Ah, that wonderful smell of fresh FFP2 mask can mean only one thing: I've got covid again. A delight.

The next development in display tech should be the Doppler Effect display... xkcd.com/2926/

Doppler Effect

SpaceX calling its biggest upper stage Starship is like Tesla calling its cruise control Autopilot. Both monikers infer far more than they can realistically deliver

Interesting to compare the latest news on CO2 reductions from the EU and USA: www.economist.com/europe/2024/...arstechnica.com/science/2024... Both grids are reducing, but EU manufacturing emissions are also dropping, US not yet...

Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe

Thanks to a price mechanism that actually works

need practice on linking things, it would appear! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sounds about right, though I'm biased towards hoping that the surveys would say this anyway: It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people | Zoe Williams | The Guardian

Really enjoyed this post on Wired about the damage done to Effective Altruism by the exposure of SBFs fraud, and how "AltEf" is based on very similarly flawed thinking (/arrogance): www.wired.com/story/deaths...

Our first weekend of concerts behind us, one more to go and then a hopefully well-earned break! This season is all Grieg - a really enjoyable program. Photo from the Epiphaniaskirche in #Mannheim

Encountered one of my favourite error messages so far on a business platform at work success: false

Rehearsal Saturday, from 10 am to 7 pm (with breaks, of course!), but really feeling the tromboning lips by the end of it. Hopefully that's a good thing, getting fitter, rather than wrecking them! More tomorrow, then we enter the concert phase.