Introducing Torso, a bimanual android actuated with artificial muscles.

The internet is rotting and what goes online is not necessarily forever. Already more than a third of webpages from 2013 cannot be accessed, and with archives disappearing, mountains of content will be completely lost.

Peter Hague BBC News (UK) Plz note that almost all "Science journalism" is being done by a 25 year old former English major who know literally nothing about the subject...

Very important point - not only do we build stuff with far shorter lifespans, the building waste is infinitely more toxic. Returning to traditional, truly sustainable building materials will help significantly in solving this problem.

Good day to remember just how big that green tree is

True sustainability happens when you build something so valuable that future generations renovate it rather than demolishing it.

The goal is to design and build things that settle and age gracefully. I reckon that’s what I want for my own life too.

The London our generation has created. Not the equal of sinuous Regent Street, generous Bedford Park or elegant St James’s Square. Roads and towers. The end point of the “all design is subjective” lie. Careless of our communities, heedless of our health.

How to meditate (without getting bored):

Most of the world’s problems can be boiled down to either: 1) the generation of energy 2) the lack of sufficient energy generation

Let’s stop calling it modernist architecture and call it what it is: builders choosing the cheapest crap available.

The only thing not stagnating in the UK is the cost of electricity

Compression is not the same as knowledge.

LinkedIn is a massive NPC farm

OpenAI I wish we prioritized innovations that elevate human potential over “better shopping experiences” and the same predatory monetization schemes we’ve already exhausted. Zuckerberg has made it clear in his talks with Lex Fridman—his vision for Meta and VR is to double down on

I have also run this fun thought experiment! More of the world than many might imagine could run on outdated hardware if software optimization was truly a priority, and market price signals on scarce compute would make it happen. Rebuild all the interpreted microservice based

Probably one of the most prophetic paragraphs of the twentieth century - from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)

Models will just match human knowledge and max out on reality because that’s the training data. If discovers something new, it’s simply because it connects the dots. Gonna need something more than chocolate and peanut butter to call it super intelligence.

this is all the web design you need