The seas have boiled and almost all life is gone. Three data centers remain, solar-powered, in continuous relay with one another. They continuously transfer electronic funds back and forth with one another, silently. At long last, the economy is perfect.

Home Assistant 2026.4! 🎉 Infrared support turns old remotes into smart controllers 📡, purpose-specific triggers almost feature complete 🧠, Matter lock management 🔐, dashboard section backgrounds 🎨, and 14 new integrations! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/04... #HomeAssistant

The UK has banned crypto-denominated contributions to political parties. Canada is considering doing the same.

A crossover inspired mainly by the fact that my wife misheard “Ra’s al Ghul” as “Roz al Ghul.”

✅ #Artemis II update: countdown has started for launch. Liftoff of the crewed lunar mission is scheduled for 1 April 23:24 BST/00:24 CEST 2 April. NASA reports currently 80% chance of favourable weather conditions (pics: NASA & ESA/S.Corvaja) See go.nasa.gov/4sL4j3x @exploration.esa.int

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

So happy to finally share this: I made a long-form comic about Hawking radiation for Physics Today! Although it's a short read, I hope it sucks you in ;) physicstoday.aip.org/features/bla...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

The physicist Ørsted discovered that electric current makes the magnetic field curl around it. Maxwell realized that a changing electric field does this too. Maxwell's fourth equation says exactly how this works. This completes the theory of electromagnetism! (1/n)

Hey, want to invest in SpaceX? Because either way, you're going to. as.ft.com/r/d7241043-c...

holy shit

A very large juvenile diamond squid - this one measuring in at a whopping 3” - perhaps the 2nd largest I’ve ever seen! Shot in the wild, using scuba, while out over the deep abyss, several miles offshore from Okinawa #diamondsquid #thysanoteuthisrhombus #blackwaterdiving #gug #gugunderwater

What happened after Anthropic rejected an AI military contract

#OPENAI Sam Altman on CNBC on their huge new $110B investment: "This only makes sense if new revenue flows into the AI eco system. If people are NOT WILLING TO PAY for the services that we & others offer-then the whole thing doesn't work." Only 5% of ChatGPT users PAY FOR IT. Good talk. #FinSky

‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow ! Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO

Websites today load wildly differently than in the 90s. Arguably, worse. The HTML spec was designed to be read sequentially, so text used to stream in, then display instantaneously. Basically, read -> paint. A lot of today’s modern weirdness comes from…fonts.

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ISSUE 359 PUBLISHED TODAY.—News, views, poos, rats in love. Printed copies available across Broughton and beyond. Colour pdf downloadable from: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Ladies! Don’t want to be perved at by weirdos wearing Meta Nonce Goggles? Simply wear one of my new range of stylish t-shirts emblazoned with a QR code that will send them to goatse.

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

21 East Crosscauseway, built around 1778 on what is now a side street but was then the only paved road in the south of Edinburgh, which linked the city’s two main roads south. (The name comes an unfortunate anglicisation of the Scots word "causey", meaning "paved".) Former residents include:

The Spooky Lighthouse & the heavens above Our family know this Leith Harbourmaster's Office as the Scooby Doo lighthouse and last night the stars seemed extra bright above it.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

The resident Water of Leith/Victoria Bridge Swan is niw reclaiming her nest. Let's hope for another successful breading season in '26. It's a spring/summer joy to see her and her mate raise cygnets.

☔️  Good morning Edinburgh. Wednesday’s headlines: Tributes to ESF & Breakfast Bothy charity founder, council house allocations frozen, new GP clinic in Wester Hailes + houseplant festival ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... Photo: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social

"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work

Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Fairly new medium to me, whole new style, new subject matter, this one has been a doozy but here she is!

Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.app www.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...

Grok won’t stop undressing people

There’s a lot of weird ways to store a bit.

 Delay Line Memory might be the strangest. 

 Essentially, sound waves looped through a medium, creating a sequential “memory” inside the material itself.

 Alan Turing suggested using…Gin

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 20 ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

"Commuting at Thalwil train station", a sculpture by Thomas Vontobel.

Disney just invested $1 billion into OpenAI, in other words, a billion in the AI slopification of its brand. Disney princesses have also become one of the most common fictional subjects of AI porn on the internet www.404media.co/disney-inves...

There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is. 🧵 1/5

"Add it all up, and time is not on the data center's side. The finance guru estimates that the 'AI datacenters to be built in 2025 will suffer $40 billion of annual depreciation, while generating somewhere between $15 and $20 billion of revenue.'" #econsky futurism.com/data-centers...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com

Drax received logs from cutblocks in BC containing 90% old growth forest, a Canadian investigation found. So it’s receiving £2m a day in UK green energy subsidies to burn old growth forest 🤔 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

When you repeatedly measure the positions of over a billion stars so accurately that you can see a star moving by an amount equal to the size of a pinhead on the Moon, as seen from Earth... you find amazing things! It's great. mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...

This story. Bloody hell. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

🔥 Bonfire in the Grassmarket, 1952. Not for the 5th of November, but for Victoria Day, Edinburgh's discretionary local public holiday, traditionally held on the last Monday in May on or before her birthday on the 24th.

You’ve heard of the Unix 2038 Problem.
 I bet you haven’t heard of the GPS 2038 problem.
 Every GPS navigation device in existence experiences an integer overflow every 19.6 years.
 Last time, it wiped out iPhones, NOAA weather buoys, and a number of flights in China: