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Last Notes npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/117/221/084/182/355/641/original/371fb54c9157127b.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "The standard explanation for why rain causes corrosion is that water carries dissolved salts and acids to a surface, constant drumming of raindrops abrades whatever protective coating is on it, and oxygen does the rest. Nearly all our tools to prevent this—paints, polymer films, or oxide layers—are built around this idea. But we’ve apparently been missing something important about the rain. A new study led by Zhongyuan Ni, Rüdiger Berger, and Hans-Jürgen Butt at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, has shown that water drops routinely arrive at a surface carrying an electrical charge large enough to punch through an insulating coating. Not scratch it. Not slowly dissolve it. Electrically blow a hole in it, the way a spark jumps a gap." https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/raindrops-are-tiny-lightning-bolts-and-theyre-corroding-cars-study-finds/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "While MDT is intended to be a well-controlled treatment with larvae closely monitored and carefully removed at timed intervals, accidental myiasis carries the risk of having the maggots run amok and becoming difficult to extract. When this happens, doctors in California provide a simple solution: using strips of uncooked bacon to entice the maggots out. This strategy worked for a woman with a poorly managed wound around her ear. After bacon strips were wrapped around her ear for 5 to 10 minutes, the maggots clung to the bacon and could be removed. The doctors note that they aren’t sure why it works—the bacon may block air, forcing the maggots to surface; the fats from the meat may increase their mobility; or the maggots just like bacon." https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/second-carcass-eating-fly-species-cleared-by-fda-for-maggot-wound-therapy/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation Disney film set in Beaverton -- same name as the town I'm living in. npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Stanley Plotkin, 93, was instrumental in developing a number of vaccines over the course of his career. He recently said that he’s “beginning to regret having lived so long—because we’re going downhill.” How could we possibly have gotten here? "Maybe we’ve always been here. It turns out that the anti-vaccine arguments currently flooding the Internet have been around for as long as vaccines have. In his new book A Pox on Fools, Thomas Levenson breaks them down into three categories, as made clear in the book’s subtitle: “The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines.” The accusations these people levy against vaccines can just as easily be used to categorize the arguments themselves: They are wrong, they are bad, and they are intolerable." https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/grifters-cynics-and-true-believers-the-family-tree-of-vaccine-opponents/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "GoDaddy is currently investigating claims that it handed complete control of a valid 27-year-old #domain to another customer, without requiring them to pass any authentication processes or upload any supporting documents. […] "In a statement sent to Flagstream, #GoDaddy said: "After investigating the domain name(s) in question, we have determined that the registrant of the domain name(s) provided the necessary documentation to initiate a change of account… " "… The issue here is that no documentation was provided, according to both Flagstream and the woman who received ownership of the domain. Ginder refers to her as Susan, but it is not her real name. "… Susan is really the hero of this entire story," Ginder wrote. "Without her, Flagstream would still have no idea what happened to this domain. Lawyers would have gotten involved, but it would probably be months until anything was resolved." https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/godaddy_megagaffe_wrongly_transferred_27yearold/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major bug: Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of continuous uptime, a 32-bit unsigned integer overflow in Apple’s XNU kernel freezes the internal TCP timestamp clock… ICMP (ping) keeps working. Everything else dies. The only fix most people know is a reboot" https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/04/macs-crash-after-49-days-of-uptime/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "What Trump understands intuitively, from decades of practice, is that his base does not track contradictions. They track emotional states. The profanity, the exclamation points, the theatrical deadlines — these are stimulants, engineered to produce a feeling of vicarious toughness in people who are frightened and angry. The cycle is familiar to anyone who has lived inside a narcissistic system: manufacture urgency, perform dominance, declare victory, repeat. The audience never notices the goalposts moved because each new threat erases the memory of the last one. "[…] There is no endgame. There is only the need — raw, insatiable, and utterly indifferent to the consequences for the people of Iran, for global oil markets, or for the American service members already dying in this war — to be seen as powerful." https://alisav.substack.com/p/trumps-batshit-iran-threats-are-not npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/116/190/827/142/357/748/original/9a039cda76e2f7ae.