First test with copper plating plastic. With what I learned, I could do it much faster, much better next time. Not all wires attached, in order to see how good of a connection is needed. This test used a conductive graphite paint coating; the next will be a 30 ohm-m semiconductive plastic.

And today, Alibaba is marketing to me a $9-10k (min order 2) 18km long-range AI-powered multi-sensor cooled thermal / radar drone detector/tracker. 😂 (I like to mock their ads, but I'll admit... I've had much less well targeted ads than this ;) )

This invasion is giant mistake. I should have let Ukraine join NATO and only then invaded. The alliance would have just had some meetings about it.

westboro baptists should team up with white maoists to have the funniest protest of all time

“.. Musk has Tesla shareholders in a Stockholm Syndrome .. Suppose they vote against him, and he leaves .. with his delusions .. “.. Tesla would have to revert to trading closer to its fundamentals, which means slashing the stock price roughly in half ..” @electrek.co electrek.co/2025/09/19/e...

So now that we’ve got a national holiday for Saint Kirk, how about a Vietnam-style memorial wall listing the names of all the victims of school shootings? We could call it “Martyrs of the Second” and update it weekly.

Okay, fine, back to work.... ;)

Having 3d printing as a hobby can help you solve common life problems. Example: (ht/AdmiralRA)

We're not an easy option for Americans to move to permanently, but if anyone needs to get out of the US and is specifically wanting to try to move to Iceland, DM me and I'll discuss it.

Every time I see one of these memes (first three), I think... (last one)

www.newsweek.com/tyler-robins... Hopefully we can collectively get back to reality now. Which in this case sucks, but it is what it is.

This foam packaging arrangement is... unfortunate.

[Speaking ill of Charlie Kirk] "This used to be a six-month sentence..."

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s... * 10% of the world's population uses ChatGPT at least once weekly * OpenAI now does about 1/5th the volume of Google * 46% of users between ages 18 and 25 * Usage ratio has flipped from ~80% "male" to 52,4% "female". * Non-work usage has risen from 56% to 72%.

Trump is literally this kid. youtu.be/ETfzfy0jy74?...

If only «Лютий» there were some way «Пекло» to increase demand «Коса» for US oil «Бобер» by decreasing «Паляниця» oil production «Сапсан» in some hostile «Непту́н» Asian country «Фламі́нго» ...

Remember if you don't water your Sukhois properly they will wilt

Phil Williams sharing some data…

I don't have a 3d printer, but this sounds like a neat project for anyone who has one that spends most of its time idle: drukarmy.org.ua/en TL/DR: print drone parts, etc for the Ukrainian army. They provide STL files, you mail the prints when they're ready.

00:05 - ~00:30: New Emperor Palpatine speech just dropped.

This is the last thread I will write on the topic of Twiggs, for all of the people who still keep pushing the theory that Kirk-assassin Robinson's roomate/partner isn't really trans. She is. The correct response to the right is "and what does that have to do with anything?", not "NO HE ISN'T!"

In case you're thinking, "Wait, don't Chinese companies also report on a quarterly basis?", yes, they do, and they're also required to submit *monthly* financial statements to the State Administration of Taxation (STA).

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

My email to moderation.bskyweb.xyz:

from the original GSMK8 paper, they project that it would require a 10 quadrillion parameter model to get an 80% on GSMK8 Gemma 3 4B got 89%

How exactly do our glorious allies plan to ensure security guarantees if they’re afraid to shoot down one single drone

"I want my country back from these bloody immigrants, but first.... let me grab some indian snacks from the stall run by the bloody immigrants." 🙄

IMHO, it's a great thing that both sides of the divide are working on entirely different strategies and are constrained by different things. Each will tend to discover their own tricks that the other may later adopt as well.

Nice to see graphs that actually try to put the numbers into scale, instead of just, "Ooh, look, large numbers!"

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

The Nazi contingent that runs Twitter, especially Captive Dreamer, the open Nazi that is followed by VP of the United States, are currently trying to get prominent liberals murdered (myself included). They are posting our full addresses and saying "Hope nothing bad happens to them!"

side note: people say they love the catgirls until you wake up in the middle of the night to hear your girlfriend pushing every breakable thing you own off an elevated surface

The colon in that headline is doing a lot of work. www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk...

What nutrition scientists say about protein intake “We’ve just gone completely off the rails with protein in recent years" "You’d be hard-pressed to find an American who actually needs more protein" “People just need to relax about protein intake" www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/w...

For those who ask why I don't visit the US anymore, here's one reason among many...

Love when people are WWIII posting and you have to be like "hm is this one about Israel bombing Qatar, or about Russia invading Poland"

I really should go to bed, but Putin seems to have declared war on Poland and that's kind of distracting.

Putin definitely wouldn't have attacked Poland if Trump had been president.

There's currently an American F-35 (getting refueled by a Dutch plane) seemingly ready to aid in the intercepts.

Bottom line: most tree species around the world will not be able to migrate fast enough to persist in their current locations under a rapidly changing climate. 🌎

The best way to summarize this legal rule is "White people are allowed to use race to discriminate against nonwhite people"

thinking about this post from @louisevans.bsky.social again

The fear of mounted Cossack cavalry revolts persists.

Tesla seeks shareholder approval (#2-4) to give Musk up to $1T www.reuters.com/business/aut... How to vote against: * If you hold TSLA directly, watch your inbox (incl. spam folder) & contact your broker if proxy materials don't come. * Mutual funds, ETFs, 401ks: Often you'll own TSLA without..