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A systems approach to a resilience assessment for agility

Oct 14

Is the Pixel 7 Pro as good as a "real" camera? With

@madebygoogle

bragging of its "pro-level zoom" and AI smarts, I wanted to see how close it got to my $10,000 of DSLR gear. Answer: closer than any other phone. Here's my assessment & a thread. 1/ cnet.com/tech/mobile/i-

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OK but could it stop the Jackpot?

tandfonline.com

This work proposes a theoretical approach to assessing agility in terms of a modified version of resilience during large-scale crisis to sustain operational reliability. The proposed method could b...

Robin Berjon | @robin@mastodon.social

Well, this comes as a surprise to me. W3C standards group is collapsing because of an MIT contractual dispute?

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@robinberjon

At this point it looks like we will not have an operational W3C nonprofit on Jan 1. Every Director will vote their conscience, but it seems likely that the asset transfer will be rejected, leaving MIT responsible for its contracts with W3C Members (for which they have paid).

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Fusion Explained: Why the Big New Milestone Doesn't Mean Green Power Yet

Fusion Explained: Why the Big New Milestone Doesn't Mean Green Power Yet

Get up to speed on this potentially revolutionary power source.

I'm looking at drone delivery technology. Any of you out there ever ordered something for an airdrop in your yard? If so, I'd love to chat with you.

Marbling Infinity Puzzles

Cool puzzle idea. Infinite = no edges. Nice patterns, too, of course. Very MC Escher.

n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com

Explore endless fields of color and pattern with our Marbling Infinity Puzzle made in collaboration with artist Amanda Ghassaei. Intricate wooden puzzle pieces interlock in waves and spirals. The a…

Well, here's a way around Twitter's M*stodon link block. Though honestly, it's probably easier to just add a space in the URL and tell people to remove it. Via

@jamesthomson

The spike in new M*stodon users was sustained overnight and now surpasses 4,000 new accounts per hour.

Not clear how investors feel about all this Twitter churn but Tesla stock is in my not doing so hot list today.

Rob Lee

@RALee85

There was virtually no chance that the US would have provided Patriot systems to Ukraine before the war, and I'm not sure it would have happened without Russia adopting a strategy to target civilian infrastructure. This is a response to Russia's actions, not the other way around.

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M*stodon growth slowed in the last couple weeks to <1000 new accounts per hour. Today signups spiking at >3000 accounts/hr. Notable given how much of a pain it is to sign up. Twitter is blocking M*stodon links, so here's the tracking account: @mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org

Jon von Tetzchner | @jon@vivaldi.net

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BTW I checked and the Vivaldi CEO here (whose browser recently added M*stodon integration) didn't say anything on M*stodon about anything involving jet tracking. Or anything that seemed remotely malicious or spammy or misleading.

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OK. This is interesting. This is what happens when you click my Vivaldi Social link:

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What if giving bad covid vaccine advice puts other users at risk?

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Alex Heath

@alexeheath

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Re: the banning of reporters who have tweeted about Elon Musk’s jet, Twitter's head of trust & safety Ella Irwin tells me: “Without commenting on any specific accounts, I can confirm that we will suspend any accounts that violate our privacy policies and put other users at risk."

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In case you're suddenly desirous of an alternative social media platform, here's a how-to:

Ex-Tweeters Are Moving to Twitter Alternative Mastodon: How to Sign Up

The social network Mastodon has become a new home for Twitter refugees. Here's how to get started.

Anybody have insight about why the Mastodon account on Twitter is suspended?

Microsoft names new Chief Sustainability Officer - The Official Microsoft Blog

New chief sustainability officer at Microsoft: Melanie Nakagawa, former NSC senior director for climate and energy at the White House.

blogs.microsoft.com

Melanie Nakagawa brings almost two decades of environmental sustainability experience at the nexus of policy, business and technology,

Andrew S. Weiss

@andrewsweiss

1/x So many memorable passages in this remarkably candid interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Take time to read the whole thing. Here's couple of highlights.

@TheEconomist

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Jonathan Skillings

@jeskillings

Dec 9

It's all about getting packages to you quicker and more accurately. cnet.co/3PfaBVV via

@lhautala

@CNET

Amazon's Plan to Eliminate the Barcode

Exclusive: Amazon's using computer vision to recognize products, no barcodes needed. The system is designed with robots in mind.

LaserPecker 4: Dual-Laser Engraver for Almost All Material

Laser engraving and etching is a cool idea, but not sure the product name "LaserPecker" is ideal.

kickstarter.com

10W 450nm Laser + 2W 1064nm Laser | Power Your Personal DIY Crafts | Bulk Commercial Products | Applicable for Virtually All Materials

Mozilla (Firefox) is working with Google (Chrome) and Apple (WebKit/Safari) on Speedometer 3, an update to the website performance benchmark.

