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Don’t joke around with #Siri AI. I was saying “I’m falling off a cliff” and she began calling emergency services. #Apple

Super Metroid: nearly dead
I've been waiting for this to be on special offer since I got my Wii U.  The first Metroid game I played was Fusion on the GBA, which pre-dated this blog.  Metroid Zero Mission was completed in 2005, after an intensive playing time.  I've since wanted more of the 2D games, but there wasn't an easy way to get either the second game or Super Metroid - I have a feeling that the latter may have been on the Wii Virtual Console but I never thought…

I wish there was a feature in Mastodon that told you your total number of bookmarks. When I delete them, I'd like to have that feeling of accomplishment, knowing I've knocked out this or that many

Athena apparently knows how to count. At least, she knows when I short her one treat.
Meanwhile, I upgraded my genealogy site and managed to break one of Dad’s old 8mm films during digitization. Fortunately, it broke at a splice, and I found a clever way to repair it.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.co…

Counting Dogs And Broken Films – Bob Mueller
Athena counts her treats, I update my genealogy site, and a broken 8mm film sends me searching for a way to repair Dad’s old home movies.

Enttäuschend genug, dass Lüneburgs flimsiges Stück Fahrradstraße und Busspur in die Fußgängerzone Kahlandstraße mündet - ein ewiger Stressfaktor - jetzt treffe ich hier immer häufiger auch noch auf die übliche Park-Anarchie, die das Leben extra schwer macht.
#Lüneburg #radwüste
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Filings: Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, spending $2.2M, $2.1M, and $1.5M, respectively (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/1016585/openai-anthropic-nvidia-lobbying-re…

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters
Leading AI companies are ramping up their federal lobbying spending, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia having their biggest lobbying quarters yet ahead of the midterms.

Google hat einfach mal 2x3km Wald in Nord-Finnland illegal abgeholzt und den Mutterboden abgeräumt.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

Halo Reach: flying around in space
I am, apparently, a little way through the game, and I restarted halfway through chapter 3.  The difference in gameplay from the first Halo is marked, with increased reliance on team members and communication, and a move to large scale set pieces rather than small-scale battles in corridors from one waypoint to the next.  The world feels a lot more empty and open, and you have a sense of partaking in a massive war rather than an…

Counting Dogs And Broken Films
Athena apparently knows exactly how many treats she’s supposed to get, while my dad’s old home movies proved a little less cooperative. Between updating my genealogy site and repairing a broken 8mm film, it was a surprisingly busy quiet week.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter…

Counting Dogs And Broken Films – Bob Mueller
Athena counts her treats, I update my genealogy site, and a broken 8mm film sends me searching for a way to repair Dad’s old home movies.

Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/oura-sues-rival-…

Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback | TechCrunch
Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.