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The "Level Up" With Duayne Pearce Podcast
My purpose is to create a new residential building industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/level-up-3/

Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116109430224379547
A fun thing to think about: Where are all the Singularity people with solar?
There’s this whole pseudoscientific subculture organized around the one epistemological premise of “lines that go up will go up forever,” when in reality trends change and curves level off. And now here’s this one thing where people keep stubbornly predicting that it will level off and in fact the line (on a log scale) •has• kept going up far more consistently than predicted…. So why aren’t all the Effective Altruism people saying stuff like “In the future solar cells will save trillions of lives, so it doesn’t matter how many oil executives we kill in the present?”

Bodie Island lighthouse has some nice walking and hiking trails. #OBX #lighthouse #hatteras

Babi

Finally managed to weed eat and cut the lawn today and got the last of the gravel moved so that we can get a bobcat in here to level the yard!! Yaaayy!!
Also did some cleaning out on the pond. Turns out the moss is great… until it REALLY latches in and makes space for grass. There was so much into the stream that it was backing up into the top pond, causing it to overflow, and the whole system lose water!
When I pulled up the moss, it pulled much of the gravel with it! So lesson learned. Very light on the moss, no more gravel in the stream, keep things neat and tidy!
In all though, the pond cleared up fast thanks to the barrel filters and all is good!
#pandemicpond #gardening #pondlife #spring #portalberni #backyardPond #PoolPond

#TheGuardian article on "Why is #smoking so addictive – and what are the best ways to give up?"
”people often claim they feel better when they have a cigarette, but that’s a misunderstanding of what happens. Smoking basically brings you back to the baseline level you should…

Why is smoking so addictive – and what are the best ways to give up?
That first cigarette can lead to a lifetime of dependency, as well as cancer, strokes, heart attacks … Here’s why smokers crave their nicotine hit – and how they can fight back

hmm they are going to renovate the tour montparnasse
and the architect’s renders have plants growing high up on the outside of the building
i bet it’ll end up much less green
much like the ground level square where they have replaced the existing lawns with featureless concrete

Chuck Norris didn't die, we just weren't invited to the next level.
Hope he meets up with Bruce.
#rip #chucknorris

European gas price now up 48% since Friday!
And Dutch gas storages at a very low level (10% filled).
But: no incentive at all for commercial companies to start filling up again: prices throughout the year are higher than those for next winter. If we want the storages filled, governments need to act.

While Starmer and the far right condone USAsrael
'Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Iranians "deserve to live free from a brutal regime", but Trump's "unilateral and illegal military action won't deliver freedom, peace and security".'
'Referencing reports that a strike had hit a girls' school and killed dozens, Green Party leader Zack Polanski said "This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that…

UK planes 'are in the sky' in Middle East, Starmer says
Sir Keir Starmer says protections for British bases and personnel have been stepped up to their highest level.

“The barrier to creating software has genuinely dropped. That is not hype. What it means for professional engineers is not that their skills are less valuable, but that the skills that matter have shifted up the stack, as they have in every previous transition.
The developers who thrived after the move from assembly to C were not the ones who could write the most clever assembly. They were the ones who understood what the machine needed to do and could express that intent clearly in a higher-level language. The developers who thrived after the move to managed languages and frameworks were not the ones most resistant to garbage collection. They were the ones who saw the freed-up cognitive capacity as an opportunity to solve harder problems.
The developers who will thrive in the agentic era are the ones who understand this as another step in the same arc and invest accordingly. Not in resisting the tools. Not in deferring to them uncritically. In developing the judgment, clarity, and systems thinking that make the tools maximally effective.
That means writing better specs. Investing in test infrastructure. Developing genuine architectural understanding rather than surface familiarity. Building the taste to evaluate output rigorously. Practicing problem decomposition until it becomes second nature.
The era of programming as primarily a keystroke activity is over. The era of programming as primarily a thinking and judgment activity has been accelerating for decades and just shifted into a higher gear.”
#AITransition
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https://addyosmani.com/blog/factory-model/

Taking photos of paintings on my phone is made trickier by the device's attempts to normalize everything. If your artist has decided to break the norms of lighting, exposure and colour balance, the phone will do its level best to fix it up for them. It's so annoying.

I also see that misguided narrative in the people who still (but increasingly rarely) dredge up stats about how many Obama- and Biden-era deportations there were, thinking it’s some kind of mic drop, thinking that deportations are the whole of the evil here, an evil we can just tally up with a bean counter.
And to be clear: those deportations •were• inhumane and evil. US treatment of immigrants has been morally intolerable since long before I was born. I need you to know that I know that when I tell you that this is a whole other level.
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Forgive me but who began this war?
"Earlier, the PM released a joint statement with the leaders of France and Germany, calling for Iran to "refrain from indiscriminate military strikes"."
UK planes 'are in the sky' in Middle East, Starmer says - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ar…

UK planes 'are in the sky' in Middle East, Starmer says
Sir Keir Starmer says protections for British bases and personnel have been stepped up to their highest level.

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116328504299888679
Wow, next level security /s
I often make fun of developers for coming up with engineering recommendations that are essentially obfuscated versions of “don’t write bugs!,” but here’s a system avoiding security flaws by literally telling itself “don’t have security flaws!.”

This is not a set up, this actually happened, I'm so sorry. Don't read on if you're not a 13-year-old schoolboy, or at least have an equivalent level of humour.
If you leave iPlayer running in a background tab, eventually it pauses itself. I forgot I'd left it running (muted) after doing the Spandau Ballet screengrab earlier, and flipped back to that tab just now to find it had freeze-framed like this.
So for all those asking "is this song about nuclear war or ...." I think we have an answer.
#TOTP