True story: Setting: 4 brothers traveling in a station wagon with mom & dad. Boy: I'm hungry. Dad: I'll drive a little further, then we'll stop. Mom: If you don't feed them soon, you know they'll fight. Dad: Alright, alright!
In the 70s I sold mainframes door-to-door. My first 4 domains were free. There were no registrars, or ICAAN, or hosting vendors. My nick was pre-banned from SEO forums. Claude AI just rejected me. All my program languages are dead.
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True story: Setting: 4 brothers traveling in a station wagon with mom & dad. Boy: I'm hungry. Dad: I'll drive a little further, then we'll stop. Mom: If you don't feed them soon, you know they'll fight. Dad: Alright, alright!
I am this_&_radio-tv_was_the_only_hurricane_warning_we_had years old. In our rural area, the USCG kept us updated faster than 50s-early 60s media so we'd go to the town flagpole on the commercial waterfront to check the flags. #NorthCarolina #NCwx
#Recall Safety Recall Roundup for Sept. 4 www.consumeraffairs.com/news/safety-...
#Robotics #Local #$$$$Brick? If it has to phone home I'm not interested. Mammotion debuts highly accurate positioning system for its robot lawn mowers www.digitaltrends.com/home/mammoti...
I am still-not-comfortable-using-spaces-in-filenames.txt years old.
#AssistiveTech #3dprint Simple ideas can be a big help. Accessibility Release Tools by Madblam www.printables.com/model/139971...
Furosemide (20 mg x2) Tacrolimus (0.75 mg) Prednisone (7.5 mg) Metformin (500 mg) Bactrim DS Amlodipine (10 mg) Carvedilol (6.25 mg)
Compare each one against every other one in the list and note any known issues when taken in the same day. Pay particular interest to issues involving the kidneys, bladder, urethra, atherosclerotic calcifications, heart, or bowel diverticulosis.
You are a pharmaceutical industry consultant with expertise in drug-related allergies and negative reactions between common drugs and also between drugs and supplents. Below is a list of drugs, supplements and their dosage.
#SciSky #MedSky #Tech #LLM #kidney #transplant My mom -kidney transplant patient- and Dr. DeepSeek In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI. restofworld.org/2025/ai-chat... I have street cred in the post-transplant world. Here's a prompt you might try on a good medical LLM
#climate For the first time in 40 Years, Panama's deep and cold ocean waters fail to emerge phys.org/news/2025-09...
Bookmarked. North Atlantic is usable as-is even if minimally functional. Great! Love the sea temp visualization.
As promised, I now have a minimally viable product up for my realtime tropical cyclone page. This page will be continuously updated throughout the week with more features returning - and some new ones - so stay tuned! www.polarwx.com/tropical/
#Tech #DIY #Arduino DIY Precision Vector Plotters. Files & Parts List Included. Also a good techie read. Niklas Roy - Robot Factory www.niklasroy.com/robotfactory/
Can confirm that anti-intellectualism and anti-artistic are out there. That said, it seems that being a nerd is much more acceptable than it was in 60s-80s.
Hello, and welcome to my sense of humor.
#SciSky #MedSky #asthma #PA #Pittsburgh Three years after a Pittsburgh-area coal plant closed, research has discovered that children's asthma-related visits to the ER dropped by more than 41%. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Of those who retired early, **46% pointed to health-related reasons**, 43% cited employment issues and 20% family reasons. Just 21% said they retired early because they are financially stable."
"On average, as of 2024, men retire at age 64 while women retire at age 62... Even at those average ages, workers may not have planned to retire. Many Americans, **58%, end up retiring earlier than they expected**, according to a 2024 report...
#retirement #financialplanning Wishful Thinking: Retirement age 'should' be 58, survey respondents say, on average. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/23/w... 58 has long been my best guess as to when there's a step-up in ageing and medical issues. Some good numbers in the article;
I bet plenty of Americans would appreciate sub-zero electricity prices #EconSky
#Scisky #MedSky #DiabetesResearch New breath sensor offers easy diabetes diagnosis newatlas.com/diabetes/dia...
#Privacy #Security #Tech #WedDev Age checks spread across the US as critics warn of privacy and free speech risks | TechSpot www.techspot.com/news/109253-...
Get your coffee and read this. #privacy #security #LLM Anthropic Threat Intelligence report Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025 www.anthropic.com/news/detecti...
#politics #government Shutdown Seems More Likely Than Not politicalwire.com/2025/09/02/s...
#tourism #travel Good article. Lots of stats. International travel to the U.S. on downturn, may last beyond summer www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/se...
