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So this was quite the late afternoon/evening, so glad I repeated this tour... Took a slightly different route than last year, going up some super craggy canyon for a while (pushing/carrying the bike), but well worth it, especially once up and dipping in the 3rd lake (legs only) en route, snow patches still all around, but air temp in the mid-20s... Another reason this is one of my faves: the last 11km are just rolling downhill (~470 hm).
Some impressions attached (the last pic is of th…

The main driver of wealth gains last year was from the stock market hitting record highs.
While wages are increasing for average Americans, the top 1% is gaining wealth at a much faster pace.
The wealth of U.S. #billionaires is currently at $5.5 trillion, 🔸which is up 88% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.🔸
The nation's rich accruing so much wealth in recent years has renew…

Wealth of the top 1% in U.S. hits all-time high of $45 trillion
Data released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday shows the top 1% of Americans are the richest they've ever been.The new data reveals that at the end of the fourth quarter last year they had a record $44.6 trillion in wealth. That's up from $30 trillion in 2020.The main driver of wealth gains last y...

The Browser Company debuts Arc on Windows, after testing began in December 2023, and says the Windows app has 150K users; the macOS app shipped in July 2023 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/the-browser-company-releases-arc-…

The Browser Company releases Arc for Windows | TechCrunch
The Browser Company, makers of the Arc web browser, released its Windows version today. The company started testing the Windows client in December, and it

Haven't read this piece but the image is interesting, because it's clearly AI generated but it looks just like Icelandic glacier lagoon Jokulsarlon with Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in the background, possibly the most photographed glacier on earth. Photos of it crop up absolutely everywhere. Which is presumably how DALL-E learned what a glacier is.

D26,556 - issued in 1897 for a design for a "clock case." #DesignPatents

“The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.”
https://www.404media.co/the-xz-backdoor-highlights-the-vul…

The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths
The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.

The 24th pick in the draft has been fruitful for the Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/the_24th_pick_in_the_draft_has_been_fruitful_for_the_cowboys/s1_17100_40036243

The cat held the jingle bells, the rabbit the maracas. They lay stretched on the thick carpet in the perfect patch of sunlight, behind the sheer curtains where the light was golden and the warmth pooled gently on the floor. The song they sang felt like petals floating on wind, like laughter chasing the tenderness of sorrow as they beat time. #WSS366 #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt @…

US #labor #productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year,
interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline:
⭐️the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004,
🔥and it nearly matches the 2.9 percent pace seen during the country’s last pr…

In Brief: The Recent Rise in US Labor Productivity • The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group
BRIEFLY US labor productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year, interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline: the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004, and it nearly matches the 2.9 percent pace seen during the country’s last productivity surge in the 1990s. While the ...

By the time you reach the end of this sentence,
underground government computers will have identified the Pentagon as the target of a North Korean nuclear attack
if Kim Jong Un’s regime launched missiles our way when you began reading.

By the end of this paragraph, or just about, a complex in the mountains of Colorado will broadcast “NUCLEAR LAUNCH ALERT,”
and the president will be informed of the strike pretty much immediately thereafter.
Then, by the end of t…

Voters, please think about the menace of nuclear annihilation
A new book outlines how nuclear war would unfold, noting that humanity’s survival depends on statesmanship and luck — as much the latter as the former.