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Pluralistic: Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour (06 Feb 2025)

Today's links Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour: There's a nonzero chance that you and I will shortly be in the same city! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2024 Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep...

🥋 Hopefully tinyMovieStar wants to skip Judo class today, and we can...
{maique} | 6 Feb 2025 | original ↗

🥋 Hopefully tinyMovieStar wants to skip Judo class today, and we can spend that time having fun together. Not great parenting, but… She likes it too.

Song of the Day: Elliott - Calm Americans
Cool As Heck | 6 Feb 2025 | original ↗

A song about the false narrative of America

What is an Electron? How Times Have Changed

When the electron, the first subatomic particle to be identified, was discovered in 1897, it was thought to be a tiny speck with electric charge, moving around on a path governed by the forces of electricity, magnetism and gravity. This was just as one would expect for any small object, given the incredibly successful approach […]

The DeepSeek Series: A Technical Overview
Martin Fowler | 6 Feb 2025 | original ↗

The appearance of DeepSeek Large-Language Models has caused a lot of discussion and angst since their latest versions appeared at the beginning of 2025. But much of the value of DeepSeek's work comes from the papers they have published over the last year. Shayan Mohanty provides an overview of these papers, highlighting...

☕️ This is going to be a fun series, I hope.
{maique} | 6 Feb 2025 | original ↗

☕️ This is going to be a fun series, I hope.

Talking Contact Tracing at FOSDEM

I was delighted to be invited to speak at FOSDEM. And I was not at all intimidated to be speaking on the cavernous Janson stage. The audience were lovely, asked interesting questions, and - most importantly - laughed in all the right places 😅. Regular readers will recognise this as being an updated version of the talk I gave at EMF 2024 - feel...

You can’t post your way out of fascism, writes Janus...
Static Made | 6 Feb 2025 | original ↗

You can’t post your way out of fascism, writes Janus Rose over at 404 Media: We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it. This is easier said than done. But it’s the blunt truth, and it needs to be...

Statue days

One of the oldest ALearningaDay classic notes to self is – some days you’re the pigeon and some days you’re the statue. When you’re going through a day or a stretch of statue days, don’t over analyze or attempt to salvage them. It doesn’t help. Go to bed and try again tomorrow.

Walmart buys Pittsburgh-area mall for $34M | Retail...
Static Made | 6 Feb 2025 | original ↗

Walmart buys Pittsburgh-area mall for $34M | Retail Dive This is an interesting move for the U.S. based mega-retailer. The Monroeville Mall has been struggling for years, but Walmart as a buyer is a surprise. It will be interesting to see how redevelopment shakes out. Personally, I have many memories cruising this mall back in the day, but...

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