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Here’s a fun website: How far back in time can you understand English? It’s a story in sections, each section going back 100 years from the one before. It’s a fascinating experiment, and the author of the piece takes you back through the experience and explains what you saw happening to English in the process. It’s like a one-page history of the English language." https://www.lichtenbergianism.com/blog/2026/2/27/fun-friday-resources npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Twenty-nine year old [C.P.] has been regularly protesting outside his local ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray[…] "To the Department of Homeland Security, “he is the leader of Antifa in Portland, OR.” "That phrase appears in an internal report produced by DHS, the largest law enforcement agency in the country. As they see it, [C.P]—a young man accused of no crime […]—is a domestic terrorist. "In [C.P.]’s apartment, Fox News hosts saw something sinister: an “Antifa safe house,” as they called it in multiple segments. This kind of idiocy is hardly unprecedented by the standards of cable news, of course; but the federal government is buying into the hysteria, too. Documents leaked to me show [C.P.] and countless American protesters have been branded as domestic terrorists. As a result, their private information is being collected and stored in a DHS intelligence system shown below." https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-identify-leader-of-antifa npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation Marching owl #superbOwl https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/116/038/189/497/803/381/original/bb83751576f26ca1.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/957/927/546/532/694/original/efa8157e68fa051a.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/907/840/920/378/853/original/616083487e379763.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/907/023/424/091/170/original/43365a38bd55ea31.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers." https://www.tumblr.com/leebrontide/805922855522091008/update-minnesota-republicans-are-taking-this npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/805679610324975616 https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/891/021/326/734/243/original/e92bc68979237375.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/868/080/666/708/346/original/3e0fca368be4a033.png https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/868/084/403/601/607/original/75174ae9b6726238.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/856/907/177/046/542/original/319e528c3a338d41.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…2wlp https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/856/000/437/029/103/original/634540b09012e701.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/838/608/608/196/258/original/5a6a5a1278902fe8.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation I think patents only last 15 years or so, so how about resurrecting older inkjet printers and cartridges? open-source printers? I suppose we'd have to go older because software is copyrighted. we need some laws to deal with expired companies whose software has been orphaned. https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/756/035/657/729/903/original/1341d5aa8966cb6e.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…lp2j there's a paper describing a microbe+chemistry situation where one kind of plastic gets converted to Tylenol/paracetamol npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Woke up from a dream where humans started metabolizing microplastics to become Lego people. Several people thought this sounded like one of the better outcomes of the whole microplastics mess." https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/12/15/miscellanea/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation #MicrosoftCopilot #AI "I'm still not even sure what it's supposed to do to improve my Windows experience. All it did was deteriorate my Windows experience until I was driven to hardware sabotage. " Even after removing everything related to Copilot, he could not stop the system from asking to install Copilot whenever he accidentally hit a certain key. So he pried the key off his keyboard and used glue to make sure its stub never moved again. https://www.tumblr.com/reasonablywittyatbest/803127085604438016 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "The Computer History Museum is doing an amazing job trying not just to preserve the history of the computer revolution, but to keep it alive by getting permission to release source code for classic software. The latest is the crowning achievement of the Knoll brothers, Photoshop: With the permission of Adobe Systems Inc., the Computer History Museum is pleased to make available, for non-commercial use, the source code to the 1990 version 1.0.1 of Photoshop. All the code is here with the exception of the MacApp applications library that was licensed from Apple. There are 179 files in the zipped folder, comprising about 128,000 lines of mostly uncommented but well-structured code. By line count, about 75% of the code is in Pascal, about 15% is in 68000 assembler language, and the rest is data of various sorts." https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/12/adobe-photoshop-1-0-source-code-now-available/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "The findings were surprising. Instead of degrading the fragile desert, the solar panels appeared to be giving it new life. From wasteland to microclimate One of the most remarkable discoveries was the improvement in soil health and overall ecological vitality beneath the panels: • Areas directly under the panels scored 0.4393 for “general” ecological health. • Transitional zones between the panels and the open desert rated lower, at 0.2858. • The untouched desert surrounding the site had the weakest score—0.2802. The reason? The panels provide constant shade, trapping moisture, lowering ground temperatures, and reducing evaporation. In dry regions where water is scarce, even small shifts in these factors can spark major changes—encouraging plant growth and supporting microscopic organisms vital for fertile soil." https://pubeurope.com/@ie/115727629724965176 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "The new vetting, however, is vague, and denials are based on discretion and policy." It's not just social media posts, either. The proposed rule indicates that ESTA applicants will also