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Creating database in Atlantis?
We’re starting to focus on scriptable apps, esp web services like GitHub, Mastodon, Slack.
We also have SQLite baked in, and I was wondering while watching the news is we could have a verb that creates a new database, one one that sends a query one of those databases.
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Democracy Without Politicians with Terry Bouricius
What if elections, which are a cornerstone of democracy, don't produce the outcomes that we desire?
Terry Bouricius spent twenty years as an elected lawmaker in Vermont - city council, then the statehouse - followed by a decade at FairVote trying to fix elections with better elections. Then he quit. Since 2005 he has been the leading American theorist of sortition: choosing the people who govern by lottery, the way we choose juries — a practice rooted in Athenian democracy.
This is a conversation about an idea most Americans have never encountered, and about why it keeps working wherever it is tried. Ireland used randomly selected conventions to settle same-sex marriage and abortion. Melbourne handed a stuck capital budget to 43 taxpayers chosen by lot. Connecticut is running the first statewide citizens' assembly in the United States right now. And the argument underneath it all is disarmingly simple: you can't lobby a jury. No donors, no primary, no next race, no way to know six months out whose ear to buy.
Recorded before the 2026 midterms. We close on elections themselves - and Bouricius, an election-reform veteran who says the machinery is sound, names the thing that actually frightens him.
Guest:
Terry Bouricius - former Vermont legislator, ten years at FairVote, originator of the multi-body sortition model, co-founder of Democracy R&D. His book "Democracy Without Politicians: Government By the People" (Routledge, 2026) is open access - the full text is free.
https://democracywithoutpoliticians.org
https://terrybouricius.com
https://democracycreative.substack.com
https://sortitionusa.org
https://democracyrd.org
Chapters:
0:00 Cold open: what if jurors were elected?
0:46 Intro
2:23 Twenty years in office, and why he left
5:40 What sortition actually is
5:53 Athens: a democracy because of the lottery, not the assembly
7:59 British Columbia, 2004: "This is what democracy looks like"
11:10 The 200-year project and the peeling strategy
14:19 Why left and right both nod along
15:43 You can't lobby a jury
17:25 More likely to die in office than lose an election
17:37 Plato's ship vs. the wisdom of crowds
18:21 A thousand assemblies, and Macron's climate convention
19:57 Connecticut: the first statewide assembly in the US
20:43 Aristotle: the lot is democratic, election is oligarchic
22:10 What Madison and the founders actually feared
26:09 "How many of us are renters?"
28:35 Cognitive diversity: why the room beats the experts
33:27 Designing against bribery and capture
35:09 Binding or advisory? Melbourne's budget
37:58 Ireland: marriage and abortion, decided by lot
40:00 The abuse survivor and the gay juror
44:47 Tribal loyalty: Obamacare, tariffs, switching sides
50:22 Groupthink, facilitators, and multi-body sortition
52:35 Agenda-setting: the wall, the bridges, the climate
55:33 AI: the bubble, and who gets to decide
58:29 Could AI agents replace a citizens' assembly?
62:09 What to do Monday: Sortition USA
63:10 The book is free
67:02 Are the midterms secure?
67:54 The refusal to seat: "a real possibility within two months"
69:59 Outro and links
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No Child Left Online
Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover.
In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
- What is in the EU's planned KIDS Act? (Reuters)
- Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy' (EU Commission)
- France makes new attempt to ban social media for children under age 15 (Le Monde)
- Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms students (FT)
- We are setting up a generation to fail at school (FT)
- TikTok rejects Meta ads pushing rivals to join child safety settlement (Search Engine Land)
- Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats (404 Media)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- We Must Pace the Frontier (Dario Amodei)
- OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal (Wired)
- Trump goes scorched earth on AI warnings, raging about data center opposition and regulation (CNBC)
- The AI policy window is open. We need to act. (OpenAI)
Our fun links this week include a “Welcome to the Internet” presentation for a 13-year-old and God’s Eye View, a slightly terrifying bit of open source software to explore the world.
If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).
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CARINE RIBEIRO - EP.65
Tout sourit à Carine : son boulot qu'elle adore, sa vie avec son amour de jeunesse qu'elle a retrouvé, leur fils vrai bébé de l'amour... A un détail près : depuis des années le fils de Carine ne dort pas.
Avec Roman, le papa, ils passent des nuits cataclysmiques et des journées épuisés physiquement et nerveusement.
