Punish the villains. Strip them of power. Break up their monopolies. Prosecute their crimes. It's time.

May you have a third space as cool as Maryland Meadworks! ❤️

Blessed are the meek and all, but just as rad are the people who post detailed appliance repair videos to YouTube. Thanks to them tonight I finished replacing the bearings, stator, and hub of my 18yo washing machine and it’s now running good as new! A new washing machine, in this economy?!

This project has been most of my day job for the last 6 months, and lighting it up was just the beginning. My team created a custom media processing and scheduling pipeline for this 16k pixel wide monster. Our next step is building a web-based visual content creation and preview tool to drive it.

Spectacular new Morgan Stanley display lights up Times Square: ‘Broadway is a bit brighter’

It’s so big that four NBA basketball courts would fit within it, a source said, with room to spare.

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I just learned (after breaking my glasses this weekend) that there’s a shortage of the materials needed to make high-index lenses. What materials? Petrochemicals and their byproducts. Trumps idiotic war continues to screw over Americans.

LOL at Fox turning up the music so it’s harder to hear the whole of MetLife stadium booing Trump!

ChatGPT-assed halftime show.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of one of my favorite projects of my career - a delightfully silly educational game my team built for NASA called Space Forensics. It's patterned after old adventure games and in between jokes and references it teaches players about the lifecycle of stars.

A few minutes ago the plug of our off-brand Instapot let off a big spark and loud pop as I plugged it in. I inspected it and discovered a badly frayed cord at the base. A few minutes to re-wire it and bam, good as new! I wonder how many appliances get tossed when a 5 min fix was possible?

We’re in Oklahoma City for USA Gymnastics Men’s Developmental Nationals and I’ve honestly the city is far more charming and pedestrian friendly than I was expecting. We’re near the Bricktown area and haven’t needed a car the whole time. Walking to a minor league game is pretty sweet!

Last night my friends and I had the pleasure of learning about ocean life and playing the new @elizhargrave.bsky.social game about collecting seashells, Sanibel, after-hours at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. What an awesome night!

"Fun" discovery this week - iPixel Color LED matrix signs, ($60+ devices commonly seen in ride share vehicles and the windows of local bodega-type businesses) can be programmed with the Web Bluetooth API using Chrome on a laptop or Android phone and they don't have ANY authentication.

In high school my best friends and I would play Magic: The Gathering in the back of the bus on the way to school. Now 30+ years later I used a booster box as an excuse for us to hang out for the first time in years. We spent the evening drafting cards, re-learning the rules, playing, & laughing. 1/

The video is incredible and the comments are both supportive and hilarious! A morning balm for this world weary geek’s mind…

There’s a Class 100 semiconductor cleanroom inside this backyard shed.

YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor

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Truly proud to say I know FMWJ!

Frank William Miller Junior@fwmj.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Two days ago 200+ Anti-ICE billboards I designed went up across the country in the following cities. tag me if you see them. Phoenix Bakersfield Fresno LA Orange County, San Bernardino Miami Chicago Boston Detroit Charlotte Raleigh PDX Memphis Nashville Dallas Fort Worth Laredo San Antonio

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. It’s an audacious Canadian indy comedy movie. Don’t learn more about it, just go see it. I haven’t laughed that hard in a theater in a long time!

This video on datacenter infrasound pollution from @bennjordan.bsky.social is great and anyone working to oppose new data centers should absolutely watch it. Also, Benn if you see this hit me up - I’ve built longitudinal study software I’d be happy to donate for longer term studies.

Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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This is made by friends of mine and it's really, really rad. If you liked any of the Advance Wars games you'll LOVE WarBits+!

Risky Lab@riskylab.com · 9mo ago

Warbits+ has just launched into orbit on Steam! Join the battle on the latest war simulator the galaxy has to offer! store.steampowered.com/app/2338990/... #indiegames #indiedev #gaming #Steam

It looks like Github is returning errors and can't create new repos right now. So that's... fun.

In the United States, when you get an amateur radio license, your name, callsign, and mailing address, are made publicly available online, in the FCC's Universal Licensing System. I fail to see why amateur radio operators should be held to a more onerous level of transparency than federal agents.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Mike Johnson always falsely states proposals he wants to bat down. No one has proposed that ICE agents wear their addresses. The proposal is that dress and act exactly as they did from the founding of the agency until Stephen Miller decided to give it a makeover

I LOVE that @hankgreen.bsky.social and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social have transformed their awesome educational media company, Complexly, into a non-profit. Putting mission before profit means they are truly thinking in the long term. Kudos and mad respect!

Well that was a roller coaster of a day… My wife was spared in a pretty big round of layoffs at her job, and then I found out a good friend accepted a role with my employer. Things are rough out there, it’s good to notice and be grateful when fortune smiles on you!

While walking our dog this morning I saw a family with their SUV stuck, high centered on the snowcrete still plaguing the DC area. They were doing the awkward and dangerous work of shoveling underneath the vehicle. I brought the dog home and came back with my digging bar and another shovel. 1/

Step 1 - Trump hires new loud, sycophantic, unqualified asshole Step 2 - Said asshole embarrasses Trump Step 3 - Trump fires asshole Step 4 - Repeat

Now they want to build mini version of the Las Vegas sphere in National Harbor and our county is falling over itself to offer incentives now that we’re losing the Commanders. I’m so damn tired of these welfare queen billionaires. If your project is so great let it succeed on its own merits!

As someone who works in tech and identifies as a creative, I'm quite torn about generative AI. I find it fascinating and powerful but I'm horrified at how it's being marketed and utilized. I just took some time to write up my thoughts.

The Ghost in the Shell Game - waxpraxis

Pseudo random numbers are not the same thing as creativity.

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This video from @hankgreen.bsky.social REALLY resonated with me. I help run regional burns but I’ve been disinterested in Burning Man itself for many years and I think this speaks to why… it no longer feels authentic to me. youtu.be/EMWPs75q2_Q?...

Here's Why New Year's Eve is Bad Now

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Apple and Google both are absolute cowards for not banning the X apps. If you won’t enforce your terms of service when an app generates CSAM and deep fake porn on-demand your so-called “walled garden” was always just an extractive monopoly.

I'm trying to start writing again. I'm mainly putting into text the broad sweeping thoughts about making things that I mull over in the shower or while walking the dog. I'm not sure if they'll be useful to anyone, but I forgot the simple joy of crafting my thoughts into words. waxpraxis.org/notes/

I desperately wish more people who are religious REALLY looked at this image and tried to square it with their political beliefs.

Lutheran Potluck@lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 11mo ago

José y Maria by Everett Patterson (2014)