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July 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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#RecipeOfTheDay is Yogurt-Pot Cake. This is the Italian version, but it’s a staple of French kitchens as well. You use a little pot of plain yogurt and then measure the other ingredients in the same pot – though I do give weights, too! I do love a simple, plain cake. www.nigella.com/recipes/yogu...
Yogurt Pot Cake
If there’s a family in Italy that doesn’t have a recipe for yogurt pot cake, then I’ve yet to meet them. And I love this plain cake with perhaps disproportionate intensity. There is something so quint...
www.nigella.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is Yogurt-Pot Cake. This is the Italian version, but it’s a staple of French kitchens as well. You use a little pot of plain yogurt and then measure the other ingredients in the same pot – though I do give weights, too! I do love a simple, plain cake. www.nigella.com/recipes/yogu...
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Art of the Day - some drawings for the "Gold Mountain Silicon Valley" music video
June 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Art of the Day - some drawings for the "Gold Mountain Silicon Valley" music video
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I love the "Damn, I really nailed that" expression at the end
April 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I love the "Damn, I really nailed that" expression at the end
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Same, wolf, same
I was recently asked if I had ever captured wolves howling on camera. This is one of my all-time favorite captures.
March 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Same, wolf, same
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By far the most interesting reportage of this case. A good effort at explaining without portraying them particularly sympathetically.
Only just learning about this now -- I guess for a while people have predicted that the AI doomer rationalist crowd would go violent, so its not surprising in some sense. Still though, odd times!
www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...
www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...
They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed
How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
By far the most interesting reportage of this case. A good effort at explaining without portraying them particularly sympathetically.
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Once more I am begging some of you with Opinions about generative AI to read this very good explainer on the underlying tech ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
Generative AI exists because of the transformer
The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation
ig.ft.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Once more I am begging some of you with Opinions about generative AI to read this very good explainer on the underlying tech ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
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'I sometimes joke that flaky Los Angeles is built on a foundation of tentative plans, where appointments are as unstable as the ground beneath your feet.
But there has been nothing tentative about how Angelenos are already taking care of our own.'
But there has been nothing tentative about how Angelenos are already taking care of our own.'
Some Maps of Los Angeles — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
As we try to understand the enormous disaster unfolding in Los Angeles, writer Michael Oates Palmer provides a lay of the land.
bittersoutherner.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
'I sometimes joke that flaky Los Angeles is built on a foundation of tentative plans, where appointments are as unstable as the ground beneath your feet.
But there has been nothing tentative about how Angelenos are already taking care of our own.'
But there has been nothing tentative about how Angelenos are already taking care of our own.'
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Now is a great time to read WIRED magazine’s 2015 feature story, “The Untold Story of Silk Road.”
There were good reasons why Ross Ulbricht was serving a double life sentence.
www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
There were good reasons why Ross Ulbricht was serving a double life sentence.
www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1
How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.
www.wired.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Now is a great time to read WIRED magazine’s 2015 feature story, “The Untold Story of Silk Road.”
There were good reasons why Ross Ulbricht was serving a double life sentence.
www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
There were good reasons why Ross Ulbricht was serving a double life sentence.
www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
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This article has solid, actionable tips for minimizing the damage caused by social media collecting our personal data - without having to delete profiles or burn it all down.
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This article has solid, actionable tips for minimizing the damage caused by social media collecting our personal data - without having to delete profiles or burn it all down.