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Reminds Me of Chigley Olympus C5050 London, England Saturday, May 2nd, 2009.
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People get raped everywhere by every kind of person.
Ronit Sela
Sunflower & Bumblebee iPhone 8 Sunday, September 25th, 2022.
Custard & Bricks iPhone 8 Brighton, East Sussex, England Saturday, September 24th, 2022.
Autumn’s Coming to the Pool iPhone 8 Brighton, East Sussex, England Thursday, September 15th, 2022.
Gateway to Ruin iPhone 8 New Forest, Dorset, England Saturday, June 4th, 2022.
Ra’anana Stroll iPhone 8 Saturday, March 19th, 2022.
Upon Arrivals iPhone 8 Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel Wednesday, March 16th, 2022.
So Not Exhausting iPhone 6S London, England Friday, December 10th, 2021.
Clear Thick of It iPhone 6S London, England Friday, December 10th, 2021.
Glorious Reversal iPhone 8 Scotland Thursday, August 26th, 2021.
Glasgow Stroll iPhone 6S Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
Belong to Glasgow iPhone 6S Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
Sailing iPhone 6S Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
Kelvinside, Glasgow iPhone 6S Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
Frith on the Hills iPhone 6S Keswick, Cumbria, England Monday, August 23rd, 2021.
A Lake, a Path and Some Hills iPhone 6S Keswick, Cumbria, England Monday, August 23rd, 2021.
Planned Meander iPhone 6S Stanmer Park, Brighton, East Sussex, England Sunday, July 18th, 2021.
Postwar Dignity iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 5th, 2021.
Dripping Edifice iPhone 6S Littlehampton, West Sussex, England Sunday, May 2nd, 2021.
Handsome in Ditchling iPhone 6S Ditchling, East Sussex, England Wednesday, April 14th, 2021.
Marina Take All iPhone 6S Brighton Marina, Brighton, East Sussex, England Friday, April 9th, 2021.
Choices iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, March 10th, 2021.
How Brighton Usually Feels iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021.
Winter Procession iPhone 6S London, England Thursday, December 31st, 2020.
Fully Appreciative At Last iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, September 29th, 2020.
A Brighton Blesssing iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, September 15th, 2020.
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Monday, October 3rd, 2022
For the first time, Iranian protests are nationwide, multi-ethnic, political and non-clerical, so much so that this could finally be the end for the mad mullahs.
Good bonkers, I’m Adam S Khan, the S being for Samuel.
I live in Brighton, England with Irit and our kids and right now no dogs.
Thanks for dropping by — it’s my pleasure to have you.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
Fool me once. This piece, a rather disparaging article on Avatar at DNYUZ, and redeemed by the fact that the author did actually visit the Avatar theme park at DisneyWorld, is nonetheless the second time (I forget the first article) I’ve enjoyed a pretty good longish read only to come across, about 2/3 of the way through, what in my defensive paranoia seems like the woke raison d’etre of the whole piece:
What were the odds that, galaxies away, a society not only had two genders, but those genders were “male” and “female” — and the females were stacked?
I sputter at attempting to explicate the wanton stupidity here, but will try: Of all the previous sci-fi shows with females and males, suddenly this is an issue in this movie? Of all the liberties taken with physics and reality with these sci-fi tentpole movies, this biologically-grounded fact of life is the complaint? What of the mammalian model for life all around us? Anonymous DNYUZ author, I see you and I CMD-W you.
Update: OK I didn’t quite immediately close my browser tab, I skimmed to the end, and there is indeed a byline:
Jamie Lauren Keiles is a contributing writer for the magazine. They are currently working on a book about the rise of gender-neutral pronouns and nonbinary identity in America.
Fair enough, they have an agenda, and in my skimming I see:
Here is probably a good place to disclose that when I first started working on this article, I had never seen “Avatar.”