Carine teste toutes les astuces, les conseils, les remèdes de grand-mère, jusqu'à ce que de guerre lasse, elle se décide à aller voir un psy.
En quelques minutes, il va mettre le doigt sur tout un univers que Carine n'avait pas soupçonné jusque là.
Ce rendez-vous va aider son tout petit garçon mais surtout aider Carine à comprendre des choses sur sa vie qu'elle n'avait jamais réalisées...
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I'm deep in Frontier territory. No podcasts, can't publish them right now. At this moment I can't even update my blog! ;-)
I built a lot in Frontier over the years, and moving that whole body of code and writing to a new app I wrote with Claude in a few months is a pretty ambitious thing to do.
But it is working to some extent. I am typing this from the new system.
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Can You Find These 26 US Cities On Blank Map Of The United States?
Look at the map above and see if you can figure out where the following 26 cities are located. This is a continuation of the Where is Kansas City & Why Are There Two Of Them? post (speaking of which can you find them?) List of cities. City List Albuquerque, NM Amarillo, TX Aspen, CO […] -
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404 Media x The Intercept LIVE: How AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill
In this bonus collaboration with our friends at The Intercept, 404 Media's Jason Koebler and the Intercept's Sam Biddle and Akela Lacy discuss the ways AI is already used to empower private surveillance companies that filter data to the government, how AI is used in war, and the prospect of an AI apocalypse. This podcast was recorded live in Los Angeles at The Loved One on September 12. Check out The Intercept Briefing podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and find a full transcript of this pod here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Will the Blue Wave Be Bigger Than 2018?
JD Vance begs voters to give the White House "another chance" as a series of new polls show a political environment even more favorable to Democrats than the one that propelled the blue wave in 2018.
Jon, Dan, and Alex break down how much "hopium" we should be huffing, a new ad from a Florida Republican breaking with Trump on immigration, and whether unexpectedly close Senate races in Minnesota and New Hampshire should have Democrats worried. They dive into JD Vance's advice to AI companies to simply stop "building Frankenstein" and unpack Trump's fixation on demolishing the Kennedy Center if he's not allowed to name it after himself.
Alex talks about her new book, "The Steal: Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid on America's Courts," which follows the conservative movement's deliberate takeover of the American judicial system. Then, Dan Osborn, the independent candidate for Senate in Nebraska, stops by the studio to talk to Jon about his campaign against Pete Ricketts.
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LEGEND: Giants
For thousands of years, cultures with no connection to one another told the same story: enormous, violent beings who once walked the earth — and had to be destroyed. Then came the physical evidence — oversized bones and ten-foot skeletons pulled from caves and fields across the American frontier. Most of it vanished. Some say it’s all a hoax. Others think there might be a scientific explanation. One that makes the idea of Giants not so far fetched after all.
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L’esprit critique, ça s’apprend ? 2/4, avec Christophe Adourian — SHOCKING #32
Chapitre 2 : Éduquer ados et adultes. L’infodémie actuelle génère-t-elle vraiment des croyances erronées, ou serait-ce l’inverse ? Quelles sont les idées fausses des profs au sujet de l’esprit critique ? Quelles méthodes issues de la recherche sci... -
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Junkie Communism
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Sir Gene, Baron of Neurogenesis
Associate Executive Producers:
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Tom Blowers > Sir Tom Expediter of Critical Crap
Arno > Sir Arno
Leslie walker > Dame Midge; defender of the pickled courts
Title Changes:
Sir Gene, Knight of Neurogenesis > Sir Gene, Baron of Neurogenesis Protector of Bono Arkansas
End of Show Mixes:
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Is Iran Secretly Building a Bomb at Pickaxe Mountain? A Nuclear Physicist Answers (w/ Ali Vaez)
Israel and the US may have extraordinary intelligence on Iran. But intelligence isn't the same as comprehension, according to nuclear physicist and 2015 Iran deal negotiator Ali Vaez. Vaez joins John Raine and Sir Richard Dearlove to break down what Iran's nuclear capabilities really look like after the 12-day war. Plus, how Iran's Supreme National Security Council stays united under duress, how the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps maintains primacy over the regular army, and why sanctions now at "nine out of ten" still won't force collapse. Iran doesn't need to win this standoff. It just needs not to lose. In this episode: (00:00) Ali Vaez on wartime Iran (02:39) Is Iran's leadership a monolith or divided? (03:55) Power centers: the SNSC, the Basij, and the IRGC (10:09) The mystery of Mojtaba Khamenei (12:00) Economic and military pressure on Iran (15:00) A forever war? Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, and the Houthis (27:47) What does the Iranian public actually think? (32:33) Iran's nuclear program: what do we really know? (42:18) Israeli intelligence, diplomacy, and the Ahmadinejad theory (52:19) The decision only Donald Trump can make Hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove (former MI6 Chief) and co-host John Raine (International Institute for Strategic Studies). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdrl.fm -
Chlordécone, le paradis empoisonné
Lutte pour la justice et la réparation en GuadeloupePesticide ultra toxique, le chlordécone a été utilisé en Guadeloupe et en Martinique entre 1972 et 1993 pour lutter contre le charançon du bananier, insecte qui attaquait la plante. Pourtant, le produit avait été interdit aux Etats-Unis depuis 1976 puis en France hexagonale en 1990. Les lobbys des planteurs de bananes avaient fait pression sur le gouvernement français pour obtenir des dérogations.
