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For reasons lost in the mists of time, TWA (the long-since defunct Trans World Airlines, acquired by American Airlines in 2001) used to hand out miniature staplers with a box of staples, too.
#Airlines #tchotchke #Americana -
I got some questions about astrophotography mode on Pixel 8 Pro. In general, it's fine, though I could only use the ultrawide at 12MP. I wasn't bothered by the nature of the noise, though I only had time for ~15 test shots. Here are 100% crop screenshots of 50MP shots showing Andromeda and a house; the house is at the corner of the frame with +3EV exposure boost to pixel peep (note noise reduction), plus 2 full shots.
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Here's my exclusive deep dive on the Pixel 8 / 8 Pro camera and video upgrades. Top feature: Video Boost, which uses Google data center AI models too big for the phone to improve video. Uploading to the cloud means Night Sight video for the first time at the cost of a couple hours of waiting.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/google-pixel-8-cameras-supercharge-video-to-lead-photography-upgrades/
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I love the Project Indigo camera app, though on my older iPhone 14 Pro, Adobe disabled super-resolution by default because of overheating.
Settings are hidden in the app, but I figured out how to re-enable the feature from the FAQ: "How do I access camera settings?" https://helpx.adobe.com/project-indigo/get-started/faq.html
So worth it for 12MP 2x and 6x shots.
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Annular eclipse as seen from UNM in Albuquerque, NM, this morning. You can see sunspots in the first photo. It was very exciting getting to the ring of fire moment, and everybody applauded and cheered, but after the climax finished, everybody got bored and skedaddled. I swear I didn't just Photoshop a white circle onto a black background for that last shot.
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"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
#SelfDrivingVehicles #Waymo #Google -
"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
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"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
#SelfDrivingVehicles #Waymo #Google -
"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
#SelfDrivingVehicles #Waymo #Google -
"If Waymo’s results are indicative of the broader future of autonomous vehicles, we may be on the path to eliminating traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality in the United States. While many see this as a tech story, I view it as a public health breakthrough."
Aside: When do we get to start writing "lidar" like we do with "sonar" and "radar"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html
#SelfDrivingVehicles #Waymo #Google -
Boy, I wish I could post this photo in glorious HDR and you could see it in glorious HDR. Because it looks really good in glorious HDR. (Background: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/hdr-photography-blew-my-mind-its-glorious-and-complicated/)
#HDR #Photography #ligh om -
A desert millipede in New Mexico. I rarely saw these when I was growing up, but now they're common in the White Rock Canyon area of Los Alamos County. Curiously, this species was kept as pets in Europe awhile back. They're harmless to humans (though they'll munch on your fingers) and I find them endearing.
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Back in New Mexico for a couple weeks. Here's a nursing bighorn sheep, a rufous hummingbird, a sphinx moth gathering nectar, and a still life with Big Milly the millipede, named to contrast with a beetle my kid called Little Billy a couple weeks ago.
#NaturePhotography #moth #hummingbird #millipede #NewMexico -
CTVC on Climate Week NYC:
"Less 'climate' this week, more of 'Energy AI' week, with adjacencies like security, affordability, resiliency, and efficiency also taking the spotlight... the vibe itself felt resilient."
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As long as we're talking about em dashes and AI — can the Google Gemini team please put spaces on either side of them? I know it's a styling choice, but I find it visually easier to parse with the spaces.
"system efficient enough—to keep that heat"
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"system efficient enough — to keep that heat" -
I had a lot of fun on this podcast — much more time to dig into the details, like climate change, how to repair a severed cable, and some of the geopolitics of subsea cables.
https://igalia.com/chats/undersea#subsea #InternetInfrastructure #CloudComputing #Google #Meta #Amazon #Microsoft
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Wicked smart scientists calculate how long volcanoes on Jupiter moon Io have been active. Measure relative abundance of 2 sulphur isotopes belched into the atmosphere then reprocessed as crust — bias toward heavy sulphur. Compare ratio to early solar system meteorites. https://www.science.org/content/podcast/very-volcanic-moon-and-better-protections-human-study-subjects
#Science #Vulcanism #Jupiter -
Imagine being some little ballmoss (Tillandsia recurvata) seed blowing through the air, landing in a crevice between some windings of a power line, then thinking, "yup, this seems like a good place to be a flowering plant." Photo from Mexico. Bromeliads gonna bromeliate.
