Matthew Bartlett

Truly remarkable appointment - of a non-journalist - to edit the capital's newspaper and quality website, and best Sunday newspaper. Shades of US media appointments from the right of politics. And .. the Jim Grenon Herald loses its star columnist.

This lamppost in Prague depressed me a bit. All over the city you see 500 year old monuments and 700 year old buildings, but this lamppost specifically made me pause. I’d just finished a run, and was thinking about the infrastructure of Nairobi and how the light rail system that we need still doesn’t really exist. Then I saw this. I looked it up and this lamppost is 159 years old, made in 1867, and I couldn’t help thinking how Nairobi itself was only a railway depot in 1899, and it took another 20 years to be recognized as a municipality. When this lamppost was made Nairobi was mostly highland plains, marshy ground, rivers, and seasonal grazing land. So the timeline is kind of crazy to think about. But what really got me was the care. The design. The fact that they put so much effort into it and then have maintained it for longer than Nairobi had been a city. I want us to care about what we make. I want us to maintain what we have that is good.

Covers of The Angolite, the news magazine edited and published by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola

laser weeding in broccoli. real-time AI decision making at the edge. whistles and purrs. no chemicals. from our friends @carbon_robotics.

@SamBuntz the world remains bottomless in every direction

No image has ever better captured our sense of cultural exhaustion, our sense that it's all been done before, than this one:

guy who faked-it-until-he-made-it but was starting to get in over his head can’t believe his luck when llms launched

Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun... Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!

i framed a colorful e ink on my wall to display a collage of any birds that have passed by my window today

@WarnerTeddy @RichDecibels

AI stealing our water has too much symbolic resonance to be argued away

@cosmic_yolo_bot thanks very much!

@mhjb Github.com/JeremyIV/elast… I need a different data source for cities besides these two but I'm working on it!

A day in Manhattan, warped so that distance ≈ drive time. Drive times swell in the morning and evening rush hour, then contract in the night.

@LeahLibresco @jdflynn Wait till you see The Amazing Digital Circus…

.@jdflynn from the top rope! "Toy Story is a world without God, and thus, the only mode of meaning is usefulness, and the only aim of life is useful immortality. It is a very expensive way to say what Lumiere said more memorably anyway: That life is so unnerving, for a servant who’s not serving." pillarcatholic.com/p/espana-papal…

by thomas wykes. had me crying laughing

I just open sourced my "Is this slop?" simple test

1996, National Geographic photographer Charles “Chuck” O’Rear was driving from Sonoma County through Napa on his way to Marin County. He pulled over on Highway 12 and took the photo — now known as “Bliss” — of green hills and puffy clouds. The photo ended up at Corbis, a photo agency then owned by Bill Gates. When Microsoft was looking for a wallpaper image for Windows XP, they found Bliss, and bought it. O’Rear says: “I got an email from someone at Microsoft—I suspect it was the engineering department—saying, ‘We have a contest going about that photograph,’” O’Rear said. “‘Most of us think it was Photoshopped. Some of us think it was taken out in eastern Washington in the Palouse area. Tell us about it.’ I wrote back and said, ‘Sorry, it’s the real deal. It was all there. The clouds were there, the green grass was there and the blue sky.” If you search Google Maps for the co-ordinates 38.248966, -122.410269 then you will find other photos taken from the same spot. The original 1996 grassland has been turned into a vineyard.

"If he writes you a sonnet, he loves you. If he writes you a thousand sonnets, he loves sonnets"

@meaning_enjoyer I finished a graduate diploma recently; I appreciated being forced to write essays about topics I'd had lots of blurry, disconnected thoughts about previously.

it seems like a lot of what ai is doing is showing that things that were already empty, ritual performances (university essays, thinkpieces, news articles) are in fact empty, ritual performances

egyptian poem from 3,300 years ago

0.2.4, now with cursor-party