Dieser Klassiker darf natürlich auch nicht fehlen heute.

It's a little known fact that a qfp standing up tall is simply frightened, and can be calmed down with a few gentle strokes on its top.

Was ist mit den Ansagen in den Stadtbahnen in Düsseldorf los? Soll das so?

Like the previous years, the Christmas tree for the European parliament arrived by NightJet in Brussels today

Wald: Jetzt Buchen!

obacht!

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

Deeply worrying sight in the corner of the office. Wondering if I can report it as an unattended item and get it blown up?

Lange hat es gedauert, nun ist sie da: Die Zulassung der Steuerwagen (Bfmpz) der DaNi-Züge (Railjet/Nightjet 2) für Österreich, Deutschland, Italien und die Niederlande. 🎉 eratv.era.europa.eu/Eratv/Home/V...

In Graz wurden Gewerbetreibende gefragt, was sie glauben, mit welchem Verkehrsmittel ihre KundInnen gekommen seien. Und sie haben das Auto (wieder einmal) massiv überschätzt. (via @kleinezeitung.at)

Und wieder mal der Hinweis: Verbrenner, die nur mit E-Fuels betrieben werden können, dürfen auch nach 2035 verkauft werden. Das ist schon geltendes Recht da muss kein Verbot abgeschafft werden. Das ist entweder Symbolpolitik oder jemand versucht Ölabhängigkeit durch die Hintertür beizubehalten.

(1/5) Zu Schulungszwecken durfte ich heute die noch nicht für den Fahrgastverkehr eröffnete Koralmbahn befahren, hier die Einfahrt in den 33 km langen gleichnamigen Tunnel. (Wegen Arbeiten an der Sprinkleranlage aktuell eingleisiger Betrieb.)

from “human sexual activity”

Today in linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your knowledge of language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before.

these people are fucking morons and anyone who believes them about anything is also a fucking moron I cannot believe this is how huge amounts of the planet gets damaged this is stuff Douglas Adams couldn't have written at his most cynically depressed about humanity

there were plans announced today to sequester carbon under the North Sea the most efficient sequestering is leaving fossil fuels where they are. when they're in the ground they ARE carbon sequestering

My most controversial transport/rail/urbanism opinion is that induced demand is good, actually. Because what does induced demand really mean for people? It means there’s a new or improved link that makes it easier to go places, and now you have more options.

My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

somebody who is good at the economy please help them budget this, their bullshit factory is dying

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

I too spend every social interaction awkwardly saying one word after the other, hoping to god no one realises I don't know what the fuck in talking about. Where's MY billion dollar valuation?

I hate that I have to care about what happens when (not if) the AI bubble bursts. I didn't pay for it, I didn't get paid by it and I never use it. But when banks get scared and big companies feel the need to save lots of money it'll end up affecting everyone. Very annoying.

oh you GOD DAMN THINK?

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

tut uns leid, wir konnten leider die Tramschienen nicht reparieren, die Autobahn war so teuer www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berli...

No, this article is wrong. This is not a former TCR Giulietta by Romeo Ferraris, this is an older one built for the Italian touring car championship for a class called “TCT” by a team called Etruria in 2017. TCT had the same specs as TCR but didn’t require the expensive homologation.

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

Weiß eigentlich jemand was die höchste Gleisnunmer in Deutschland ist? Wissen (Sieg) hat 603 (und 601 und 602) aber ich vermute mal das ist nicht das Ende der Fahnenstange.

They line up perfectly.

game design 101

More bus and USB keyboard adventures, this time with the W, A, S and D keys. Oh, and please don't chuck keyboards out of bus windows

this is correct

Die Sperrung des Kölner Hauptbahnhofs in Kombination mit fragwürdiger Baustellenplanung und der damit verbundenen Zugfolgeregelung, wirkt sich inzwischen bis in die Schweiz und Italien aus. Läuft 👌

icymi, Musk's Ai, Grok, appears to have been instructed to always say Musk is the best at everything. And, when you do that, it turns out there's a loophole!

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

Apple's "focus" feature is so great. For years I ignored it, just turned off all notifications I didn't find interesting all the time. So some time ago Apple just helpfully turned it on for me based on I assume time of day and my location. And now I don't see the notifications I care about anymore!

On the one hand it is unfair to always tie the concept of Hyperloop to the failings of Elon Musk, who didn’t invent it and whose specific concept nobody actually follows closely. On the other, it’s not like Hyperloop ever makes sense, so why not have some fun snarking?

“Hi, folks. This is your caption speaking. If you look out the window and upward, you may be able to see a photograph just above us…”

This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!

"Using the internet without agency" euroblog.jonworth.eu/using-the-in... A quick rant, based on a both defeatist and perceptive comment from one of my students yesterday, and drawing on some posts from @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

🎵 …couldn’t bescape if I bonted to 🎶

Die Bundesregierung hat auf der COP30 gerade ärmeren Ländern zugesagt, sie bei der Klimaanpassung, mit 60 Mio. € zu unterstützen. Die gleiche Bundesregierung hat gerade der Flugindustrie Steuergeschenke in Höhe von 350 Mio. € zugesagt, um Fliegen noch billiger zu machen. Prioritäten, so wichtig!