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🏃‍♀️ Yes, You Can Resurface Cylinder Heads with a Treadmill… If You’re Brave
https://www.thedrive.com/news/yes-you-can-resurface-cylinder-heads-with-a-treadmill-if-youre-brave

Yes, You Can Resurface Cylinder Heads with a Treadmill… If You’re Brave
This guy built his own head resurfacing machine for less than $500 with a treadmill and an old medical gurney.

Insurance tech company Ethos, last valued at $2.7B in 2021, files for a US IPO ; its revenue rose 54.9% YoY to $183.7M in H1, with net income up 64% to $30.7M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/09/26/sequoia-accel-ethos-ipo…

Sequoia, Accel-backed Ethos files for IPO
The life insurance tech company was last valued at $2.7 billion.

If you encounter kidnappers, stay safe and take note of these things about them, and then share the information with ICIRR.
Download a PDF to print and carry with you, I have put this at https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ice-watch-card-s-a-l-u-t…

Because there's not enough evidence to charge them with a crime ... https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DQRkrYSCcsK

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Rand Paul: "In the one instance you're killed on sight. On the other instance, if you're captured, we just say, 'Oh well, we're gonna send you back to your country.' It doesn't make any sense."

In any case, day 2: Ursula K Le Guin.
As I've said elsewhere, part of her science fiction thesis is that "human" can encompass much more than what we mere Terrans think of it as, and that moral standing extends broadly throughout the universe. This is the antithesis of Tokens fantasy, wherein "race" is real and determines moral standing. For Le Guin, it's barely okay to intervene in complex alien politics unless you carefully ensure you're not causing systemic harms; for Tolkien, it's okay to ambush and murder orc children, because they are by nature evil.
Add to her excellent politics Le Guin's masterful worldbuilding and unparalleled range of plots, and you have the one author I loved as a decidedly liberal and naïve teen and love even more now that I'm an adult. She's an absolute legend and deserves a very high place on any list of women authors (or list of authors, period.).
For a short story, try "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" which you can read here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
For fantasy "A Wizard of Earthsea" (also has a nice graphic novel adaptation), or for science fiction, "The Left Hand of Darkness" or if you want a more anarchist flavor, "The Dispossessed."
I'll close this with an amazing quote from her:
"""
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
"""

"There is also another rival to restaurant and takeaway pizzas: the cook-at-home oven pizza."
They mean something you buy ready to cook in a supermarket - as if it's somehow difficult to make a pizza from scratch, where you know what's gone into it.
What went wrong with Pizza Hut? - BBC News
https://www.

What went wrong with Pizza Hut?
Up against the likes of Domino's, Pizza Hut is closing half its UK restaurants. What went wrong?

Hard to believe. A $100 Android tablet with keyboard. That reviews are positive (or paid 🙂)
Anyway, if you are looking for a cheap Android convertible, here you go
Not an affiliate link
Tabwee T80 2-in-1 Laptop and Tablet
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF22WG84

A new finding demonstrates the brutal carbon math of AI video: a 6-second clip can burn 4x the energy of a 3-second one. I’ve updated the What Uses More digital footprint calculator to show why “just a bit longer” gets disproportionately expensive.
https://www.

If you're using Pi-hole with Sky Broadband, you can't directly change the DNS settings for the router (in my case a Sky Hub).
However, if you save the settings as a file, edit the file to add the Pi-hole's address in the DNS field, and re-import it, it appears to work.
https://www.pistonheads.co…

Incidentally, if you want a flavour of #Climate research in Europe, the european climate researchers alliance with various
@horizoneu.bsky.social
projects present monthly #ClimateCoffee seminars - around 20 to 30 minutes long with discussions (not recorded) afterwards, the presentations are all online here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvVwf0FRZw4oQyHw-6TMm0u2FjFGvnvx6