"hello yes I would like 1 disco balls please"

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

You guys all sound like you belong on an episode of Cursed Controls. youtube.com/@cursed_cont...

Cursed Controls

Not your typical electrical channel. If you like Industrial maintenance, PLC’s, VFD’s, or motor controls this is the place for you. Also check out my over the top residential wiring. This channel is n...

youtube.com

inside you are three wolves

Ah, Friday evening, when I can quit building ARMv8 software all day for a pay check, crack a beer, and unwind by... building ARMv7 software for entertainment. 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚝 is pretty neat, it has been a while since I got an entire OS into 60MB, and it was considerably more difficult back then.

5. I gave a TON of parenting advice to new parents before I had kids because I HAD TO. I mostly made up what sounded good but I think I did okay in the aggregate.

There was a lot of talk about future drone warfare when I was a RAND fellow 30 years ago, but degrading civilian morale by singeing an adversary's mail order dildo supply was not something that came up

Evergreen.

I can't speak to the traditional beliefs about it, but I can say that it's a neat reminder of how our brains use context cues like shadows to ground objects in reality. When we experience a moment that doesn't fit our mental model, we 'glitch out' & well... "the sun rests on the brains" FITS.

(I absolutely stole this)

Decorating question: You're coming over to a 38 year old white man's apartment. The living room is a D&D/TTRPG gaming room, with a large table and massive bookshelves. How many swords on the wall is too many swords?

I’ve seen so many different reposts of this I’m not even sure it’s the same post

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

Frog put GPT in a harness. "There," he said, "now GPT can no longer sudo." "But you're running the harness as an user in the docker group" said Toad. "That is true," said Frog.

garrison@garrison.corporate.fm · 2mo ago

Frog put Claude in a harness. "There," he said, "now Claude can no longer delete files." "But Claude can edit the files" said Toad. "That is true," said Frog.

“Know your occupiers” but on a location served ad is perhaps the most cyberpunk thing I will see this weak.

My bench vise is about to turn 40, my drill press is probably older, there's not enough information to nail down the manufacture date, but I use the vise way more often.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life

can't believe I gotta 3D print my own truck nuts SMDH

Has anybody done an inflation adjusted chart for a modern equivalent to 40oz to Freedom? My anecdotal experience says it's at least 5 pints now.

A DIRECT CYCLE NUCLEAR TURBOJET! And didn't my colleague Connie do a great job with this diagram? (Though she wouldn't let me label the control drums on the outer circumference of the reactor core.)

Anyway Cheetos are sort of self-evidently disgusting? it's not because of all these scary-sounding ingredients but because it's dried-out, neon-colored fried corn? Who thought they were good for you?

… and has for almost 20 years. this is once again what i mean by the Long Technological Now

The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

everything in this picture now fits in your pocket

i feel like they could've used a construction lift to reach the letters but the scaffolding is higher drama which i respect from a performing arts center

downloading a C++ web framework and immediately feeling my spirit flee my mortal body

I was truly not prepared for a future in which the phrase "stolen compute from Chipotle's AI chat bot" makes any kind of sense.

kottke.org@kottke.org · 3mo ago

Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others. (via @masnick.com) [github.com]

For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/...

Inside GNSS Media & Research • May/June 2026 • 62

lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

I’m surprised he didn’t call it the Basic Orbital Optimized Ballistic Insertion Exovehicle.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ SpaceX passed a regulatory hurdle for its Starfall which is for "future transport and delivery of goods through space" with a "cylindrical shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters (2.5 feet) tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters (10.2 feet)... capable of carrying 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs) of payload" ...