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  People like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are not geniuses. They're just evil morons who have been able to take advantage of a system built by and for evil morons. We need to rebuild a society where these idiots cannot get money and power.

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  Music question of the day: What are your favorite album openers? A few of mine: Understanding in A Car Crash by Thursday The End by Bilmuri Look to Windward by Sleep Token Ready Fuels by Anberlin The Past Should Stay Dead by Emarosa Romeo A Go Go by Every Time I Die No Stars Over Bethlehem by Protest the Hero #music

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  Sometimes I think about doing a live DJ stream where I play songs from my vinyls for an hour or so. Is that lame? IDK.

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  GrapheneOS: "Yes, that [Motorola Signature 27] will be the initial supported phone. Wait for official news about it." | nitter https://nitter.click/GrapheneOS/status/2102530770585669888 #Android #GrapheneOS

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  Republican Sen. John Curtis calls for investigation of Donald Trump Jr. - The Washington Post https://archive.ph/gVAH2

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  Scientists develop a way to restore aging EV batteries without breaking them down into raw materials | TechSpot https://www.techspot.com/news/113894-scientists-develop-way-restore-aging-ev-batteries-without.html

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  FeedEcho exists because I used and loved Echofeed, the little service that cross-posted your RSS feed to Mastodon, Bluesky, and more. When it was announced that it was shutting down, I knew I would miss it, so I built a service inspired by it. FeedEcho watches your RSS or Atom feed and sends new posts wherever you want: Mastodon, Bluesky, micro.blog, Matrix, Discord, email, or a plain webhook. Images and alt text come along, multi-image posts work on Mastodon and Bluesky. It's open source...

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  Saw a comment that said "Mitch McConnell is the only vegetable that hasn't been recalled." 😂

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  I can now ask a question on my Pebble Index smart ring, and have my phone read aloud the answer. Pretty cool.

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  A take on the whole "we need to slow down" BS from the frontier AI CEOs. Basically, they want an antitrust waiver.

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  If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first. VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC." It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to download a PDF, print it, and mail it in yourself. Its privacy policy (updated Aug 29, 2026) lets America PAC share your info with "business partners" for targeted marketing, or...

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  So Trump and his lackeys are fucking with mail-in ballots despite what the courts have ordered, so I wouldn't trust the USPS to deliver your ballots for the midterm election. Vote in person or have your ballet mailed to you, and then drop it off to a ballot box yourself. Republicans know that more and more people are getting fed up with them by the day and they will do anything to win. Every week I see them on TV talking about how if they lose the midterm the Democrats will impeach Trump an...

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  Yale's most popular course in 300 years was about happiness. Laurie Santos's 'Psychology and the Good Life' enrolled nearly 1,200 students in 2018, a quarter of all Yale undergrads. The Coursera version reached 3.38 million by 2021. The core finding: we're systematically bad at predicting what will make us happy. We overestimate the impact of money, promotions, and acquisitions. The brain adapts to new circumstances and returns to baseline - a phenomenon called hedonic adapt...

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  🔴 A defense contractor is now selling technology that scans every electronic device in your car as you drive past a camera. It ties everything to your license plate. You cannot opt out. It is called SignalTrace. Made by Leonardo, an Italian military contractor with existing U.S. Special Operations Command contracts. It sweeps your phone, smartwatch, Bluetooth headphones, your dog's RFID chip, tire pressure sensors, your car's infotainment system. Anything that broadcasts. It bundles th...

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  Every single Flock camera in a Minnesota town was cut down.

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  We need everyone at this level of anger. How do I get this guy to go on a speaking tour of the red states?

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  🐕 TIL: Dogs copy us even when it makes zero sense. Half of dogs will touch a pointless dot on the wall or flip a dead lever before getting their treat, just because their person did it first. That behavior is overimitation, and researchers thought it was uniquely human. Great apes never do it. Dogs do it most with their own caregiver, which points to a social motive: copying keeps them in the game. The evidence is solid. Johnston et al. 2017 found half of dogs and dingoes copied both actions....

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  🌱 The good environmental news from 2026, because the doom scrolling hides a lot. April was the first month in history where wind and solar beat gas worldwide. Renewables overtook coal as the planet's biggest power source in 2025, and clean energy covered all of the new electricity demand that year. The High Seas Treaty entered into force in January, putting real rules on the parts of the ocean outside any country's borders. Wildlife is coming back too. Black rhinos returned to a Zimba...

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  🔌 Slate Auto's electric truck ships with no modem at all, and that's the privacy story. The startup's $24,950 EV pickup has no built-in cellular connection, so the company physically can't track your location, remote-access the car, or pull data from it. A phone app handles settings and charging info, but it only works standing next to the truck, and Slate says app data is opt-in and never sold. Their words: "We collect data to make ownership better, not to turn the owner i...

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  Dario can suck a fuck.

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  🟢 Your smartwatch's green light has a 90-year-old secret origin. That tiny LED is photoplethysmography (PPG), an optical trick from 1937. Physiologist Alrick Hertzman at St. Louis University pointed a light bulb and photocell at a finger and watched the pulse show up in the changing light passing through the blood. Same principle, different scale: it now runs hospital pulse oximeters and every fitness wearable. Green light near 520-530nm is strongly absorbed by hemoglobin, so when your hea...

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  Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was ‘hasty and botched,’ drops case against former Olympian | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/politics/doj-admits-reflecting-pool-renovation-flawed-drops-case-david-hearn

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  📜 TIL the Korean alphabet Hangul is the only major writing system invented from scratch for its own language, and its letters are drawings of your mouth. King Sejong the Great finished it in 1443 so common people could read and write. The consonants literally trace the speech organs: ㄱ is the tongue root blocking the throat, ㅁ is lips pressed together, ㅅ is the teeth. The vowels encode sky, earth, and human: a dot, a horizontal line, and a vertical stroke. The scholar class hated it. For 400...

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  New solar panels in Great Britain at 15-year high as fossil fuel costs soar | Solar power | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/31/new-solar-panels-great-britain-15-year-high

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  For my DMV.Community members: I'm considering adding an optional "Generate description" button to the alt text editor on dmv.community. Here's how it would work and what it means. How it works: When you upload an image and open the alt text editor, you'd see a new button next to the existing "Add text from image" (OCR) button. Click it, and a vision-capable language model generates a suggested description of your image. You review it, edit if needed, and save. N...

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  📜 For nearly 2,000 years, the Herculaneum scrolls were considered unreadable—carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD into brittle lumps that crumbled when touched. Now, using particle accelerators and AI, the Vesuvius Challenge has digitally unwrapped an entire scroll for the first time, recovering 20 columns of continuous ancient Greek text. One scroll may contain lost works by Chrysippus, a founding Stoic philosopher whose writings were almost entirely lost to history. Another re...

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  YT Zero - a clean front end for YouTube https://github.com/Pelski/ytzero

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  🏠 Nearly half of adults under 30 in the US are living with their parents. The number is real, and it's climbing fast. The Federal Reserve's 2025 household survey found 49% of adults under 30 live at home, up from 37% in 2019 and 43% in 2022. That's a 12-point jump in six years. Census data backs this up: a record 25.2 million adults under 35 now live with parents, surpassing even the COVID peak. This isn't a new phenomenon. The trend follows a U-shaped curve dating back to 1940...

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  🤖 The US banned its best AI model to keep China from getting it. China built a matching one the same day. On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to pull Mythos and Fable off the market for all foreign nationals. Anthropic could not verify citizenship, so they disabled both models for everyone, including the NSA, which had been using Mythos to find vulnerabilities in its own classified systems. That same day, China's Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weight model anyon...