“This considers how two modern cameras handle a difficult color challenge, illustrated by photos of a perfect rose and a piano.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/31/Colors
Newark’s radar fiasco has been making headlines, and there was a wave of alarming incidents early in 2025 — but what’s the larger picture of air safety in the US right now?
Do we have good data on whether there have been more incidents or near misses across the country this year on an ongoing basis?
Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/wisconsin-abortion-1849-supreme-court.html
Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban (Kate Zernike/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/wisconsin-abortion-1849-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.5DH8.EWL106_QmJud&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p70#a250702p70
French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/
It’s language pedantry! No, it’s math pedantry! Anyhow, “Comparing Numbers Badly” gripes about the mis-use of “order(s) of magnitude” and percentages in comparing numbers: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/30/Number-Comparison-Representa…
Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/wisconsin-abortion-1849-supreme-court.html
“At the moment, we have no idea what the impact of genAI on software development is going to be. The impact of anything on coding is hard to measure systematically, so we rely on anecdata and the community’s eventual consensus. So, here’s my anecdata. Tl;dr: The AI was not useless.” https://www.tbray…
Here are a couple of springtime pictures with small associated stories. It’s a thrill to find something positive to write about: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/27/Happy-Colors