Chris Bennetts

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Mag 4.5 - Depth 11km.

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Watching the Women’s Asian Cup football, you’ve gotta conclude that soccer needs to do a lot better with head injuries. Something like rugby league’s 15 minute Head Injury Assessment process would be a good place to start.

No, AI is not coming for your developer job, regardless of the nonsense the hype mongers are pushing. (I'm talking just about developer jobs—it obviously impacts other areas.) That's not to say the layoffs aren't real, but rather that the corporations are hiding normal corporate behavior behind
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Sitting around imagining how AI can "help" your customers without understanding their specific problems is just expensive arrogance.
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The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers The well-off have no experience with the job market that might be coming.

“In this new economic paradigm, the educated and well-to-do would fare worse than their less-educated and lower-income neighbors,” @annielowrey.bsky.social writes:

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Two-space indentation in C-like languages should be a syntax error. I find it practically impossible to read.

If it’s reasonably light it could be fantastic as a “real computer” substitute for an iPad. I’d be very tempted if they get the specs right. 12Gb RAM, smaller and lighter than an MBA, and iPad+-class battery life.

I wonder if it flew in a draggier attitude during/slightly before the mission?

The good news is that it’ll flatten out soon as the solar max winds down. But it’s coming down sometime in the next 20 years, and nobody wants an uncontrolled reentry of a 2.4m glass mirror.

2002 would line up with STS-109/servicing mission 3B.

I’m not sure why we don’t resurrect the ‘moped’ category for these things. Seems about the right fit for the problem.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84 The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has died. He was 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King was assassinated in 1968.

BREAKING: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader from the era of MLK to Black Lives Matter, has died at 84, his family said.

Why your brain has to work harder in an open-plan office than private offices: study

We all know poorly designed chairs cause physical strain. But here’s why poorly designed workplaces are so mentally draining.

Can’t help but wonder what would happen to Falcon 9 economics without multiple Starlink launches every week.

If AI takes over the whole corporate PC ecosystem evaporates. I guess that’s a slight silver lining.

Imagine there’s no MS Teams or Excel, it’s easy if you try.

There’s a weird time dilation when you’re watching Olympics coverage. Are you watching something live, 20 minutes ago, or two hours ago?

Damn we’re losing the good ones this year.

Damn.

The amount of sensitive personal information real estate agent collect about renters is horrifying. Far beyond what they need to do their job.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

“Never read the comments” particularly applies to anniversary stories about the three big space disasters at this time of year. Really offensive conspiracy crap.

This is appalling. Systems handling personal info need to be better than this.

Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢

Catherine O'Hara, Emmy-winning comedian of 'Schitt's Creek' and 'SCTV' fame, dies at 71 Catherine O'Hara has died at 71. The was Emmy-winning actor known for her roles in "Home Alone" and "Schitt's Creek."

BREAKING: Catherine O'Hara, an Emmy-winning actor and comedian who starred in "Schitt's Creek" and "Home Alone," dies at 71.

Set V21 in NSW TrainLink Yellow and Orange livery at Central station, 2024

After more than 55 years serving the people of New South Wales, tomorrow is the last ever run in public service of a V set interurban double deck electric train. So this is the perfect time for a photographic tribute to these venerable, hard working and much loved trains.
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(comic) Vacation Refresher Myth

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Astonishing imagery. Consider that most of the planet is being imaged at this resolution or better several times per day.