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Abu Dhabi broke ground on Dar al Funoon (House of the Arts),
a major performing arts center on Saadiyat Island set to open by 2030.
Designed by the late architect Frank Gehry,
it will seat over 6,000 patrons across a main 2,000-seat multipurpose hall,
a 3,500-seat amphitheater,
and smaller performance venues

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-07-15 11:01:26

Perverts of the world rejoice! It’s Meta’s new dodgy old mate glasses theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-04-16 00:46:31
@Carwil@mastodon.online
2026-04-16 11:59:03

"Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up."
arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-07-15 15:00:06

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010). 1226 nodes, 2615 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faa_routes
@dr2chase@ohai.social
2026-07-15 11:25:58

Logged in to Twitter to retrieve these worthy images from a poster session long ago:
#teleportation #commute #biking

A youngish man standing in front of a poster "Would You Rather Teleport or Spend Some Time Commuting?  Investigating Individuals Teleportation Preferences"

The research was done by Prasanna Humagain (prasanna.hmg@usu.edu) and Patrick Singleton (patrick.singleton@usu.edu).

usu.edu is Utah State, Patrick Singleton (the youngish man) is the associate professor there.
A detail; from the poster showing the distribution of "I would rather teleport" versus "I would rather spend some time commuting".

More car passengers (76%) and car drivers (73%) would rather teleport than any other group.

Only walkers (72%) and bicycle users (65%) have more than half that would prefer to spend some time commuting.
A detail from the poster, showing why people prefer teleporting or not-teleporting.

"I would rather teleport":

I have other things to do (68%)
My commute is a waste of time (41%)
I like trying new technology (32%)
I dislike most aspects of my commute (29%)
I am always in a rush (25%)
Other (24%)

"I would rather spend some time commuting":

I enjoy certain aspects of my commute (76%)
I like to use my commute time productively (24%)
Teleportation is and always be impossible (17%…
@publicvoit@graz.social
2026-06-16 13:09:37

RE: social.coop/@scottjenson/11675
"The problem? It's nearly impossible to get! It's locked behind proprietary silos."
Well, this is only true for people who were careless with introducing proprietary solutions …

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-05-14 14:32:17

‘It’s like stealing’: Palestinian family’s seized property listed on Booking.com
theguardian.com/world/2026/may

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-05-14 14:32:17

‘It’s like stealing’: Palestinian family’s seized property listed on Booking.com
theguardian.com/world/2026/may

A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822–24. Containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude; and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants. To which is added, much useful information on the coasting navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent lands.