This is pretty cool. I'd love to know the details of the 6MW charging system (cable size, voltage etc) thedriven.io/2026/05/25/f...

Visiting my dad, who has the NASCAR race on, and the announcer just said "qualifying was cancelled yesterday due to weather so the field was set by The Matrix" Whoa.

Taking this to the extreme (for good and bad) may I present… the NYC subway system (gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Got this ad the other day. I have so far resisted the urge to purchase a mechanical watch despite enjoying watching people repair them on YouTube. If I ever get one, this is absolutely the route I'd go, because the fact that a parody Rolex exists is hilarious. relaxwatchshop.com/product/rela...

During his talk at RBS, James Malin—not on Bsky—showed this title page from a 19th-century catalog for Alfred Nobel’s Nitro-Glycerin Company I’d like to nominate this image for the most metal cut in print history—we need to make something with it for Halloween @skeuomorphpress.org

30 years later and I understand this line now more than ever. #TheSimpsons episode “Homerpalooza” first aired May 19, 1996.

Every day, the management of every big tech company is faced with a dilemma The users hate all the changes to their services, it's never been more unpopular. They have two options: Roll back the changes, or try to push them even harder. And every day they choose the latter option again and again

Got this cool custom branded mini PC for Linux desktop testing. Zorin is pretty zippy on it, especially with the Xeon W1290 this one has, but boy the bottom gets *hot* when it's working hard. My systems are mostly named after Star Wars ships, but this one pretty much required an exception: Rocinante

My Ioniq 5's scheduled charging is super unreliable, so I built a failsafe automation in Home Assistant + HACS Hyundai integration that if the car is plugged in, battery below x% & not charging during my off-peak rates, it sends a start charge.

These are usually funny, but on this one the throwaway bits filling out the fake TV guide listing are even funnier than the actual blurb. The LEGO Starship Troopers Movie made me LOL

Gas prices are so bad... How bad are they? Gas prices are so bad that...

Q: what if we took what AI is best at (being confidently wrong) and really leaned into it? A: Halupedia. Literally Schrödinger's Universe archive.is/vanlp

Q: what if we took what AI is best at (being confidently wrong) and really leaned into it? A: Halupedia. Literally Schrödinger's Universe archive.is/vanlp

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Jonny Cash did not shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die only for you to settle for morgan wallen

TIL "randos willing to shill whatever for cheap on TikTok to their small audience of no one in particular" are called "nanoinfluencers". So this is a fact that you also are forced to know now. Great name for the company tho, & "I'm the CEO of Noise" is accurate for a great number of people and pets.

me too!

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

So in addition to the Pickle PBR, there's also this. people.com/smoothie-kin... As weird as this sounds, Van Leeuwen had a pickle ice cream a few years ago that was actually really good, so who knows?

Oof someone on the internet is wrong about a thing I know a whole lot about and it is really chapping my behind I'll say that

Ok, this is a brilliant branding idea. electrek.co/2026/05/11/d...

Always a good sign when the school system needs to send out a notification with the subject line, "PowerSchool Emails - Not Spam, Totally Legit!" because apparently the notifications to set up a new account were sufficiently spammy looking that they got a ton of calls asking if they were legit.

This country is being run like it was bought out by private equity stripped for parts to be sold off in liquidation.

lol, they gave Artemis II astronaut (and Philadelphia sports fan) Christina Koch an astronaut Gritty

AI and CEOs

Ever wonder what it would have sounded like if the Backstreet Boys were a hair metal band? I know I have.🤘 youtu.be/7CzE9LbKPrg...

I wrote a deep dive into the physics of this hack, the challenges of low-frequency radio propagation, and how our methods of measuring time have evolved from maritime sand-glasses to digital synchronization. Read the full post here: josephhall.org/blog/texture...

Living on the East Coast means my radio-controlled atomic wall clock is completely deaf to the atomic (WWVB) signal from Colorado. In the attached video, I am using my smartphone to force the clock to sync to exact Internet time via a clever hardware hack. 1/4

New form of enshittification: Saw a good deal on a 27" 1440p monitor. Few reviews, except 10 different (likely slop-generated) videos that are all a slideshow of the marketing pictures w/ a voiceover clearly written by the manufacturer and no indication the reviewer actually used the monitor.

OH: No ma'am, this is a password you gave us. It could be the last four digits of your dog, or your mother's maiden credit card number, or the name of the street where your elementary school grew up, or maybe your 5th-grade teacher's first car...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

The funny thing about chrome shoving a 4gb LLM on all devices is that when I interviewed for Google back in 2019 one of the interview sessions was all about how you'd deploy updates to 4 billion android devices, consider how many users are on slow internet connections or with unreliable connectivity

Think about how many stories & headlines you've seen about small modular reactors (which still don't exist commercially) and how they can be 'manufactured' at scale. Now think about how many stories you have NOT seen about the small modular energy manufacturing juggernaut that's actually happening.

I have a couple of fun Star Wars related pictures I usually use as temporary profile pictures on bookface that I realized I've probably not shared here. May the 4th be with you!

One for my fellow geeks on #StarWarsDay: the lightsaber handles were made from vintage flash guns. Star Wars had a small budget so set decorator Roger Christian went looking around thrift shops & found a 1940s Grafex camera with flash gun attached & voila!

May the 4th be with you!

Google wifi widget displaying the universal sign that the robot has gone evil (flashing red light). Fortunately it doesn't have a way to do anything so it sits silently seething.

Google wifi widget displaying the universal sign that the robot has gone evil (flashing red light). Fortunately it doesn't have a way to do anything so it sits silently seething.

IMSA race is at Laguna Seca this weekend, and they're doing throwback livery. Porsche just posted this.

I have been trying to do at least some research into the people up for board elections here in proxy vote season to withhold support from some obvious red flags. Started paying attention to age this year and yikes... Gerontocracy isn't limited to the government.

My neighbors just got a ton of sod delivered and are prepping to put it down on their yard. Part of me really wants to ask if they're going to kneel first.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Randomly shouting "computer, end program!" Or "Computer, arch" just in case it works.

It's the end of poetry month so still time to share this brilliant poem from my now-13-y.o.. He wrote it at the early days COVID lockdown in April 2020 when he was a 1st grader, frustrated about writing poetry.

The fact that our leaders can’t get together and say “hey, literally everyone (including the leaders at these companies!!) want this to happen more slowly so how about…you can’t build an AI data center unless it meets requirements including zero CO2” is embarrassing.

Yesterday- My partner: "Alexa, what's the weather like tomorrow?" Alexa: "Currently it's raining." It was sunny. Also that's all it said. No forecast. Me: "Well, who are you going to believe, the robot, or your lying eyes? Guess we should go back to the weather rock" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather...

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead?? This is quite a story: slate.com/business/202...