Folding@home is helping fight disease with a world wide distributed super computer https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en

billionaires doing geoengineering is the last thing the world needs https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

Another factory fire with toxic smoke this time in Chicago.

President Jimmy Carter "China hasn't gone to war, the US is the most warlike country on earth."

a good article discussing why AI image generation is not going to make artists obsolete https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2023/02/ai-arts-information-theory/

miserable people are less productive, who knew
https://fortune.com/2023/02/16/return-office-real-reason-slump-productivity-data-careers-gleb-tsipursky/

Lighter at 7600 frames per second

With the help of a 5G-powered robot, a hospital in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province successfully removed a gallbladder on Thursday from a patient in the city of Aral, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, some 4,650 kilometres away.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202302/18/WS63f0223ea31057c47ebaf7e9.html

One of America’s largest food safety sanitation services providers illegally employed more than 100 *children* in *hazardous* work conditions.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/labor-department-fines-food-sanitation-contractor-15m-child/story?id=97295033

Obama railroad regulations would not have prevented Ohio train derailment because the train was not considered ‘high-hazard’. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/17/occupy-democrats/obama-era-safety-rule-high-hazard-trains-was-repea/

The United States’ contributions to the climate crisis and its perpetuation of violence, particularly abroad, resulted in a score on a newly launched “Atlas of Impunity” that placed the country well below other wealthy nations in terms of the government’s willingness to be accountable for its impact both on U.S. residents and the global community.

https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/18/due-to-wars-and-climate-destruction-us-ranks-worse-than-peers-on-impunity-index/?

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro https://www.bbcelite.com/

using nbb from @borkdude and node-canvas to generate PNGs by scripting #ClojureScript #clojure

just do

npm install nbb canvas

create draw.cljs file with the code below and run

npx nbb draw.cljs

as a bonus you can start an nREPL by running

nbb nrepl-server :port 1337

then connect your favourite editor for interactive development 🎉

Voice.AI Stole Open Source Code, Banned The Developer Who Informed Them About This, From Discord Server https://www.theinsaneapp.com/2023/02/voice-ai-stole-open-source-code.html

How much does it cost to shoot down a balloon? https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/how-much-does-it-cost-to-shoot-down

Never thought I'd see NYT publish pro China propaganda https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/business/bao-fan-china-banker.html

another banger from The Onion https://www.theonion.com/officials-champion-ohio-train-derailment-as-deregulatio-1850119896