Aha, my agenda sense was working. Yet some good parts are still to come: after watching it on their laptop, the author is disappointed, but then goes to see it in 3-D and is enraptured:
The action did not just come forward as one frame, but instead wove me into the movement onscreen, the tendrils of plants and falling drops of water each reaching out from a different point in space. The Na’vi bodies appeared to have mass. It was hard to discern what was real or C.G.I., which led me to wonder, “Why even distinguish?” This, in turn, produced a twisted surge of delight at the prospect of man’s becoming God.
The author’s deeper reveal, perhaps — and a surprising antepenultimate word choice.
Saturday, November 26th, 2022
Stratechery on Microsoft: So Teams is the new Windows. Ah, as so many movie villains have said, Why won’t you just die?!
Sunday, November 20th, 2022
Episode #105 of the All-In Podcast is a bumper one, covering the Musk-led collapse of what David Sacks refers to as the excess elites jobs program, wherein high-status people who cannot be particularly economically productive after their training in sycophancy at a woke madrassa are nonetheless absorbed.
Good post and comment thread by Tyler Cowen on the future of London as a city:
… London, which indeed is currently the best city in the world but in a modestly populated country. However this central role for the city makes the UK as a broader nation richer to only a limited degree. So the extreme wonders of London lead to a partial (permanent) atrophy for the rest of the country, which is precisely what we observe.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
On researching Prokofiev; Princeton musicologist Simon Morrison uncovers more works by my favorite composer.
The biggest change Prokofiev and his collaborator Sergei Radlov made to Shakespeare’s familiar story was to add a happy ending: Their Juliet wakes up from her potion-induced slumber just as Romeo is reaching the awful conclusion that she is dead. But when Prokofiev presented his score to the Soviet cultural authorities, who had been growing ever more conservative, they balked at the ending. The Shakespeare purists among them did not like the idea of changing the familiar ending. Prokofiev had a logical answer to their objections, saying, “Living people can dance, the dying cannot.” Grasping at ways to preserve the integrity of his vision, he even suggested hanging a red flag outside the theater on nights when the sad ending was to be performed, a green flag when the happy one was planned.
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
An awed shoutout to Raycast, which I presume the cool kids have been using for years. I had given up finding a contemporary equivalent for SizzlingKeys, a way to control the Apple Music app simply from the keyboard regardless of which app I’m using. With Raycast it’s a breeze to set keyboard hotkeys for many Music app operations, including all the ones I’ve ever thought of using.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
A tweetstorm on tagging by Hillel, with issues I’ve been mulling over myself.
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
At the Washington Institute, Rahim Hamid and Ruth Riegler argue that the Iranian uprising must have a plan for the various ethnicities.
Friday, October 14th, 2022
Tony Badran explicates the terrible maritime deal that Israel signed with the Lebanese. It seems to me they just locked in Bibi’s reelection.
Monday, October 10th, 2022
To form an opinion on the wedge of maritime territory wedged between Israeli and Lebanon, some googling revealed:
Saturday, October 8th, 2022
Himars, highly mobile precision missile launchers, is a revolutionary military technology that has changed the balance of war in Ukraine’s favour against Russia.
Friday, October 7th, 2022
Oh my, Walter Russell Mead joins Tyler Cowen for a rich brief hour, and they barely mention WRM’s new book Arc. While in print WRM can seem a bit mealy-mouthed, often it seems throat-clearing to not alienate those with whom he basically disagrees, here he comes out strong and hearty. And TC’s idiosyncratic method of firing off questions works with WRM because each one prompts such a rich answer that there’s little need for normal back and forth.
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Jonathan Haidt speaks with Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly on democracy in the next cycle of history and the fragility problem of Gen Z. What a line-up!
Reuel Marc Gerecht is back, now opining fruitfully on the Iranian protests in The Wall Street Journal [subscription required]:
What is most striking about the regime’s response so far is its relative lack of violence … Like all declining dictatorships, the clerical regime has had a failure of imagination—in this case, about how to handle protesting women.
You find some good shit when you search YouTube for reviews by other people who really detest No Time to Die. This is the redoubtable young Batcho.
Wednesday, October 5th, 2022
Watch these Balochi Iranian schoolgirls stomp on the classroom pic of the Dictator Khamenei. Amazing.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
What a fabulous — and fabulously-presented — list of free Mac utilities recommended by Snazzy Labs.
