Wie schafft man es fast das halbe Land digital zu bevormunden? Mit einer Zwangs-App eines Quasi-Monopolisten. Das ist jetzt zugegeben ein steiler Einstieg ins heutige Thema, wie mein Kollege richtigerweise beim Gegenlesen dieses Texts monierte. Aber er bietet sich an, weil: Es geht heute um die…

After listening to the latest episode of the Death Panel podcast, where Bea, Artie and Abby talk about the end of mask mandates in medical facilities in the so-called USA, i thought it might be interesting to share some of the observations i made here in Switzerland, where the end of masking in…

1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual, by Strategic Services https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf Title: Simple Sabotage Field Manual Author: Strategic Services Office of Strategic Services SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL…

I don't want your streaming music service, I just want the music I've collected and care about available to stream. Apple Music kind of offers this, with some serious sharp edges to watch out for. Spotify doesn't offer this, neither does YouTube Music. Want to stream music? Sign up for a service,…

Published inEarth Genome · 9 min read· Mar 18, 2023 -- In this blog post we walk through some of our initial explorations using AI interfaces to solve geospatial problems. As a vehicle for trying out these ideas, we’ve created ChatGeoPT, a toy Geospatial AI Assistant. ChatGeoPT translates natural…

A big story last week was the partial release of the CDC’s bi-annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which showed that most teen girls (57%) now say that they experience persistent sadness or hopelessness (up from 36% in 2011), and 30% of teen girls now say that they have seriously considered suicide…

I put together a small Jet Engine with a See Thru transparent housing to allow us to see inside of the jet engine while it's running, I explain the combustion process of the jet engine from the compressor to the turbine wheel and show visually how the see-thru Jet Engine Works. I then film it in…

Barbados needed to win by two, but they were only up one. So instead of scoring in the traditional way they intentionally kicked in an own goal to get to extra time. That way, they'd have a chance at a golden goal that for some reason was worth two goals instead of just the usual one. Grenada spent…

I. Alice is considering buying a house. Alice lives in Littleton, Colorado. While she hasn’t decided whether she will buy or rent, she knows she wants a house, not an apartment or condo. In a stroke of great fortune, she finds two eerily identical but beautiful houses on the same block. The only…

Ever wonder how electrons know where they are going? Electricity is a pretty mystifying topic, because electricity seems to be able to do impossible things, or at least things that don't make sense at a normal "human" scale. In this video I use a thermal camera to show electric current through a…

What Colour are your bits? Thu 10 Jun 2004 by mskala Tags used: colour, copyright, philosophy As of Summer 2024, my article "What Colour are your bits?" has been online 20 years, and people are still linking to it as a benchmark. It's clear that people still care about intellectual property in…

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 Check out the rest of his profile for…

VDO.Ninja is a tool kit for live streaming with many advanced features. The service is hosted at vdo.ninja, it's free to use, and we take your privacy to heart. Links of interest: docs.vdo.ninja - documentation discord.vdo.ninja - community support on discord github.vdo.ninja - source code…

Today we're going to analyze the drill that broke last week while drilling in aluminum. We'll take a look at it under the microscope, and then take advantage of a friend with a Scanning Electron Microscope to look at the morphology of the break, and do some elemental analysis. Because science. Also,…

N un hat also selbst die Stadt Hannover die Geduld verloren: Sie kündigt ihre Mietverträge, zieht ihre Büros leer, dreht dem aktuellen Investor Lars Windhorst den Geldhahn zu. 2,5 Millionen Euro hätten sie eigentlich in den nächsten 20 Jahren jedes Jahr zahlen sollen. Doch dazu hätte es bei der…

I have an admission to make. I am writing this article on a Windows XP computer. This is not some offline writing computer but my main computer, fully connected to the local network and the internet. Depending on your tolerance level you might find this a bit weird or completely mad. No one uses…

Bis drei Uhr in der Früh über­prüfe ich meine Nach­richten. Dann schlafe ich ein. Ich wache in einer anderen Realität auf. „Es hat ange­fangen“, benach­rich­tige ich die Bewohner*innen meiner Genos­sen­schaft in Zürich. Es ist so ein expe­ri­men­telles Co-Living, ein alter­na­tives Haus mitten in…

