The ablity to calculate a flight path to the moon on your wrist happened faster than another computer getting a human to the moon https://apollo-instruments.com
One of the first things I propose when working with a new nonprofit or political organization is to move away from Wordpress to a platform more inline with their environmental goals. This is why https://fershad.com/notes/matt-never-cared-about-wordpress-sustainability-anyway/
Yes, a lot of very wealthy people have lost their homes in the LA fires, but the majority of them have spent their lives as union workers entertaining us, not denying healthcare.
How much is a desalination plant again? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says
I would also claim HTML is the best programming language for digital art https://apple.news/Ay39RjPKUQSSlDajtCrnR1w
Someone just go around to reading Upton Sinclair https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/kim-jong-un-bans-hotdogs-for-north-koreans-cooking-them-an-act-of-treason/TKN3HJF3HRHZZHCCJ5L7EPF66Q/
Used to visit this little guy regularly on walks when I was at Nest https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2025/01/03/perry-beloved-donkey-of-bol-park-dies-at-30/
It is unusual to have the photo defining the year taken on New Year’s Day.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/1/24333612/cybertruck-fire-explosion-trump-hotel-las-vegas
And then the situation reverses. Every paywalled link might be included, or not, so you tap share to see, half the time it just sends you back to the paywall. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an-apple-news-article-come-and-get-me-baby
“…one mistake the rich have made is that those 160 million working class people were taught, free of charge, to read.” https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health?utm_medium=web
Let’s all rally around this, keep him busy on a task he may actually be qualified for https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/donald-trump-wants-to-end-daylight-saving-that-may-not-be-a-bad-idea/
When grading AP CS A tests it is important to know the ins and outs of Java, because I know they will try to get the point back if my grading doesn’t mention the compiler error they created. (Why do we still do AP tests by hand?)
Feature parity is getting worse with Mail.app every release. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/12/apple-mail-features-missing-mac-ipad/
Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-is-sending-doge-after-high-speed-rail/
That is a lot of lives lost so healthcare CEOs can get their millions https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-335000-lives-could-have-been-saved-during-pandemic-if-us-had-universal-health-care/
Protip if you’re on the lamb after unaliving a healthcare CEO https://web.mit.edu/sinhalab/Papers/sinha_eyebrows.pdf