Some Twitter accounts posting frequent videos of the courageous protests by young women in Iran:
This, it seems to me, is inspiring, world-historical stuff.
Thrilling, emotional coverage by Israel’s Channel 12 on Iran’s street protests, including secret footage from a local stringer.
As Descarte completed his Discourse on the Method I wonder if he had an inkling it would come to this, from “What Trans Health Care for Minors Really Means” by Tyler Santora at mainstream medical reference website WebMD:
For adolescents who are assigned female at birth, top surgery can be performed to create a flat chest. The Endocrine Society states that there is not enough evidence to set a minimum age for this type of gender-affirming surgery, and the draft of the updated SOC recommends a minimum age of 15. “Usually, for a [person] assigned female at birth, the chest tissue continues to mature until around 14 or 15,” Inwards-Breland says. “What I’ve seen surgeons do is after 14, they feel more comfortable.” If, though, a person is started on puberty blockers followed by hormone therapy from a relatively early age – around 13 – they will never develop breast tissue and wouldn’t need surgery to remove it.
Steve Jobs said: “Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization.” Implicit in his statement is that it can be unlearned. As an intellectually inquisitive teenager in the 1980s I would have scoffed at the notion that religion serves to keep us rational. But the evidence suggests that it does, and without its drumbeat the fever dream of linguistic chimeras can drive us surprisingly mad surprisingly quickly.
Monday, October 3rd, 2022
For the first time, Iranian protests are nationwide, multi-ethnic, political and non-clerical, so much so that this could finally be the end for the mad mullahs.
Sunday, October 2nd, 2022
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
Walter Russell Mead
Mearsheimer and Walt — three words that do not appear once in this 1045-page book but are clearly its raison d’etre. John Mearsheimer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago; Stephen Walt is Professor of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School; together they are the respectable face of American anti-Semitism, reputable enough that Walter Russell Mead seems unwilling to criticize them by name, despicable enough that their book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy infuriated our southern-born dean of foreign relations to work on this book for a dozen years or so.
The Wikipedia article on the Lobby book illustrates Mead’s Southern Gentleman approach; whereas Israeli historian Benny Morris says “their work is riddled with shoddiness and defiled by mendacity,” Mead applauds the authors for “admirably and courageously” initiating a conversation on a difficult subject, but more in sorrow than in anger laments that while their intentions are surely strictly honorable, they commit “easily avoidable lapses in judgment and expression.”
Making multiple approaches from multiple angles, Mead demolishes their central notion, giving it the withering moniker of Vulcanist thinking. (Actually I take issue a little with this label, because since the book is so long I forgot the elegant historical anecdote that originates it — a theory of astronomy that attempted to explain celestial workings by means of an undetected planet that doesn’t actually exis. Instead I mentally defaulted to popular culture, where Star Trek’s Vulcan is a stand-in for excessive logic — a characterization quite antithetical to his notion of Vulcanist thinking. This is a shame because the term therefore probably won’t catch on, which it could have perhaps as a shorthand for tendentious yet respectable and therefore ultimately even more ridiculous thinking.)
Especially enriching are his fleshing out of the geopolitical maneouverings among the US, Britain and Russia at the time of Israel’s founding. Important here for Mead’s thesis is that the legend of Truman’s Jewish friend from back in Missouri inveighing on the flummoxed President to recognize Israel be relegated to Queen Esther-echoing myth. For it is WRM’s contention in his chapter “Cyrus Agonistes” that American support for Israel is endemic to the United States, rather than due to the influence of the American Jewish lobby qua Walt and Mearsheimer — moreover it’s despite American Jews, whose leaders have for most of Israel’s history been actively working against a Jewish state, their energies only turning once America as a whole pursued full-throated support for Israel after it became the Middle East’s unambiguous Six Day War strong horse.
