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The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines. A “Miyake Event” would be far worse.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/
saved 2023-09-11
VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/physical-ai-funding-startups…
A #unicycle tip that most unicyclists already know but is always worth a reminder. If your laces look like Picture 1, tuck them in like Picture 2. This will prevent them getting caught on your crank ends (Picture 3) and tying your feet to the unicycle.
This can happen on a regular bike but it is worse on a uni because they are generally "fixies" and balance is more … umm… &q…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Tacocat:
🎵 Crimson Wave
#Tacocat
https://espaceb.bandcamp.com/track/tacocat-crimson-wave
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ixncUHZXJpLWbej9oOms2
It might not yet have reached Earth orbit, but #RelativitySpace has announced plans for a mission to #Mars carrying a NASA payload: #Aeolus and scheduled for 2028, will launch a Mars orbiter carrying four NASA-built instruments.
I see therapy as being a lot like theater, and theater akin to politics. When I visited a play a few years ago about black history and culture, created, directed, and played entirely by people of color, it created a space in which a certain reality was true. A reality where “anti-white racism” was rightfully mocked, where black identity was valued, and its oppressors silenced.
When we left the theater we had to face a world where the opposite was true, yet forever carrying a part of th…
Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-the-memory-cr