@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-04-28 16:24:04
Hey friends!
We are just back from another nice 42km #cycling loop. Lots of headwind, lots of up and down and a little mistake in starting the tour at the highest point of the loop. The final, long ascent was a bit... Not so much fun.
But the views were just ace, more streets than yesterday but very few traffic! I was rather happy to have sun cream today.
Just a great Sunday!
@xtaran@chaos.social2024-04-28 23:41:09
#30DaysOfBiking, Day 28 = #SPEZI24, Day 2: Rode my KMX recumbent trike to #SPEZI (2x 4km) and rode each of the following bikes at least once through the 750m test course: A
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-04-28 16:24:04
Hey friends!
We are just back from another nice 42km #cycling loop. Lots of headwind, lots of up and down and a little mistake in starting the tour at the highest point of the loop. The final, long ascent was a bit... Not so much fun.
But the views were just ace, more streets than yesterday but very few traffic! I was rather happy to have sun cream today.
Just a great Sunday!
@sfmatheson@fediscience.org2024-03-27 17:06:56
RIP Daniel #Kahneman. Thoughts from last year:
"...*Thinking, Fast and Slow* was a life-changer for me. As soon as I read it in 2013, I urged colleagues to read it, even convening a book club."
"I can *feel* the move in my mind from the constant important work of System 1 to the deliberative work of System 2. Knowing how often my intuition has been a hindrance to my understanding of the world, I welcome the feeling of going to the place where the adult is in charge."
https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/scientific-thinking-as-antidote-to.html
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2024-03-27 10:03:09
Kris @… goes into a very important issue here (in German):
Since "AI" has become the thing to do, no cloud platform is neutral anymore (they never fully were, try hosting warez there, but for your own content they mostly were): They all "need" (as in want) to use your work as training data for their neural networks - especially work that's not "…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2024-02-25 08:52:09
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2024-04-26 12:01:15
A specific achievement: check off all the following train stops in a single journey:
• #Poznań Dębiec
• Poznań Dębina
• Łódź Dąbrowa
(all the district names refer to the oak tree)
And I don't mind just passing through them, but actually getting off at Dębiec and taking the change at Dębina. It's roughly a 1 km walk over a non-colliding route, which is usually safer than running between platforms on the main station.
#rail
@StephenRees@mas.to2024-04-26 18:07:52
20th Anniversary – probably
In 2004 I found myself unemployed. By some strange coincidence this morning I read a post from Ben Parfitt "Thanks for the Great Ride". It seems that just as I was looking for a new job he had found one: "my new capacity as a resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office." I wasn't exactly clear on the precise date of either event, so I went looking in my filing cabinet and come across this docume…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-24 21:28:22
Donald stomped through the city like he was King Kong.
He built Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue with ready-mix cement from the mob, the “Concrete Club”, they called it, provided by Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, boss of the Genovese crime family, the client of Roy Cohn, and under the supervision of teamster boss John Cody, under the control of Paul Castellano, boss of the Gambino crime family.
Cody bought an apartment for his mistress in the completed building without filing a loan ap…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2024-02-24 11:56:56
Posted books 6 7 on the blog.
Mariane Satrapi's beautifully observed embroideries and an investigation into the benefits of walking by a danish public health professor. Both worth a look...
Dunno what it means, but this year so far I've only read 2 books written by men? Coincidence? Probably.
But interesting nonetheless.