It’s also a helpful historical insight that WRM groups 19th century American support for Jewish return to Israel with support for the birth of the Italian and Greek nationstates:
In the ancient world, as Americans saw it, the Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews had been much like Americans of the nineteenth century. They were mostly agrarian people, nations of family-owned farms. They had free institutions and their societies were grounded in virtue. But corruption, urbanization, and monarchy had wreaked their ugly work; in time, all three of the ancient peoples fell from their virtue and freedom into slavery, superstition, and oppression.
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As the nineteenth century progressed, and the Greek and Italian independence movements advanced, the possibility of a restored Jewish commonwealth also began to gleam on the horizon.
In fact the discussion of nationalism’s birth pangs from the empires of eastern Europe, the chapter entitled “Maelstrom”, is perhaps the richest part of the book.
As a columnist I have been irritated by what I perceive as WRM’s intellectual mealy-mouthedness. But as a full-throated podcast guest I realize this is merely his print persona, a tic I suppose similar to what he probably views as his Straussian icy politeness regarding Mearsheimer and Walt. That said, I took umbrage when in the book he referred to the Second Intifada, a wave of despicable terror attacks against Israel in the wake of the Oslo Agreements, using the BBC-like passive even-handed term: “violence flared”. I instantly recalled eyewitnessing the shellshock in the hours after the Dolphinarium suicide bombing that killed and maimed dozens of partying teenagers. I was only somewhat mollified later in the book when he mentioned this particular bombing by name, without mentioning that the victims were teenagers.
This is a book about America not Israel, and as well as constituting a scathing retort to Mearsheimer and Walt, is a continuation by other means of his 2001 book Special Providence that classifies the various streams of America’s foreign policy; in portraying America’s relationship with Israel, Arc explicates the fullest expression of the Jacksonian stream, a Meadian classification that, unlike Vulcanism, does seem to be sticking.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
He of the Cottage Cheese protests, now sitting in the Prime Minister’s chair, finally did it, as Israel applies EU standards for foodstuffs. Lapid’s statement: “The move will lower the cost of living and open the market to competition” — and what a great pic in his office with the Israeli flag and an array of foodstuffs.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
The American model appeared to demonstrate that capitalism plus democracy led to mass prosperity and deep social stability.
Walter Russell Mead, The Arc of a Covenant
Sunday, September 25th, 2022
If “the Jews” ran America, immigration would not have been restricted and Israel would likely not exist.
Walter Russell Mead, The Arc of a Covenant (p. 251)
Saturday, September 24th, 2022
Kudos to the Biden Administration: Musk’s Starlink is legally permitted by the US Government to supply internet to Iranians.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
A good ol’ rant by everyone against Microsoft in this Hacker News thread, this time about Teams. When o when will this monstrosity of a corporation die already. “Developer-friendly”; may the GitHub guys get what they deserve for selling out to the Borg.
Israel’s patience and humility is rewarded first by Trump and now by Truss: the UK may follow the US in relocating its embassy from Tel Aviv the seafront metropolis to Jerusalem the capital.
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
Very ambitious people probably need colleagues more than anyone else, because they’re so starved for them in everyday life.
Paul Graham, What I’ve Learned from Users
Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
Star Wars has destroyed many a career, as this article catalogs.
So ifixit are really excited by the repairability of the new iPhone 14, the internals of which have been totally redesigned. This was barely mentioned at the launch, and interestingly did not carry over to the 14 Pros.
Friday, September 16th, 2022
At Nat Con 3, Peter Thiel argues in a speech entitled “The Tech Curse” that while the Democrats have nothing to offer but the California model of gutting the middle classes except state employees, the Republicans nonetheless need something more than simply a negation of it.
One heuristic he offers in order to measure societal success in contrast to California is cheap real estate, but offers no path to get there.
My monomaniacal suggestion: flying cars/eVTOLs, which increase the human daily commute distance from about 50 to 250 miles, multiplying our practicable habitable area by likely an order of magnitude. As well as other unforeseeable boons, surely this would radically lower the cost of homes.
