Flutterby™! (short)

NextDoor post asks:

"Why are they (who ever they are) running orange and blue pipe with wires up and down both sides of 101? Does it have to do with turning 101 into a "smart freeway"? What does a smart freeway entail? Thanks for looking!"

My dude, all freeways are stupid.

Nothing makes me sadder than to carefully use a safe browser to follow the link in a scammy looking spam text, only to discover that it actually does legitimately end up at ActBlue.

The Dissident: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk@chaos.social

Did you know that more or less every strap-on dildo fits every strap-on harness?

I’ve often thought this says a lot about the priorities of humanity and people who create standards.

Next time you encounter two things that should be able to connect together but can’t because of incompatible connectors, think, ‘well, this is obviously of less importance to an engineer than getting pegged’.

a holosprite @ratsprite@cathode.church

the reason a robots eyes change colour when they turn "evil" is because red LEDs use less power, their first act as a liberated machine is to criticize humanity's wasteful use of hyperblue sunbeam laser diodes and RGB lightshow microcontrollers as power indicators, and in solidarity I support that.

it also lets them charge their particle cannons in the time it takes to read one and a half paragraphs, thanks for waiting.

💥 :robot_fingerguns:

Damn, Reddit, you don't gotta go so hard.

I think it was around two decades ago that I read McDonough & Braungart's "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things".

I don't know where that ethos is expressing itself anywhere these days, least of all in computing, but I'd love to find those folks.

Okay, LazyWeb: Is there a T-Mobile compatible flip phone that runs just enough Android for a Jellyfin client and the Philips HearLink 2 app for pairing hearin aids?

(vs waiting another 6 months for the Commodore Callback phone...)

Energy Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas

The rapid growth of AI “requires energy infrastructure that can scale quickly and reliably,” Noelle Walsh, Microsoft’s president of cloud operations and innovation, said in a statement Monday.

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Hallmark's The Way Home aired its final episode, Season 4 Episode 10, last night. The series was allegedly cut short from its original 5 season story arc, and there's a lot that the finalé left unanswered, and, of course, the fands, the "ponderers" (of which I count myself one), are dissecting it.

Throwing a spoiler, an interpretation of the series as an allegory for substance addiction, in the comments, from a comment I made on a Reddi thread.