I'm digging through quite some photos of this visit of the lakeshore recently. — Just some days ago I asked myself "why do I take all those photos when I'm not _doing_ anything with them?"
I'm not posting a lot of them, nor printing them or so, I just take them, edit them ...
I felt a bit sad until it struck me again "it is my hobby - there is no *need* for any other prupose than to just make my time pleasant. And this is what the whole process of tak…
Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass ein Podcast über Fett im US-Konsumverhalten so viele super spannende Themen berühren würde. Große Empfehlung.
The Sporkful: Seed Oils Are The Latest Battle In The Cooking Fat Wars: https://www.sporkful.com/tag/podcast-episodes/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sparks:
🎵 This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us
#Sparks
https://tributefestpgh.bandcamp.com/track/this-town-aint-big-enough-for-the-both-of-us
https://open.spotify.com/track/2rgHxOarlO4W35mg0IZ5u8
Herbert injures hand, doesn't expect to miss time https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47158915/justin-herbert-suffers-break-left-hand-chargers-win
KI-Stimmen verändern die #Hörbuchbranche.
Neue Tools ermöglichen günstige, KI-generierte #Hörbücher. #Audioplattform springen auf den Zug auf.
From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
A phoenix rises from the ashes - WOH G64 is still a red #supergiant, for now: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/546/2/stag012/8416424?login=false -> Keele-led team reveals massive star WOH G64 is still a red supergiant: https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2026/january/cosmic-mystery/keele-led-team-reveals-massive-star-woh-g64-is-still-a-red-supergiant-.php
A little clip from last night's city #fireworks here in Cambridge. I love these sparky ones in slo-mo.
An unusable weapon
The Sarmat missile is Russia’s next-generation heavy-duty ICBM,
capable of carrying a payload of up to 10 large nuclear warheads,
a combination of warheads and countermeasures, or hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Simply put, the Sarmat is a doomsday weapon designed for use in an all-out nuclear war between Russia and the United States.
Dmitry Rogozin, then the head of Russia’s spa…