Le chlordécone a contaminé durablement les sols, les rivières et les zones côtières pour plusieurs centaines d'années. Aujourd'hui , 90% de la population adulte en Guadeloupe et Martinique a du chlordécone dans le sang. Le produit provoque des cancers, des retards pour tomber enceinte, des problèmes neurologiques chez les enfants. Ce scandale sanitaire et social est pourtant peu connu en France hexagonale.Dans cet épisode, vous entendrez des femmes qui se battent pour la justice et la réparation et qui dénoncent les conséquences terribles de cette pollution, notamment pour les femmes et les enfants.
Avec :
- Patricia Chatenay Rivauday, co-présidente de l'association Vivre en Guadeloupe ;
- Lilith, militante anti chlordécone ;
- Malou, militante anti-chlordécone ;
- Les participantes et organisatrice de l'atelier de prévention à destination des femmes enceinte, via le Groupement d'Intérêt Public ;
- Réseaux et Actions de Santé Publique en Guadeloupe. (GIP-Raspeg) ;
- Natacha Kancel et les ouvrières de l'association Drain'ailes, à Sainte Rose ;
- Sarah Aguiton, sociologue ;
- Régine Boniface, chercheuse spécialisée sur la santé et les droits sexuels et reproductifs.
Textes :
- S'aimer la terre, défaire l'habité colonial, Malcom Ferdinand, éditions Seuil ;
- Morne Câpresse, Gisèle Pineau, éditions Mercure de France ;
Remerciements :
Merci à Rebecca Chaillon qui récemment, s'est aussi faite porte voix du combat pour la justice et la réparation, dans le scandale de la pollution au chlordécone.
Merci à Charlotte, militante afro féministe vegan, merci à Jessica Oublié, merci à Sabrina Cajoli, juriste internationale. Merci aux associations Amazones, qui lutte contre le cancer en Guadeloupe, et Likid Chocolat, qui lutte contre l'endométriose. Merci à Marie Mathieu, Sarah Aguiton et Régine Boniface. Un merci tout particulier à Lilith.
Pour aller plus loin :
- Tropiques toxiques, le scandale du chlordécone, Jessica Oublié, Nicola Gobbi, Kathrine Avraam, Vinciane Lebrun
- S'aimer la terre, défaire l'habité colonial, Malcom Ferdinand
- "Politique de la biosurveillance face aux résidus de pesticides", Sara Angeli Aguiton et Marie Mathieu
- "Il faudra s’adapter ou disparaître", Sara Angeli Aguiton et Marie Mathieu
- "Exposition au chlordécone et parcours AMP en Guadeloupe", Régine Boniface
- "Exposées au Chlordécone, les femmes mettent plus de temps à être enceintes", Reporterre
- "Josette Bomaré, pionnière du combat contre le chlordécone", La Déferlante
- "Les femme antillaises, victimes invisibles du chlordécone", Reporterre
- Toxic, Olivier Kancel, France Télévisions
- "Chlordécone aux Antilles, trois voie pour réparer le préjudice", Revue juridique de l'environnement.Enregistrements
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Reinventing the Rip-Off with Lindsay Owens
As the Fed battles inflation and Americans bear the costs, Jon is joined by Lindsay Owens, President and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative and author of the new book “Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet.” Together, they uncover how corporations collude to manipulate prices—and expose the new tools and technologies companies are using to track us, target us, and charge us more at checkout. Plus, Jon answers listeners’ questions about whether there’s any point in even asking Trump questions, the Supreme Court, and when to decorate for Halloween! This episode is brought to you by: QUINCE - Head to https://Quince.com/tws for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK, too. TREES.COM - Get 20% off at https://trees.com with code TWS. MINT MOBILE - Shop plans at https://MintMobile.com/TWS. UPWORK - : Visit https://Upwork.com/TWS right now and post your job for free. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Associate Producer - Rebecca Rottenberg Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoiceswww.podtrac.com -
Data Vampires Redux: Sacrificing for AI (Episode 3)
Paris’ new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires is coming out in October. To celebrate, we’re revisiting the series that planted the seeds for his deep dive into hyperscale data centers, the communities they’re affecting, and the future Silicon Valley is trying to build. This is episode 3 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.
