David Jen

Will tall building boom continue? Mixed uses, infrastructure hold keys The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s vertical urbanism index highlights correlations between livability, population density, and skyscraper count.

"The (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) is in the quest of kind of opening the skyscraper club to many other people," said Javier Quintana de Uña.

The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

"From 1965 to 1995, the typical adult gained six hours a week in leisure time. They could have devoted that time—300 hours a year!—to community service, or pickup basketball, or reading, or knitting, or all four. Instead, they funneled almost all of this extra time into watching more TV." :(

If you shoot for the moon but land on the stars, maybe orbital mechanics is not your thing.

Trump said the military 'turned on the water' in California. Not quite. President Donald Trump's Monday-night post took his fixation with California water to new heights.

From my colleague Debra Kahn in California:

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

As AI, crypto expand, planners aim to make data centers more efficient Jumps in data center demand for resources, driven by artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, have companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta weighing changes.

Those little tête-à-têtes with #ChatGPT sure take a lot of #power and #water. What can we do to make data centers more efficient?

My latest for Civil Engineering Source:

Awesome, thank you!

Artificial intelligence supervision needed to reap technology’s benefits Architecture, engineering, and construction companies Thornton Tomasetti, Engineers Rising, and Kimley-Horn weigh in on the future of artificial intelligence.

AI offers speed improvements that can't be ignored in the #architecture, #engineering and #construction industries. What are firms doing to set guardrails for the technology?

My latest for Civil Engineering Source:

Cartoon of Agata glued to a crocodile.

Please welcome @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social, the scientist who broke Twitter (when it was still Twitter) with the hashtag #FieldworkFail by telling the story of how she glued herself to a crocodile.
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/

Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good

Today I'm thankful for niblings, delicious apples, and people who support targets of right-wing harassment campaigns! www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...

Experts Weigh in on Our Neighbors, the Wild Turkeys They will soon land on our dining room tables, but for many in the Tri-Valley, turkeys have been on our minds all year.

My first accepted story pitch was about the history of turkeys in my part of California. The writing leaves something to be desired, but it was published.

Happy #Thanksgiving!

having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition

Those are the worst kind of circumcisions.

The bell in Polar Express isn't magic, it just rings above 16 kHz. Protect your hearing, kids.

Thanks for your work!

My first ever viral post on Bluesky is somehow making the rounds again. And yes, this is still my favourite fact about Iceland.

Thanks for sharing!

There's a name for it?? 😁

A tweet from Sammy Roth that says OK, so since this morning it's been reported that the Washington Post is ousting its senior politics editor, the Wall Street Journal has laid off its politics editor and the New York Times' Washington bureau chief is stepping down. None of this feels good.

Wtaf

I have to say, adding link cards in Bluesky feels smoother than in the bird app.

Canada wants your help to name its 1st moon rover Canada will soon roll a rover onto the moon, and you can help name the pioneering machine.

Moonie McMoonface?

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ALL THE WORK ACROSS ALL TIME AND SPACE
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#Freelancing

LLNL Supercomputer Confirmed as World’s Most Powerful The El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was verified as the most powerful in the world on Monday, providing the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) a ...

The title of world's most powerful #supercomputer returned to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this week, with the El Capitan system capable of 1.742 exaflops/sec. The distinction also marks the first time the number of #AMD GPU cores overtook #Nvidia cores on the top 500 list.

#LLNL

Exactly!

I hope so!

Holy crap, the words are not coming out today. Like pulling anvils from the bottom of the ocean. #writinglife

What a story it would be if Musk sold X to buy Bluesky, and then we all moved back to Twitter.

Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In -The Onion

Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In
theonion.com/trump-locks-...

It's not about AI.

Are there any #linguists in my followers up for helping me with a story idea?

Things I didn't understand when first watching Back to the Future at age 9:
- DeLoreans were out of production
- Christopher Lloyd was only 46 during filming