have to begin providing several other categories of "high value data" if they want to be granted permission to visit The Land of the Free. "When feasible," the proposed rule notes, ESTA applicants will have to provide a list of all email addresses (both personal and professional) used in the last decade; five years of telephone numbers for themselves and their families; the names of family members (parents, spouses, siblings, and children) as well as their dates, places of birth, and countries of residence; and biometric data that may include face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris scan records. Overall, the Trump administration's hostility to foreign visitors could lead to $30 billion in economic losses this year." https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/10/us_nonvisa_entry_five_years_social_media/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…heqq I rewatch an episode or two, now and then. npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…xujg I've been told that Scrooge paid his employees slightly more than what the US minimum wage would be if it were adjusted for inflation. npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Portland-area town posted this on Facebook "We’re getting a surge of messages about people pretending to be utility workers to enter homes. After speaking directly with PGE, NW Natural, and City leadership, they all confirmed: they NEVER go door-to-door asking to enter your home. "We’ve even seen scam attempts — including one case where someone was taken to the Portland ICE facility and later released. This is unacceptable. "Always ask for ID. Always verify. Utility workers must carry badges with a name, photo, and company logo "If in doubt, call: 📞 PGE: 800-542-8818 📞 NW Natural: 503-226-4211 📞 City of Gresham: 503-618-3000 Let’s look out for each other. Stay alert, stay safe, and stop spreading unverified information. Please…and thank you!" #pdx #gresham #portland #scams npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "DIRTY JOBS Goodhart’s Law in action: The Army Corps of Engineers hired contractors to clear debris after the 2017 wildfires in California, but unfortunately they paid by the ton, incentivizing the contractors to dig up a bunch of wet mud and use it to weigh down their loads. Filling in the holes left by the contractors is “estimated to cost another $3.5 million”." https://www.experimental-history.com/p/you-say-potato-i-say-leprosy npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Monday, December 1: Traditionally Published Authors — If your work is being published by a publisher a) who is not you and b) gets your books into actual, physical bookstores on a returnable basis, this is your day to tell people about your books. This includes comics/graphic novels and audiobooks. "Tuesday, December 2: Non-Traditionally Published Authors — Self-published? Electronically published? Or other? This is your day. This also includes comics/graphic novels and audiobooks. "Wednesday, December 3: Other Creators …" #bookstodon @nprofile…qy2x https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/28/the-2025-whatever-holiday-gift-guide-starts-monday/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation how many people reading this know what a 'foulard' is without looking it up? (hint: English) https://bots.petras.space/@vortaro/statuses/01KAYZMZF0DV3G6HR69GJ7PP7E npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more reusable." https://cacm.acm.org/news/a-message-to-the-computing-community-about-acms-transition-to-full-open-access/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…mfuv IIRC, one of the oldest known cities did not have doors: people entered their homes via a hole in the ceiling. they also buried their dead in the floor of their home. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ancient-proto-city-reveals-the-origin-of-home/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "In his view, though, humans are still at least one level above the chimps. “Many people say reflective rationality is the final stage, but I think you can go even further. What humans have is something I would call social rationality,” Engelmann claims. “We can discuss and comment on each other’s thinking and in that process make each other even more rational.” "Sometimes, at least in humans, social interactions can also increase our irrationality instead. But chimps don’t seem to have this problem. Engelmann’s team is currently running a study focused on whether the choices chimps make are influenced by the choices of their fellow chimps. “The chimps only followed the other chimp’s decision when the other chimp had better evidence,” Engelmann says. “In this sense, chimps seem to be more rational than humans.”" https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/the-evolution-of-rationality-how-chimps-process-conflicting-evidence/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "The novella, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, hit me like a gut-punch the first time I read it, and absolutely influenced an earlier novel of mine, a historical thriller called, The Strange Case of Isaac Crawley, where I tackle the doppelgänger theme with great delight, not to mention the original novella’s link to Jack the Ripper. What many don’t know is that while the novella was something to be reckoned with, it was the stage play that followed that took that story to another level of historical stardom. No one, at the time, had ever seen anything like it portrayed on stage, this horrific duality of nature, and it was so terrifyingly real that people fainted in their seats and a few got sick in the aisles, and in London, the actor Richard Mansfield’s performance of Mr. Hyde was so downright frightening many thought he might be Jack the Ripper himself! " https://crimereads.com/twins-and-doppelgangers-why-they-always-thrive-in-thrillers/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/551/382/794/799/888/original/92892c9cbee5e0ef.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/551/329/430/688/805/original/a2a97e2be33fd2a4.