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YouTube video by Timothy Russell Astrid back from the vet after her first chocolate granola bar

youtu.be/nVxpH-jDf6g?...

Tasty blood orange.

William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, and Margaret Atwood are all pretty recognizable because of their attachment to film but definitely not Stephen King famous. There is a through line of Hollywood there though.

...the military base _where_ Maduro was captured...

2025 finally gets what it richly observes: “The Year in Rebuke”, today on #leshow. 1st hearing: 10a PT/1p ET wamc.org, kalw.org, wcbe.org. Then throughout the day on select public radio stations, and podcast on most platforms.

I had no idea how reliable tempered glass chair mats are. I apologize for dumping 4 plastic chair mats into the world.

298.84 kWh solar gen - Dec 14, 2025 - Walla Walla, WA

Rivian battery 128.9 kWh - 314 miles, bZ4x, 65.5 kWh - 228 miles.

542 miles a month = 194.4 kWh.

Of course we've only had a dusting of snow this winter but impressive. Solar powering both cars and house in what should be the dead of winter.

Deleting years of data when I closed my accounts basically broke a low key social media addiction for me. I don't post much here but it's nice to have access to a real-time news source occasionally.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

The inevitable end result of allowing no accountability.

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Argh, Kpop demon hunter song terrorism. I need an exorcism.

YouTube video by Rick Beato Hiromi: The Most Electrifying Pianist Alive

Lovely breakdown of Blackbird at 55:00.

(but also watch the whole thing...)

youtu.be/xcKd9OkMPcc

The people that won't buy a Tesla now probably aren't going to use X or xAI and they're presumably savvy enough to not use products that xAI is integrated with either so he's seriously diminished his potential user base which should be considered in a potential valuation.

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"...those who go out of their way to buy performance sports cars are generally more skilled drivers" seems like an unfounded assumption as the barrier to entry for owning a new 911 is having $122,095–$187,995 to spend, no particular skill set required.

A bit elitest don't you think? Only people who can afford to buy performance sports cars are those that can be trusted with power?

Sounds like some legacy ICE manufacturers / magazine advertisers might be losing some marketshare?

The SQINKS campaign is almost over. Back me at the Ebook level + the Ten More Ebooks add-on for $21 in all. And get TWELVE Rudy Rucker ebooks! A year's worth of enlightenment! Pop surrealism on the installment plan! The end is nigh.
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Knowing Lyle used a capo at the 9th fret sometimes explains a question I had.

I have a Tanglewood parlor guitar. It's a very nice instrument.

@thunderbird.net Wondering if the debounce time on the search and filter boxes could be a user setting or extended? When you have a large mailbox, it seems to freeze up on pasting " + ctrl-V + " into the search box to find something specific because it starts searching before you're done directing.

Inert placebo in a pandemic A/B might mean you're dead but are good data. Thanks, we appreciate it! If only we were tracking it, like sane people, it might be helpful information.

#bugs

#joao

While you can't change their mind, you can bend their actions. I've known outwardly homophobic people, once they realized they were going to get called out on it, every time, in public, in front of other people, they stopped. Thoughts are cheap and private, action is public and has consequences.

AI, in particular LLMs, are overrated for what they aren't and underrated for what they are.

Live from GodotCon Boston: Web .NET prototype – Godot Engine We managed to do the impossible: we created a Godot-based prototype for the Web that runs .NET! Come and try it!

Awesome news from Godot ( @godotengine.org ) regarding export for the web using C# scripting.

godotengine.org/article/live...