@ben fantastic! Congratulations!
@plexus very interesting! How do you prepare the spouted lentils, I.e. what kinds of dishes do you use them in?
@raganwald every time I speak to Siri Iโm reminded of Jaron Lanierโs โYou Are Not a Gadgetโ in which he pointed this out, with some good examples. Great book.
Congrats to everyone at Boom for having the first civilian-designed aircraft to go supersonic in over two decades today. Really hope they can get this turned into a full passenger aircraft.
my colleague just coined this great word, describing some convoluted code I wrote recently: โwe need to deconvolute thisโ โ I like the way it sounds/feels.
I just made a small donation to help low-income survivors of the LA fires.
If you can, I hope youโll consider donating too: https://www.givedirectly.org/lafires/
Aptera has been featured in Car & Driver! Love to see it.
@tikibunnyimports this was my 2000 Honda S2000 for about a year in 2003โ2004. I sold it to go live abroad for a year. I wish I hadnโt. It was a wonderful car. Sublime handling. Mechanically precise. Thrilling.
@adrianco great photos! I love the diversity of the models.
I read https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/ this morning and I worry about the implications for farm workers across the US.
Did you know that agricultural workers are explicitly excluded from the protections of the NLRA? Farm workers have very few protections under US law and need our help.
If you donate to United Farm Workers and send me your receipt, I will match your donation (not tax-deductible), up to $5000 total. https://ufw.org/sparechange/
@Mark looks great. Reminds me of my โ95 M I had for about a year in โ03โ04. I really liked that car but I didnโt really fit โ Iโm 6'4"
Iโll be divesting myself of my Tesla vehicles soon. Iโve owned a Tesla of some kind since 2019 but no more.
(I just gotta figure out how to handle the car Iโm upside-down on.)
Tempted to get a Switch 2 later this year solely for Metroid Prime 4 ๐คช๐๐คช
UPDATE: Disclaimer: There's quite a bit of doubt about these claims.
โI was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical.
We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people's feeds. To make it look balanced, we also boosted some left-wing critics of Democrats, but it was all carefully calculated.โ
https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election
"We all think spinach is a good source of iron because of a decimal-point typo in the 1930s" is not something I expected to learn today.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312714535679
@atpfm I just started listening and Marcoโs thoughts on our current political situation in the US were cogent, resonant, and galvanizing. Thank you.
Just one minor suggestion for a tweak to the shorthand: SLAP might work better. Support, Love, Accept, Protect.
@benfulton I havenโt read the post yet but FWIW I really enjoy my Class 3 e-bike. I frequently ride at around 25 mph and that makes the bike more useful for me. That said I can see how in dense urban environments a heavy bike going that fast might be a real bad idea. (My area is mostly suburban sprawl.)
Elon musk just gave the nazi salute at the inauguration
There are a number of principles we will need to hold close and defend over the next several years. The Library Bill of Rights is among them, as worth championing today as it has been since its establishment in 1939. Quoted in full, with link, herein. ๐งต(9)
@octothorpe I also watched it last night. Enjoyed it.