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://www.tumblr.com/sluttyquarantinetheory/799408301747191808 this is how you do it: https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/499/797/479/288/000/original/6874a5f941a58075.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Update (2025-11-04): Peter N Lewis: "As a long long time Apple user, the saddest thing about this report of mixed up keystrokes in typing is the trailing comment “It is just Apple being Apple”. How far has Apple fallen, that “Apple being Apple” means “Apple shipping buggy crap” and not “Apple paying attention to the details”. It’s heartbreaking really." https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/11/03/ios-18-and-ios-26-autocorrect/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "[The bats'] attacks on birds, which the team later identified as European robins, began with the bats climbing very high—up to 1.2 kilometers into the night sky over Spain, where the study took place. "The bats then started diving down, issuing bursts of echolocation buzzes to find their prey and lock onto a single target. The pursuit was significantly longer than the roughly 10 seconds that other bat species need to catch significantly weaker and lighter insects. It took a half a minute to nearly three minutes from the beginning of the dive to the last registered distress calls of an unlucky bird. “They most likely kill the birds with a bite,” Tena said. […] “Bats that managed to catch a bird did not land—their altitude did not change. They were consuming those birds mid-air.” Tena thinks the bats bite off the wings to reduce drag and the weight of the bird." https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/tracking-bats-as-they-hunt-birds-in-the-skies-above-europe/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "They call Portland a war zone because joy gives them hives. Show them a Pride flag and they start convulsing like someone unplugged their moral life support. They don’t fear violence; they fetishize it. What they fear is happiness, because happy people don’t need saviors or strongmen. They see laughter and call it an uprising. They see dancing and call it decay. They see freedom and reach for tear gas. What they crave isn’t order; it’s obedience. Not peace, but punishment. They want the whole country as joyless, constipated, and spiritually malnourished as they are, sitting in the dark, clutching their guns, baptizing their bitterness, and calling it patriotism. "Because joy terrifies them. Laughter cannot be licensed. Dancing does not pay taxes. Nudity refuses to wear shame. They shake at the sight of people who have nothing to hide. "And that is why Portland matters." https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115379680744711111 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation There's a fan theory [Lord of the Rings books] that when Tom Bombadil put on the One Ring, all of the Nazgûl burst into song and dance, wherever they were, until Tom took off the ring. #lotr #tolkien npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…lptk why was a freighter using a cloaking device? npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "legal blow in the U.K. as a High Court judge ruled the platform should be treated as a “category one” service, which would subject to certain user verification requirements. "The Online Safety Act requires category one platforms to offer users the ability to verify their identity and access tools that reduce their exposure to content from non-verified users. "Wikimedia, the parent company of Wikipedia, has said previously that it could limit visitor numbers from the U.K. in order to exempt it from category one status." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/why-the-uk-age-verification-law-has-led-to-backlash.html npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation Wikipedia has been banned in the UK, because Wikipedia refuses to require age verification from users in order to access the site. Other countries, including the US, are trying to put similar regulations in place. Basically, requiring people to identify themselves to access any content on the internet that their government considers “inappropriate for children”. This was supposed to be for pornography, but now, it’s so much more. npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "A new study published this week in The Lancet found that doctors who are given AI tools to assist with identifying potential cancer risks in patients get worse at making those same observations when they go back to doing it without AI’s help." https://gizmodo.com/doctors-were-worse-at-spotting-cancer-after-leaning-on-ai-study-finds-2000642527 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "…AOL's website explaining the dial-up shutdown… "According to 2022 US Census data, approximately 175,000 American households still connect to the Internet through dial-up services. These users typically live in rural areas where broadband infrastructure doesn't exist or remains prohibitively expensive to install." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/aol-will-finally-end-1991-dial-up-internet-service-thats-older-than-smartphones/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/007/722/816/876/607/original/5720562a6205a879.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "In fairness to Apple, not only are they perfectly within their rights to issue a cease and desist… but they have been super-nice and polite about the project saying things like “…it’s clear you’ve poured a great deal of care and passion into your work. We genuinely appreciate your enthusiasm for—and admiration of—the original Macintosh.”