Much has been made of the declining life expectancy in the US.

The reality is regional. Think of the US as two countries:

Some blue counties with increasing life-expectancy better than 🇯🇵 (84) & many red counties with plummeting life expectancy worse than…

Scientists think they've found a way to harvest more electricity from plants, a finding that could ripple out to other renewable energy technologies.

Theocratic capture campaigns rule everything around me

Starlink satellite internet has afforded me and others opportunities in a connected world. But recently has become an expensive liability.

An isomorphic language for retrocomputers

This is the website of the International Pascal Congress.

I've been using GitHub since I was eleven years old. To be fair, I didn't really understand git at the time, but I was able to fumble my way through it...

As a rule, it’s a good idea to be particularly suspicious of defenses of censorship that — coincidentally — materially benefit the people espousing them. In this case, the argument in favor of cens…

While AM radio will still be available in commercial vehicles, Ford will not offer it in new gas-powered and EV vehicles beginning in 2024.

a tiny web experiment

Head to https://80000hours.org/steve to start planning a career that is meaningful, fulfilling, and helps solve one of the world’s most pressing problems.

Here's the original simulation by bergmanjoe: https://www.tiktok.com/@bergmanjoe/video/7109098512058436907…

Directed by Dominique Filhol

Based on the story by Arthur C. Clarke

With Paul Bandey, Lennard Ridsdale, Rotem Jackman, Yves Yan and Lama Gyurme.

Awards
- BEST ADAPTATION OF A BOOK at the 25th Sedona International Film Festival, Sedona, USA, 2019
- …

For Scientific American, Jen Christiansen tracks down where the iconic image on the cover of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures came from. Designer Peter Saville found the image, a stacked graph of successive radio signals from pulsar CP 1919, in a

The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government has gotten the message.

Following a lively debate amongst CS engineers, Ian Miell offers tips on how to respond to your advantage when someone claims your favoured tool is not declarative and therefore verboten.

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting.

The roller-coaster that is generative AI keeps chugging on, and for those of us sitting in the audience, it is more than entertaining.