#Mexico #NaturePhotography #Bromeliad #Epiphyte -
Woo hoo! JPEG XL image support is in the new Chrome v145: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-145-Released
I had to enable via a flag: chrome://flags/#enable-jxl-image-format
You can test support here: https://jpegxl.info/resources/jpeg-xl-test-page.html
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El Estepario Siberiano is just an amazing drummer. I've always enjoyed watching drummers and have been annoyed they're usually hidden away in the back of the band, so TikTok and YouTube have been great to show this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8tmxfLWJyo
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Fun fact: Fusion energy is exotic and new (on Earth, anyway) but from a grid operator's perspective, fusion energy power plants will look a lot like today's existing power plants.
When I first heard about this application, I thought, "OK, we're filling out some paperwork." It's a *lot* more than than. Engineering, planning, simulation work, etc.
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Fun fact: Fusion energy is exotic and new (on Earth, anyway) but from a grid operator's perspective, fusion energy power plants will look a lot like today's existing power plants.
When I first heard about this application, I thought, "OK, we're filling out some paperwork." It's a *lot* more than than. Engineering, planning, simulation work, etc.
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I've been really annoyed at how badly the New York Times syncs crossword puzzles (I solve across an Android phone, iPhone, a laptop, and an iPad), but today was the first time it wiped out a half-solved puzzle by syncing in an almost unsolved version of that day's puzzle that I'd opened *after* on a different device. I even saw the words disappear as I opened it. Bah! (I recognize this is a minor problem in the scheme of things.)
#FirstWorldProblems #NYT #sync
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I seem to be past my list management problems on Mastodon \o/
But I'd like to see a "done" button to make the UI clearer on the web interface. Instead I just... click somewhere else. Also those gray-on-gray icons and the low-contrast scroll bar are too subtle for my tastes. #nitpick
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Fun fact: Fusion energy is exotic and new (on Earth, anyway) but from a grid operator's perspective, fusion energy power plants will look a lot like today's existing power plants.
When I first heard about this application, I thought, "OK, we're filling out some paperwork." It's a *lot* more than than. Engineering, planning, simulation work, etc.
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Illuminating fusion power plant configurator from Sam Wurzel at his Fusion Energy Base site so you can noodle around with various values for Q_sci, electricity conversion efficiency, fusion pulse rep rate, etc.: https://www.fusionenergybase.com/articles/fusion-physics-part-1-scientific-gain-and-fusion-power-plants
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University of Arizona making more noise about commercial fusion energy. https://research.arizona.edu/news/powering-future-u-accelerates-fusion-energy-commercialization
#FusionEnergy #Arizona -
Today was Reddit AMA day with our Chief Science Officer and Co-founder Brandon Sorbom — lots of good questions and interesting answers. Tritium, supply chain, AI, magnets, plasmas, antennas... and of course tokamaks. https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/1ra1oxm/hi_rfusion_im_brandon_sorbom_chief_science/ #FusionEnergy
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I already knew there was such a thing as dog vomit slime mold, but TIL from iNaturalist there's also a separate species called dog sick slime mold. Still not sure if what I saw was the that or tapioca slime mold. (Tapioca makes me gag so imagine me zooming in on this photo.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164901690 #SlimeMold #NotAFungus #Gross #Nature #Photography #Macro #tapioca
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By-the-wind sailors, Latin name Velella velellas, spotted out on Monterey Bay but thousands of these are blowing onto Bay Area beaches now. They're related to jellies but not actually jellies. #NaturePhotography #Jellies #PacificOcean #Monterey #California