. They could have requested that the whole open source project be taken down from GitHub but are currently only requesting we stop selling the assembled units. So anyone can still build one themselves for their own use." https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/114984498135124388 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "In the statement, the labor union says it has “significant concerns” that the move may have been intended to bribe president Donald Trump into sanctioning Paramount’s pending acquisition by Skydance. Colbert is a frequent critic of Trump, having referred to Paramount’s recent $16 million settlement with the president as “a big fat bribe” only three days before the cancellation, and the WGA noted that the company could be “sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump Administration. (CBS, for its part, has said “The Late Show” was canceled as a “purely financial decision” […] "The WGA called Trump’s “60 Minutes” lawsuit, which prompted the settlement, “baseless,” and lamented that “Paramount’s decision comes against a backdrop of relentless attacks on a free press by President Trump, through lawsuits against CBS and ABC, threatened litigation of media organizations with critical coverage, and the unconscionable defunding of PBS and NPR.”…" https://flipboard.com/@variety/tv-t51gkop9z/-/a-BdHpmS3bRISFacLsZsoT8w%3Aa%3A1819762525-%2F0 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "You could legitimately make a fortune by parking outside of the DMV in a van with an inkjet printer, charging $5/page to people trying to get REALIDs who've been told they need to produce a printout of yet another bill or bank statement for the clerk to glance at and then shred." (I haven't tried to upgrade my driver's license to Real ID yet. So I can't fly anymore. This is part of larger problems I'm having with travel and health.) https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/789173207624286208/you-could-legitimately-make-a-fortune-by-parking npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Scientists often estimate population size by looking at genetic diversity. In general, more variation in the genome suggests a larger group. But when Akey’s team applied their tool, IBDmix, they found that much of the apparent diversity in #Neanderthal DNA actually came from genes inherited from modern humans, who had far larger populations. With this new insight, scientists lowered their estimate of the Neanderthal breeding population from about 3,400 individuals to roughly 2,400.Taken together, these findings help explain how Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil and genetic record around 30,000 years ago. "I don't like to say 'extinction,' because I think Neanderthals were largely absorbed," said Akey. His idea is that Neanderthal populations slowly shrank until the last survivors were folded into modern human communities.…" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250713032519.htm npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year, according to new data reported by The New York Times. "Due to AI, the traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise. It's the résumé equivalent of AI slop—call it "hiring slop," perhaps—that currently haunts social media and the web with sensational pictures and misleading information. The flood of #ChatGPT-crafted résumés and bot-submitted applications has created an arms race between job seekers and employers, with both sides deploying increasingly sophisticated AI tools in a bot-versus-bot standoff that is quickly spiraling out of control. "The Times illustrates the scale of the problem with the story of an HR consultant named Katie Tanner, who was so inundated with over 1,200 applications for a single remote role that she had to remove the post entirely and was still sorting through the applications …" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/the-resume-is-dying-and-ai-is-holding-the-smoking-gun/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation #DoctorWho https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/724/863/208/853/892/original/e0eb0394b71fc361.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation #murderBot https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/722/689/186/660/031/original/5a5456e10a32273f.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…h94j "…and that makes a royal fizzbinn, except on Fridays, of course." npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential #cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at #neural, #linguistic, and #behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term #educational implications of #LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in #learning." https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation Victor/Victoria on Tubi but gone in 12 days. #streaming #movies #tubi npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Cloudflare Project Galileo "I only just heard about this Cloudflare initiative, though it's been around for more than a decade: "If you are an organization working in #humanRights, civil society, #journalism, or democracy, you can apply for Project Galileo to get #free #cyberSecurity #protection from #Cloudflare. "It's effectively free denial-of-service protection for vulnerable targets in the civil rights public interest groups.…" https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/cloudflare-project-galileo/#atom-everything npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Doubt as a Tool "An #LLM can generate nearly endless propositions, claims, data, anecdotes, arguments, and interpretations. How much time do you have? What they can’t do is discern between them beyond the application of statistical probabilities—which can be highly accurate, though not always. We, on the other hand, still need to ask, Can we make the jump? Should we invest in the company? Should we take another drink? "That is to say, the only party bearing any risk is the human, and that presents a distinctive cognitive difference, possibly even an advantage. When an LLM presents us an answer, we have to decide to do something it can’t do—believe or disbelieve it. And, as Thon Taddeo says in A Canticle for Leibowitz, “A doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.” Let’s extend that: it should be applied to the outputs of LLMs and other generative AI tools.