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NASA has a FLickr account where you can find an album of recent photos from the artemis mission.

Go and grab some great photos for your desktop!

Enshittification is taken seriously by the Norwegian Consumer Counsil, with a well-dony funny clip and more information

Here is a video interview from 2036 with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman.

From their description:

After the stock market crash of 2026 the economy faltered, 80% of people lost their job and the US tech elite had to find a new way to keep the world moving: Energym - Human-powered AI systems, fulfilling both the machine’s need for energy and the people’s need for purpose.

When it snows and the roads in Scotland need cleaning, public gritters do the job. You can see their live location here. More interestingly, their names were decided by the public. All names are shown here, but below I keep a selection that shows democracy working.

• Albert Icestein
• Always Be Grit-Full
• Basil Salty
• Buzz Iceclear
• Chun-Ski – Street Gritter
• Coldfinger
• For Your Ice Only
• Freeze Witherspoon
• Grit-Tok
• Grit-Zilla
• Grita Thawberg
• Gritallica
• Griticle Mass
• Gritney Spears
• Gritt Scott!
• I Want To Break Freeze
• Icetalavista Baby
• Licence To Chill
• Lord Coldemort
• On Her Majesty’s Slippery Surface
• Salt Disney
• Salt Shaker
• Sir David Attenbrrrrrr
• Snow Connery
• Snowing Me, Snowing You
• Snowrassic Park
• Spready Gonzales
• The Meltonator
• William Wall-Ice
• Wizard of Ice
• You Only Grit Ice

Here is the full length documentary “The thinking game”. It tells the story of AI development and Demis Hassabis. If you played Theme Park or Black and white, you know about him without knowing it.

Solving how proteins fold is an under-appreciated breakthrough. The story about how it was done and how it was gifted to the world is even less appreciated.

Here is a way to make mp3 out of news articles. It allows me to reduce browsing time and listen to news while I do something else, such as being in the lab. This looks like a lot, but once you get the hang of it, it is very fast.

1. Safari

Open the news articles of interest. It there are many command-click to open them in separate tabs.

Simplify formatting and get rid of commercials by entering reader mode Cmd-Shift-R.