#3dprint 3D printing's tool changer wars heat up as Prusa re-enters the ring | Tom's Hardware www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/...
#ICE AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Before more modern plastics, bakelite was about it. I saw it a lot in the 50s-60s due to its use in the electrical industry and the family's wholesale supply house. AI says: Bakelite was the world's first fully synthetic plastic I'll add that is was extremely brittle and easily cracked or broken.
Apparently, gutta-percha is still being used in dentistry. The above article caught my eye this morning because just yesterday there was a blog post about using g-p as a 3d filament. (cannot find)
#plastic Plastic Before Plastic - by George Dillard worldhistory.substack.com/p/plastic-be...
#realestate #tax 'Taylor Swift Tax' on high-end vacation homes spreads to more states www.cnbc.com/2025/08/31/t...
#Tech #LLM LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying flaw in legal fine print • The Register www.theregister.com/2025/09/01/l...
#SciSky #MedSky Can Vitamin D Slow Aging? A New Study Says Yes – But There's a Catch : ScienceAlert www.sciencealert.com/can-vitamin-...
Lolz!
#PC #desktop The Desktop PC Is Close to Its End www.howtogeek.com/the-era-of-d...
#tech #robotics Small humanoid robot on the sidewalks of New York old.reddit.com/r/interestin... about: Rizzbot: Austin's beloved and mysterious cowboy hat robot www.kxan.com/technology/r...
#NCWx Offshore water temps 85-82 this AM from St Augustine FL to Frying Pan Shoal NC. There's also a weak CCW breeze in this area off Jax. Watching this, makes me nervous.
Rather than embracing candidates that spark grassroots enthusiasm and tap into the populist ferment of the American public, establishment Democrats are working to favor exactly the kind of uninspiring corporatists that dug the party’s current hole. trib.al/PzEickb
AAaaackK!!
#food #diet #nutrition Good article, worth a read. Evidently, the US food lobbyists don't have as much pull in the UK or this wouldn't have made it to press. How to spot ultra-processed foods in the supermarket – and what to buy instead | The Independent www.the-independent.com/life-style/f...
#tourism #visaFee Visitors dropped for a 6th straight month in Las Vegas as head of tourism insists Sin City isn't dead - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/las-veg...
Oh great, readers preferred AI-written short stories over one by my favorite author in a blind test | PC Gamer www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
'AI slop' videos may be annoying, but they're racking up views — and ad money: NPR www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
#webdev #blogs Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
I apparently have a mental block when it comes to spelling 'occassionally'
keyless ignition is one of the all time worst technological trade-offs ever
A lot of flagship magazines have been bought up in recent years by private equity with the goal of using the brand equity to effectively, as you say, turn them into affiliate plays and ultimately burn them to the ground once they have extracted what value they can.
In March 2025, Ziff Davis acquired The Skimm. In July 2025, the company announced it had acquired Well+Good and Livestrong
In August 2021, it was announced that J2 Global would rebrand as Ziff Davis, Inc. In 2023, Ziff Davis acquired Lifehacker In August 2024, Ziff Davis acquired CNET from Red Ventures for $100 million; it also regained ownership of ZDNet for the first time since its acquisition by CNET in 2000.
Q: When did PCMag become an Affiliate Shill? A: PCMag is owned by Ziff Davis. Take a look at the recent corporate rebranding & acquisitions since -say- August 2021. In 2020, Ziff Davis acquired RetailMeNot for $420 million
But a *LOT* of their other past climate norms could go to hell. The original climate crisis – how the little ice age devastated early modern Europe theconversation.com/the-original... The Effects of the Little Ice Age (c. 1300-1850) www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/t...
New Findings on Crucial Atlantic Current a Huge 'Wake-Up Call' Scientists say collapse of AMOC currents system is no longer just a remote possibility www.newser.com/story/374320... If it collapses UK, IE, NL, DK, NO, FI, SE won't likely have to worry about rising temperatures for a while.
#cars #musclecars Good read: There Goes the American Muscle Car thedispatch.com/article/dodg...
#jobs Generative AI reshapes U.S. job market, Stanford study shows www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/g...
Nexar is a popular dashcam company, sells to ordinary and rideshare drivers. Nexar already leverages data from those dashcams. There's this map you can go to and see anonymized photos in realtime from cams www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
aircrete? papercrete?
#CompaniesLie #marketing Nothing Phone 3 caught faking camera samples - Android Authority www.androidauthority.com/nothing-phon...
#privacy #security .gov sites at all levels are learning the hard way about server vulnerabilities. Nevada DMV offices closed indefinitely due to network outage mynews4.com/news/local/n...
