New post from me on how to harden connected devices once manufacturers stop supporting them. There's advice for consumers and recommendations for manufacturers.

Popping into the Fox News website to stay current with the in-laws. Did not realize that they had flipped the "Oops, all Taboola" switch.

I don’t really know what I’m getting into algorithmically when I watch a video titled Medieval French Toast, do I?

Hearing the grade-school kids think AI is stupid, mocking ads, doing persuasive assignments like "Pick Up a Pencil". The economy will collapse when they're high school girls laughing at college grads who don't know how to think.

brb telling my spouse why we need a 9.2 sound system in the kitchen arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

If the elliptical is going to interrupt my workout to update firmware, at least make me feel I’m moving the progress bar. With its dying gasp it admonishes me to ”keep moving” to power it. I’m not in your Matrix pod yet, buddy.

With Congress useless and state governments gerrymandered, the ballot initiative — direct democracy — is often the best way to effect change. This year, there are huge initiatives on housing, civil rights, wages, and much more. I made a website to help you track them all: ontheballot.news

📌 "Ethical consumption under capitalism is an exercise in harm mitigation, not purity....To suggest that we must achieve absolute moral perfection before we can take an ethical stand on a specific issue is a fallacious argument designed to enforce apathy." www.theverge.com/report/90181...

I don't think it's as close as immigration reform, but this government is doing all it can for privacy accelerationism. I know lots of normies who are now actively against Ring and Flock. Hopefully data brokers are next.

Walter was back, saying “DHS says they are going after the worst of the worst. They are not. They said Renee Good ran over that ICE officer. She did not. They said Alex Pretti was an assassin but he was not so when DHS describes their facility as safe, secure and humane, they are obviously not.”

We’re always talking about how y’all is the the plural you that English needs. I did not know that you used to be the plural/formal form, of thou. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

NEW: The Office of Refugee Resettlement has a new policy of concentrating pregnant minors in its custody into one single South Texas shelter. The move comes over the objections of some even within the agency, who say it’s about denying abortion access. 1/ www.kut.org/politics/202...

The annual holiday tradition of throwing out 20yo burlap rice sacks stacked in your mom’s garage

Saved up all my returns for today so I’m net positive for Black Friday. Am I doing it right?

“My dream is a social media universe where knowing what network someone is using is just a weird curiosity. It’d be like knowing which cell phone carrier your friend is using when you give them a call.” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

people will use this to abuse others and the way to deal with that issue is to not collect thisdata at all, not to keep it inaccessible to anyone other than police

Wrote about PHEEther. Napheesa Collier framed the battle for the soul of American pro women's basketball in a piece of brilliant rhetoric. It's a hell of an opening salvo. www.teamziller.com/napheesa-col...

Maybe James can make sour gummy beards that taste better than Shaq’s… face.

Wonder when the next TikTok will emerge to take the users unhappy with a state-controlled algorith.

I want to be more like this Steve

Young cardinal leaving the nest in our vine. #bird

this is going to put owning a complete dinosaur skeleton totally out of reach for the average American family

My kids introducing a friend to Studio Ghibli films by describing Grave of the Fireflies.

Empirically, “Heavy Steps” is about running on old knees while listening to Comeback Kid.

@clivethompson.bsky.social Finally read your 2021 Tech Review article on ASML. I’m a sucker for process porn. Thanks for a detailed yet entertaining piece of writing (not to discount the great photos).

When you cross HAL 9000 and Jack Torrance.

Gifts in the mail! We're adjusting from injection molding to MJF printed parts. These can't do the same level of detail so these prints are helping me tune things, but they look great! Additive manufacturing has come far. blog.supermechanical.com/2025/05/12/a...

The DC shooter's neighbor was perfectly on message. Solidarity, sir.

Alan Ritchson is the only guy who can eat and replace John Fetterman. He is the best hope for our nation’s future. bsky.app/profile/jlra...

Need them to put that Tazer tracking confetti in dog food so we can find out who’s not picking up poop.

It's hard to make hardware in America when you're small. How we're making the supply chain for our environmental monitor: blog.supermechanical.com/2024/12/23/t...

When you're making a hardware product, you're really making two products. Been wanting to write about the experience of building a supply chain for a while. blog.supermechanical.com/2024/12/23/t...

Don’t pervert the gums God gave you at birth by growing hard, glistening teeth.

Pickup update #11 is a little dull unless you're into the nitty gritty of hardware production. Always fun ("fun"?) to get your first batch of boards to start analyzing the failures! (3 out of 50, but easy fixes.) blog.supermechanical.com/2024/11/14/b...

40 is the new 60 in pentadecimal

Throwback to 2002. 🇱🇰

It’s like the Norway seed vault but for Mad Max. www.hagerty.com/media/automo...

New research just dropped from me and my colleague David Della Rocca at Consumer Reports. innovation.consumerreports.org/when-will-yo...

Celebrating video on Bluesky with a multi-channel graph showing three Pickups reporting light levels (got some noise in two of them caused by LEDs that are blinking for debugging purposes).

When you're making a thousand of something, you need a whole other device to automatically test your device. This board is descended from the same DNA as the Pickups it checks, like soldier and worker ants. blog.supermechanical.com/2024/08/25/t...

Making injection-molded parts is not as hard as you think, as long as you can swallow laying down a lot of money. I wrote about the grind as I finish up the molds for Pickup: blog.supermechanical.com/2024/07/01/a...

A lot of money was spent. New Pickup project update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sup...

Mom's an ironic hoarder.

Truly a Cambrian explosion of new social networks. My screw supplier just invited me to follow them on Alibaba Feeds to get exclusive updates. On machine screws? Man, this place is getting stressful.

Time to make the donuts. (Or, a batch of Pickup prototypes.) Latest update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sup...