TomWhitwell

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by TomWhitwell 6d ago
“In 2025, the global fleet of EVs avoided the consumption of around 1.7 million barrels of oil per day” https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/executive...
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Workshop System – an analog modular synth with swappable RP2040 program cards(musicthing.co.uk)
4 points by TomWhitwell 7d ago|2 comments
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by TomWhitwell 7d ago
Why does AI have to explain everything three times - a headline, a standfirst and some intro blurb all saying what could be said in two words.
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by TomWhitwell 2mo ago
Just two resistors to say ‘I am a device, give me 5V’ - you only need more negotiation = a chip - to get more than 5V
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by TomWhitwell 2mo ago
Damn font getting smaller and smaller while my eyes stay the same
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by TomWhitwell 3mo ago
This is all a reference to the short story ‘Library of Babel’ by Jorge Luis Borges. I feel the page needs to make that a bit more clear! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
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by TomWhitwell 5mo ago
https://www.alexandercowan.com/yellow-walkman-data-art-of-cu...
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by TomWhitwell 7mo ago
Love it, could you do Harold Cohen next?
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by TomWhitwell 7mo ago
It’s not an exaggeration to say that every day of the year, from maybe noon to midnight, these buildings are surrounded by people enjoying the city - walking along the river, going to arts events, eating out, walking between offices. It’s a
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by TomWhitwell 7mo ago
> lived locally for 10 years and visited only a handful of times That was a mistake
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by TomWhitwell 9mo ago
This is exactly what Upworthy did - they invented some of the clickbait headline formats that are still used today (for less positive news) https://web.archive.org/web/20231114181702/https://www.fastc...
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Operation Northwoods(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by TomWhitwell 10mo ago|0 comments
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by TomWhitwell 11mo ago
In Hong Kong, public outdoor escalators like the Central–Mid-Levels Escalator are a big part of public transport. They go one way - down from 6am-10am, otherwise up. They’ve regenerated/gentrified a whole area of town that was previou
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by TomWhitwell 11mo ago
Underrated comment
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by TomWhitwell 1y ago
An app can be a home‑cooked meal, by Robin Sloan: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
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by TomWhitwell 1y ago
Harold Cohen was a British painter in the ‘60s who ended up in the Stanford AI lab in 1971, using plotters (and initially turtle robots) to draw images created by a chunk of code he called AARON. There are some bits of that code - particula
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by TomWhitwell 1y ago
A favourite paper: “ A Microfluidic D-subminiature Connector” “ Standardized, affordable, user-friendly world-to-chip interfaces represent one of the major barriers to the adoption of microfluidics. We present a connector system for plug-an
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Little analogue modular synth with RP2040 program cards [video](youtube.com)
1 points by TomWhitwell 1y ago|0 comments
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by TomWhitwell 1y ago
Seems like a larger format version of Lignilock wooden nails https://www.beck-fastening.com/en/innovation/lignoloc
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10k Drum Machines(10kdrummachines.com)
3 points by TomWhitwell 1y ago|0 comments
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Meteor Burst Communications(ronaldelliott.com)
18 points by TomWhitwell 1y ago|2 comments
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by TomWhitwell 1y ago
I liked the way I could download the PDF without accepting cookies. Not sure if that was a bug or a feature but I liked it.
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by TomWhitwell 1y ago
I saw and enjoyed bag piece at the recent Tate retrospective- pretty much as she describes it the contrast between the experience of the people inside the bag (giggling, wriggling) and the people standing round watching int the gallery was
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by TomWhitwell 1y ago
Her loft series in 1960 was an amazing moment in time - La Monte Young, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp etc https://press.moma.org/wp-content/files_mf/yoko_sectiontext_...
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
Such a wild take after looking at, for example, a propaganda poster captioned “Work together to develop pig breeding and new varieties of rice” where the artist has decided to make the pigs in question bright purple with yin-yang signs on t
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
This idea has been around for a long time: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429935-000-food-bla...
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
IIRC these are SVGs and excellent if you have a plotter
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
I worked at The Times in London when we did this - we lost ~98.7% of our free audience, retained a smaller ad business, turned a £20mn / year loss into a £20mn / year profit over a few years.
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Toad is an analogue computer designed to model vocal emissions of ravens&toad(1010.co.uk)
1 points by TomWhitwell 2y ago|0 comments
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
Technics SL-1200/1210 mk2 had a similar dominance for maybe a couple of decades, I think

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