Royal Museums Greenwich has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. [kottke.org]
Royal Museums Greenwich has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. You can also check out some of the shortlist entries and runners-up in each category (Moon, Sun, etc.)
Great feeling to finally hold this baby đ„ Order now and receive The Tech Coup upon release on September 24 âïž thetechcoup.com
Techdenkers: Marietje Schaake over de macht van big tech. Met Marleen Stikker, Kim van Sparrentak en Haroon Sheikh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzMD...
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As everyone is currently talking about colour and how we name it, you should all take 7 minutes to watch this incredible Vox video. Basically, (most) cultures have an extraordinaryily similar system to naming colours it blew my mind. Also, turquoise is blue x đđ§Ș youtu.be/gMqZR3pqMjg?...
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With Twitter/X having become such a cesspit and its owner spouting ever more deranged and dangerous nonsense, it may be time to post much more on here.
Ik ontdekte dat de Rijksoverheid al in volle vaart naar de cloud migreert, zonder enige politieke instemming & vaak ook zonder geldig ambtelijk besluit. De gevolgen voor onze autonomie zijn zo groot dat dit snel op de agenda van kabinet & Kamer moet komen: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
De hele korte versie: stilletjes maar in hoog tempo verhuizen cruciale ICT-diensten binnen de Nederlandse overheid naar met name Microsoft servers onder Amerikaans recht. Dit neemt zulke enorme vormen...
The fact that it's just bored teenaged orcas looking for something to entertain themselves, and that something happens to be sinking boats, somehow makes this story even better. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
An international group of orca experts met to determine why orcas are ramming boats. The leading theory: They're bored and playful.
Last week I had the honor of accepting the 2024 Helmut Schmidt Future Prize Instead of a traditional speech, I gave this talk on the history of AI, the business of surveillance, & why the use of AI "ad targeting for killing" in Gaza should be illegalđ www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/de...
Meredith Whittaker warnt in ihrer Rede vor der Macht der Techindustrie und erklÀrt, warum es sich gerade jetzt lohnt, positiv zu denken.
Happy 200th birthday to Beethovenâs 9th with its jubilant Ode to Joy. May you also travel from darkness to light
HAPPY DMA DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
A day of reckoning for Big Tech as the EU's tough new competition law finally goes into effect, transforming the internet for millions of European users: www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/t...
Europeans using Apple, Google and other major tech platforms woke to a new reality Thursday as a landmark law imposed tough new competition rules on the companies â changing European Union citizensâ e...