But it requires government support. “If the U.S. doesn’t take a leadership role, either someone else will do it or it won’t get done at all,” said Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-California), co-chair of the Congressional AAM Caucus, along with Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-California), at Honeywell’s Air Mobility Summit. “We are really at an inflection point in the industry. It’s such a critical time for Congress to get involved.”
Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
In Mosaic, Philologos discusses the Biblical use of “and”. The crux of the matter is this:
One reason that the prefixed vav is so ubiquitous in the Bible is that, as everyone familiar with biblical Hebrew knows, it can have a second function that is not a conjunction’s. This is the marking of tense—or more precisely, the reversing of tense, since it is a peculiarity of biblical Hebrew that a prefixed vav, when attached to a verb, can change its tense from past or perfect to future or imperfect, and vice versa.
And:
Biblical Hebrew has no punctuation (the cantillations it is chanted to in the synagogue are a later development) and is a language poor in conjunctions. Although it has its own ways of expressing logical and temporal relationships between parts of sentences, something that is largely done in English by means of commas and periods, dependent clauses, and conjunctions like “when,” “while,” “as,” “though,” “despite,” and so forth, biblical Hebrew rarely puts together sentences by such means. It prefers coordinate clauses joined by a vav—or, in more technical language, paratactic rather than hypotactic constructions in which the vav can do the work of various English conjunctions and mean other things beside “and.”
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
The Mufti, Qadaffi, King Hussein — I’m vastly enjoying season 2 of the Israeli TV documentary series Enemies (streaming requires an Israeli IP). One thing I can’t help but notice is the impressive living rooms in which the interviewees — mostly military intelligence vets — sit. None of them are in apartments, all have leafy window views, there’s a lot of wood, and most of them aren’t furnished like typical Israeli dwellings. I guess these aren’t military men, they’re men and women of the world.
I can’t tell if I enjoy Israeli docs because they’re so good, or merely because I’m the target audience. If it’s the former, and I think it is, they really should be selling them subtitled to wider audiences, say to Netflix and Amazon Prime.
It’s great, this pounding away at Israeli history, each episode a different prism.
Monday, September 5th, 2022
The reward is that if you give, even at the times when you think you have very little, you’ll teach your brain that there is more than enough.
Tony Robbins, Money: Master the Game
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
Entertainingly caustic albeit a tad ad nauseumly, Neil Postman’s famous book regales us with at least one important historical fact and one historical idea.
The fact: that before showbusiness, Americans were by far the world’s most literate, informed, engaged population, whereas today it must be said have a reputation abroad for ignorance.
The idea: that even while powerful technologies are mindless and agnostic, each nonetheless has its own nature that pushes society in particular directions. Postman argues mostly convincingly that print is healthy for society, television not.
Just like the self-help gurus pointing out that it’s better to totally goof off than do busywork because at least leisure doesn’t feel like work and thereby misguide the mind, so Postman prefers straight-up entertainment shows like Hart to Hart to those that pretend to inform like 60 Minutes.
Now, the book was written in 1985 and is about TV; the big question is what Postman would have thought of the Web and social media. He does write that the potential influence of computers is overrated, which reminds us that nobody’s infallible (which does undermine the book’s credibility, so kudos on the publishers of later editions in not cutting out these throwaway few words).
Market Realist wisely marvels at Jeff Bezos’s enthusiastic reminiscences of working at McDonald’s.
Tuesday, August 30th, 2022
Saturday, August 27th, 2022
TwIS on Twitter’s new podcasting.
Friday, August 26th, 2022
Great interview at Berkeley with alum and local Oakland boy Craig Federighi [Dec 2019].
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Hamas stays out of the fray in Israel’s latest Gaza blow-up, further fractalizing the Palestinian movement.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
I agree with the sentiment in this Haaretz op-ed piece “It’s Time for Israeli Media to Start Calling Gaza Victims by Their Names”, an issue I blogged about during a previous Gaza altercation back in 2014 and haven’t changed my mind. What regular folks here in Israel care about are the disruptions caused due to incoming rocket fire — and that’s totally legit. But for the record the media should be noting whom Israel kills in order to ameliorate the aggression — especially when they are non-combatants. Perhaps one argument against doing so is that we must rely for the facts on the Palestinians themselves, for whom facts seem to be malleable instruments. If credibility is truly Israel’s issue, then we should enlist the aid of credible third-parties organizations for corroboration.