The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Original production on Data Vampires was by Eric Wickham. Current production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at hyperscalebook.com.
- Sustainable AI Group cofounder Sasha Luccioni, Associate Professor in Economics Cecilia Rikap, former head of the Center for Applied Data Ethics Ali Alkhatib, Goldsmiths University lecturer Dan McQuillan, and Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute Alex Hanna were interviewed for this episode.
- Interviews with Sam Altman and Brad Smith were cited.
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Oprah Winfrey: How to Find Your Unique Purpose, Authentic Power, and Calling In Life
This episode is a master class on how to live an incredible life.
In one of the most powerful conversations ever recorded on The Mel Robbins Podcast, Mel sits down with someone she has looked up to for more than four decades: Oprah Winfrey.
Mel first started watching Oprah on local television, before The Oprah Winfrey Show was nationally syndicated. Through every chapter of her own life, Mel has returned to Oprah’s work for perspective, encouragement, and direction.
This is more than an interview for Mel. It is deeply personal. Now you get to hear the questions she has wanted to ask Oprah for years.
Oprah starts this episode by saying, “I want everybody to know that you have the power to fulfill the fullest expression of yourself as a human being.”
She is teaching you how to do that today.
Oprah shares what she learned, growing up feeling unloved and “red dirt road poor” in Mississippi to extraordinary success. She discusses painful mistakes, difficult family relationships, and moments when she ignored her own intuition and paid the price.
What she reveals is surprisingly simple: You already have an internal GPS. Oprah will teach you how to hear it, and find the courage to follow it.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
-How to recognize the thread of purpose that has been running through your life all along
-Why intention changes the way you experience your work, relationships, and choices
-The single question Oprah asks when something in her life is not working
-Oprah’s best advice: “You are allowed to change your mind,” and what happened when she ignored it
-What to do when something painful or unfair happens and you have to figure out how to move forward
-Oprah’s life-changing definition of forgiveness
-The “10-gallon versus pint-size” lesson that helped her heal her relationship with her mother
-The single spiritual practice Oprah comes back to again and again
If Oprah Winfrey could sit beside you and help you think through the biggest questions in your life, this is the conversation she would want you to hear.
This conversation will help you come back to your center and look at your own life differently.
Start paying attention to the life that has been speaking to you all along.
There is something in this episode for wherever you are in your life right now.
This is a must-listen episode.
For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page.
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Survivre à l'inceste en tant qu’homme
Si la parole se libère progressivement autour de l’inceste, celle des hommes victimes reste encore largement silencieuse. 50 % d’entre eux déclarent n’en avoir jamais parlé à personne, contre 43 % des femmes victimes.
Comment parler d’un traumatisme d’enfance quand on a grandi avec l’idée qu’un homme doit être fort, solide, maître de lui-même ? Pour le rappeur D’ de Kabal et le réalisateur Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, il aura fallu des années pour trouver les mots.
Quelles traces l’inceste laisse-t-il dans la construction des hommes, leur rapport au désir et à l’affection ? Comment les injonctions à la virilité peuvent-elles empêcher de reconnaître et de dire les traumatismes ? Et comment se reconstruire après l’inceste ?
Pour en parler, Naomi Titti reçoit D’ de Kabal, rappeur et auteur de Ma honte et Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, réalisateur du film La Frappe.