…" https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/machines-dont-believe-is-that-our-secret-advantage npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…lenj find out if anyone in that group is aware npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation TERFs hate this article https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation Which movie had this bit of dialog at a critical moment "more bad news"? It was probably popular in the late 1980s... action/comedy? #film #movie #id npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation Looking for 5e D&D modules for 6 players around level 5. Gonna try DMing. #dungeonsAndDragons npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…l8ml @nprofile…da38 My thermostat is as "dumb" as I insisted it should be. Either the fridge or the stove periodically makes a quiet beep that may indicate it wants to connect to an app, but so far they seem to work fine without internet access. Death to surveillance capitalism! npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Lifehacker: This Extension Gets Rid of YouTube’s Annoying Clutter. “If you wish YouTube behaved more like a tool and less like a dopamine factory, I recommend Untrap. This browser extension, available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, lets you make almost 300 tweaks to the YouTube website, allowing you to remove the distracting features and enable a few useful ones by default.” YOU CAN HIDE THE SHORTS" https://lifehacker.com/tech/youtube-untrap-browser-extension npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "In many balanced literacy classrooms, children are taught phonics and the cueing system. Some kids who are taught both approaches realize pretty quickly that sounding out a word is the most efficient and reliable way to know what it is. Those kids tend to have an easier time understanding the ways that sounds and letters relate. They'll drop the cueing strategies and begin building that big bank of instantly known words that is so necessary for skilled reading. "But some children will skip the sounding out if they're taught they have other options. Phonics is challenging for many kids. The cueing strategies seem quicker and easier at first. And by using context and memorizing a bunch of words, many children can look like good readers — until they get to about third grade, when their books begin to have more words, longer words, and fewer pictures. Then they're stuck…" https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Voters narrowly approved a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million in a statewide ballot referendum in November 2022. Advocates pushed, saying the new tax would bring in over $1 billion a year in new revenue to fund programs like free school lunches for students and free community college for state residents. But critics said it would likely force millionaires to leave the state. "The verdict: The new report found the number of ultra-wealthy residents in Massachusetts — those with at least $50 million or more — has actually grown since 2022, from 1,954 to 2,642 in 2024. The millionaires' tax also greatly surpassed its projections in the first year, generating S2.46 billion for the state in 2023 alone. State officials expect it to haul in the same amount of revenue annually. "This is further evidence that multi-millionaires are not fleeing the state in response to the new tax," said Shanique Rodriguez, executive director of the Massachusetts Voter Table." https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/28/massachusetts-millionaires-tax-institute-policy-studies-newsletter npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Apple is prohibited from: * Imposing any commission or any fee on purchases that consumers make outside an app, and as a consequence thereof, no reason exists to audit, monitor, track or require developers to report purchases or any other activity that consumers make outside an app; * Restricting or conditioning developers’ style, language, formatting, quantity, flow or placement of links for purchases outside an app; Excluding certain categories of apps and developers from obtaining link access; * Interfering with consumers’ choice to proceed in or out of an app by using anything other than a neutral message apprising users that they are going to a third-party site; and * Restricting a developer’s use of dynamic links that bring consumers to a specific product page in a logged-in state rather than to a statically defined page, including restricting apps from passing on product details, user details or other information that refers to the user intending to make a purchase.…" https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/01/court-orders-apply-to-comply-with-anti-steering-injunction/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/401/490/489/746/172/original/d0627cd07111465a.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/401/484/878/228/911/original/e081e318e99ca165.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/401/479/216/347/047/original/d03e2deb70714c0a.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation Beware financial "advisors" who profit from churning your retirement funds. A guy like that wasted away my parents' savings, and you can't sue them to get your money back. #dontPanic npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who lived through that period, I can tell you that it wasn’t much better on real hardware. Infinite HD has also been rebuilt to have some notable indie software from that era." #emulation #retroComputing #earlyMacOsX https://blog.persistent.info/2025/03/infinite-mac-os-x.html npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "You can do this! "I could have expedited the approval and avoided the Nonfinal Office Action step if I had identified and entered my mark correctly the first time as “A series of fiction works, namely printed novels and printed books.” And I should have attached the evidence of control affidavit along with the pictures of my published books and website. "To date, #writing a novel is my proudest and most difficult accomplishment. Believe