Let's get these moths. Since I tore out out our grass and replaced it with native wild flowers the number of native bees in the yard has sky rocketed. I want to see if the flowers are attracting moths that only feed on specific species.

Between this and the UFC match at the White House I'm convinced Mike Judge is a tine traveler who predicted the future in Idiocracy.

I just paid my PG&E bill. I would really like to know how a 2 bed / 1 bath house generates a $200-$300 electric bill every month. We don't have an electric car. That's more than I paid in places that actually required heating and cooling.

I have had a hardware startup idea stuck in my head for awhile now. A consumer electronics / durable goods company (TVs, washers, etc) that builds high quality and low tech products with 30 year lifetimes and serviceable parts. Maybe it has legs. wheelfront.com/this-alberta...

This strategy—using fake AI profiles to boost political causes—was tested during the 2022 recalls in San Francisco. We called them the "Wencils" and they disappeared after being mapped and exposed. And now: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Astonishing levels of hypocrisy from the "free speech" social network. Half of the content on X is more incendiary than this! Ironically, this will only bring more visibility to Gil's work.

It has been pretty obvious for awhile now that the AI/crypto bros have been manipulating Github stars and social media engagement and using it as a vanity metric. I don't know what's more pathetic the manipulators or the people who believe them. awesomeagents.ai/news/github-...

We're on our 3rd year of rewilding our back yard in SF. We've stopped mowing and replaced the grass with native wild flowers. We're leaving out water and brush piles and fertilizing with homemade worm castings. Our native insects, birds, and butterflies are returning.

I'm organizing a conference again this year! The OpenCV-SID Conference on Computer Vision & AI is this May 4th in Los Angeles. I have a slate of awesome speakers from Disney, Bonsai Robotics, Code19 Racing, Ultralytics, Procter & Gamble, and Looking Glass Factory! I'm very proud of our lineup.

Bay Area Rapid Transit (149.17 GB) Over 120,000 documents and files from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) Police department. ddosecrets.org/article/bay-... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

We really live in some sort of David Foster Wallace meets Phillip K. Dick dystopian sci-fi future. If you told me that Congress renamed 2026, "The year of looksmaxing with Chinese peptides" I would believe you. This skeet sponsored by Kalshi.

your grandparents voting for reagan

This, one thousand times this. Unless you are physically disabled go buy your own groceries.

Looking for a future where technology serves the interest of mankind instead of the other way around? OSHWA is creating a future where safe, affordable, and plentiful open source medical hardware gets built for everyone.

More shots from the QuitChatGPT protest.

I'm stuck down in Mission Bay today and there's a @quitchatgpt protest going on. Honestly, AI should be democratic and open source. OpenAI was a ruse from the start and Sam Altman can't be trusted. I don't understand why people use ChatGPT when Claude and Gemini exist.

I'm always amazed at how fast rats learn new tasks. All three of mine picked up this new toy in an hour. Every other treat puzzle box I've tossed them they've learned in a night or two. Some of those have two or 3 steps to get a treat.

Join me at Open Hardware Summit in Berlin this May. Tickets are affordable and you'll come back a little more inspired that a better world is possible. We're also still looking for sponsors who want to get their products in front of the open source community!

Well, this is starting to take off on the other website.

The Bohemian Club is a secret society for the rich and powerful here in San Francisco. Yesterday @drboguslaw.bsky.social dropped a list of its members. Today we are releasing a searchable database of its members cross referenced with open source intelligence.🔎 thebohemiangrove.info

The Bohemian Club is a secret society for the rich and powerful here in San Francisco. Yesterday @drboguslaw.bsky.social dropped a list of its members. Today we are releasing a searchable database of its members cross referenced with open source intelligence.🔎 thebohemiangrove.info

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Let’s recap just the past day at Ohio State University: 1) The head of their ObGyn department was found to be getting quarterly payments from international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein 2) OSU’s top donor was confirmed to be a co-conspirator of Epstein’s 3) Now this. 👇

These Peter Thiel backed startups have gone too far. This one sells a "luxury security camera."

It is the kind if Monday where my coffee pot stops working, there are trolls in our forum, and American Democracy is in obvious decline.

This might be a better use for GPUs than generating slop. youtu.be/8jVogdTJESw?...

Top shelf logo design.

Join me at Open Hardware Summit in Berlin this May!

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...