“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than...

“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease.” The key difference: “the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change.”

Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant...

Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives”. Like: “I keep a to-do list in a paper notebook, but my boss believes I have an AI task-keeping assistant via Claude.”

The Godox C100 has Retro-Future Looks. Is it Worth the Frustration?

While many of the big camera companies have largely decided that cheap, simple-to-use digital cameras are just not worth making, an entire subgenre of photography appears to be emerging. The success of other, quirky low-res cameras has, in no small part, contributed to the explo…

Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in...

Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in Malta. “Come tax season, the Broomfield, Colo., company has claimed that all its global profits were actually earned in this two-person office.” The US is not a serious country.

How to Give a Eulogy

Tom Chiarella shares his rules for giving a eulogy. It may hurt to write it. And reading it? For some, that’s the worst part. The world might spin a little, and everything familiar to you might fade for a few minutes. But remember, remind yourself as you stand there, you are…

An tuath ’s ceart

I spent the last three weeks in the north of Ireland. Myself and Jessica flew to Belfast where we spent the first night. We managed to get to a session that evening where we were warmly welcomed. The next day we travelled to Donegal. A train from Belfast to Derry. A bus from D…

The Doulas Who Help Us Die . “Instead of assisting...

The Doulas Who Help Us Die. “Instead of assisting in the birthing room or the nursery, end-of-life doulas could keep vigil over people during their last hours, providing comfort and companionship and helping a family find peace.”

NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the...

NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the idea of releasing a swarm of tiny probes (weighing only a few grams each) into Saturn’s rings to study them up close.

Unotherday

Beyond wet and dry Bruce Li in Hackernoon:  AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think Pull-quote:  The data centers rising out of the desert didn't create the water crisis. They did something arguably more useful: they made it legible. A 200-megawatt facility asking a sma…

Whetherday

Check them out Hackernoon today: Cyber Libertarians: Esther Dyson & The Knowledge Age. Esther is an old friend and one of my favorite people. Front burner for her right now is .agent. Exit signals Last night we were suffering through one of the most annoying movies we've ever s…

How to Begin Your Portrait Photography Journey

One of the first genres that people dabble with as photographers are street and portraits. Sometimes, the latter takes precedence, with some photographers often finding it challenging to start their journey. If you are someone who is unsure what to do in the initial stages of yo…

Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) by Daft Punk

So, I’m not exactly sure what this is, but what it appears to be is a fan-assembled album of the recording sessions for Tron: Legacy by Daft Punk & Joseph Trapanese. 67 tracks in this YouTube playlist and 61 tracks from the Internet Archive (not sure of the overlap here…)…

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed . “A whole...

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed. “A whole lot of people under the age of 45 no longer believe that indicators such as wages, unemployment, or the number of college degrees that are handed out…have much to do with a healthy economy.”

If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not...

If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not Understand Where AI Is At. “There’s a huge gulf between a chatbot that’s just putting text into your brain and an agent that uses code to interact with an external environment.”

Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People...

Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People (and don’t just treat them like ATMs). “The best of them are running campaigns that acknowledge that to win, Democrats are going to have to organize voters — not just fund-raise off them.”

The Nikon 600mm f6.3, Popular With Birders, Gets Suspended

Nikon has some wonderful lenses in their portfolio for young photographers. Models such as the 40mm f2, the 24-120 f4, and the 600mm f6.3 are some budget offerings from the company. It now appears that Nikon is suspending the order of the 600mm lens, effective from August. Why i…

Size and Lifespan

Are Photography Pro Services Really a Waste of Money?

When I was a much younger working photographer, I always wanted to get to the point of needing Canon Pro services. Truly, something in my mind felt like it was a prestigious thing and that I'd worked so hard to achieve it. Yet in truth, you could easily buy your way into it. And…

5 Street Photography Books That Will Change How You See a Sidewalk

Street photography requires one to learn three critical things: to time well, "anticipate" things that aren't there yet, and wait patiently for the above points. While many young photographers get one of the three aspects correct, today, we bring a few photo books that street ph…

Toggles Considered Harmful

I just read this post from Marcin Wichary's Unsung, where he points out a peculiar macOS dialog box that shows boolean toggles in four different shades of grey: Marcin offers some improvements, but the actual problem is fundamental to macOS: these types of toggles are bad UI…

Girls In Their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien

I really liked Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls so when I saw a copy of Girls In Their Married Bliss for £1 in a local charity shop, I snapped it up even though it had the worst cover you could possibly imagine. This is the second and final sequel to The Country Girls whic…

The 6-Year Old Leica SL2s Got a Firmware Update

In 2020, Leica launched the Leica SL2s and we published our review. Around one year later, I bought one along with a 28mm f2 SL APO lens. Since then, the camera has been replaced in the Leica lineup by the Leica SL3s. But just last week, the Leica SL2s, a now 6 year old camera,…

The Web and the New Reality

Until Linux Journal hired me in 1996, no publication—tech or otherwise—would employ me. Not full-time, anyway. I was too obsessed with the Internet, the Web, and what I saw as the dawn of a new reality: a digital world we would co-occupy with the natural one. So I self-publi…