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Today I'm strangely inspired by the graphic design of vintage non-English tractor manuals.
https://archive.org/details/tractormanuals

The unusual electronic and optical properties of #perovskites have long been touted as useful for improving solar cells and television screens,
but these materials have never quite hit the big time.
Existing approaches have hoovered up all the investment and attention, and perovskites remain confined to specialist applications.
Now researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico…

Perovskite nanocrystal computer components inspired by brain cells
Researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico di Milano are developing a new type of computer component that is more powerful and easier to manufacture than its predecessors. Inspired by the human brain, it is designed to process large amounts of data fast and in an energy-efficient way.

Jš que estava jogando #xenonauts, bateu uma vontade de rever a abertura de XCOM, o jogo no qual ele é inspirado. Pura nostalgia!
https://youtu.be/pX0Cm3N_n6k

It's kind of shocking how many long-time lwn subscribers are willing to hand their wallet over to the wallet inspector (based on the comments on https://lwn.net/Articles/1063735/#Comments).

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Tubi partners with TikTok to launch the Creatorverse Incubator, giving creators support like promotions and potential funding to make Tubi originals (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/tubi-joins-for…

Tubi joins forces with popular TikTokers to create original streaming content | TechCrunch
Tubi launched its “Creatorverse Incubator” to help TikTokers create original shows exclusively for the streaming service.

Hardly any updates in the last week. We are celebrating the start of a Lunar New Year, the Year of the Horse.
This time around I was invited to join my girlfriend's family in Buon Ma Thuot for the celebrations. They already knew me from last year's coffee festival (which we visited) and were very excited to have me over. As was I, Tet in the countryside is really something different. It was an inspiring week, with lots of family, friends and fun. And no computers (hardly any), n…

Under Trump, the government’s watchdogs are losing their independence
Inspectors general have long touted their independence from partisan politics,
maintaining a strict firewall between themselves and the White House appointees whose activities they are supposed to check.

But now, over a year into the new Trump administration,
political figures and the White House have sought greater influence over government watchdogs than ever before,
-- leading to concerns…

Under Trump, the government’s watchdogs are losing their independence
Inspectors general are subject to growing partisan pressures as the White House and political figures seek greater influence over them than ever before.

But absurdity is no impediment to religious belief—credo quia absurdum. Working mostly off-campus, I noticed no real change in my own university until the BLM-riot-inspired anti-racism crisis of 2020, when I found that academe, originally a place for the free exchange of ideas, had become almost unrecognizable. Higher education has begun a transformation along the same lines as the 1966 “Cultural Revolution” in Maoist China.

The Multiversity and its Discontents: The Evolution of a Fatal Flaw — Minding The Campus
A well-known podcaster has the custom of going “off the grid” for a month each summer, to gain some perspective. I can beat that: I have been retired from academic teaching and research for nearly 14 years and have rarely visited my campus during that time. But last year, I finally encountered the university first-hand, […]