Trump revealed that he had given Iran permission to bomb the U.S.’s Air Base in #Qatar in retaliation for the American bombing of their nuclear sites.
☑️ Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets? - TPM
Anyone have a soldering iron recommendation (type/make/model)?
My needs are •small•: occasional minor repair, mostly wire-to-wire soldering, maybe some super-basic PCB stuff in the distant future if I get ambitious. Simple foolproof is better than robust precise.
Whole lot of options out there, and hard to tell which ones are overkill for my needs.
UPDATE: Going with the Pinecil (multiple recommendations, looks right-sized for my needs), and also noting the many Hakko recommendations for more robust needs. Thanks, everyone!
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Magdalena Bay:
🎵 Death & Romance
#MagdalenaBay
https://magdalenabay.bandcamp.com/track/death-romance
https://open.spotify.com/track/5m3rVRNkTv5EQnPuF293we
fresh neil young & the chrome hearts soundboard from glastonbury in june, so pro mixed that you can hear spooner oldham's B3 (mostly inaudible when i caught them last week) https://heads.social/@livetapes/114990531689500576
I read Bostrom's book SUPERINTELLIGENCE back when I worked at Google —
Blaise A— insisted that it go on the "AI" SF book club reading list
(as an aside: I started the book club; we were mostly reading, uh, cautionary stories)
SUPERINTELLIGENCE is garbage, & I said so: throw around big numbers until your moral calculus has a floating-point overflow & you can be convinced of obviously crazy things
(phrasing wasn't so clean at the time)
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White sausage party in the desert 🙂
Burning Man 2025 census: Middle-aged, highly educated, mostly white
#BurningMan
honestly feeling pretty fuckin' bleak at the moment, *BUT* i do get to go on @… & play a bunch of fantastic (mostly) not-bleak #music for falling/floating/back-stroking through hot stupid summer skies. come hang & listen with me. tune in: