The China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center posted this video of their new battery ejection system for EVs for when they experience thermal runaway, and I cannot stop laughing. Good luck whoever is to my right! #cars

TIL that Bose, the audio company, is named after its founder Amar Bose, a Bengali man, and thus ought to be pronounced bɔʃu.

FYI, the best place to check and see what that cool fireball you saw in the sky was, is this website: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_events You can even report your sightings! This helps scientists to find meteorites, though I think a lot of the sightings now are […]

My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs. Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings . Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" […]

I appreciate that some venues, like the Stork Club in Oakland, are getting ahead of this trend by requiring all fliers be human made. "We don't care if it's a screenshot of the Notes app with the show info or a picture of a hand with band names written in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"What makes this torment nexus special is you can self-host your torment and own your torment identity"

Go Go Beckham (GBA, 2002) must be the most weirdly competent celebrity license game ever. It looks like a 2025 indie hit. The screenshot montage is direct from the publisher, because they’re still showing it off in their portfolio to this day […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Insomnia thought: English has "good {morning, afternoon, evening} as greetings for various times of day, but is there a greeting that works if you're out at say 1am and meet someone? "Good night" is used as a synonym for "goodbye", so it doesn't quite fit the bill.

A familiar face makes an apearance at Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Lecture in San Francisco. A line of protestors has greeted the line of tech bros waiting to hear Thiel

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

The NY Times wasn't always as bad as it is today, honest. But it was never good.

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Oh my sweet and fuzzy hamster … Imagine being so -not- terminally online you see these phrases and think, “haunting anti fascist” and then you go write that in an actual news publication in 2025. Aren’t journalists supposed to like gather basic context? It […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.

One reason IMSI catchers aren't often used in the US to ID people at protests and other mass events is that the government has other capabilities for doing this that are more powerful, less cumbersome, and that generally require lower legal hurdles to use. Cell site "tower dumps", in particular […]

Android will *not* be getting most of the Unicode 17 updates. Some of its fonts are over a decade out of date - and Google refuses to re-use its own Noto font stack. I've raised the issue at: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/366415133 If you're a Googler please ask someone to prioritise […]

The frame hasn’t arrived, so it’s not cleaned and stretched, but it is finished! The overall design is my own, but the phrase is from a bumper sticker, the alphabet is from StardustAndStitching on Etsy and I morphed several pixel art Enterprises for the ship […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Wow thanks Spotify, I'd love to see this long-dead Russian composer on tour!

I sure do love being reminded that there's a gun-worshipping cult headquartered a few miles from my house.

Trump take LEGO: https://www.404media.co/lego-stops-shipping-individual-bricks-to-united-states-after-trumps-tariffs/

View from my situation room / ‘fish tank’: Today we successfully launched the aquarium’s first public-facing service in the multi-year technology infra change that I’m leading. We helped thousands of educators book free field trips and lab classes and talks […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Had a little Choc'n'Ball Treat. Just guy things!

Eating some amazing Iberico ham at the museum of ham. (Not actually a museum, just a restaurant across the street from a museum.)

@whitequark I'm at an art museum in Madrid and this artist has a whole series of works using parts from a nuclear reactor that was built but never put into service and I feel like you would really appreciate it: http://marisagonzalez.com/portfolio/central-nuclear-de-lemoniz-2004-08/

Super smart visual tension and analogy.

This feels like a very @SwiftOnSecurity story but I’m going to tell it. Chat bots (not just LLM driven) are surprisingly old. In the mid 90s, a mark up language for string-driven bots called AIML was released. A small community of early hackers and devs got really into it. I was part as a teen.

I have never worried about the singularity because I had a single conversation in 2007 with a guy who worked in a chip fab, and learned just the tiniest bit about the physical, mechanical process that goes into actually manufacturing a microprocessor, and how much of it requires direct […]

1. What my daughter posted on Instagram. 2. What Instagram put over her post.

I guess maybe we *can* have nice things, we just needed to find the right place to buy them?

“The Pennsylvania State Senate has decided that the transit system of America’s fifth largest city should be substantially destroyed.” Shocking cuts to the ability of the public to move around without owning expensive private vehicles are taking place in many places. More from @humantransit […]

Tapas in Seville. Life is good.

Exposure to "AI Assistance" lowers doctors' ability to diagnose cancer just after a few weeks. "AI"s main effect on people is skill decay. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

It's nice to get out of the US occasionally to visit the civilized world where they have trains that work.

I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding: It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part". (Source […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

AAAAA I hadn't used my Chromebook in a while so I got jump scared by the fact that they *put a Gemini button where the menu button used to be*. (The menu button got moved all the way to the left because fuck you, I guess?)

Biblically-accurate power outlet #shitpost

Why did they make this anthropomorphic tomato so sexy???

I think everyone should be talking about lot more about how it’s clear the Epstein stuff is a palace coup with JD Vance trying to take over and how Trump had better be careful because they’re trying to fool him. This message should get to him a lot.

My favorite part about the Christopher Nolan-directed _Odyssey_ movie is finding out that Homer has an IMDB page: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0392955/

i don't need chatgpt to hallucinate stuff for me. i have drugs for that

A reminder for anyone who is confused: being undocumented in the US is generally a civil violation, not a crime; being without a visa is a civil violation not a crime. Other civil violations include things like breach of contract, negligence, or even jaywalking […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

[highly reductive take about capitalism from a pinball machine repairman] When I started work at PAPA, the games were in pretty bad condition. PAPA had one tech, and five hundred pinball machines. Tech's name was Steve and he was a great guy and an excellent tech. You've never heard of him […]

Death by a thousand slops https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/ #curl #ai #bugbounty

I’ve read some Americans talk about ‘Dubai chocolate’ like it’s some revolting thing and also ‘hooman rights’ (I agree) but also Imagine if every time someone had a cheese burger they were like imperialistic murderer burgers Maybe people should do that.

Sponsor my laptop! https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/12/sponsor-my-laptop/ For #curl of course. What else would I ever do?

@ionchy are you going to the ice cream festival at Reading Terminal Market today? https://readingterminalmarket.org/event/ice-cream-festival-on-filbert-street/ My wife and I are planning on stopping by.