"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

Today is the anniversary of D-Day and at the American cemetery in Normandy, French caretakers will have collected sand from Omaha Beach and rubbed it into the gravestones to highlight the names of the departed. They do this for all 9,388 soldiers who lay there. #DDay80

Coming soon on season 3 of the Netflix series Mindhunter:

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. Internally called “NameTag,” it’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

This millipede is hauling ass

Good thing the NBA Finals are not on CBS.

Simultaneously the best and worst headline in today's Boston Globe:

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

Nearly 600,000 ads and trackers blocked in my PC browser in the past 30 days. This is insane.

Video of what appears to be multiple @tps.ca officers tackling & arresting a cyclist during a stop sign trap on the MGT. Cyclist - "What did I do wrong?" Cop - "You didn't stop." If true, this is excessive use of force for a traffic stop. Mayor Chow & @ausmalik.bsky.social plz look into this.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.

As if people needed another reason to distrust AI:

Wired wrote a pretty good explanation of browser fingerprinting:

Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake.

“The same 732-byte Python script roots every Linux distribution shipped since 2017.”: copy.fail What are we doing here? 10 lines of Python gets you root and everyone just shrugged until today?

Spotted today on the roof of a building in Holden, Massachusetts. #StarWars

JetBlue deletes tweet after they were accused of surveillance pricing ✈️ A company rep says the post was an 'error'

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵

This @bostonglobe.com piece highlighting substantive critiques of Massachusetts' "protect the kids" push for online ID checks is rock solid. Many experts quoted along with parents and young people who would be directly impacted. send this to yr MA legislators www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/19/m...

Annual bloom of the magnolia trees, Lincoln, Massachusetts

They want us to use our TVs to ask AI? 🤣 "We saw a recent query, can dogs eat broccoli? In the past, you’d never think to ask your TV about that — but, now, you can do it right in your living room..."

I've never agreed with a headline more (and would add that you don't need to be elderly to get shingles -- and yes the scars on the left side of my neck are from shingles I got in my 30s, thank you for asking!)

Anybody else remember back in 2020 when oil prices fell below $0 a barrel?

Name an album you’ve heard on cassette

ICYMI: Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web, @wired.com

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

Ron Carter, one of the all-time great jazz bassists

The Boston Globe: Will AI solve America's reading crisis or make it worse? (The article has some good discussion of how AI could be useful to teach reading, but that headline!?)

Two guys at a startup "What should we call our company?" [Looks up from the world news] "How about this?"

In Vermont, she'd be wearing shorts.

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox www.404media.co/meta-directo...

A giant in the bicycle industry has died. RIP.

Apparently so few shoppers at Whole Foods were willing to provide their palm scans that Amazon is dropping that payment system.

Here's what one New Hampshire family did with generational wealth. And it's free to the public to use. www.greenwoodlandsfoundation.org

Now Spinning: Donal Fox Quartet – Live At Scullers Jazz Club!, a hard-to-find CD recording including a fabulous high-energy performance of the Scarlatti Jazz Suite. Highly recommended if you're into piano-led jazz. #JazzSky #MusicSky

I've been running Microsoft Windows for decades, and not once has the Windows Troubleshooter ever shot the trouble.

Nova: Can Dogs Talk? Check out this new episode of the Nova TV series, exploring efforts to train dogs to "talk" using boards of buttons representing words. #DogSky

@femsocphd.bsky.social @tntnle.bsky.social @esmeestreachailt.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Great explanation of the challenges for scaling up quantum computers.

Fun size snowman

Change one letter, ruin a show… M*A*T*H

"I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed." - George Carlin

Slightly diminish a band: The Mighty Mighty Coworkertones

January 6 is also the date of another infamous attack. OTD in 1994, figure skating national champion Nancy Kerrigan was assaulted on the leg with a metal baton by an assailant working on behalf of rival skater, Tonya Harding.

Buh bye to my shopping at Wegmans.

Moonrise - Lincoln, Massachusetts

The single most expensive piece of meat I've ever seen in a grocery store.

Now Spinning: Tower of Power - Live And In Living Color The 8-minute live version of "Sparkling In The Sand" is especially superb, with outstanding flute work by Lenny Pickett. And it's notably distinct from most of the group's horn-heavy funk stylings (which I also like). #MusicSky #VinylSky

Ruin two bands continued: Blood, Sweat & Tears For Fears