CarlBLatro - Nostr Hypermedia

"When she wasn’t looking over my shoulder, I was searching for different things."

My first PubMed search and the limitations of neuroscientific explanations

In the case of something as wonderfully complex as who we love, it’s unlikely we’ll find it staring back at us on an MRI, a genome sequence, or...

CarlBLatro 10 hours ago

The world is slowly rebalancing...

Bluesky Social

Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas.bsky.social)

The EU and Ghana have a strong, long-standing partnership. By signing a new Security and Defence Partnership we are taking it further. This is the...

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Bluesky Social

The Conversation AUNZ (@aunz.theconversation.com)

Australia has long had an awkward relationship with the European Union. But after years of often fraught negotiations, the two have finally come to...

CarlBLatro 11 hours ago

"When he pointed out that 80 million households now owned DVD players and nobody wanted VHS tapes anymore, headquarters had a phrase ready: 'The customer is format agnostic.' "

Substack

Howard Yu (@howardyu)

The most profitable Blockbuster franchisee in America spent years sending detailed memos to the CEO showing the stores were failing. When he prese...

CarlBLatro yesterday

How to make toys and houses and diapers and such...

CarlBLatro yesterday

Cabocycles, maybe?

CarlBLatro yesterday

You bitcoiners be careful now when you exchange your coins for other money. Or at least those of you in the OECD... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019028194/ird-increases-view-of-crypto-activity

CarlBLatro 1 week ago

That time when NZ said no to a US destroyer... https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19850206.2.44

CarlBLatro 3 weeks ago

'Western' air defenses in the Middle East seem pretty crap.

7NEWS

Australians caught up in the war as Iranian drones strike base

The Middle Eastern base currently serves as the headquarters of the Australian Defence Force’s Joint Task Force 633 and supports Australian opera...

CarlBLatro 3 weeks ago

This is old now, from last Christmas Eve, but well worth a read.

The One Chart That Explains Everything

And the seven books that make sense of America's AI Anxiety and China's AI Optimism

CarlBLatro 3 weeks ago

Says it all...

Mastodon

Sven A. Schmidt (@finestructure@mastodon.social)

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

CarlBLatro 3 weeks ago

"More than half of the UK’s electrical power was supplied by renewable energy on February 25 2026. That consisted mainly of solar, wind and hydroelectric sources. The next day, a new source of electricity started feeding into the grid for the first time – geothermal power." Not a game-changer for the UK, but interesting all the same.

The Conversation

What the UK’s first geothermal power plant means for the nation’s electricity supply

Unlike wind and solar which are weather-dependent sources of renewable energy, geothermal heat can produce energy steadily, day and night, all year...

CarlBLatro 3 weeks ago

It seems a good day for this AI AMA...

X (formerly Twitter)

Sam Altman (@sama) on X

I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.

CarlBLatro 3 weeks ago

Tehran walking tour.

CarlBLatro 3 weeks ago

"The US and Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran on Saturday, targeting senior regime figures, command centers and key elements of Iran’s air defenses"