Friday, August 5th, 2022
Yippee, Conrad Black is back, juicy and crunchy as ever. From “The Triumph of Davos Man”:
Our [hard Left] enemies leapt from the jaws of bitter and total defeat, hijacked the careening gadfly of esoteric conservationism, and transformed it surreptitiously into a well-camouflaged battering ram that has inflicted immense costs and opprobrium on the corporate world and great sadness and inconvenience on the laboring proletariat on whose behalf the Marxist Left has supposedly been crusading these past 150 years.
The second most important country in the Western Alliance is almost detached from it, all by the apparently innocuous and meliorist actions of Germany’s peppiest environmentalists.
Conrad Black, Triumph of Davos Man
News I can use: to be published in the academic journal Experimental Gerontology, “Frequent sauna bathing offsets the increased risk of death due to low socioeconomic status” — a prospective cohort study of middle-aged and older men.
Thursday, August 4th, 2022
At last, a British publication (The New Statesman, with muchos kudos for the great rebranding) addresses the bonkers British practice of placing washing machines in kitchens and consequently lacking space for dishwashers (or vice versa, the causality is mysterious):
Non-Brits find having a washing machine in the kitchen hilarious (as well as unhygienic, which it is). But the idea of bringing smelly socks near food preparation surfaces apparently pales in comparison to the shady plastic tub in the sink, its fleet of mugs bobbing in the oily foam.
The article even addresses that other bugbear: “UK residents commonly have separate hot and cold taps, whereas single mixer taps have long been the norm in Europe.”
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022
Britons should be honored by this Palestinian diatribe against them.
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Future of China's Unrest: More Complex Than It Seems
HHS Politicizes Health Care, Marginalizes People of Faith
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You Should Probably Wait To Buy a Home
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Cruelty in the Name of 'Antiracism'
Larry Krasner on What Will Actually Reduce Crime
Europe Shows a Clear Link Between Immigration and Crime
Don't Trust the News Business: It's Destroyed Itself
The Mesmerizing Spectacle of a Sam Bankman-Fried Interview
The Left's Embrace of Political Censorship Is a Massive Error
The GOP Is Preparing To Learn Nothing All Over Again
Poll Is a Warning to Both Parties About Working Class Voters
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“I've asked Stable Diffusion to generate 250 pages of 1987 RadioShack catalog”
CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed's DNA
Discord’s Creator Portal
PostScript: A Digital Printing Press
Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% cut of exchange fees
Ask HN: Was I pwned?
An embeddable and customizable fiat-to-crypto onramp
Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
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Brave launches private search ads
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Tell HN: I asked ChatGPT to build a login form in React and it gave me the code
Tldraw's $2.7M Seed - A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web
Experiment with Penrose Tilings and other patterns
Statistical vs. Deep Learning forecasting methods
Mossad chief Barnea calls emerging nuclear accord a “strategic disaster” with Iran just weeks from breakout
Protests apart, Israel is out of options for halting Iran’s race for a nuclear bomb
Gantz travels to Washington as nuclear deal shapes up with Iran
Iranian drills test UAV air defense and electronic warfare capacities
Iran tells Lebanese proxy Nasrallah to prepare to fight Israel over Mediterranean gas fields
Gantz: A Hizballah attack on Israel’s gas assets would spark war
Bank of Israel raises interest rate by 0.75pc to 2.0pc
CNN omitted key US concessions in proposed nuclear deal with Iran
Iran reportedly drops demand to delist Guards for nuclear deal
At least 10 killed in al Qaeda-linked attack on Mogadishu hotel
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Israel's Drone Dome System Wins Pentagon Certification
Rise in Iranian Assassination, Kidnapping Plots Alarms Western Officials
Listen: Full Recording of UN Vote on Israel's Establishment
Israel, U.S. Hold Air Drill Simulating Striking Iran Nuclear Program
New York Times' Gaza Fishing Story Reels in Readers, Forgoes Facts