Children raised in poverty are less likely to believe in a just world www.psypost.org/children-rai...
In another time long ago, I used "Blacque Jacque Shellacque" for alter-ego posts.
Wasps and now Shrimp: Reasons I don't trust humans to properly manage nuclear resources over the very long term required. Radioactive wasp nests have been found near former nuclear weapons production site - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/radioacti...
It has gotten bad enough that I quit updating firmware of 'working-for-my-interests' products and even somenbrowser extensions 3-4 years ago.
related: The end of cool small cars www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/the-end-of...
Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking? * TorrentFreak torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-find...
“Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!” - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1
#WXNC Keeping rel humidity in the house below 60% was a struggle as hurricane Erin developed and pumped wet air ashore for a week. Another Low skirted the coast yesterday. Outside rel% has been running 75-90. Dehumidifier serviced. Running 24/7
Southwest Airlines changing seating policy for plus-sized passengers www.wfaa.com/article/trav...
I feel your pain. That won't fix the memes, though.
Stole this one, thanks! Should be BLACK coffee for my me_irl.
#recycling Solar Powered Pyrolysis Facility Converts Scrap Plastic Into Fuel | Hackaday hackaday.com/2025/08/23/s...
#medsky #immunosuppressed Yet another infection source found lurking in warm US soil. Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#scisky #climate Sea-level projections from the 1990s were spot on, study says phys.org/news/2025-08... [ So were the late-80s projections about climate change effects on weather I read in the WSJ ]
'72 C-school checking in. Congrats!
#climate #environment Get out your respirators, folks. US Strips Ocean and Air Pollution Monitoring From Next-Gen Weather Satellites - Slashdot news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/...
#privacy #security #vpn FreeVPN: That Free Chrome Extension Everyone Loves Has Been Spying on You www.vice.com/en/article/f...
bsky.app/profile/repg...
#browsers Ohh I See, 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐 : memes old.reddit.com/r/memes/comm...
#medsky HoLee Crap! 367% higher excess death rate! Two Years After Maui Burned, Researchers Reveal the Wildfire’s True Death Toll gizmodo.com/two-years-af...
International Paper to close 2 Georgia mills, cut 1,100 jobs | AP News apnews.com/article/inte...
#webdev #hosting AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
#entertainment Reading for pleasure in freefall: Research finds 40% drop over two decades phys.org/news/2025-08...
For Comparison: Transcatheter Heart Valve (TAVR) --some models use bovine valve material
#privacy #security arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Construction In 2024, construction contributed 4.5% to the U.S. GDP. Total: 52.3% www.investopedia.com/articles/inv...
Technology The technology sector contributed nearly $2 trillion to the U.S. GDP in 2024, accounting for approximately 8.9%. Finance and Insurance The finance and insurance sector accounted for 7.4% of the GDP in 2024.
#USEconomy 2024: 5 Industries That Help Drive the U.S. Economy Health Care The Bureau of Labor Statistics: In 2024, healthcare spending represented 17.7% of the GDP. Real Estate In 2024, the real estate industry accounted for 13.8% of the GDP.
Correct, you mentioned *alt* but I had previously noticed that a good number of media-only posts seemed to be political, so I went after those. I suspect that lack of alt text would be across more content categories.
Their subject matter largely consists of politics, adult, furries, & fetishes. I still mute these manually because 1 - 2% might be worthwhile.
I've been testing a script on the FireHose. The idea was launched by @offline.mountainherder.xyz & @vhautaka.milfmessenger.app in the Image Classifier thread --pulling up and reviewing posts with no text. Results: These posts could be auto-muted without significant collateral damage to my reading
I’d like to speak to the manager.
Las Vegas's tipped workers say income fell by more than half nypost.com/2025/07/28/b... Las Vegas Faces Identity Crisis in 2025 as Tourism Declines Soar, Casino Reliance Weakens, and Global Travelers Turn Away - Travel And Tour World www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
Las Vegas tourism troubles deepen as visitor count drops 11.3% in June www.newsnationnow.com/business/las... Is Las Vegas in Trouble? - Newsweek www.newsweek.com/las-vegas-ec...
#health #retirement I hear it frequently: Going to work til I die ...particularly from workers in the trades & construction. Sorry, but there are plenty of 'GOTCHAs' that will nuke that plan. Working longer may not fix your retirement www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/w...
1968: Lots of back-road, big-block muscle car drag racing. 2 guys from DC area showed up with a plain vanilla-looking 'grandma car' (Chevy Nova). It was being trailered (should have been a hint). Some serious money was lost to the Nova that night.