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Leaked image of new Apple EV.

Perhaps a stupid question, but how I can I set a window to a certain size? Preferably without installing anything. (I'm on Ubuntu)

This Alien Shore The Night Circus Pattern Recognition

oh no

No matter how well-known Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" is, it deserves more.

1. Particle Life in 3D Elijas Najarro shared a mesmerizing implementation of an asymmetric particle simulation in 3D that runs on browsers. Go have a look, toggle the 3D setting and play with the parameters! bsky.app/profile/naja...

If you are not subscribed to the ALife Newsletter, here is what you may have missed last month! alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...

seems bad (widely applicable)

Petrol and diesel cars fought for their lives in Norway but, as you can see, that smelly old Victorian technology ultimately lost the battle to EVs forever. I'm all for it and I love that's happening here too now. I also love how this is frightening some pretty evil businesses. Good.

Yeesh codex has come a long way. Amazing how much change is happening so quickly these days

I spent the next few years reading every Discworld book I could get my hands on, during my formative years. Terry Pratchett shaped my entire worldview. The adults around me - parents, church leaders - all wanted to raise me to believe in what I now recognize is a far-right cult imported from America

I like to tell kids “back in my day there were 9 planets” and when they go “what happened?” I say “we don’t like to talk about it” and refuse to elaborate. And someone is threatening to take this C grade dad joke away from me!? Outrage!!

The Green Party of Aotearoa needs a bit more funding to hit their month goals...and I gotta say it. We DESPERATELY need them to do well this election with everything going on. Consider helping them if you're financially able to??? www.greens.org.nz/donate

i had the best time making these silly little pelicans this weekend 🤩 i present: ✨The Pelifont✨

There's no reason "fiery" should be spelt that way when "firey" is right there

The thing I have to keep remembering about asking an AI to explain what it just did is that it has no idea. What I'm actually doing is asking _this instance_ to explain what the hell that _other instance_ did, and if I've read the same chat I probably have just as much an idea as it does.

We’re sorry, due to unexpected volumes of unbelievable bullshit all our wtfs have been used at this time. Your wtf has been placed in a priority queue. Expected wait time is 2027.

Where can a fellow sign up for this tsunami of butter chicken that I keep seeing referenced in the NZ news?

If you keep hitting the back button to play the song again, it's definitely still me in control right? not putting it on loop means I'm still the boss and I could stop listening to this song any time. Any time after the next time.

i talk in-depth to betty wihongi, whose kiwi daughter everlee got kidnapped by ICE at lax. full audio, and article, here (no paywall, no ads - please RT): www.webworm.co/betty/

Still relevant three years later. newsroom.co.nz/2023/02/22/t...

Wow Newtown got seriously flooded last night!!

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

I believe you mean “so badly”

When you thought you were going for a drive but you end up singing sea shanties #weather

Now that they’re safe on the ground we.. ocean, I can make a joke OMG ARTEMIS IS IN TROUBLE WE’RE GETTING REPORTS OF A GIANT CAT BATTING THEM OUT OF THE SKY OH THE HUMANITY

Auckland earlier tonight. (Pic by the Hauraki Gulf Weather account on Facebook, seeing as he's not on this platform)

I'm just glad the astronauts weren't around to see us this week, we were not at our best

Achievement: remembered how to play Pass the Pigs

Do I happen to know anyone in Wellington looking for part time tech industry comms work? LMK.

hi, seeking an LA lawyer - so if you are a smart lawyer who wants to help my journalism work on webworm, please email me: [email protected] 🙏

I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents. AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering. The post-mortem: lalitm.com/post/buildin...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

okay I started doing this this evening instead of scrolling in the interstitial moments and it is SO fun

Someone loves sand a lot magnifiedsand.com and I love that they love sand a lot

♫ psycho killer, cat cassette ♫

Dog: I have incredible hearing! Also Dog: I admit I was laser focused on trying to eat scraps out of the rubbish bin, which I am not allowed to do, which meant I did not hear the boss walk up behind me

My straits? dire (Too current??)

Hey, so, shitty news. I have just had my contract terminated because of lack of available work. This is super a bummer, as I cannot afford to, y'know, live now. Any leads on work-from-home transcription work much appreciated.

Huh. People have actually tested the fuel thing, in NZ no less. This lovely PDF has so many numbers! www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resou... For Hastings to Levin they report around 15% difference in fuel use between 80km/h and 100km/h target max speed

Oh no! TikTok is attacking us @melbailey.bsky.social!

What a fascinating read ( www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/pap... ), Donald Knuth talks about a solution Claude came up with to an open problem he was working on, and perhaps more interestingly what it tried before it got there.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Kind of the opposite for me, taking notes in a meeting distracts me from engaging in the conversation. Having someone else or a recording or llm handling that lets me be really present in the discussion