Looks like it: Is flight shaming the new minimalism?
“Flight shaming” is a fad out of Europe, where residents vow to not use air travel in favor of cars, trains and ships. This works for people living in tiny…
Ever hear of Zoom? : “COP26 may be the ‘highest emitting United Nations environmental summit so far'”
According to estimates from professional services firm Arup, the COP26 climate summit held in Glasgow, U.K. over the last two weeks will emit “about 102,500 tons of carbon dioxide,” or…
Minimalism is Dead
3 to 5 years back, or so, there was peak interest in “minimalism”. Not only is “minimalism” dead but it seems to have been replaced by “maximalism“! Amusingly, it also…
Iceland announces “The IcelandVerse”
It’s like a world where everything is surprisingly real 🙂 Saw this last night and had me laughing out loud, rolling with laughter. I already follow several Iceland YT channels,…
No inflation to see here: Consumer prices rise the most in over 30 years
Annual CPI: 6.2% Source: Consumer prices see largest year-over-year spike since November 1990 Some private economists are estimating “real inflation” at 9% to 16%, far higher than the government’s CPI…
Future cars will not start if you have been drinking alcohol
Source: Infrastructure bill mandates new technology to prevent drunk driving — here’s how it would work – MarketWatch I do not drink any alcohol so this is sort of a…
Apple to restrict major iPhone 13 repairs to Apple services only
Stripping iPhone 13 models down, what iFixit discovered is that Apple has added a small chip (“about the size of a Tic-Tac”) into the bottom of their 13 screens. The…
Teleworking trends
Stated another way, about 70% of workers need to go into offices. Only about a third of all workers have jobs that allow teleworking. Source: Oregonians’ march back to the…
Follow up from February 2021: “And there you go: Pandemic should end by mid-year”
This forecast did not age well: And there you go: Pandemic should end by mid-year | Coldstreams Business and Tech
Follow up: “The epidemiologists Strike Back: Revenge of the Models Episode III”
In February, as cases were falling rapidly, the disease modelers projected a large rise in daily new cases starting as soon as May (but with a multi-month window), and caused…