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A short policy memo recently posted on the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) website argues that “mass timber can help solve the housing shortage.” It was posted as part of the Housing Ideas Challenge, a collaboration between FAS, Matt Yglesias and a few other organizations to generate new, innovative ideas for…
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert Allen
OR: The mystery of the televised salad
When do music stars achieve fame, and how long does fame typically last?
If America wants to make civilian airplanes here, the government must step in, take over Boeing, and then design a competitive industry.
Social media isn't toxic, most people just haven't figured out the game (yet)
I've spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States. It’s called Stories Are...
All the better to control you
Last year after talking for a while with someone during a conference they asked me for my LinkedIn to be able to connect with me, to which I answered I didn't have one.
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann
I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal, hateful words poisoned my brain, and the original version of this post was mean. I am so sorry. …
This xz backdoor thing reminds me of a story I heard from friends that worked at a tech company that made cell phones. They had a great coder that worked on the project, he had put in work as a contractor for a few months, and due to the quality of his work he was hired in full time. After two months he simply stopped…
Your Startup Could Destroy Society
Anyway, here's what happened: Not to say that big brother is everywhere, but short of having microsoft people monitoring our lists and newsgroups (with wouldn't overly surprise me, after all they also tried a PR compain with magazines, posing as simple users who liked microsoft products), the announcement was…
Former NBA player and TV sportscaster Bill Walton died on Monday at the age of 71. He was a quirky dude and as someone who’s been known to veer off onto seeming
Thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media.
This is a follow-up to my blog post Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma silently enables iCloud Keychain . In the addendum to that blog post, I discussed a workaround, which was to delete my WiFi password right before rebooting into the updater. In a trial run on my M1 Mac mini, the workaround was successful.
And What is Says About the Institutional Problems in American Cities & Infrastructure
Las Vegas’ $2.3 billion immersive flagship takes a distressingly prophetic look inward.
1 sites already link to thisisalot.com, after 2 years online. Listed at $195 — keep the equity.
This is a follow-up to my blog post macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions from five months ago. The TL;DR of that blog post is that when you have iCloud enabled but not iCloud Keychain, updating from Ventura to Sonoma causes iCloud Keychain to be silently enabled. (I don't know yet…
Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. What does it mean then for an artist to fail?
Last fall, under the aegis of Ham Radio Village , I was awarded a grant to take my one-day Tech class on the road. Ham Radio Village believes that more people in technical fields should have amateur radio licenses and that amateur radio is underrepresented in the hacker, STEM/STEAM, and maker communities. Currently…
Sean Kleefeld's daily thoughts about comics and the comic industry.
Title insurance is grossly overpriced relative to actual risks involved. Why is that?
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-overview-search.html
Posted on Wednesday 21 Feb 2024. 1,196 words, 13 links. By Matt Webb.
I spent about ten days in the Ivory Coast, mostly in Abidjan, but also Yamoussoukro, Man, and Grand Bassam. (Note – The Ivory Coast is so French in culture and temperament that it insists on offici…
