Stueyman has added a photo to the pool:

Trails along Coodanup foreshore

At San Francisco conference, OpenAI chief Sam Altman calls for more rigorous security measures

Anthropic’s CEO took the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development, while Nvidia’s CEO argued against such deceleration.

Dario Amodei used an automotive analogy to make his point: when a competing car company has a safety incident like brake failures, it is a moment for all car companies to stop and review their own practices, he said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce convention on Tuesday.

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Orchids return to grassland after 28 Years Later filming. Fountains Abbey staff left grounds unmown to appear abandoned for film shoot - and orchids returned for the first time since the 1850s. (North Yorkshire, Britain.)

There had been no record of the flowers on the abbey site since the 1850s and the orchids had not been seen in living memory. 170 Years Later, nobody knows where they have come from or why they have germinated once again.

How you cut garlic strongly affects its flavor. In our testing of eight common preparations, whole and smashed cloves produced the mildest, nuttiest flavor, while mashed, pressed, and grated garlic delivered the sharpest, most pungent bite. Knowing the difference can help you choose the right cut for the garlic flavor you want. (Serious Eats)

Na jaren ben ik weer terug in Zuid-Afrika. Ngobi, een baby toen ik vertrok, is nu een pienter achtjarig meisje dat blijkbaar ook wat van het nieuws volgt.

Plaats de cijfers 1 tot en met 9 zo in het diagram dat elk cijfer precies één keer voorkomt in elke rij, kolom, de negen vetomrande 3x3 vakken, én de vier grijze 3x3 vakken.

If you find yourself feeling impatient at the slow, meditative opening scenes of “The Spectacle,” just wait. The short documentary from The New Yorker visits a slew of stunning vistas primarily across Norway, showcasing star-dappled night skies and awe-inspiring mountaintop views. We’re witness to landscapes that appear untouched by humanity, until director Yasmin van Dorp plops us down amidst hordes of tourists.

What was a serene environment is suddenly a chaotic display of phones and cameras. A parent attempts to coax their child out atop the famous Norwegian boulder Kjeragbolten for a photo, assistants fluff formal gowns so their wearer appears windswept, and selfie sticks and drone controls abound. Van Dorp puts the contemporary tourism industry in full focus, confronting viewers with our inability to be present and the strange desire to see some of the world’s most spectacular sights filtered through a tiny screen.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Please No Photos! A Short Film Focuses on Tourists’ Obsession with Capturing the Moment appeared first on Colossal.

HILVERSUM (ANP) - Van de sabotageacties op het spoor dinsdagochtend zijn weinig camerabeelden. Dat heeft topvrouw Mirjam van Velthuizen van ProRail in Nieuwsuur gezegd. Of op die beelden daders te zien zijn, is haar niet duidelijk. Ze weet ook niet wie achter de sabotageacties zit, waardoor het treinverkeer in een groot deel van Nederland op Prinsjesdag werd verstoord.

Van Velthuizen geeft aan dat de beelden zijn overgedragen aan de politie. "Er zijn wel wat camerabeelden, maar op de plekken waar het gebeurd is helaas weinig", aldus de topvrouw in Nieuwsuur.

Volgens Van Velthuizen wordt met extra camera's en extra surveillance het spoor de komende tijd beter in de gaten gehouden. Maar ze gaf ook aan dat het lastig is om heel het spoor in de gaten te houden.

In totaal werden ruim 35 storingen gemeld doordat buizen en kabels op het spoor waren gelegd.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

date stamped on slide, December 1971

It feels like to-do lists peaked about a decade and a half ago. (Perhaps like so many things, but I digress.) It was the heyday of Getting Things Done and Inbox Zero and all the apps you can imagine to manage your items to do, like OmniFocus and—my personal favourite—Things.

I appreciated Things for its design. It was clean and uncluttered and simple. It didn’t overcomplicate things. It’s been my go-to to-do organizer since 2008.

Long gone, for me, are the days of managing a full time job, running an online store, putting on conference talks and workshops, and raising two kids. As such, my list of projects, professionally and personally, have whittled down to very little.

This more simple life has me contemplating a move to Apple Reminders. To be clear, it’s not because Reminders is a better app; it’s not. There a number of design decisions that have me scratching my head. The use of icons, showing notes (and clipping them), the use of colour, the boxes in the sidebar, and the SF Rounded all make the app overly and unnecessarily cluttered.  

So why move when Things works just fine?

Goooood question.

I should mention why I use Reminders: collaborative lists and Siri/HomePod integration.

I take advantage of Reminders for its Siri integration, which is great when I’m in the kitchen and want to quickly add something to the Groceries list. Things’ Siri integration hasn’t exactly been smooth and I blame Apple for that. I run into issues constantly with Siri not recognizing third-party apps all that well and timing out, specifically from the HomePods. (I have a number of issues with HomePods in general, to be clear, but that’s another topic for another day.)

If I’m already using Reminders then there’s a (tiny little) small mental load when deciding where to put something new. Throw in Notes, which can do lists, and I’m muddying the waters even more. For example, I have my list of taco restaurants in Notes. I have a list of things I want to buy, like a new kitchen knife, that I keep in Reminders. I’m planning a trip and need to plan flights and hotel and restaurants and I put that in Things. Why any of these go into one place or another feels rather arbitrary.

Getting rid of Things is about simplifying. It’s about reducing noise.

I’ve kept Things on my devices for now while I play around with using Reminders with more regularity. We’ll see if I stick with it.

Jeff Adams mentioned to me on Mastodon that Marco Arment’s Unforgetful works as a front-end for Reminders. I love the idea of apps providing a different view of the underlying data and perhaps an app will come along that has the simplicity of Things while using the data of Reminders. That would provide the best of both worlds, for me. (The urge to learn to make Apple apps is increasing.)

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