www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Wait. You can just say "we might infringe on your rights" in your Terms Of Service?

Another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of demand! And it's not just a short peak anymore. Batteries stayed above 20% of grid supply from 5.50pm to 9.35pm, almost four hours.

Hydrogen peroxide + UV light = restoring the color of old plastic parts that have yellowed over time.

The sky recently glowed bright red over Western Australia as Tropical Cyclone Narelle approached. Here is what to know about the phenomenon. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

In 1967, IBM introduced the System/4 Pi line of aerospace computers, packing mainframe performance into a compact box. 4 Pi computers powered everything from military aircraft to the Space Shuttle to sonar systems on submarines. Thread...

Autoportrait, hummingbird style. 😎 Half Moon bay, Cowell-Purisima Trail

Very amusing vowel space playground editor.p5js.org/mimoi/full/x...

Nature is metal 🤘😜

From March 15 through March 26 there have been... More than 100 monthly records & more than 700 daily records broken or tied. Since March 1 there have been more than 1,100 daily records broken or tied across the nation. Some record heat will remain through the weekend for areas of the Southwest.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

A new 225-meter (740-foot) crater appeared on the Moon while nobody was looking. NASA's lunar orbiter imaged the dramatic aftermath. Such large impacts are once-in-a-century events. This one happened in the spring of 2024. 🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/moon...

First you're struck by their silly, crazy costumes, and when they start playing you're hit again by the weird microtonal melodies. But the most interesting part was me liking their music a lot. 🤯 youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

Fun fact: the rover would be able to drive perfectly fine even if the inner 2/3 of the wheel rim totally breaks off. There is enough toque in the wheel motors to pull the entire rover up a vertical wall if only one of them was operating. It could drive fine if the wheels were square.

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

Earlier today, I was asked to comment on the current state of American disaster preparedness. That was already a fraught question, even prior to present chaos, but then I saw today's headlines. 🫠 "Top Disaster Response Official Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House"

Old-timer Turkish office workers are no strangers to this "token as part of a compensation package" idea.😎 🫖 www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ceo-j...

🔭 Cygnus and the Solitary Tree Image Credit & Copyright: 2025 Horacio Lander / AstroHoracio Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260318

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants

Someone in PA caught the Cleveland meteor on his dashcam driving towards NE Ohio. Source: x.com/hankf330togo...

vscode’a CP857 (türkçe DOS) encoding desteği değişikliğinin geçmesi için oy gerekiyormuş. github hesabı olanlar issue’ya 👍 verebilirler mi? özellikle eski kodlar üzerinde çalışırken kritik bir ihtiyaç. github.com/microsoft/vs...

Meanwhile, we had cut the aid for starving children in Africa, because: cost cutting...

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

How dare her!! 🧐🤨 "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists.

X is a fascist propaganda website.

There goes your tax money 💸 youtube.com/shorts/EfzS4...

Little Red Dots xkcd.com/3212/

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

fell for it again award

So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other

Nice weekend house cleaning opportunity - Unsubscribed from ChatGPT. - Subscribed to Claude.

I thought window manipulation was a problem solved in 1980s... What are you doing Samsung? Vibe coding and vibe QA'ing? I hope the SSD firmware is a bit more properly coded. 😬

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Elegant but heretical. www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-...

Only in the US: valantine's steak! ... and this is California, I wonder what is available in Texas.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/

Found an old nest with empty egg shells under our electric panel outside.

This is RCW 75, a beautifully complex nebula structure in Centaurus taken at Obstech, Chile. This is narrowband nebula data (S2, Ha, O3) and RGB stars. Data acquired by SWOS group Hanson, Parker, Mazlin, Magill and me, Processed by me. Scope: Planewave 24" CDK, Camera, Moravian C5. 🔭

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Sand dunes. On Mars. Well, basalt grains, not sand. But still. ON MARS.

🔭 Orion's Treasures over Snowy Mountains Image Credit & Copyright: Włodzimierz Bubak; Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012...