Is this a generational thing? I am a phone battery miser. If I’m sitting somewhere (plane, car) with a plug, I plug it in. I plug it at 75%, at 90%, at 100%. My teen kids will be sitting at 50% and say “I don’t need it yet”. Is it just me? Just them?

AI posters in this pizza joint. The kerning in “you’ll love” is the greatest sin

Somebody ripped off my Otis King Calculator video, but at least their version has this great thumbnail #tube

Worst web form ever. I honestly have a hard time believing this is real. (it is)

Just got an email soliciting papers for a "first class international journal" which promises full peer review within 24 hours, full publication within 48 hours! (yes it is author-pay)

Just got a college-wide email from the Dean which included 5 paragraphs. 2 different fonts were used, and 4 different font sizes. Am I the only one who takes umbrage at this? "Paste and match style" is there for a reason! (or yknow just write your emails yourself)

I just agreed to referee a journal article, and before I was allowed to see the article they showed me this notice: "This journal does not currently allow the use of Generative AI or Al-assisted technologies for peer review." First time I've seen something like this- it's good I think!

INTIMIDATING DEALS OFFENSIVE SAVINGS VIOLENT SALES HOMICIDAL COUPONS

Tubi subtitles are having a real one

Still grateful for when Christie's Auction House presented me with the original Pascaline calculator. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you Christie!

My high schooler reports that all the students objected when the teacher presented 3D-coordinates with z pointing “up”. The teacher was shocked that they would do it any other way. The kids all agreed that y-up is far more natural, since that’s how they do it in Minecraft.

The passive voice in the iOS email AI-summaries is out of control

“With all that said, let’s get started!” Why do YouTubers say this? You can just start (which you already have).

Super-ambitious project by Jonatan Nielavitzky: a 3D printed Babbage Difference Engine! He says it's a work-in-progress but it looks pretty polished to me. Show him some appreciation on youtube if you have a moment! (I'm trying to encourage him to keep going) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvOR...

Just saw this old machine with tons of oddities: BOTH 10-key and “full” keyboards, 3-pronged digit shifting crank, 2 big asymmetrical carrying handles. Gotta look at all the pictures. ebay.us/m/Yv0fQ5

New short: the Larrometer! A surprisingly sophisticated wheelchart for calculating cow feed. #cowtools youtube.com/shorts/uanpW...

They assure me this means “one way”

How about “You have been unsubscribed?”

Tons of low hanging jokes I sidestepped in favor of the comment-bait thumbnail, which seems to be going well on TikTok.

New video: a mechanical pedometer! The New Haven Pedometer, probably from the 1960s. youtu.be/6P9Vt1Mk-V0

My wife got me a Curta!

This was new to me

Promising eBay description. (I bought it)

Yes sir it is

Found a tiktok page getting 100Ks of views on reuploads of my stuff. And I have a hard time getting anybody to follow me over there!

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.

After more than a year, Math Props returns with its 20th episode! Hoodlum (1997) Hoodlum 1997 movie (Math Props) youtu.be/--jUkkXwmTs

ok so what are my chances for winning the FIFA Fields Medal?

A job candidate listed their research area as "Crank Statistics". Turned out to be a lot less funny than I expected.

Sounds about right

i do not think it means what you think it means #mechanicalcalculator

Now short: cow tape! youtube.com/shorts/IsEGY...

Anyone here able to help me? www.reddit.com/r/AskElectro...

Optimal circle packing #ballin

Yeah those headphones were in a wooden box. Which wooden box? chsi.emuseum.com/objects/2316...

The original space invaders speeds up gradually as you kill the invaders. But this wasn’t an intentional feature- the game is just speeding up because it has fewer things to render on the screen.

Wow! A French court has blocked the auction of the Pascaline calculator. The auction of Parcé's many books is happening right now, but the calculator is not part of it. www.purdueexponent.org/news/nationa...

THIS WEEK!

the people are not ready for this legendary collab

A pair of hawks outside my office! (Abacus for scale)

New Stephen Freeborn video: A weird transitional machine- pinwheel internals, but a 10-key button layout. youtu.be/UD_ggRJ75TM?...

Here you go. It was a properly produced thing, but I don’t know by whom. Here it is on a piece of A4 paper. It was just transparent enough to pencil trace over pictures, and the pencil could be washed off. As you can see, I was into maps.

I just learned about this and had to make my own: Tecmo's Famicom graph paper! youtube.com/shorts/baAMH... I'm a sucker for hyper-specific-use-case graph paper.

I have made a reasonable facsimile of this sprite paper (US letter size). Please feel free to use.

This may be my last Chisanbop book to archive. I just received in the mail a copy of "Mathpattes", presented as a french language version of Ed Lieberthal's "Complete book of Fingermath". Published in Switzerland, 1986 #chisanbop archive.org/details/math...

Pascal's 1630 Machine, and the knockoffs! Pascaline Review www.youtube.com/watch?v=CROr...

Strange phenomenon: Every time I post a new video, I lose subscribers. My interpretation: There are some subscribers who aren't really into me anymore. But they don't seek out my channel just to unsubscribe. They will only unsubscribe when they are reminded of me, which only happens when I post.

New video: I went to see the Pascaline! They did not let me touch it. youtu.be/CROrLQpN6dc