SB Loses Shootout to Manhattan On Nov. 24 Stony Brook’s Women’s Basketball team faced the Manhattan Jasper’s. In a high scoring affair, Stony Brook lost by a final score of 74-68. The Jasper’s held the lead most of the game, including a game high 12 point lead at half (44-32). Stony Brook was always…

Sie glauben an die „Vorherrschaft der weißen Rasse“, trainieren für den „Tag X“, an dem sie die Macht übernehmen. Doch sie bleiben fast immer unsichtbar – Unter dem Radar. Über den Geheimbund der Hammerskins ist bisher wenig bekannt. Seit dreißig Jahren gibt es das Neonazi-Netzwerk, das sich einst…

https://kamerastore.com/smarter (Free shipping for a camera should be auto-applied to orders entering through this link.) Thanks to everyone supporting on Patreon for letting me film this. http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday General info about the project: https://www.camerarescue.org/ Daily…

So the “Future of Life Institute” just published an open letter arguing for the “AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4“. That letter has (at the point of me writing this) 1123 signatures, some of them by very respected and knowledgable…

Visit https://wren.co/start/notjustbikes to start offsetting your carbon emissions with Wren and get your first month for free! If the US is too big to have good urbanism, then a small country must be great, right? Well, no. Believe it or not, the size of the country has nothing to do with how…

A ls Nicole Müller das erste Mal zu Volker Hänneschen kam, hatte sie eine Plastiktüte voll Briefe in der Hand. Darin waren sehr viele Rechnungen. Bestimmt 300 Stück. Es gibt Menschen, die öffnen keine Briefe mehr. Volker Hänneschen fragt dann nicht nach den Gründen. Die wird es schon geben, denkt er…

News Feature March 9, 2023• Physics 16, 40 Condensed-matter physicist Ranga Dias and his colleagues reported on Tuesday the discovery of a room-temperature, near-ambient-pressure superconductor; Dias is also being accused of committing scientific misconduct, including data manipulation and…

[For an English translation: Anarchy2023 – The “International Anti-Authoritarian Meeting” is planning a COVID-superspreader Here’s the Mastodon thread with some further discussion: toot!] tl;dr: Die Pandemie hat auch die radikale Linke gespalten. Verschwörungsmystische Narrative sind bis tief in…

Enno Lenze und Wieland Giebel vor dem zerstörten russischen T-72 Panzer. Foto: Stefan Frank Am 24. Februar 2022 begann die russische Invasion der Ukraine. Ziel war es das Leben, die Kultur, den Staat und die Ukrainerinnen und Ukrainer auszulöschen. Getrieben von einem rassistischen Wahn, setzten…

I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The code SumatraPDF is an open-source document…

Photo cred: my dad For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most…

photo cred: my dad Last month I published a paper by uploading a PDF to the internet and people were like “nice paper, here are some thoughts!” Two weeks ago I wrote a post saying peer review is a failed experiment and that one alternative is to upload PDFs to the internet and some people were like…

So, did you hear about Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, getting his comic strip pulled from newspapers after going on a lengthy rant in which he called Black people a “hate group” and called for informal segregation of the races? I want to talk a bit about how we got there. Keep reading with a 7-day…

The first time we mentioned the potato diet, in Part III of our series A Chemical Hunger, we shared the story of Chris Voigt, the Executive Director of the Washington State Potatoes Commission, who lost 21 pounds on a 60-day potato diet. By Part X of the series, we started to wonder if someone…

By Josh DziezaDesign by Kristen Radtke Jul 20, 2022, 10:00am ET On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and she was behind schedule. The color-coded,…

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. A month before my 30th birthday, I start getting hives whenever I’m in the water. And during that summer, I am…

Let me tell you a tale of a mythical beast who wanders the wintry peaks. He is your average American resort skier, and he does strange and marvelous things. According to legend, he will sit in traffic for three hours on a Saturday morning to make a drive that would otherwise take less than half the…