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Mozilla Developer

@mozhacks

Unlike some past benchmarks, Speedometer 3 is being started as a cross-industry collaborative effort. Building this will be hard work, and working together gives us a chance to build the best version to help make the Web faster for years to come. github.com/WebKit/Speedom

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Eric Brummel (@brummelphoto) • Instagram video

What an amazing time lapse video. Helps you grok more deeply that the Earth is a spinning ball in front of a largely stationary backdrop of stars.

instagram.com

Opinion | No One Wants to Say ‘Put Down That Burger.’ But We Really Should.

"But the inconvenient truth is that when we eat cows, chickens and other livestock, we might as well be eating macaws, jaguars and other endangered species."

nytimes.com

If current eating and farming trends continue, the world will clear at least one and a quarter more Indias worth of land by 2050.

Drone delivery is maturing. After gradually expanding its drone delivery operations in Rwanda,

@zipline

announced a major expansion of its deal with the government that'll mean 2 million more deliveries by 2029.

Rwanda Orders 2 Million More Drone Deliveries by 2029 with Zipline Deal

It's a major expansion of the startup's business, which has been helping deliver medical products in the African nation for six years.

Stuart Blitz

@StuartBlitz

You: There’s no ChatGPT use case in healthcare Docs: Watch this 👇

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TFW your mom says how impressed she is with your in-depth look at the quantum computing industry then points out a typo.

OSINTtechnical

@Osinttechnical

It appears that all automated flight tracking accounts utilizing open source data from

@ADSBexchange

have been banned from Twitter, including

@RUOligarchJets

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Some discussion from a JPEG XL developer on Google's release of data about why it anointed AVIF instead as a next-generation file format for the Chrome.

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Jon Sneyers

@jonsneyers

Contemplating Codec Comparisons Here are my thoughts on the recent codec comparison by Google's AVIF team, that led to Chrome's decision to remove JPEG XL. cloudinary.com/blog/contempla

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Jon Sneyers

@jonsneyers

Contemplating Codec Comparisons

Contemplating Codec Comparisons Here are my thoughts on the recent codec comparison by Google's AVIF team, that led to Chrome's decision to remove JPEG XL.

cloudinary.com

Cloudinary Senior Image Researcher Jon Sneyers offers his thoughts on latest codec comparison data from Google's AVIF Team.

“The irony is we have this technology to preserve [digital information] and yet it’s more vulnerable than ever,” he said. Information “was safer when we wrote things on stone.”

washingtonpost.com

A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?

The Hook, a Charlottesville weekly, closed in 2013 but web archives survived until 22,000 stories vanished in June. Speculation swirls around a mystery buyer.

I thought this was some DALL-E generative art thing at first but nope! It was real!

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Morten Lunde Nielsen

@SiriusPalaeo

Dec 14 in the Sirius Passet advent calendar. Now starting on the lobopods. Today is about the super-rare Hadranax augustus

Awesome reconstruction by @Prehistorica_CM ! 1/4 twitter.com/SiriusPalaeo/s…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook confirms iPhones use Sony image sensors. (Sony is the premier image sensor manufacturer.) I wonder what happened with Apple's 2017 acquisition of InVisage, which was working on quantum dot image sensors?

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Tim Cook

@tim_cook

Dec 13

We’ve been partnering with Sony for over a decade to create the world’s leading camera sensors for iPhone. Thanks to Ken and everyone on the team for showing me around the cutting-edge facility in Kumamoto today.

Tim and SONY CEO Ken Yoshida look at a camera sensor demo on the iPhone 14 lineup.

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Quantum winter? With steady quantum computing progress, there was no sign of anything more than some chilly noses at the Q2B quantum computing conference. So far, this computing revolution is on track.

Quantum Computing Will Change Our Lives. But Be Patient, Please

Quantum computing companies work to avoid a "quantum winter" that could stall progress and freeze startup investments.

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE - Official Trailer (HD)

Dec 13

Sony vs Marvel rights to Spiderman is fraught issue. But Into the Spiderverse was head & shoulders above most MCU movies. So much fresher, a protagonist with a personality, and you really cared about him. (Villain still lame, though.) Sequel is coming:

youtube.com

The next Spider-Man movie is coming to theaters June 2023. Watch the new trailer for Spider-Man: Across the #SpiderVerse now. Subscribe to Sony Pictures for ...