martinclayton

No mention of chikenized reverse-centaurs in this piece?

I find these neologisms helpful as they quite precisely capture the intended meaning and are easy to remember. Doctorow is an impressive and entertaining communicator, and being an author he needs to market himself and his work, so fair play to him for trying to score a hit follow up to "enshittification".

The earliest use of "centaur" in this sort of context I know of is Kasparov's advanced chess idea from the late 1990s: "a bad (chess) player with a good computer program will always beat a good player with a bad program". How far we travelled since then...

His work with photography influenced my thinking in the 1980s. The ideas of viewing time and moving focus I think are significant in human experience.

He talks about it, and you can see some of these works in a YT vid here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz5vWgKy2Sc

Dublin knabs a decent chunk of Great Britain, Copenhagen gets southern Sweden. Seems fair.

Tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for listing. But they make money from the trading and associated services they facilitate, hence the desire to have the largest most liquid stocks.

https://resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/en/resources/cross-bor...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/050515/how-n...

Yeah, indeed. See (march) https://www.reuters.com/business/new-nasdaq-rules-include-fa...

Quote from Cameron Lilja, Nasdaq's global head of index solutions:

"It is not necessarily representative to have a company that's big and could have a sizable representation in the index to keep them out for that long," Lilja said in an interview. "We're seeing share and corporate structures change - and companies that are staying private considerably longer are thus growing to be truly mega-cap companies before they even come to the public markets."

There's been fewer IPOs recently so Nasdaq and competitors are all racing to woo the few big ones to list with them.

What's the rationale offered by NASDAQ for their new "15-days and you're in the index" rule for these massive IPOs?

Seems equivalent to removing road safety rules for the least-tested, most-powerful new vehicles only.

(Agreeing with you) In the 1980s Gary Shilling said:

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

A long-term principle that I think does still apply.

This resonates with "the bitter lesson" somehow, interesting...

...On reading more it seems of use primarily in adversarial situations, so not-so-much resonant.

Wet cement is kind of sloppy, so this makes some sense.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26339421

I was expecting regional accent options, so disappointed.

I'm pleased that Blue Origin and others are making progress on reusable flight hardware, because I fear that SpaceX will itself suffer a "RUD" for non-engineering reasons.

Added mine ... let's see... https://foximax.com (word puzzle)

Seems Let's Encrypt also have control of https://letsdecrypt.org.

It takes you to https://www.nsa.gov rather than Let's Encrypt home.

Conspiracy? I think not, but others might.

Seems Let's Encrypt also have control of https://letsdecrypt.org.

It takes you to https://www.nsa.gov rather than Let's Encrypt.

Not sure what to make of that!

https://archive.is/fbKl4

An aside:

I always understood that Broadcasting House was inspiration for Room 101 (Ministry of Love) rather than the MoT.

It's well-known that the University of London Senate House building was the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth. Both the interior and exterior have appeared in many films and TV shows. Seems to come out of the visual creative toolbox when there's a need to evoke oppression or technocratic stultification through architecture, which is a shame as it's rather nice to visit!

This looks like "science-slop", but why has it been placed at this URL?

Nice touch having U2's song "Every Breaking Wave" playing in one of the screen grabs ... that being the second track on the (in)famous "free" 2014 iTunes release of their album "Songs of Innocence".

Two-player adversarial version of https://foximax.com

Porting a trivia quiz game I wrote 25 years ago from a Java Applet to the modern-day web. Has a scoring mechanism like golf (par-5 harder, par-3 easier, wrong answer choice costs a shot, etc.) Funny how one's code looks the same or different after 25-years!

A couple of other things I can't mention for various reasons... hopefully next time.

https://archive.is/TY950

I have to admit I thought it might be "like that" before I read the article. But I don't think Chris Stringer would be a co-author on the paper if there was an issue of bias.

While this work is impressive, it is just one skull and, as the article points out, seems statistically anomalous, and therefore interesting.

Fabulous, obviously.

I found the headline image confusing - thought it was a Sontaran (Dr. Who baddie) in there! Aldrin's face and the earth reflection are quite confusing to the eye.

Hours of fun (stimulation?) to be had...

Try these shapes: 100x113, then 100x114, then 100x115, the "patterns" swing from slant down, to vertical, to slant up.

I'd love this (even more) with some animation and colo(u)r options.

The Leeds case sounds a bit disturbing: they used real human fat and "simulated" clothing for an experiment. Seems odd that it was easy to find real human fat, but they had to resort to simulating clothing. I guess in 1963 fast fashion wasn't a thing.

I use Catalyst quite a lot - have been working on a new thing this morning.

Thanks, Matt, the ripples will go on for a good while.

In a thread elsewhere I saw "Interstellar Objects in the Solar System: 1. Isotropic Kinematics from the Gaia Early Data Release 3" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.03289) mentioned.

In there, one estimate of the number of these objects is

   Nisc <~ 7.2 × 10−5 AU−3

What happens if Charlie Stross meets the Pope?

Information-rich but is sadly very click-baity.

The head/title of the page is: "Asteroid to Hit Earth 2025 | Most Dangerous Asteroid 2025".

Heading is "Next Asteroid Predicted to Hit Earth: All About 2024 YR4 and Other Dangerous Asteroids". Then big picture of bad things happening: "Are We Doomed?"

Body text kicks off with: "Every now and then, the media produces dozens of scary headlines about rocks from space headed toward our planet." ...like this one, you mean?

There's a section headed "Famous asteroids predicted to hit Earth". Why use this misleading style? The body text below this heading can be summarised as: "there are no famous asteroids predicted to hit Earth".

At least it says "At this time, there is no evidence that any of these asteroids will collide with Earth". Sounds like "so you're saying there is a chance!"

When a magician does this, you know it's likely a distraction, and somewhere else there is trickery going on.

As a cryptography layman this would make me more suspicious...