Israeli Students Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet on School Trip
Israeli Woman Soldier Seriously Wounded in Palestinian Car Ramming Attack in West Bank
An Exile Returns to Syria
UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Finds "Man-Made Cavity" under Gaza School
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Commander Killed in Firefight near Jenin
Iran Threatens Families of its National Soccer Team
Pro-Israel Democrats Welcome New House Democratic Minority Leader
Ukrainian Delegation Arrives in Israel to Discuss Creating Missile Warning System in Ukraine
Veteran U.S. Peace-Processors Seek to Thwart Israeli Democracy
Palestinians Attack Israeli Soldiers in West Bank, Three Attackers Killed
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DeepMind AI topples experts at complex game Stratego
Moving labs: a checklist for researchers with disabilities
Men dominate conference Q&A sessions — including online ones
The search for new physics gets a new partner: the Sun
Oil-palm farms that spare rainforests menace grasslands instead
Rapid warming linked to leap in tropical ocean seasonality
Mother mouse’s high-fat diet changes her son’s brain
Filopodia are a structural substrate for silent synapses in adult neocortex
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Kuwait questions UN over ‘allowing Israeli occupations’ criminal violations’
Turkiye calls for US understanding ahead of possible Syria operation
Iran’s World Cup team gets tepid welcome home, amid protests
Lebanon MPs again fail to fill vacant presidency
Two killed in Israeli West Bank raid – Palestinian health ministry
UAE’s lunar mission postponed for second time
Pentagon chief warns Turkiye against new military operation in Syria
Houthi landmines kill more Yemenis, destroy livelihoods
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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
New York’s Gambling-and-Weed Economic Strategy
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When did "<strong>cleverness</strong>" become a dirty word? When we all started drowning in contrived knowingness and irony
"Can We Survive Technology?" <strong>John von Neumann</strong> posed the question in 1955. We still await an answer
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Harry and Meghan documentary footage puts UK royal rift at forefront
The US-China chip war will end with small victories and losers all around
Janet Yellen says she ‘misspoke’ in downplaying Musk-Twitter probe
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate reaches US$105m settlement with US Virgin Islands
US dollar strength has ‘reached peak’, China’s central bank says, as Fed considers scaling back rate hikes
UK royals show ruthlessness in latest race row, involving key courtier, 83, of the late queen
Yale sued over discriminating against students with mental health disabilities
US policeman ‘catfished’ girl by posing as 17-year-old boy, then killed her family
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
Spend Thanksgiving with "The Recovery of Charlie Pickle" (Radio Play/Audiodrama)
More than 15,000 Christians (so far) sign a petition protesting Trump's 2024 candidacy
Major advertisers are fleeing Twitter, says Washington Post
Bruce Lee died from drinking too much water, nephrology team concludes
A basketball "puppy race" at halftime was a big, adorable flop when every pup rebelled (video)
Turns out Bob Dylan didn't hand-sign the $600 "hand-signed" copies of his new book
Enjoy The Amboy Dukes perform the garage rock masterpiece "Journey to the Center of the Mind" (1968)
Reporter in Qatar who gets robbed on live TV is surprised by police response
Check out this awesome Optimus Prime toy
Titanic passenger's pocket watch sells for $100,000+
"Numb To This" is a harrowing graphic novel memoir about a mass shooting
Sports reporter detained at World Cup for wearing rainbow t-shirt
Elon Musk loses $100 billion as Tesla's share price continues to sink
Sheriff reports "non-human creature" brutally killed farmer's horse
Thursday assorted links
US GDP Per Capita
Hail to Our New Leader!
What should I ask Tom Tugendhat?
My Conversation with Jeremy Grantham
ChatGPT
The return of the horse?
Wednesday assorted links
Bikers for Organ Donation
Nuclear power doesn’t count as green in the EU
What I’ve been reading
Solve for the equilibrium
MRU/Retainit sign-ups
Tuesday assorted links
Shruti Rajagopalan has a new Substack
Where the design community meets.
