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The Karpeles Museum,
a true hidden gem of downtown Santa Barbara
and an important free museum for all to visit,
is set to close because the building is being sold.
Perhaps some local collective or organization could buy the building and continue to lease the collection of documents and artifacts from the Karpeles family?
The building has an upstairs and courtyard that would be a perfect venue for all sorts of live events
— in the not-so-distant past the …

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-mapping-reveals-hidden-mining-boom-in-laos-that-threatens-the-mekong/

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong
BANGKOK — A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, including major tributaries of the Mekong, Southeast Asia’s longest river, heightening concerns about contamination of waterways that sustain local communities. Stimson has not ground-truthed the mine sites identified through satellite imagery, but Mongabay spoke […]

If you ever get the chance to see the film based on these events, Pride, grab it. We saw it this year at the indie cinema in Kington and loved it. What a story and what a cast - it even has Bill Nighy in it which means the instant seal of approval from me. But what stuck with me was the sheer scale of AIDS deaths and how it was hidden at the time. It was years before I realised just how destructive it had been.
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The #EV roaming system in Europe is increasingly being hit by hidden fees and absurd price discrimination.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

In principle, EV roaming enables every driver to charge anywhere on a single invoice, with information about the different prices and charging options available in advance, for example in an app. For… | Jaap Burger
In principle, EV roaming enables every driver to charge anywhere on a single invoice, with information about the different prices and charging options available in advance, for example in an app. For an operator, it is a method of attracting more customers to its stations. In recent years, a clear trend has emerged: providers who want to offer roaming at other charging points to their own customers, but at the same time keep roaming customers from others out with absurd price mark-ups and tari…

TIL both Algeria and Morroco have modern passenger rail services including growing High Speed services.... but the land border between them has been closed since 1994, so the systems don't touch :(
One day! 🤞
Algeria system is SNTF, Morroco: ONCF
Easiest English info is through https://www.seat61.com/Algeria.htm

I just finished reorganizing the cable drawer.
The timeline of events was something like:
- the DNS server for internal name resolution runs inside a Docker container only reachable via IPv4
- if an Android device gets both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, it will only query the IPv6 one
- fuck Docker; I'll install the DNS server on a Raspberry Pi
- creating a Pi image with sshd enabled didn't work
- this household has surprisingly few HDMI cables
- oh, …

I just finished reorganizing the cable drawer.
The timeline of events was something like:
- the DNS server for internal name resolution runs inside a Docker container only reachable via IPv4
- if an Android device gets both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, it will only query the IPv6 one
- fuck Docker; I'll install the DNS server on a Raspberry Pi
- creating a Pi image with sshd enabled didn't work
- this household has surprisingly few HDMI cables
- oh, …

Implantable BCIs for restoring vision come and go, while The vOICe has been around for decades and is there to stay for centuries to come, inspired by Hari Seldon's vast timeline https://github.com/seeingwithsound?achievement=arctic-code-vault-…

OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 and has improved reliability for agentic AI needs; pre-release testers include Notion, Box, Shopify (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/842529/open…

OpenAI calls GPT-5.2 the best model yet for professionals
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2, which it calls its best AI model yet for professional use.

When AirBnB started out I thought "What a great idea! A platform to enable people with a spare room to connect with budget travellers who want simple, inexpensive short-term accommodation." Using it back then, it felt kind of like in-person social media, as you could meet really interesting people that you'd never find otherwise.
But then came the keyboxes, the party flats, the whole-house lets, people running multiple places, hidden cameras and all the rest.
Today t…