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A visualization of US census data about same-sex household with some clever processing to highlight neighborhoods

Another from the overlooked-drafts pile. Seems like this just stalled on me writing the intro blurb.

Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield (on OpenLibrary) is (was? It’s probably missing some of the “AI” bullshit, and the cryptocurrency section thankfully is less important a few years on) an excellent primer on…

Maps Mania: The McGritter Tracker is Back!. “By 6:00 AM this morning, Skate Bush could already been seen trundling up that hill, and Sled Zeppelin was hard at work sanding the stairway to Leven. Yes, Traffic Scotland’s Gritter Tracker is back in action – your one-stop, salt-powered, pun-splattered window…

Turkish Historical Society and machine-translated from Turkish: Cemal Pasha Photograph Collection Opened to Remote Access. “Photographs from the Cemal Pasha Collection, held in our institution’s archives, are now available for remote access. The collection contains 470 photographs depicting Cemal Pasha’s duties, family, and friends, as well as social life…

MakeUseOf: I finally found the open-source Chrome alternative Brave promised to be. “Helium is a new cross-platform browser that prioritizes privacy without the bloat of Brave. It’s built on Ungoogled Chromium, comes with uBlock Origin baked in, and lets you opt out of everything during setup. Is this the…

SiliconANGLE: Google drops EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft amid cloud probe. “Google LLC has dropped an antitrust complaint that it filed in the European Union last year over Microsoft Corp.’s business practices. The search giant announced the move today. The development comes a few days after the European Commission,…

Retraction Watch: Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality. “Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence.”

Engadget: Google limits free Nano Banana Pro image generation usage due to ‘high demand’. “In a support document spotted by 9to5Google, Google notes free users can currently generate two images daily, down from three per day previously.”

I found this in my drafts in the recent blog revamp. “Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants” by John D. Clark is book I keep recommending to people. For something that sounds dry and technical, it’s actually really enjoyable and readable.

I think I stopped making notes as…