Ben Bradley

I read through the thread, apparently the "moral" of the story is don't use your credit card, but use cash to buy gift cards (maybe wear an inconspicuous disguise or get someone you don't know to buy em for you) and pay Proton with that.

Stylish.

Fortunately, these didn't get stuck in the Apple "Crush" commercial.

It's Official and Scientifically Proven!!1!
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ADAM (@AdameMedia) 🚨 This is INSANE A man named “John Barron” just called into CSPAN to show support for Trump’s tariff war. “John Barron” is the fake identity Trump has used for decades to compliment himself in the m...

Who is John Barron, why is he trashing the Supreme Court, and geez that voice sounds familiar ...
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@flyswatter1959.bsky.social Neat little story, nice song, I wonder if she made more money as songwriter for Whitney Houston's recording of it than for her own recording as performer AND songwriter. It was such a huge hit for Whitney.
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YouTube video by Project Management Institute (PMI) PMI Behind the Project: The Making of OK Go’s Love Music Video

The story of the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EKQ...

YouTube video by OK Go OK Go - Love (Official Video)

These are 'safer' collaborative robots, but still, they use real glass mirrors, and a few broke during earlier takes.
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This is great, now every civil rights group can pre-write a response, then post it the moment Facebook launches this.

If you have any #trans friends in Georgia, you need to contact your state reps NOW the state senate gutted a bill near the finish line and replaced its language with a wholesale ban on healthcare for transgender Georgians. click.ngpvan.com/k/125114872/... ping @flyswatter1959.bsky.social

YouTube video by Tibees Logarithms explained Bob Ross style

Oh, but he inspired so many people!
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There's a subreddit where there's total chaos!

It's just like Facebook and much other social media, all about getting engagement rather than convenience and info controlled by the user. And apps on a palm-size screen with one-finger typing is a bad experience. Give me a big computer screen and a Model M, and I can get things done.

Warning, politics:
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Was this done by one of those geekhack peeps?

Aww, I missed whatever this chicken said.

There's something left! Which Publix is this?

YouTube video by Parthknowsai The Biggest AI Coverup Just Got Exposed

These LLM AI things didn't just learn from 'reading' popular books, they MEMORIZED them and with a prompt of the first sentence can repeat them back to you. (!)
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The more news I read the more I hear Gomer Pyle.

A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

Once again I hear Gomer Pyle saying "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
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Crispin Rovere on X: "@RobertPicardo Star Trek was actually never 'woke', Robert In fact, it was expressly the opposite. Woke means to view the world through the lens of intersectionality - an alleged hierarchy of power dynamics based on immutable characteristics (skin colour, sex etc). Classic Star Trek said" / X @RobertPicardo Star Trek was actually never 'woke', Robert In fact, it was expressly the opposite. Woke means to view the world through the lens of intersectionality - an alleged hierarchy of power dynamics based on immutable characteristics (skin colour, sex etc). Classic Star Trek said

No, woke means you see when injustice is being done.

Also, I really need to quit "X."
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"Woke means to view the world through the lens of intersectionality - an alleged hierarchy of power dynamics based on immutable characteristics (skin colour, sex etc)."

I'm disappointed in the Wikipedia article on flyback converters because the schematics don't show voltage source polarity. I thought I'd try Elon's Groky-thing. It has lots more text, apparently AI-paraphrased from the 82 references (vs. Wiki's two), but no schematic.

I'm wondering if I can get to sleep with there being no mention in the news of where that shooter is.

The quoted post says "Removed by author." My immediate thought is "I must see it" but after a few seconds I'm okay with not. I've seen my share of em dashes and arguments about them, and even if I hadn't it's just not that important.

Personal digital assistant - Wikipedia

1990s and the "PDA"s that used a stylus on a touchscteen. Apple Newton, GridPad, Palm Pilot ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona...

I'm not a parent but apparently this is a long tradition.
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Really interesting. One detail (of many) I find disturbing: "... the President posted video of the operation ironically set to Fortunate Son." Trump had already used that song and John Fogerty had (IIRC) sued to stop it. Apparently with Trump so 'in control' of government, it doesn't matter.

So what trillion dollar business is she talking about ... game today, must be NFL football, but no, I see where a search-engine-invoked LLM doesn't find today's game ... big city-subsidised stadia, whole teams flying between cities weekly ... they're both wasteful, yet LLMs arguably more so.

what’s everyone getting sworn in on? I’m going with a printout of these webpages.
www.susanblackmore.uk/chapters/why...
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A Portable Storage System for Dead Tree Information Storage (Bookcase) I (Ben Bradley) have made several of these for my personal use. My early bookcases were three feet wide, but moving was a process of putt...

I borrow library books when I can. I'm very selective of the books I buy, as I have too many already. I made 'portable' bookcases to make moving easier.
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