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Niantic Spatial, Up.Partners, KSVotes.org, AR, AI. Tech in Kansas/KC. Google Earth. Google Maps. #RockChalk Jayhawk.

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Nvidia’s new AI weather models probably saw this storm coming weeks ago | TechCrunch Nvidia announced three new AI weather tools today. Together, they promise to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts while also making them accessible to more users.

Now this is the kind of tech-giant battling that I can fully support. Weather prediction models will improve and we will _all_ benefit!
techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/n...

26.01.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

24.01.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4103    πŸ” 2024    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 445

Frankfurt?

22.11.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Khashoggi and Kirk.

22.11.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Code is out. We provide the pre-trained ACE-G model, as well as code to replicate the paper results, and to evaluate ACE-G on new scenes. #ICCV2025

github.com/nianticspati...

05.11.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The US Army is recommending that its soldiers in Germany (who might have been on SNAP) go begging at German food banks.
home.army.mil/bavaria/abou...

05.11.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is anyone else surprised at how much worse FedEx is than UPS?

25.10.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying β€œlet’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

24.10.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 30054    πŸ” 14847    πŸ’¬ 853    πŸ“Œ 689
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

23.10.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 15001    πŸ” 5819    πŸ’¬ 1191    πŸ“Œ 1073
A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading:

"NO TYRANTS
INDIVISIBLE
LONDON UK"

Below this heading, the event details are listed:

Date: Sat, Oct 18

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK)

The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled β€œRSVP” in white text.

A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading: "NO TYRANTS INDIVISIBLE LONDON UK" Below this heading, the event details are listed: Date: Sat, Oct 18 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK) The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled β€œRSVP” in white text.

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know…

www.nokings.org#map

16.10.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 12113    πŸ” 2104    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 240

Why in the world would AZ get more rain than CA or MX?

10.10.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

04.10.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 23679    πŸ” 6479    πŸ’¬ 732    πŸ“Œ 288

Picasa 3 still runs fine on my PC. The web share died a long time ago.

28.09.2025 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god. Drop everything and look at this.

24.09.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Here is the Kansas/Midwest soybean market disappearing.

23.09.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Google’s new Windows desktop app brings a Spotlight-like search bar to PC Google Search on your PC.

Does anyone remember Google Desktop? Anyone?

www.theverge.com/news/778940/...

16.09.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

16.09.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1197    πŸ” 631    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 111
When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks.
"We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges.
"When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.

When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks. "We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges. "When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends πŸ’”
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12.09.2025 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6655    πŸ” 2102    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 409

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

09.09.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 15445    πŸ” 5211    πŸ’¬ 220    πŸ“Œ 164

He was trying to goose X revenue last year but now that xAI has bought X, its no longer in short term trouble. The amount of self-sealing going on is mind boggling.

06.09.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial The Phase 2 trial is not definitive, but it comes as vaccine access is severely restricted.
02.09.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5

If you try to verify the 100hr avg workweek, you find it had no real basis and doesn't make sense. Conditions were much worse in the 1880s but 60-65hr is a more accurate estimate.

01.09.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lego Will No Longer Ship Individual Pieces Thanks to Trump Tariffs Elevated shipping costs are making your already expensive hobby more pricey.

The beginning of the end of the tariffs.
gizmodo.com/lego-will-no...

30.08.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right, so in British, it's not even an exception.

25.08.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I before e, except after c... When sounding like long E.

With many fewer exceptions:
seize, leisure, sheik, financier, species, weir, and weird.

25.08.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hollywood's biggest AI debut? Las Vegas Sphere's 'Wizard of Oz' When "The Wizard of Oz at Sphere" opens off the Las Vegas Strip on Aug. 28, audiences will experience the 1939 film classic in a way its creators probably never thought possible.

Hollywood's biggest AI debut? Las Vegas Sphere's 'Wizard of Oz' reut.rs/4mW1jhq

21.08.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show β€œIt’s had a profound impact on our culture, especially on people who’ve felt different and marginalized.”…
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The Recipe Behind the Trump Family’s Crypto Riches: PancakeSwap The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon from President Trump.

The online trading platform PancakeSwap serves as an incubator of sorts, drumming up interest among traders to use coins issued by the Trump family’s main crypto company, World Liberty Financial.

13.08.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
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According to three people familiar with the command, Musk told a senior engineer at the California offices of SpaceX to cut Starlink coverage in areas including Kherson, a strategic region Ukraine was trying to reclaim during a pivotal counteroffensive reut.rs/45mrXK8

25.07.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 469    πŸ” 305    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 49
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I β€˜fooled’ Samsung’s new antioxidant feature with a Cheez-It Apparently, cheddar has carotenoids.

I β€˜fooled’ Samsung’s new antioxidant feature with a Cheez-It

25.07.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

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