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par Ploum le 2025-09-02 Переведено на русский Wandering Thinker Avertissement : Cet article parle de mon expérience avec le Mudita Kompakt, mais, n’étant pas lié à cette firme, je ne répondrai à aucune question concernant cet appareil ni le Hisense A5. Tout ce que j’ai à dire au sujet de cet…
Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. By Ulkar Aghayeva From the late 1980s through the early 2000s, a famous debate played out between the evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris on the nature of the evolutionary process. Gould viewed evolution as radically contingent: if…
Tom Hartmann had not planned to become a Software Mechanic. But then, nobody who was a Software Mechanic had planned to become one, because the job hadn’t existed seven years ago, and the people doing it had all been something else first. This was true of most professions in the post-transition…
by Ploum on 2026-03-13 In a poignant Gemini post, Kevin Boone wrote about his anxiety to go out of his house without his phone. (This is the Gemini protocol, totally unrelated to the Google chatbot.) Phone anxiety (larsthebear.me) Web version of the former Around 2018, I had the same epiphany: I was…
What was the song? Mary couldn’t quite remember. It was one of Mr Pepper’s classics, certainly. A ballad. Possibly You Are My Sunshine? What did it matter; the point was the voice. Not Mr Pepper’s – she knew what he sounded like well enough, being one of Easterlea Rest Home’s regular afternoon…
Shubham Bose, “The 49MB Web Page”: I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all…
| Das Magazin | Urs Schwarz: Arzt arbeitete sich am Unispital Zürich zu Tode Abo Der Fall Urs Schwarz – Teil 1 – 17 Jahre ohne Ferien: Der Arzt, der sich zu Tode arbeitete Er war ein erfolgreicher Neurologe, bei allen beliebt. Nein sagen? Konnte er schlecht. Und so arbeitete Urs Schwarz am Unispital…
Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. This essay will appear in our forthcoming book, “Making the Modern Laboratory,” to be published later this year. In 1942, at the height of British industrial war mobilization, an unlikely cohort scavenged the nation’s coastline for a precious substance. Among…
by Gary Borjesson To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for,…
Madison Swart/Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The plan was never to become an ICE agent. The plan, when I went to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Career Expo in Texas…
Get updates Follow @mattshumer_ Get early access to future reviews and builds. Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing…
The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found. The platform, which says it has about 50 million users worldwide, allows members of the public to self-publish…
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Asimov - Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957) Profession by Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov’s Profession is an allegorical description of the manner in which education currently functions in our primitive western societies — abelard Profession, copyright ©1957 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., from…
I’m an old Mac-head at heart, and I’ve been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don’t tend to genuinely think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there’s a thing to be said about the simplicity of older…
James and I both started working at Keystone Data Analytics in 2019, right before the pandemic. We were pretty good friends. Every Friday, we went out for drinks with a few of the other software engineers. But like most tech companies, Keystone went fully remote in 2020, and James and I lost touch.…
Digitalisierung: Zum Surfen in die Migros Die Digitalisierung ist eine Welt der Grauzonen – auch für Sans-Papiers wie Ackson. Während er in der analogen Öffentlichkeit ausgegrenzt ist, kann er die digitale Welt auch zur Erweiterung seiner Handlungsspielräume nutzen. 19.05.2023TEXT: FLORIAN WÜSTHOLZ,…
There's a feeling you get in the presence of beautiful buildings and bustling courtyards. A sense that these spaces are inviting you to slow down, deepen your attention, and be a bit more human. What if our software could do the same? —— We shape our environments, and thereafter they shape us. Great…
Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of clothes, a stack of medical reports, and a few boiled eggs to snack on. Then, she takes a 1.5-hour…
Top: Ivrea, Bottom: Camillo Olivetti The town of Ivrea is quite old and has a rich history, but today, its population has shrunk from around 90,000 in 1970 to just over 20,000 in the 2020s. In the 1400s, Ivrea gained small Jewish community. By the mid 1800s, Salvador Benedetto Olivetti was a…
