Cheap Hardware Changes Human Behavior
There is a psychological difference between experimenting with a four dollar board and experimenting with a five hundred dollar device.
People become fearless around cheap hardware.
They cut traces without hesitation. They overvolt things just to see what happens. They shove prototypes into Altoids tins with electrical tape and keep moving.
A lot of genuinely interesting hardware culture emerges from environments where failure ca…
Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped.
Arts Incite - Ballarat Arts Alive
We talk to arts people about all things related to music, visual art, theatre, heritage, architecture, writing etc...
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Nancy Beers' keynote at #SecurityDays 2026 had the whole room on its feet, playing games and laughing together.
We spoke with her recently to learn more about what "Play More Today. Secure Tomorrow" means for security culture, from how a simple box of LEGO bricks can make abstact discussions come alive, to why she believes cybersecurity can't exist in silos.
🔗 Re…
I'm sitting outside with a coffee, amid the garden Mum planted so skilfully, and which I maybe didn't appreciate while she was alive, and the various things we've stuck in pots - walnut, fig, olive etc - and have just ordered a hazel tree and a cherry tree from The Woodland Trust. Mum had several big ceramic planters that are now empty or full of scrub and they're just right for young trees that are just a twig and a leaf 🌿
The intersection of many man-made actions - #ClimateCrisis, excessive #ResourceExtraction, #Wetlands "reclamation" - all in the interest of profit, now starting to show the actual costs.…
The intersection of many man-made actions - #ClimateCrisis, excessive #ResourceExtraction, #Wetlands "reclamation" - all in the interest of profit, now starting to show the actual costs.…
Blanched 2.5 pounds (a little over 1kg) of green beans from the garden to freeze. That was today's harvest.
I've not had much lunch with the zucchini this year - the plants are alive but not producing - so I guess I'll have to enjoy the green beans instead.
This week: Sunlight now converts plastic waste into hydrogen and clean fuels.
Uruguay is turning dairy biogas into sustainable jet fuel with light-driven catalysts.
A new financing framework maps how to fund Africa's just energy transition with concessional capital.
Solutions moving from lab to scale.
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After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…
Before Trump and Netanyahu started their illegal war against Iran:
• Strait of Hormuz open
• Oil price $60
• No fertiliser shortage
• Iran not developing a nuclear weapon
• School girls in Minab alive
Alive To This
We're living through a moment in time that's difficult to comprehend and impossible to ignore. AI is reshaping our work, our decisions, the way we imagine what comes next...
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This is so awesome. It's finally here: "Für immer 16", a tribute album to ...But Alive.
#punk #ButAlive
@…
Quite incredible that this guy ( #Thinkpad x200s) - who is now at least 12 years old - is still alive and kicking! :blobrat_aww:
Also, this was the best keyboard ever, the Lenovo keyboards have been downgraded since then to become blend just like any other laptop keyboard. The trackpoint still works perfectly on it while it doesn't on my more recent lenovo (T490s, about 6 y.o.).
The …
As programming gets easier (and more fun) via claude code etc...
Will there be less programming or more? If there is latent demand for computer programs and ones that works, then the demand for programming, and therefore the number of programmers might increase not decrease.
When lighting got cheaper with electric lights, people lit more things. maybe this will happen with coding and coders?
What an interesting time to be alive.
📦 upsert() keeps a single instance alive for singleton UI like toasts, loading overlays or progress bars — instead of stacking a new one, it updates the active instance with fresh data, no duplicates
⚙️ Mutation Flow: useMutationFlow from react-call/mutation-flow wires a callable straight to async backend actions, managing pending state and keeping the dialog open with a spinner until the promise resolves — so users can retry without losing their place, with end-to-end typed payloads…
This is insane. I read few days ago how Dawa Sherpa was left behind on Everest. He was considered dead and nobody was sent to rescue him because the mountain had been closed already (late in season).
He found his way back alone after 6 days
#everest
"Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort," says #Starship 13 launch attempt after 24 hours.
Heute: Raven in HF gucken.
Im Oktober dann: Heretic! 🤘
#Metal
Nina Hagen - 16 Tons (official video) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vKDiyo178E
Bij mij was ze helemaal buiten beeld geraakt, maar Nina is nog steeds zeer 'alive & kicking'..😀
@… I saw a post recently that asked "What is a hobby that you quit?"
My answer was something like "I don't know that I've ever quit a hobby. Sometimes I take a break for a few months, years... even a decade, but I might come back to it. And since I'm still alive there's a chance I can revisit some hobby that I've ignor…
Don't be fooled: #Trump didn't cut a "deal" with #Iran.
He surrendered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz because America's rapidly consuming all its oil reserves - the only thing keeping the US economy alive.
Paying $324 billion to the enemy would never be called "win…
This week: Solar storage hits $54/MWh, making clean dispatchable power cost-competitive with fossil peakers.
Fervo plans a $6.5B IPO to scale geothermal that delivers 24/7 clean energy.
Australian researchers use AI robotics to recover silicon wafers from old solar panels, cutting manufacturing costs.
Real progress, happening now.
