opticron (@[email protected])

stuff, junk, whatnot, NERDERY
Mstdn: @[email protected]

[Smarter Every Day @smartereveryday]

WHOA...
10 million wire grill brushers were just recalled. (3 million were recalled last month).
I did not anticipate this when we made the Smarter Scrubber to address the problem.
We just caught up on production. If you'd like a chain mail grill scrubber that's made in America check out
https://t.co/7FNq6F9xbE

[opticron (@[email protected]) @opticron]

@evleaks I have a black and white one and I love it. A friend has a couple of the color ones. Resolution goes down significantly with color and the colors aren't super vibrant, but it's still pretty nice.

[opticron (@[email protected]) @opticron]

@evleaks If you disable the integrated graphics the system doesn't reserve memory for it giving you a little bit of RAM back.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

We should really all be retweeting this daily.

[opticron (@[email protected]) @opticron]

@smartereveryday Re clanker as a LLM/AI slur: I find it a bit too physical in nature. Give "yakbak" a try

[opticron (@[email protected]) @opticron]

@neiltyson @elonmusk Trying to find common ground with someone helping a dictator consolidate power is not a good look

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

When I served on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board (under part of Obama-2 and all of Trump-1), what impressed me most about the commitment of Military Officers was their sworn allegiance — not to a leader or commander or a king, but to the US Constitution.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: https://t.co/PrSnworkRv

🧵

[Josh Otten @ordinarytings]

If not fascist, then why fascist shaped?

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. https://t.co/rSQUHGjARa

[Terry Virts @AstroTerry]

For all who love space exploration like I do, we need to admit: @elonmusk has revealed himself to be an unstable, malign extremist.

He is not on the side of freedom or democracy, he is "all-in" for authoritarianism. 100% not compatible with the peaceful exploration of space.

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

taking a page out of the republican playbook and will be refusing to recognize this name change

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

I’m sure that when the ‘hire on merit only’ crowd find out that women are generally better candidates for long term Spaceflight they’ll tell NASA to stop hiring men.

Equal performance, but lower mass, requiring fewer consumables and better radiation shielding around reproductive organs.

If they’re going to ignore the multitude of good reasons for a diverse astronaut corps then it’s time to start factoring in these advantages, otherwise NASA is wasting money by putting big men into space.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

“Shot in the Arm”

A scientifically informed, yet compassionate Documentary on the curious and costly phenomenon of Vaccine Hesitancy

Now streaming (free) on PBS
[Video; 90 mins]
https://t.co/gwT3yWmKBk

[MM  @adgirlMM]

A friend of mine lives in a predominantly hispanic neighborhood in a red border state. She was telling me how despite being legal citizens, many of her neighbors are worried about the deportations and taking steps to prepare.

They've printed out copies of birth certificates for every member of the family and are making their children carry them with them.

They are only speaking English outside the home now.

They've had family meetings to explain to the kids what to do if they are stopped by ICE.

If this sounds far fetched and unbelievable, that's because it should be in America.

But it's true.

[Sam (he/him) @mushycrouton]

Yet gender criticals will claim nobody is coming after gay rights

[opticron (@[email protected]) @opticron]

@evleaks I don't necessarily think they need to be entirely divested, but they need to become independent of Google's search and ad interests. That has been what's driving a lot of the "interesting"/bad things over the last several years.