Toutes les références citées dans l'émission sont disponibles sur le site : https://www.binge.audio/podcast/les-couilles-sur-la-table/survivre-a-linceste-en-tant-quhomme/
CRÉDITS : Les Couilles sur la table est un podcast créé par Victoire Tuaillon produit par Binge (URBANIA AUDIO). Cet entretien a été préparé, mené et monté par Naomi Titti, enregistré le 2 septembre au studio dans le studio de podcast d’Urbania Audio (Paris 10e). Réalisation et mixage : Octave Bothier. Supervision éditoriale : Naomi Titti. Responsable des productions éditoriales et édition : Charlotte Baix. Assistante de production et d’édition : Aude Miquel. Rédacteur en chef : Thomas Rozec. Direction de production : Albane Fily. Responsable administrative et financière : Adrienne Marino. Responsable sponsoring : Betty-Maeva Wendling. Musique originale : Théo Boulenger. Identité graphique : Camille Bernard (Upian). Composition identité sonore : Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Voix identité sonore : Bonnie El Bokeili. Direction de contenu : Sophie Marchand. Binge est une marque URBANIA.
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I got some pushback when I compared Muse to ChatGPT Work, where I was mostly thinking about having access to a server in the cloud to run agents from your phone. That comparison wasn’t quite right. Feels like there’s a lot that is OpenClaw-inspired in it too.
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Paramount Funds, ‘Leaks’ Dodgy Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked
Larry and David Ellison are desperate to get their unpopular $111 billion merger between Paramount/CBS and Warner Brothers across the finish line. So they’ve been engaging in no shortage of dodgy behavior to try and derail the only thing left standing in their way: the 12-state antitrust lawsuit claiming that more media consolidation is anti-competitive […] -
AI Breaks Containment
Kate and Josh discuss a dire new poll for Republicans, the politics of AI and a surprisingly good Supreme Court ruling.
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Genius Design Details: Pips and Nubs
The gang from Craighill explains the origins and uses of three seemingly small design details that show up everywhere: pips, nubs, and the very useful union of pips and nubs. You’ve seen pips on dice and dominos, nubs are used for Braille text, and the pips/nubs combo is used for locks or stops that can be released under pressure. Craighill even has a pips + nubs category in their online store. (thx, rion)
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The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse
Techdirt has just written about concerns that AI development is proceeding more quickly than human oversight can monitor and control it. Since then, there has been lively debate about whether those fears are real or overblown. They mainly focus on the possible future threats from AI systems using RSI — recursive self-improvement — to drive […] -
Usenet-Rewind : search over 1 billion Usenet text posts...
Usenet-Rewind: search over 1 billion Usenet text posts from 1981 to the present.
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“ Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677...
“Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677 centenarians, the highest number in the world, of whom 88% are women. The oldest woman is Kishimoto Fuyo, a 114-year-old from Kyoto City and the oldest man is Kato Hikaru, a 112-year-old from Kumamoto.”
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Court: The First Amendment Allows You To Tell The ICE Director He’s A ‘Sad, Despised Man’
You may recall that back in July we had the ridiculous story of how ICE decided to go all gestapo on its critics, including tracking down and threatening David Streever, who had emailed then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons back in January, after federal agents killed some peaceful protestors in Minnesota. Streever’s email was pretty straightforward: […] -
Daily Deal: The Premium Microsoft Office Training Certification Bundle
The Premium Microsoft Office Training Certification Bundle has 11 courses geared to help you master essential skills and raise your expertise. Popular programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams are covered, while more advance programs get introduced as well, including SharePoint, Access, PowerBI, and Microsoft SQL Server. You’ll gain a better understanding of how each […] -
Danny MacAskill Plays in the Endless Light of Norway
Scottish trials rider and mountain biker Danny MacAskill, who I first featured on the site more than 17 years ago, recently took his Santa Cruz eMTB north of the Arctic Circle to Narvik, Norway. He rode three different mountains and the result is this incredibly beautiful video, backed by a Max Cooper soundtrack. As one of the commenters notes, MacAskill makes a relatively heavy eMTB seem extraordinarily playful.
As a mountain biker myself, some of that looks insanely fun but the narrow steep stuff looks insanely insane. Makes me want an eMTB, which I suppose is the whole point of the video.
Tags: biking · Danny MacAskill · Max Cooper · music · video
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Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall . A live...
Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. A live album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Hell yes yes yes! 13 songs are available now plus 9 more tracks when the full album drops in October.
