Pot roast is just shitty BBQ made by white people.

Praxis

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

⚠️ do not buy these unless you are okay inhaling the whole bag ⚠️

Feels like we are at a defining moment right now.

Woke up to two different data breach alerts. I don't want your "free identity protection" I want you to stop fucking up. This isn't going to change until companies have to pay for their failures.

Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson & American Moment co-founder Nick Solheim presented a talk at Peter Thiel’s 2024 “Hereticon” event titled, “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony.” Gibson & his colleagues have also been eyeing Venezuela, Honduras, & Nigeria. 1/

Sick of YouTube ads? I know I am! If you use a Roku to watch YouTube videos on your TV check out the Playlet Roku app. It strips YouTube videos of their ads and works surprisingly well. github.com/iBicha/playl...

Sick of YouTube ads? I know I am! If you use a Roku to watch YouTube videos on your TV check out the Playlet Roku app. It strips YouTube videos of their ads and works surprisingly well. github.com/iBicha/playl...

Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images reut.rs/4jvw0JI

Every single "the robots are here" story from CES is wrong

Can someone please put together a company that aggregates the content from independent investigative journalists and allows you to support them using a single monthly payment. This $5 here $2 there stuff is killing me. I'm sick to death of the scattered news environment.

I reset my Android ad ID the other day. Why we allow Google to continue with this nonsense is beyond me.

New footage from the ICE agent's phone who shot at Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has emerged, posted by AlphaNews on X. We've placed that footage in a synced timeline with the other currently available footage.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

San Francisco! Emergency Action TONIGHT! Join us for an emergency vigil and protest in response to ICE killing a woman in Minneapolis. 630 Sansome St. SF at 6 PM.

If this were a civilized country the people would shut down everything tomorrow.

I've had no less than a dozen robotics people ask me if I was planning to attend CES. This coverage of CES sums up exactly what I'm afraid of regarding consumer robotics. For the most part, robots belong in factories, farms, hospitals, and in space not in homes.

New article with Natasha Quadlin and Jordyn Wald. Regrets, she's had a few. Women with computer science and engineering degrees are unusually regretful of their major choice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Happy holidays.

While scanning my Google alerts today I got briefly excited by alert from one of those spammy journals. Given where we are heading with AI, the web, and social media we need a service that just gives everything a "credibility" and "human" score to lessen the cognitive burden.

Good morning. I think it is important that you know how your average tech CEO thinks.

Fix your hearts or die.

The California Historical Radio Society was at the Alameda Antiques Market selling vintage tube radios refurbished with aux jacks and Bluetooth for very reasonable prices. I got the pink and blue one!

Spent some time making the RetroStrange GIF Gallery webpages much more usable. Browse thousands of GIFs from classic movies, old TV, and filmstrips, watermark free. retrostrange.com/gifs/ #indieweb

My conspiracy theory is that Google created engineering product managers to accelerate the capitalist alienation of software engineers as a class. Think about it, product managers cut off engineers from the people we serve, atomize our labor, and intermediate between workers.

Business plan? Sure pal, I've got your business plan right here: 1️⃣ Create ✨️embodied✨️ AGI 2️⃣ ??? 3️⃣ Profit Since we are creating embodied AI our TAM is effectively infinite, which means our potential upside is also infinite. Now give me my $200M seed round.

Let's bully San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie into letting us hold wild sex parties in the abandoned Eureka Valley Muni station again. @sfmta.bsky.social you game? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_...

What the hell is going on with domestic air travel prices. Gas is cheap, and these prices sure do feel like algorithmic price fixing and not "demand."

Boquet break. Roses and scented geraniums both given to me as cuttings from friends.

I'm sorry, but the @inaturalist.bsky.social year end review is way cooler than Spotify wrapped. I got over 600 new species this year. www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/k...

maybe i am going insane

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

New video is OUT! - How We're Building Audacity 4 youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38?...

The 2026 Open Hardware Summit is coming.... to Berlin, Germany! On May 22nd and 23rd!! Still so much news to come here but we wanted to be sure you knew! For now you can enjoy the beautiful logo designed by @[email protected] and check out the site at 2026.oshwa.org (livestream heard it first🤭)

Stink horn mushrooms are amazing. They certainly don't look like something that would grow in California let alone earth.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

I'm not saying there is an AI bubble butt... www.thronescience.com

Security Flaw Turns Unitree Robots Into Botnets

It's almost October which means it's almost Open Hardware Month! Mark your calendars and get excited because there's going to be really amazing speakers and perhaps even some sloths during our 12hr membership livestream! How are you celebrating Open Hardware Month? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

Our Healthware Highlights series continues by looking at the work that Field Ready does to provide medical devices around the world. Read more here: oshwa.org/announcement...

Fun Bay Area nature fact: there is a species of cricket that only lives on the Farallon islands! It is its own genus and was only described in 1972. www.defendthemall.org/blog/2022/8/...

I picked up a civil defense geiger counter kit from the Alameda Antiques market for $100. What's cool about it is that it is vintage @oshwassociation.bsky.social hardware. Every piece includes a BOM, schematic, and board design in the manual.

If you are looking for a good watch this weekend, this documentary about two kids who pack up their parent's minivan and do a "big year" of birding is top notch. youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

I came into this article with low opinions on surrogacy and venture capitalists and this article supports those opinions. Anyway, this story is tragic and WILD.

Just pulled a PSA grade 9 10mm Craftsman socket wrench.