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YouTube video by Long Range Lab How Autonomous Wind Tech is Changing Long Range Shooting

youtu.be/kEiZPHotwlk

Lol talk about burying the lede here's why they did it and afaik are still doing it in places

Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites How to ban the next The Pirate Bay.

www.theverge.com/news/754987/...

YouTube video by YouTube Movies The Animatrix

The Animatrix is free on YouTube in the US right now. It's a great collection of shorts and features material from people that worked on Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Aeon Flux, and more. Check it out if you've got 100 minutes to spare.
youtu.be/QNVeOWDOvvU

Exclusive: US Air Force denies early retirement for group of transgender service members The U.S. Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service, opting instead to force them out with no retirement benefits, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

Air Force service members with 15-18 years of service can be eligible for early retirement. The Trump admin just blocked early retirement for all trans folks in the Air Force leaving them without the lifelong pensions or healthcare they're owed for their service.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Source. Full PDF is 335 pages but honestly I love the extreme detail, especially relating to prior incidents. Conclusions are utterly damning

www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...

Oooh this is a good thread

thinking about how a lot of people confuse scarcity-based thinking with in group/out group but they're sorta solved opposite ways (and often happen at the same time)

apparently someone just grabbed random assets to make a mailer and got in trouble with a very forgiving photographer

"even ignoring the 'AI' craze amplifying it"

I had a talk with someone who said a big hidden issue with hiring university students immediately out of university is the thing where they're actually a huge copyright liability.

out of just simply not having ever thought about it before, and I think that's hilarious and beautiful.

state of florida sending out targeted(?) surveys that mostly contain loyalty testing about israel-palestine

Lenin, in his early work State and Revolution, makes a pretty strong case for NixOS as you need some amount of state to manage and subsequently wither the state itself in the transition to a stateless system

Planetary gears: physics of chopsticks - Marcosticks Did you know that chopsticks have more in common with planetary gears than Archimedean levers? Discover the real physics of chopsticks.

marcosticks.org/planetary-ge...

Planetary gears: physics of chopsticks - Marcosticks Did you know that chopsticks have more in common with planetary gears than Archimedean levers? Discover the real physics of chopsticks.

marcosticks.org/planetary-ge...

Introduction If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!

two completely unrelated things from the same period in my life:
www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

I'm sure it's just the lens but I've seen studio apartments smaller than that back-of-stove countertop looks. if I could land a light aircraft on my countertop I'd get high-concept with my eggs, who wouldn't

the degradation / dismantling of Eater is such a damn shame. in a world of influencer- and bot-skewed restaurant ratings, googling "eater [city]" provided guidance from passionate locals with good taste; it was a cheat code for eating well wherever you traveled

Except for many trips, now we can't.

Because the one safe route to walk or bike to get to a bus stop is gone, with no timeline for return.

But thank goodness we got all the high speed roads up and running the next day amiright???

I've gone from <1 to 5 car trips a week since flash floods forced indefinite closures of 2 greenways in my town.

We'd been debating becoming a one-car family. Now we're wondering if we can afford a 3rd car.

Greenways are essential transportation infrastructure. It's time to treat them that way.

when you think about it really hard, the main problem AND main appeal of social media is simply the fact that it is mmo pro wrestling

if guns don't kill people, people kill people, then why are all these current cowards calling the firearm fandom the "gun community" huh

footnote from the linked fibonacci blogpost: "In case you are one of today’s lucky 10,000: the golden ratio is also very close to the conversion rate between miles and kilometers, so you can use Fibonacci numbers to approximate conversions between miles and kilometers in your head. For example, 80km ≈ 50mi. This is a weirdly good conversion – the exact answer is 49.7097mi."

via ianthehenry.com/posts/fibona...

furries, I regret to inform you that the cops also have centaurs

Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody? Under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, the government is supposed to track how many people die in law enforcement custody — but the data is a mess.

"Was George Floyd killed by a police officer? The official answer, according to a newly revealed set of federal government records, is no." Excellent reporting here by @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/07/d...

everyone is competing to prove their fealty to trump, which means that they start taking positions that require impossible actions of the other players. Cornyn demanding fbi help is costless to him. But it puts Patel in a tough position because the FBI can’t do that. Hence hedging

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Anyway the lady who created a villain so committed to supremacist domination that it consumes him and leaves him as an empty husk w/an irretrievably splintered soul has a few more thousand thoughts today about one of society's most marginalized groups, by which I mean she has 1 thought 1000 times.