A light-hearted behind-the-scenes look running the OpenStreetMap infrastructure. From fighting bots and scrapers to rescuing failing servers, discover how the Ops Team keeps OSM.org running smoothly. Full details of this session at https://2025.stateofthemap.eu/session.html#7RREJS Part of the…
What did people used to think the world looked like? From the beginning of human history to right before the age of exploration, how were world maps created? This goes from Anaximander to the Catalan Atlas in 1375. The Catalan Atlas - A Medieval Marvel by Flash Point History…
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing…
Deutsch | English Es sind Szenen, wie man sie aus Diktaturen kennt: Maskierte Agenten der Migrationsbehörde ICE machen in den USA Jagd auf Migrantinnen. Im Stil von paramilitärischen Gruppen dringen sie in gepanzerten Fahrzeugen in Quartiere ein und verhaften Menschen, um sie danach ohne…
18th December 2025 In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers—or open source maintainers—and…
I needed a restaurant recommendation, so I did what every normal person would do: I scraped every single restaurant in Greater London and built a machine-learning model. It started as a very reasonable problem. I was tired of doom-scrolling Google Maps, trying to disentangle genuinely good food from…
This is the first article of Issue 09. Read our Editor’s Note to preview upcoming articles, which will be published every Monday. By Robert Reason Science seeks truths that outlive those who discover them. English poet William Wordsworth’s observation that “to the solid ground of nature trusts the…
During the stay-at-home grim days of 2020, I started learning Spanish on Duolingo. Having a working understanding of Spanish seemed like a sensible first step towards opening a taco truck in Mexico, in case I had to run away from my doctoral studies. This July, after about 5 years I decided to end…
Today, we’re excited to launch AI Voices, which are high-quality, streaming text-to-speech voices. We’ve completely redesigned the text-to-speech player to make it more modern and intuitive. Lastly, we’re launching a major Android update with an improved search experience and a number of other…
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some…
The first question I ask my clients is, “How would you like to see the world?” Some answers are charming; they want to see the world as an infant does, everything new and unspoiled by habit and familiarity. Some are more professionally minded and wish for magnification-enhanced, telescopic, UV,…
“I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.” —Alexander Fleming Many know the story of Alexander Fleming’s chance discovery of penicillin. Fleming, a bit of an absent-minded professor (and a bit of a slob), left culture plates streaked with Staphylococcus on his…
The Nostromo towing its refinery through the inky blackness of space. “I was really influenced by three films,” Ridley Scott told Fantastic Films in 1979, on the subject of the Nostromo and its claustrophobic corridors. “Not so much in terms of Star Wars, but definitely from 2001 and Dark Star.” The…
A Reporter at Large Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison? October 20, 2025 Kinahan has lived a strikingly public life in the Emirates, shopping at malls and consorting with famous boxers like Tyson Fury.Illustration by Ben…
I want to tell you a story about a map that never came to be. When I first heard it, in an interview with Katia Naouri in Desired Landscapes,1 its metaphorical power nearly knocked me over. The story itself appeared to me as a map of sorts, the destinations of which were almost innumerable. Very…
Dept. of Medicine The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way. April 15, 2024 In “Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity,” Attia, one of the most prominent longevity evangelists, extrapolates from…
Biological structures exist across a vast range of scales. At one end are whole organisms, varying in size from bacteria only a few micrometers across to mammals measured in feet. These can be seen with the naked eye or with simple light microscopes, which have been in use since the mid-1600s. At…
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Imagine for a moment that it’s late on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Republicans have kept their majority in the Senate, but too many House races are still uncalled to tell who has won that chamber. Control…
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One common explanation for why children spend so much of their free time on screens goes like this: Smartphones and social-media platforms are addicting them. Kids stare at their devices and socialize online…
Toward the end of March, Rachel Ganz had what she calls “a premonition of doom.” At the time, she couldn’t quite explain this foreboding. She and her husband, Jon Ganz, ages 45 and 49, respectively, were in the midst of what should have been a happy milestone: The couple were planning to move out of…
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