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Well, thanks for the dreams I guess
#shortstory
Sometimes music comes alive right in front of you / thru your headphones, and that’s the magic shit
Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: If anyone disputes or downplays Russian cruelty, you know they are an asshole and an idiot.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and reveal the receipts of first-hand reporting: https://
"People…suffering while…people w/…power to change it argue…Children…falling asleep to…bombs. Parents…wondering whether they can keep…people they love alive. People w/disabilities…watching…hard-won protections…dismantled piece by piece. Older adults…wondering whether dignity has become too expensive to protect. Families…carrying burdens that grow heavier while those w/…power…keep finding new excuses…Communities are paying…price while power protects itself."
“””I’m looking for a senior developer for Interview / Job proxy collaboration. I am offering an exclusive opportunity for highly skilled developers to access high-paying positions with US-based companies.”””
what a time to be alive
@… I checked and it’s alive
This from Ingold (being alive 2011, pg. 62) reads as more optimistic than it used to. LLMs are closed rather than open, and can we really say its users aren't losing skill as "the ‘living appendages’ of lifeless mechanism"?
Imagining a reverse "Weekend at Bernies" where someone seeds the media environment with details strongly suggesting a high-profile person is dead, in order to manipulate the prediction markets which the knowledge that they're still alive.
Just sitting here playing a few tunes. I dug out Frampton Comes Alive. I can’t get my head around that it’s 50 years old!
When the Nazis set out to legally disenfranchise and discriminate against Jewish citizens,
they weren’t just coming up with ideas out of thin air.
They closely studied the laws of another country.
According to James Q. Whitman, author of Hitler’s American Model, that country was the United States
In 1935, Nazi Germany passed two radically discriminatory pieces of legislation inspired by American laws:
the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection o…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Shins:
🎵 Dead Alive
#NowPlaying #TheShins
The Last Quiet Thing by @…
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing
This is beautifully made and reminds us of implicit and explicit ownership and…
Been trying to keep this little crow alive that we found on the ground. Such a cute thing and doing great
Doggo being surprisingly great about it.
Weather-wise, this is my favourite time of year in #Montreal. It’s warm but not overheating, and the air is still dry enough to enjoy. Everything is coming alive.
This guy is also a big fan of when it’s comfortable for me to work outside.
15 years ago #OTD the #SpaceShuttle flew for the last time. The most elegant ship that ever carried humans to the cosmos.. and I miss her everyday.
But it's a good opportunity to remember that Atlantis namesake, the ship RV Atlantis, is still alive and working in Argentina!
To all my fellow bicentennial babies out there, be proud to know that we have been alive for 20% of the United States’ existence. No need to thank me for that fact.
#July4th
Interview with Rishi Chandra, Google's VP for health and home, about shutting Google Fit by year's end, the rebranded Google Health app, Health Coach, and more (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-is-rebranding-the-fitbit-app-t…
Today, I made gifts to some people in need in #Gaza, as I try to do every Wednesday. None of the people I gave to today had received anything at all since my last gift.
What I can afford to give is nowhere near enough to keep a single person alive, let alone a family.
And, of course, there are many other people begging me for aid, whom I can't afford to give to.
The situation in…
Referees love to blow it dead in the air. Cruelly keep hope alive for the trailing team, only to then kill it off at the ball's apogee.
#WorldCup #fedifc
#throwbackThursday
My family in 1955.
Did you know the Communist Party/USA is alive and well and organizing in Ithaca NY? More photos from Ithaca' Juneteenth celebration are on the way!
(Did you know I shook hands with Gus Hall 30 years ago?)
#photo #photography
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116652454875429872
Trump want his face on 🤦$250🤦bill.
I would allow it ONLY under circumstance, that he won't be alive after the bill is printed.😈
Also there are few laws against that:
Presidential $1 Coin Act: Th…
Pitch In
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
Every time he updates, I am relieved to see he is still alive.
Reporting from the trenches of democracy inside the Russian killzone within Ukraine, he provides first-hand evidence and unparalleled expertise and insight into the truth on the ground.
Friend link bypasses the paywall, and makes a billionaire weaker:
JD Vance, the US vice-president, has blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration,
hours after Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected the US government’s claim that there was “two-tier policing” in the UK.
The senior Republican politician weighed into the case of the murdered 18-year-old,
claiming in a post on X that Nowak would be alive
“if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred …
What if conflict isn't something to avoid or win, but the most alive place we have?
We've been told it's fight or flight. Silence or violence. Pick your lane.
But humans contain way more than two reactions. And the goal was never to end conflict. It's to be in it well.
Read more about why conflict might be the richest, most fertile ground we stand on.
An #acting #coaching client just delivered a line in scene with such heartfelt candor, the material came alive in new ways. So good to see the work we're doing, the different layers, grow and infuse the performance with new depths. Happy coach moment.
Happy First Day of #Pride2026!!! Much joy to everyone, even with *gestures*
Why won’t OpenAI or Anthropic lower their prices?
Supposedly OpenAI has thought about it,
but for an AI lab, inference has to subsidize training costs.
A company like OpenAI has to fund the production of new models from the inference margins on existing models (at least partially).
That’s why the margins on inference are so high:
the AI labs are trying to squeeze out every dollar so they can stay alive in the training arms race.
However, inference only ha…
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