Just your friendly neighborhood surveillance cluster. These things are in every supermarket parking lot now. Extra dystopian at night when they flash lights and blast audio warnings.

awake thinkin about things and sketching bugs

My point is that defending Maduro is not the same as defending Venezuelans. It is a bad hill to die on. Last year we voted for somebody else. It was clear to the members of the polling stations and to the armed forces that were set up to guard them. Entrenched government prevented regime change.

This is a fruit market in Valencia, Venezuela. It's not for rich people nor the far right. It's just for regular people that want to save money buying produce. I purchased a bag of bananas and onions for $1.48. I overheard a man sing in a low voice "Maduro ya se va" (Maduro is already leaving).

COMIC: Hey, you were in my dream!

Went to the butchery earlier today here in Valencia, Venezuela. The men were talking about US jet planes supposedly flying over Caracas, and making fun of one of them that had a family member that signed up for the militia. “What are they gonna do? Throw mangoes?” Nobody likes Maduro here.

Here’s a prediction: Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace prize will be clear in 5 to 10 years, and obvious in 20.

I haven’t read anywhere that Apple probably designed the AirPods Pro cases to have the same nervous-tick appeal as Zippo lighters and cigarette packs. Some people keep on opening and closing the darn things, activating alerts on nearby phones.

Fun fact: my company is a profitable customer for Oracle, since we use the regular OCI.

People defending Maduro on this platform, don’t have to live under Maduro’s regime. People defending Maduro here in Venezuela, are within a certified minority. In a democracy, majorities decide who can govern. It’s not too complicated.

RIP Space Ace www.billboard.com/music/rock/a...

1/5 of Elon Musk’s net worth could solve all of Argentina’s debt problems. Imagine having that power. Then again, countries have to bootstrap themselves.

Great news. Apple added a M5 chip to the Vision Pro. No, it's not dead, at least for a while www.apple.com/apple-vision...

Not even Venezuelan public employees like going to “Yankee Go Home” rallies. But if some of them don’t go, they’re fired.

Sex offenders have to go to jail, even if they're "royalty" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Perfect reply. No notes. 😆

Screenshots of the day: Calculating standard box fill with the Quick Pallet Maker desktop packaging software.

I don’t know who in Venezuela expecting a US “covert” operation. Donald Trump was in power four years and nothing happened. Prediction markets say nothing will happen this time around also.

Interesting, Even In Two Dimensions - Packing Cylinders in Boxes is Not Intuitive www.koona.com/en/blog/2025...

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

At the end of the (very interesting) episode you can listen to them talking about Microsoft Windows and Linux. Turns out, Apple's vertical hardware and software integration on the Mac was the correct approach all along.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee was too polite to say that Trump wanted a Civil War.

Gonna wait for the benchmarks to see if the M5 is better than the M4 Pro. There are two identically-priced MacBook Pros, one with a M5 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and another M4 Pro 12-core CPU, 16-core GPU. My uneducated bet is for the (ramped-up) M4 Pro being faster www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac...

Ohh and sometimes I experiment with pixel art too. #pixelart

A.I. generated videos are like dreams - you find your own fascinating and no one else gives a shit about them

People criticizing us in Venezuela because we’ve had to adapt to terrible government policies. Here’s a podcast about how they sell bulletproof whiteboards in the USA because they just can’t legislate gun control overcast.fm/+AAYs-7lQpBE

Capitalist Blowjob Jesus was probably the biggest longshot to win the Preakness.

Japanese wooden satellite is a nice thought to start the day www.thomasnet.com/insights/the...

A bunch of dorks at 5:30 am after running 7 km, here in Valencia, Venezuela.

Gen AI is the only technical revolution where human beings can compete on price.

OMG, Venezuela is trending here, but more than that, the sheer ignorance of people giving their opposition. I live in the only place where I don’t have to cross paths with those people. 😣

It’s #portfolioday ? I’m Drew I make genrefiction illustrations, get in touch for book covers, ttrpg art and personal commissions!

Artist: NATALIA LEONOVA Born 1983 Omsk, Russia. Pastel on paper.

consider: ashton jeanty saying “football” over and over again

Screenshots of the day: Calculating boxes and pallets, starting from primary package dimensions

COMIC: Sword and Sorcery

Somebody online recommended Mr Robot (the show with Rami Malek and Christian Slater), and so far it doesn't disappoint (I've only watched S1E1). The hacking parts seem solid but [a bit of a spoiler alert] Malek's character is supposed to be a super loner and he has two young women interested in him.

How Trump Is Making China Great, by @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

I can’t unsee this, and now you can’t either. 😈

He like to… move it.

Screenshots of the day: Calculating a box shipment with the QPM web app.

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%. Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

“Scientists have determined that microorganisms are able to simulate modern-day politics. Experiments were made by isolating groups in Petri dishes and finding out that they ended up reacting in the same way. Control groups that were mixed frequently ended up with less polarization.” Fake headline?

Monopoly Round-Up: Will the Trade War Pop the AI Bubble? by @matthewstoller.bsky.social substack.com/@mattstoller...

Baltimore.

This is a great interview and a super fun shoot you can find it online @zeit.de

Thanks to Rachel Hurley

He was still the President that day. So it was his own FBI. 😂

The Nobel recognises her courage in speaking out for over 20 years against Venezuela’s descent into dictatorship