Unlimited Free Figma Resources
Your Guide to Google Analytics 4
How Warner Bros. uses Motion Design to create Good User Experiences
GenCup — Generative data posters from World Cup 2022
Access to all Graphics, Fonts, Classes & more. Black Friday Sale
Blockchain Whitepaper
Top 10 NodeJS Development Firms
vsEcom - How to create an online Ecommerce Website without coding knowledge step by Step Guide
Flowbite's Figma Design System has been open-sourced
Add & Play Sound in Figma Prototype
Design your own Ecommerce website Online for free - 8 Attractive templates available - Design now
Is Overflow a Figma alternative?
15 Amazing Healthcare App Ideas You May Have Never Heard Of
Best Ranked Android App Development Companies
Top Sneaker Store App UI Design
Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
Coinbase doesn't want to pay Apple for in-app NFT transfers
Steve Jobs hand-numbered Apple-I goes up for auction
Disney Plus price hike starts on December 8, act quick to avoid it
Apple seeds fourth developer betas of iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, tvOS 16.2, watchOS 9.2
Apple issues fourth developer beta for macOS Ventura 13.1
Social media is out of control & needs regulation, says Lindsey Graham
How to watch Hulu on Mac
Popular $29.99 Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Business 2021 deal returns
Hands on with Moft's iPhone case and Continuity Camera mount
Apple won't shut down App Store Connect for the holidays
New Apple Card applicants get 5% cashback on iPhone, Mac, more
Safely clean your AirPods with Belkin's new cleaning kit
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Announced: Brand New will Shift to Subscription Model
Spotted: New Logo for Blue Islands
Linked: Louis Vuitton Architecture
Noted: New Name and Logo for St. Louis City SC
Reviewed: Friday Likes 339: From Studio MPLS, Wade and Leta, and Unifikat Design Studio
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Vitkus Clinic by Tandemo
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Netgen by IDnaGroup
Linked: Biden &Harris &Decimal
Noted: New Logo and Identity for Correos de México by Carl Forsell
Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for BERA by How & How
Spotted: New Logo for Playtika
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for The 19th by Page 33 Studio
Linked: Objects may be Closer than they Ap-pear
Noted: New Logo and Identity for Zappos Adaptive by Eric&Todd
Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Lot61 by Smörgåsbord
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Microsoft adds silicon muscle into latest Azure SQL database configs
Apple pushes TSMC to make more advanced chips in US by 2024
Iceotope study says liquid immersion is viable for hyperscale disk storage
.NET open source is 'heavily under-funded' says AWS
Norway has a month left until sun sets on its copper phone lines
Musk says spat with Apple over App Store ejection threat for Twitter was 'misunderstanding'
Intruders gain access to user data in LastPass incident
UK to test Starlink satellite broadband for those hard to reach areas
Arms hands board seats to Intel and Qualcomm alumni ahead of IPO
Twenty years on, command-line virus scanner ClamAV puts out version 1
Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT
130,000 UK businesses sue Google over £13.6B in lost ad revenues
experiments in refactored perception
The Art of Gig Books
My 2-volume collection of essays about independent consulting and life in the gig economy, The Art of Gig, is finally out. It is available in paperback and Kindle ebook form on Amazon. For those of you who have no idea what this is about, between 2019-21 I wrote a limited-run Substack newsletter on the indie […]Storytelling — End-Times Tales
It is perhaps a bit of a conceit, but I don’t like posting anything on this blog that doesn’t feel timeless. This does not mean ahistorical. In fact, timeless to me means acutely historical. The epics for example, are stories about very specific historical periods and events. They are timeless because of their immortal relevance, […]Ark Head
This week is probably the closest we’ve ever gotten in my lifetime to the brink of nuclear-powered World War 3, yet people seem strangely indifferent to the developments. I share in this under-reaction. Shouldn’t we, I don’t know, have a stronger collective reaction? There’s of course other stuff going on–a potentially extreme climate-change-amplified hurricane, the […]