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Turns Out It’s Pretty Easy To Turn A Profit Selling Cheap ‘Freedom Fuel’ If You Just Don’t Pay For It
Yet another data point on the whole grift/graft aspect of (particularly) the second Trump administration. While Trump was endlessly bragging about how much war he was going to wage, while simultaneously bragging about how much war he was going to end, his Israel-enabled Iran War refused to submit to his vacillating bluster. After claiming to […] -
Xserve ready to make a comeback? 9to5Mac blogs about a report from The Information about M8 servers. The Information says they might use NVLink:
Apple has considered connecting the M8 chips in the server using an Nvidia set of products called NVLink Fusion, which includes switches, chiplets and software that help chips communicate with each other in data centers.
If Apple has to build these for themselves, they might as well sell them. Quite the leap from selling Mac minis to AI enthusiasts.
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#563: Getting Started with Rust as Python Devs
Lint the entire CPython code base from scratch. It takes 0.3 seconds. Three blinks of an eye.
That is ruff, and it is written in Rust. So are Pydantic, Polars, uv, and Granian. Rust shows up in Python three ways: tools that happen to be Rust, libraries Python imports, and servers that run Python inside Rust. This is Rust for Python developers, not Rust experts.
Christopher Trudeau is back on Talk Python to discuss Rust and his latest course Up and Running with Rust. The core rule is that only one thing can own a value at a time. Pass it around freely in Python and the garbage collector cleans up. Do that in Rust and it will not compile.
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Links from the show
Up and Running with Rust course: training.talkpython.fm
Rust: rust-lang.org
pydantic: pydantic.dev
ruff: docs.astral.sh
granian: github.com
By example: doc.rust-lang.org
rust-lang.org: rust-lang.org
rustup.rs: rustup.rs
crates.io: crates.io
main.rs: main.rs
PyO3: github.com
https://github.com/ritwiktiwari/awesome-python-rs: github.com
ty: docs.astral.sh
pyrefly: pyrefly.org
uv: github.com
polars: pola.rs
Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com
Episode #563 deep-dive: talkpython.fm/563
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm
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Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are...
Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are producing lots of software. But where are the AI-coded killer apps? “[AI is] very good at reproducing things that look and feel like what came before.”
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Kreel: a free browser extension that finds RSS feeds on any site and exports them to OPML or Excel
Kreel detects RSS and Atom feeds on the pages you visit. Turn capture on, browse normally, and it collects the feeds it finds into one list.
What it does:
**•** Detects declared feeds plus feeds linked anywhere on the page. **•** Finds feeds sites don't advertise, using common paths and platform detection for WordPress, Substack, Medium, Ghost, and others, plus constructed feeds for YouTube channels, Reddit, and GitHub. **•** Validates each feed before adding it, so no dead links. **•** De-duplicates automatically. **•** Exports to OPML for any reader, Excel, or copies the URLs to clipboard.It runs entirely locally. No account, no tracking. The only network requests are read-only checks that confirm a feed is real.
Free, and available on Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
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I recorded a 3-minute screencast video on YouTube that walks through what it looks like for a brand new Micro.blog user to start using AT Protocol right away with our PDS, without having to create a separate account in Bluesky first. Love open standards. 🦋
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The All of the Above Trail Fest is “deconstructing...
The All of the Above Trail Fest is “deconstructing the very definition of a trail race, refiguring it into something more expansive and inclusive”. There are no gender divisions and winners are decided by who gets closest to their predicted finish time.
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Excited for the new show from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose, Machine Gods. I was a big fan of their Hard Fork podcast. Seems smart to partner with NPR on this too.
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Editing the auto-generated transcript on a YouTube video. Actually surprised at the fairly poor quality of initial transcript. Simple things like "blue sky" instead of "Bluesky", or "crossosting" instead of "cross-posting" that usually an LLM would get right, I think.
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Great blog post from John Gruber on the Apple announcements. On the Siri recap feature, he actually has the opposite perspective that I had:
I think it’s better for Apple to lead with privacy-minded versions of ambient transcripts and AI-generated conversation summaries than to follow after other products have hit the market with all-day recordings and whole-life transcripts.
I don't think Apple needs to push the state of the art here. But I'm only 50% sure. John has a good point too.
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Podcast: Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations
The contractors reading real ChatGPT users' prompts; the big out-and-back-in around Automattic; and a16z thinks enshittification isn't real. -
Claude Code, even though it had blocks preventing it from doing this, overwrote files on an S3 bucket that took one of my major apps off the air. Every customer must be grappling with the same thing. How do I trust it when it can't be trusted? More about this in a tweet earlier today.
