In July 2025 six new names were added to the list of "living national treasures" (in popular terms) in Japan, bringing the total to about 110. These persons are considered to be of the highest possible skill level in culturally important crafts and arts. Besides the honor, the

Wild story from Finland: Former Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) officer Veikko Palko, who won a €61 million Eurojackpot lottery in 2014, used part of his fortune to fund counterintelligence work for Supo during his retirement. Palko, who died in 2024 at age 83,

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IT FREAKING WORKED! At 4am today I just proved DeepSeek-OCR AI can scan an entire microfiche sheet and not just cells and retain 100% of the data in seconds… AND Have a full understanding of the text/complex drawings and their context. I just changed offline data curation!

I used ChatGPT to solve an open problem in convex optimization. *Part I* (1/N)

It’s not that Dubai / UAE has access to tests the West doesn’t It’s that it has massively invested in medical infrastructure The West has hit a point of complacency. It feels ahead, and doesnt realise biology as a science is still in its infancy Meanwhile, middle East is

The beauty of mechanics. NEO is driven by a tendon system, wrapped in flexible materials, and has no clamping points, allowing it to operate quietly and safely at home.

Oh gosh! One of my students just told me: "Have you seen Wesley? He resigned in a dead drawn position!". My first reaction: "What? Anyone would resign there!" But... 71...Kg4 72.Ke3 Kh4 73.Kf4 h1Q 74.Bxh1 Kh3 75.Kf3 Kh2 76.Bg2 Kg1 77.Bh3 Kh2= 🫢 What a sad way to go home!

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/…) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants

Mesmerized by this video. Had never had a vid call my attention to a previously covered up aspect of experience like that

Hakkımda verilen karar hukuki değil. Hayattaki herhangi bir tavrım ve duruşum değişmeyecek. Kazanamayacağımı biliyorum ama bütün itiraz haklarımı sonuna kadar kullanacağım. Görüşmek üzere.

the supabase CLI got a face-lift run `supabase start` to get the full stack running locally:

Erdogmus is now: ☑️ Highest-rated 12-year-old ever ☑️ Highest-rated 13-year-old ever ☑️ Highest-rated 14-year-old ever ☑️ Youngest-ever 2600 player ☑️ Second-Youngest-ever to reach top 100 (behind J.Polgar) 🆕 Youngest-ever to reach top 50

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I

harneet k honestly i respect voldemoert's hustle. he was the first to treat death as a skill issue. he showed a remarkable capacity to reinvent himself after near total annihilation with extreme pain tolerance. he bore the burden of unpopular truths. he built a decentralized distributed

Carlsen to NRK on Erdogmus: "He is the best 14-year-old the world has ever seen. We are going to hear a lot about him in he future."

if you're using Obsidian with Claude Code, tell me about your workflow, and what you've used it for

We're so collectively desensitized to the US empire that we're not even registering the absurdity: the US - a country where guns are sold at Walmart - has just kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation (and head of the army) to charge him with "possession of machineguns"