me when I say that if you have written and #published two books, you are more than capable of applying for a #trademark of your author name. It will cost you time, patience, and $350, but it will protect your name, brand, and hard work. That’s priceless." https://janefriedman.com/ai-made-me-want-to-trademark-my-name/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Lazily porting code to a new library version via search "The truly magic moment for me came a few days ago. "My Gemini image segmentation tool was using the @nprofile…63de/generative-ai library which has been loudly deprecated in favor of the still in preview Google Gen AI SDK @nprofile…63de/genai library. "I did not feel like doing the work to upgrade. On a whim, I pasted my full HTML code (with inline JavaScript) into #ChatGPT o4-mini-high and prompted: "This code needs to be upgraded to the new recommended JavaScript library from Google. Figure out what that is and then look up enough documentation to port this code to it. "(I couldn't even be bothered to look up the name of the new library myself!) "... it did exactly that. It churned away thinking for 21 seconds, ran a bunch of searches, figured out the new library (which existed way outside of its training cut-off date), found the upgrade instructions and produced a new version of my code that worked perfectly." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…8una Ĉu tie estis viva grupo kun tubjo? https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/311/140/443/139/480/original/5d9777376054c65b.mp4 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…8una https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agile-testing-condensed-disponible-en-espa%C3%B1ol-claudia-badell-ygokf/ laudia Badell Claudia Badell Claudia Badell Software Testing Consultant, Agile Testing… ¡Este viernes quedó publicada la versión en Español del libro Agile Testing Condensed de Janet Gregory y Lisa Crispin ! npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs?si=PBNlMjMKJYZAPvB5 #Murderbot — Official Trailer | #Apple TV+ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/305/701/485/712/016/original/64bb75f7684d23b6.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/299/120/715/654/124/original/9b9a4e495d194527.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/299/100/715/899/143/original/a061a8a98b9856d2.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/299/098/405/529/729/original/69235d5f4de0be29.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Usually when we talk about #retrocomputing, we want to look at — and in — some old hardware. But [Z→Z] has a different approach: dissecting #MacPaint, the #Apple drawing program from the 1980s. "While the program looks antiquated by today’s standards, it was pretty hot stuff back in the day. Things we take for granted today were big deals at the time. For example, being able to erase a part of something you drew prompted applause at an early public demo. "We enjoyed the way the program was tested, too. A software “monkey” was made to type keys, move things, and click menus randomly. The teardown continues with a look inside the Pascal and assembly code with interesting algorithms like how the code would fill an area with color. "The program has been called “beautifully organized,” and [Z→Z] examines that assertion. Maybe the brilliance of it has been overstated, but it did work and it did influence many computer graphics programs over the years." https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/a-look-inside-macpaint/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/281/175/831/904/789/original/73140acde46880ff.png npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…h94j I think Tolkien would have used yards rather than meters as his first measurement choice. npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "…As called out in most of the reviews, the Snow Leopard announcement was a one-hour presentation showing tons of new things in the operating system, although that famous "zero new features" slide is all that people remember. There were tons of new APIs, tons of changes to existing APIs, dropping 32-bit machines completely, had a totally rewritten Finder, a totally rewritten QuickTime (a more commonly used app back then), and more. Yes, it was less user-facing features than was typical, but it was far from a "bug fixes only" release like it's been built up as in people's minds over the years. Snow Leopard would receive 8 updates over the next 2 years before its successor was released, and I think that 10.6.8 is what most people have in their minds as what Snow Leopard was from the start. Imagine if Apple released an update and spent 2 years refining it over and over, instead of what feels like getting it out in the fall and then immediately shifting focus to the next year's …" https://birchtree.me/blog/the-snow-leopard-weve-built-up-in-our-heads/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Moana 2 isn’t a simple voyage of self-discovery, it’s meant to be a story about togetherness and finding your people. "The whole journey is Moana searching for other people on other islands. She’s eager to find new nations. She’s excited to go on this grand adventure to ensure a future for the people of her own island. She takes new friends with her… and treats them like Pua and Heihei. "This creates a conflict between the theme of the story and the main characters actions. "Moana is acting like she’s on a journey of self-discovery – and you can argue she is, up to a point – but the main storyline is about finding other people. The big story and the small, personal stories aren’t synching up. "In the song ♫What Could Be Better Than This?