I follow a lot of RSS feeds which makes it easier for me to discover interesting web pages without having to visit my entire list of interesting blogs which aren't updated often. As you can see, I find a lot of topics interesting.
It's difficult for experts to fully explain the innate knowledge which makes them so good in their fields. Experience can be impossible to pass long when trying to create new experts. I think this may make it impossible to train AI systems to replace experts.
https://cekrem.github.io/posts/the-tacit-dimension/
I'm generally not keen on AI use but if you can hide prompts to force LinkedIn recruiter bots to entertain you with their unwanted spam, it seems like a win to me.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/linkedin-recruitment-spam-becomes-olde-english-prose-after-user-hides-ai-prompt-injection-in-bio-bots-also-also-manipulated-to-address-user-as-my-lord
When I first switched from Windows PCs to Macs 25 years ago, I found that I loved Mac OS X. It reminded me of the software environment I enjoyed on the Sun 3/80 Workstation I had on my desk while working at Sprint International (the division which developed the computer networking hardware and software for Sprint's packet switching network) in 1990. That Sun was the machine which caused me to love Unix. The combination of Unix, X Windows, and that fast Sun hardware was the most productive environment for software development I had seen at that time and I still have fond memories of it. Lately Apple's software seems much buggier than it used to which frustrates me at time. It's reassuring to see that I'm not the only one who has noticed this steady decline in software quality.
https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/18/1320
Someone has created an animated version of Vincent van Gogh's painting The Starry Night and I found it entertaining to interact with various parts of the painting.
https://stillnight.joshua-garcia.com/
A study has found that playing the didgeridoo can help counteract the daytime sleepiness caused by sleep apnea. I can't imagine many offices would be open to this type of therapy to treat affected employees.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/
Finally there's evidence for why the T-Rex had such tiny arms. Sometimes evolution plays cruel tricks...
https://nautil.us/we-finally-have-the-answer-for-t-rexs-tiny-arms-1280997
There's no way I would agree to join a mission commanded by a billionaire rather than a fully trained astronaut/pilot. Making an insane amount of money doesn't imply the ability to solve problems in stressful situations like a long space flight. I'm curious to see how the radiation affects humans on this longer mission as it will be hard to shield the crew capsule adequately. Shielding materials are heavy and extra weight is always hard to justify.
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-taps-crypto-billionaire-to-lead-first-crewed-mission-to-mars-2000762451
The Super El Niño predicted to form by winter could have devastating effects on both the world economy as well as our ability to keep the world's population fed.
https://respublicamgz.substack.com/p/a-super-el-nino-is-coming-the-last
It strikes me as horribly inefficient to have unique terms for groups of birds of different species. Things like this make the English language both rich and difficult to master.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/brian-wildsmith-birds-company-terms/
