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“What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf.

It's always cars.

Spotted in Leuven yesterday…

You've probably heard of enshittification, a term coined by Cory Doctorow and also a book (which I recommend).

The average IQ was increasing year over year until about 2010, when it started declining.

A fascinating look inside a hidden greenhouse in Los Angeles filled with rare plants.

There's a persistent belief in the tech world, particularly in AI, that the human brain is basically a computer and that once we figure out how it stores and processes information, we'll be able to upload our consciousness to the cloud.

Are you old enough to remember these?

Antoinism is a religion that was created in 1910 by a metal worker called Louis-Joseph Antoine from the Liège region of Belgium.

In this age of ragebait and kinetic videos, I find watching each episode of Ed Pratt's journey from source to sea down the river Thames to be online comfort food.

I've been fixing bugs that affected, among other things, the RSS feed.

I didn't know the U.S.

An interesting deep dive into how your geolocation data gets exfiltrated by advertising networks via apps on your phone and sold to, not only the highest bidder, but basically any data broker, government agency, or other organisation that can afford it.

I just switched this blog from using a dynamic Django-based solution to running as a static site using Eleventy.

This piece, from Ed Zitron, is one of the best things I've read in a while.

A former Boston Globe reporter on his now homeless life.