alex Jason, via Adam Savage | Continue reading
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It’s our 15th anniversary this year and we’d love to hear about you: who you are, why you follow us, what you like, what you don’t, what you value and how you interact with us and anyone else in the infosphere. Yes, it’s a survey but a quick two minute one. Plus every 100th parti … | Continue reading
Today, only one topic, but that's because I wanted to share my broader thoughts on the latest Datadog report. | Continue reading
We brought together Ann Coulter, Sohrab Ahmari, Nick Gillespie, and Cenk Uygur to discuss the No. 1 issue for American voters. Now paid subscribers can watch. | Continue reading
The offices of MyHeritage, an Israeli tech company, have evolved significantly since their early days in a historic Templar building in Bney Atarot. The layout of the offices of MyHeritage centers around a core of meeting rooms Continue reading | Continue reading
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The Adige House, nestled in the charming Trieste district of Rome, represents a captivating blend of contemporary elegance and timeless charm. This approximately 150-square-meter apartment serves as a canvas for the modern reinterpretation of classic style Continue reading | Continue reading
Share of electricity generated by fossil fuels in Great Britain drops to record low | Energy industry | The Guardian Share of electricity generated by fossil fuels in Great Britain drops to record low Come on Britain 😁😁😁 | Continue reading
I really enjoyed this skewering of The Ethicist, the New York Times’ moral dilemmas column. This person may be the perfect example of an Ethicist reader. They’re peeved about a perceived transgression that doesn’t affect them in any way, or really harm anyone (the store gets its … | Continue reading
By a funny coincidence, just after I sent my last newsletter about how to backdoor Rust crates, an advanced supply chain attack targeting SSH servers was uncovered by a talented developer and agitated the internet for the following weeks, leading to really interesting investigati … | Continue reading
I’ve been at OpenAI for almost a year now. In that time, I’ve trained a lot of generative models. [...] It’s becoming awfully clear to me that these models are truly approximating their datasets to an incredible degree. [...] What this manifests as is – trained on the same datase … | Continue reading
Hardika Singh, Wall Street Journal: Bartash isn’t alone. Scores of individual investors have piled into Tesla shares in recent years, lured by the company’s technology, visionary chief executive and mammoth stock market gains. Through the end of last year, the stock was one of th … | Continue reading
Blogmarks that use markdown I needed to attach a correction to an older blogmark (my 20-year old name for short-form links with commentary on my blog) today - but the commentary field has always been text, not HTML, so I didn't have a way to add the necessary link. This motivated … | Continue reading
Ed Zitron read a bunch of the emails released in United States v. Google and believes the quality of Google’s search engine has been in decline since early 2019 thanks to new leadership: These emails are a stark example of the monstrous growth-at-all-costs mindset that dominates … | Continue reading
No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies I linked to a story the other day about book sales claiming "90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies", based on numbers released in the Penguin antitrust lawsuit. It turns out those … | Continue reading
Snowflake Arctic Cookbook Today's big model release was Snowflake Arctic, an enormous 480B model with a 128×3.66B MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture. It's Apache 2 licensed and Snowflake state that "in addition, we are also open sourcing all of our data recipes and research in … | Continue reading
:ericnormand Appearance by Eric Normand. Published: October 29, 2021 I talked to Jordan Miller on her podcast about my origin story. It was so fun! Your browser does not support the audio element. Click here to download the audio file. Lost in Lambduhhs - :ericnormand | Continue reading
https://twitter.com/JWGrieve/status/1782747849052016680 This is the cited paper: "Geographic structure of Chinese dialects: A computational dialectometric approach", by He Huang, Jack Grieve, Lei Jiao, and Zhuo Cai, Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton [April 23, 2024]) https://doi.org … | Continue reading
Waked in the morning with my head in a sad taking through the last night's drink, which I am very sorry for; so rose and went out with Mr. Creed to drink our morning draft, which he did give me in chocolate to settle my stomach. And after that I to... | Continue reading
Since 2013 Van Stapele has been baking the best cookies in Amsterdam: a single brown chocolate cookie with a heart of white chocolate. The secret recipe creates an irresistible delicacy that draws epic queues every day. Continue reading | Continue reading
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Designed by Dev & Kaushik Architects, Backyard Pad is a creative endeavor to transform an expansive backyard into a multifunctional space. The project is tailored to include a small party yard, an office, a gym, staff quarters Continue reading | Continue reading
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