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  • Fixing the Panama Canal

    A reduction to 24 ships per day from the normal 38 doesn’t sound like a lot, but that’s a 36% loss in annual Canal traffic. Imagine the East Coast without 17% of its Asian-sourced fuel and goods, or having to bear the cost of rerouting that traffic through thousands more miles at sea.

  • Potent psychedelic drug banishes PTSD, small study finds

    Psychedelic drugs such as MDMA and psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms, have promised to revolutionize psychiatric treatments. Now, a small trial in military veterans suggests that a lesser-known, potent psychedelic drug called ibogaine could be used to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI). One month after ibogaine treatment, the veterans reported that TBI symptoms such as post-traumatic stress…

  • Missing the point of webassembly

    I have a different preferred starting point which is less descriptive but more operational: WebAssembly is a new fundamental abstraction boundary. WebAssembly is a new way of dividing computing systems into pieces and of composing systems from parts. https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly

  • Israeli Politician BACKS Genocide Charges

  • NASA reportedly forced to push back moon landing after SpaceX fails to deliver Starship

    Over promising and under delivering again… SpaceX still has a lot to prove, including achieving a stable orbit, swapping fuel between spacecraft, and of course the ability to make a safe and soft approach to the lunar surface. https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-push-back-moon-landing-spacex-starship How long before Musk sues NASA for…reasons.

  • FRIENDLY FIRE?: Israelis DEMAND Investigation Into Oct 7

    War is PR with violence. There were no beheaded babies. If you’ve ever used that story as a reason to justify your position, then you’ve gotta ask serious questions about your media literacy. In war, you’ve gotta do the mahi. If your main source is Twitter, then you’ve really gotta do the mahi. If you…

  • AI Image Generators Are Spitting Out Copyrighted Characters, Raising Possibility of Catastrophic Lawsuit

    As professor and author Gary Marcus and film industry concept artist Reid Southen, who has worked on several major films for the likes of Marvel and Warner Brothers, argue in a recent piece for IEEE Spectrum, tools like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney could land both companies in a “copyright minefield.” https://futurism.com/ai-image-generators-copyrighted-characters

  • CH32V003 FM Radio Receiver with RDS

    With the portable Li-Ion battery powered FM radio receiver you can listen to your favourite radio station. This device is equipped with cost-effective components, including a CH32V003J4M6 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller, a RDA5807MP FM radio tuner IC, an audio amplifier (TC8871 or XPT8871), a 128×32 pixel OLED display (SSD1306), and a Li-Ion battery charger (TP4054 or…

  • How the US is rapidly cleaning up its biggest form of mass transit

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has now allocated enough funds to replace more than 5,000 of the country’s school buses with zero-emission alternatives.

  • It’s Humans All the Way Down

    If you could sum up what we learned in 2023, and I think what tech has learned, too, is that people matter. Even in the wildest of innovations, people still matter, and human relationships still matter, and you can’t shortcut it. – Rich Ziade, Aboard Podcast https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/humans-all-the-way-down/