> Even if the Fed embarks on one or more interest rate cuts, it may not translate into lower mortgage rates because the capital that would have been building homes or apartment buildings is being diverted to build data centers which are generating a stronger investment return
> Sunak, who remains a member of Britain’s parliament, said in a social media post Thursday that he would be working with the tech companies as a senior adviser and strategic consultant. He will donate his full compensation from the roles to The Richmond Project, a charity run by him
I don’t have any analytics or social trackers on my blog, so I usually don’t know if anyone is really reading it; but occasionally someone will email me in reaction to a post and that’s usually quite nice.
This feels like it’s basically the whole web nowadays. At least the subset of the web that is funded by advertising.
Reader Mode by default is how I’ve rolled since it was something you could do, and I swear by it. Any site that doesn’t show right in reader, I simply close the tab.
if you were in Android, I'd also recommend Brave browser and uBlock.
there's also DNS blockers like Rethink app or custom DNS servers
I don't understand how anyone browses the web without ad block. anytime I do so by accident. websites are absolutely unreadable and useless. The Great Enshittening™ comes for us all
> Any lightweight markup format (like Markdown or ReStructuredText or whatever) allows for embedding code blocks, but Org, through Babel, can run that code on export, and then display the output in the published document, even when the output is a table or an image.
On their website Quarto look just like normal JupyterLab notebook interface. Does it do anything extra?
One advantage of org-babel is, that one can not only to segmented code execution, but one can specify the dependencies of source blocks and thus doesn't have to run them top to bottom or choose how to run them manually. One simply includes blocks by their name in other blocks and everything will run in the specified order. It shouldn't be too hard to build that into IPython Notebooks, but somehow no one has properly done that yet, or it completely bypassed me, while I still worked with ipynbs for years.
> This year’s job cut announcements were driven by federal government layoffs, businesses’ responses to economic uncertainty caused by tariffs and inflation, and store closings, among other factors. AI was less of a driver, though 17,375 cuts were “explicitly attributed to artificial intelligence,” the report said.
We live in an attention economy where beliefs are shaped by fleeting stimuli. Two decades of digital conditioning have habituated people to embrace the narratives they desire, regardless of contrary evidence. What becomes of our discourse, knowledge, and ideology in a world where evidence itself can be manufactured with zero friction and at scale?
> In July, Cornyn and Cruz successfully added language to the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" championed by President Donald Trump, which enabled acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy to then identify Discovery for relocation. The provision also called for $85 million to be made available to transport and display the shuttle in Houston.
Every single rhetorical overtone about eliminating waste — from DOGE to legislative “fiscal responsibility” — is at best in bad faith and on average a lie.
Yes, but it's more of theatrics for the masses. Whoever DOGE is now have sensitive data on just about every Americans. With that, you can plan your next 10 years.
It was but it did also end and hamper future investigations by agencies like the FCC, CFBP, NHTSA, etc that had investigated or would be overseeing future businesses (eg Elon always talks about making X and 'Everything App' which would include transactions and quasi-banking which would be in CFBP's jurisdiction).
I'm fairly sure that was Elon's main goal, slash the ability for regulators to get in his way because they've been a constant minor nuisance to him and he saw a chance to hamstring them going forward even if Democrats get back in power soon the agencies will have a drastically reduced investigatory and regulatory efficacy just from losing the people that know how to do it.
Musk's real issue was probably that said bill nixed the EV tax credit, exacerbated by withdrawing the nomination of Musk's hand-picked choice for NASA administrator.
https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-09-30-visidata/
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