What if setting up a Raspberry Pi were as simple as talking to it? Check out #Radar article by Pete Warden to learn how open source AI running locally on a Raspberry Pi can power a fast, offline-first voice agent and make configuring devices as easy as having a conversation: https://bit.ly/4wO9ba4

AI on the Pi: Build Your Own Local Voice Agent

As soon as I received my first Raspberry Pi, I knew that it would be a wonderful platform to bring AI into the physical world. Since the initial hardware

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"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury's melancholy obituary for a dead world, is set today.

keeping an eye on @petewarden.bsky.social's moonshine project petewarden.com/2026/07/14/l...

Launching Moonshine Micro

Long-time readers will know I’m convinced local voice interfaces and sub-$1 embedded chips will fundamentally change how we interact with everything in the physical world. That’s why I&…

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trans rights might sound like a Big Ask to some people, but it's not a Hard Ask. the average person has to do literally nothing

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants

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I keep seeing people post that Republicans are “scared“ of Trump, but that’s missing the point. They’re not scared of this. They’re happy and excited. These people are sadistic, and Trump is making all their darkest dreams come true.

1/2: "The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right...

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

I think BlueSky should add a feature where your screen turns yellow and a klaxon sounds and “CONTAINMENT BREACH” is flashed onscreen whenever a post or reply suddenly over performs your usual “one like from a pitying friend” reception.

And as always, if you just absolutely NEED a beloved British childrens' fantasy series about witches and wizards to survive, a further reminder that Sir Terry Pratchett appears zero times in the Epstein Files and Granny Weatherwax would take none of Mrs. Rowling's transphobic pedophilic shit.

a man who was one of my math teachers used to give me a neck & shoulder rub in class, unwantedly. once, he snapped my bra because my shirt was askew and it was showing. one time he dumped me out of my chair onto the floor after he said “pencils down” but i was finishing my answer. i am sad that…

Yesterday was my sobriety anniversary, won’t say for how long because when I was first in the program people who had two whole weeks gave me hope, but I figured people with a year or more couldn’t be as alcoholic as I was. If you’re new, though, trust me: have hope.

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time. But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned. But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives. 1/

I’m beginning to think that responding on social media is not a promising way to turn malicious and ill-informed strangers into malicious and slightly better-informed strangers.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

I thought disliking the English was the shared culture for all the world’s people

The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people

Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.

Some of us didn't hop online in the 90s or the 2000s to get rich and famous, man. Some of us hopped online in the 90s and 2000s 'cause it was FUN to chat with people all over the world... for free! Baby, we grew up when it cost a zillion dollars to call long distance! We had pen pals at school!

Slavery is white history, how we survived it is Black history. - Malcolm Jamal Warner Pic of the day #photography

This may be my last story for the Post. Here is an archive version, free to all. archive.is/2026.02.06-2...

Joseph Menn@joemenn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My story on how Epstein worked with a former leader of Putin’s youth movement, who promised him racy pictures and introduced him to an emigre who helped build out Russia’s quantum computing initiative. His security company was banned from U.S. intelligence deals last year. Giftish. wapo.st/4ccTtxy

Had a great time chatting career trajectories, on-device AI, and model specialization versus generalization with @petewarden.bsky.social on the @eetimes.bsky.social Silicon Grapevine podcast youtu.be/XbSQtaZ_QM0?...

Edge to Impact: Building Human-Centric AI Models at Scale

YouTube video by EE Times

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On @katedrummond.bsky.social's Uncanny Valley podcast I said I thought my next step against ICE would be an in-person event. I decided to have a popup dance party, the De-ICE Disco, at the Googleplex. Come join us on Thursday! petewarden.com/2026/01/31/d...

Here I am dancing like a loon at the SF Tesla Takedown. Come join us, we're out every Saturday from 12pm to 2pm at 999 Van Ness Avenue. youtube.com/shorts/0C-ky...

Frog Pete

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Tech CEOs seem to believe there will never be consequences for palling around with the Trump regime

Tim Cook Attends White House Screening of 'Melania' Movie, Prompts Calls for Apple Boycott

The Apple CEO doesn't seem shy about getting cozy with the Trump regime.

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Tech workers ask their bosses to ‘call the White House’ over ICE raids www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... It's great to see this, and I was quoted!

Tech workers ask their bosses to ‘call the White House’ over ICE raids

A public letter signed by hundreds of tech workers said CEOs must “pick up the phone” to press Trump to pull back ICE deployments.

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www.wired.com/story/backla... This is a good development.

Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet

The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees, not executives.

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My first Waymo freeway drive, from SF to Mountain View. I'm heading to a TensorFlow team reunion, appropriately enough.

“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.