♫ Moana sings to her team and tries to get them excited about their voyage of discovery. But when the team runs into trouble they don’t have a team building moment. Moana goes off on her own and gets a pep talk from Maui …" https://www.lianabrooks.com/storytelling-expectations-why-moana-2-doesnt-quite-work/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "It suggests that people higher in psychopathy interpret pain differently. Perhaps this explains why psychopathy relates to greater risk-taking and increased levels of violence or aggression towards others – they do not recognise feelings of pain in the same way as other people. "Usually, psychopathy relates to lower levels of physiological responses in threatening situations because they don't associate pain with fear or punishment. "The results of our study suggest that the difference in pain perception between high and low psychopathic people may be psychological rather than physiological. This could explain why there were differences in self-reports, but not in sweat responses.…" https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/sciencealert-3mvdqjtaz/-/a-dQjmUVvOSuqKGF_sF3LowA%3Aa%3A565656366-%2F0 npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "When companies advertise job openings, they often use buzzwords like “ambitious” and “self-reliant” to describe their ideal candidate. These traits sound appealing—what hiring manager wouldn’t want a driven employee? "But there’s a catch. In my latest study, published in the journal Management Science with co-authors Scott Jackson and Nick Seybert, I found that these terms may attract job applicants with more narcissistic tendencies. "As behavioral researchers in accounting, we are interested in executives who bend the rules. We decided to study job postings after noticing that the language used to describe an “ideal candidate” often included traits linked to narcissism. For example, narcissists tend to see themselves as highly creative and persuasive.…" https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/how-the-language-of-job-postings-can-attract-rule-bending-narcissists/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "When mortality was examined separately in the short and long term, a clear association was found in the short-term: the higher the level of physical activity, the lower the mortality risk. In the long term, however, those who were highly active did not differ from those who were sedentary in terms of mortality." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250313130533.htm npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "I just listened to a podcast with an A.I. research scientist. She said if you wouldn’t trust autocorrect to be in charge of a decision, then you shouldn’t trust another A.I. with it, so… that’s something to worry about " https://www.tumblr.com/ryns-ramblings/777567240070578176/derinthescarletpescatarian-lastoneout npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "… Lithium-ion batteries can ignite in the wrong circumstances, and when they do so they are extremely difficult to extinguish. Renault has a solution, and in a rare moment for the car industry, they are sharing it freely for all manufacturers to use. "The innovation in question is their Fireman Access Port, a standardized means for a fire crew to connect up their hoses directly to the battery pack and attack the fire at its source. An opening is covered by an adhesive disk designed to protect the cells, but breaks under a jet of high-pressure water. Thermal runaway can then be halted much more easily. "The licensing terms not only allow use of the access port itself, but also require any enhancements be shared with the rest of the community of automakers using the system. This was the part which caught our interest, because even if it doesn’t come from the same place as the licences we’re used to, it sounds a lot like open source to us.…" https://hackaday.com/2025/03/07/open-safety-in-the-auto-business-renault-shares-its-battery-fire-suppression-tech/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation @nprofile…mexe @nprofile…tk9u https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/127/757/160/006/138/original/463b460062372ba2.jpeg npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "And now for my big news: The Dragon from Chicago is one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. Needless to say, I am thrilled. (Thrilled!!!!) The winner will be announced on April 25, at a ceremony that kicks off the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the campus of University of Southern California. (I’ll be on a panel at the festival and signing books.) Cross your fingers for me, and drop by to say hi if you’re in the L.A. area." https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2025/03/07/rosie-the-riveters-texas-cousins-and-a-piece-of-big-news-at-the-end/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "MakeUseOf: Make Your Smartphone Photos More Dramatic With This Simple Trick. “Most smartphone shots are taken from eye level, but that’s exactly why they can feel dull. My favorite technique requires nothing more than crouching down and pointing up. It may sound simple, but this can have a dramatic impact on your photos.” #photography https://researchbuzz.me/2025/03/04/colorado-math-education-ai-tools-for-seniors-tiktok-more-tuesday-researchbuzz-march-4-2025/ npub1uhdxkjt2p66juwc3s0l4vn96acry3pf7lq5tlagu7ty4reqa323s4xt9wp Third Foundation "Researchers at Aalto University, Stanford University, and Texas A&M have found that the illness detection features common to modern smartwatches are advanced enough to help people make the call to stay home or mask up and avoid getting others sick. They note we’re already at 88% accuracy for early detection of COVID-19 and 90% for the flu. Combining data from a number of other studies on smartwatch accuracy, epidemiology, behavior, and biology, the researchers were able to model the possible outcomes of this early detection on the spread of future diseases. “Even just a 66-75 percent reduction in social contacts soon after detection by smartwatches — keeping in mind that that’s on a par with what you’d normally do if you had cold symptoms — can lead to a 40-65 percent decrease in disease transmission compared to someone isolating from the onset of symptoms,” says Märt Vesinurm.…" https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/smartwatches-could-flatten-the-curve-of-the-next-pandemic/