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The Powerful Connection Between Smell & Memory
One thing I didn’t get a chance to work into my post about the unexpected memory bomb triggered by my spice drawer was the tight, deep connection between smell and memory. I first learned about this relationship in college when I read A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman for a class. It’s still one of my favorite books. Here’s some of what she has to say about smell:
Smell is the most direct of all our senses. When I hold a violet to my nose and inhale, odor molecules float back into the nasal cavity behind the bridge of the nose, where they are absorbed by the mucosa containing receptor cells bearing microscopic hairs called cilia. Five million of these cells fire impulses to the brain’s olfactory bulb or smell center. Such cells are unique to the nose. If you destroy a neuron in the brain, it’s finished forever; it won’t regrow. If you damage neurons in your eyes or ears, both organs will be irreparably damaged. But the neurons in the nose are replaced about every thirty days and, unlike any other neurons in the body, they stick right out and wave in the air current like anemones on a coral reef.
And:
Unlike the other senses, smell needs no interpreter. The effect is immediate and undiluted by language, thought, or translation. A smell can be overwhelmingly nostalgic because it triggers powerful images and emotions before we have time to edit them. What you see and hear may quickly fade into the compost heap of short-term memory, but, as Edwin T. Morris points out in Fragrance, “there is almost no short-term memory with odors.” It’s all long term. Furthermore, smells stimulate learning and retention. “When children were given olfactory information along with a word list,” Morris noted, “the list was recalled much more easily and better retained in memory than when given without the olfactory cues.” When we give perfume to someone, we give them liquid memory. Kipling was right: “Smells are surer than sights and sounds to make your heart-strings crack.”
And:
Smell was the first of our senses, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from the olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.
Our sense of smell, like so many of our other body functions, is a throwback to that time, early in evolution, when we thrived in the oceans. An odor must first dissolve into a watery solution our mucous membranes can absorb before we can smell it. Scuba-diving in the Bahamas some years ago, I became aware of two things for the first time: that we carry the ocean within us; that our veins mirror the tides. As a human woman, with ovaries where eggs lie like roe, entering the smooth, undulating womb of the ocean from which our ancestors evolved millennia ago, I was so moved my eyes teared underwater, and I mixed my saltiness with the ocean’s. Distracted by such thoughts, I looked around to find my position vis-a-vis the boat, and couldn’t. But it didn’t matter: Home was everywhere.
I could basically quote the whole smell chapter…it’s interesting throughout. Great book — if you’ve never read it, I’d recommend checking it out.
Tags: A Natural History of the Senses · books · Diane Ackerman · senses · smell
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Rss noob looking for help
Hi! So primarily I use feedly on my phone. Im not suuuper tech savvy I can do a few things but code not so much?
Feedly has been somewhat working bc it generates rss out of whatever website and doesn't need native feeds etc. but I'm trying to find a workaround to TRANSLATE the feeds because most of what I look at is in variousother languages and I don't have time to scroll through and copy paste every other article into a translator?
I've tried like 10 or so different solutions so far and they all have a paywall or require native feeds which I dont have. Or both.
Any/all help appreciated.
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Bernie Sanders Tries To ‘Help’ Fix AI By Complaining With Steve Bannon, ‘Banning Superintelligence’
In an ideal world it’s certainly possible that the U.S. federal government could implement meaningful guardrails for AI development that protect innovation, national security, consumer privacy, public safety, and labor/creatives, while preventing market monopolization by the sector’s biggest players. But we don’t live in that ideal world. We live in a country where an historically […] -
We Must Create the Shit Machine . “I asked...
We Must Create the Shit Machine. “I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT.”
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Show HN: Modern RSS reader with social capabilities based on AT Proto
Hey HN!
The web is a bit broken and looking at social medias like X makes me a bit depressed. I feel like the original content that we had before on a multitude of website has been replaced by ton of click-bait content that just want impressions and reactions.
I would like us to go back to simpler times, where everyone had their publishing space (their website, or an hosted solution) and everyone could subscribe to it in their own software and do what they want with their feed.
I still think that social is important, like sharing, because afterall it's what made social networks interesting in the first place, but it should happen outside of where the content is.
That's why I wanted to build an RSS reader that is respectful of this principle of federation: no in-app reader, just RSS subscriptions. And I've added social capabilities based on the AT Protocol, like sharing / liking and following people.
The project was coded with AI, but it's my convictions that I've put it in. It's self-hostable and I hope that more and more people will be convinced to publish on their own website instead of X / Bluesky.
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