PJM, a vast electric grid that stretches from Illinois to New Jersey, has declared a rare, system-wide emergency and is ordering some customers to curtail demand as a vast winter storm sends power use soaring.

One afternoon in Portland, I walked into World Cup & Tea to do some work. Instead, I had an encounter with the guy who invented the computer: Russell Kirsch

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Simplifying systems to deliver stability by avoiding scaling during times of stress.

Bodging a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard

Many manufacturers now find it simpler and less expensive to add sesame to a product — and to label it — than to try to keep it away from other foods or equipment with sesame.

How a Few Activists Made ChatGPT Deny Basic Science

California passed a new law banning Tesla from calling its software Full Self-Driving (FSD). Senate Bill 1398 was one of the hundreds

Just a couple of ideas! They came to me while I was poking around thinking of something to say for Alex Trost’s Holiday Mega-Stream (my segment starts here). Styleable Resizers Ya know how a …

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The Finch CLI is an open source client for container development - runfinch/finch

The SAFE Banking Act would help owners of legal marijuana businesses gain fair access to capital and banking services.

ORDER OF RECUSAL in case as to Samuel Bankman-Fried, Zixiao (Gary) Wang, Caroline Ellison: It has come to the Courts attention that the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, at which my husband is a partner, advised FTX in 2021, as well as represented parties…