Did you turn both pieces? Or some other process for the disc?

In a potentially more ominous development, SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, and the University of Southern California have in separate legal actions challenged the constitutionality of the NLRB

Nuts, didn’t realize Trader Joe’s was on the evil list.

Lots of useful examples in the article though, thanks for sharing.

OK I won’t read to much from a mouse model experiment yet but this is amazing:

members of the research team built something that had not previously existed: a mouse model of weightlifting.

In this model, mice lived in specially designed cages where food was accessed through a hinged, weighted lid. To eat, the mice had to lift the lid while wearing a small shoulder collar, causing a squat-like movement that engaged the muscle contractions people use during resistance exercise. The load was gradually increased over several days, mimicking progressive strength training.

“You know what I want to research? Mice doing squats.”

Cool! How did you do the joints?

Thought I recognized the style — credit to xkcd. Please cite your source / sorry if I missed it!

Demographic data gathering, or training visual models for infantry drones to follow hand signals? ¿Porque no los dos?

So far the thorns seem to be deterring the squirrels!

The landing page doesn’t really show any of the cool stuff.

While these fines may seem exorbitant, it is worrying that the financial impact of such punishments rarely acts as a deterrent to these large technology companies, whose market capitalisation runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Yeah. We need the equivalent of the giant “stop work” stickers that get plastered on a building’s front door when construction doesn’t have a permit. Otherwise it’s just another operating cost to pass along to VCs/users.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security denied Polestar an authorization under the current Connected Vehicle Rule to sell cars in the U.S. from model year 2027 on. That’s because Polestar is a subsidiary of Geely, a Chinese automaker. Ironically, Polestar’s sister brand, also owned by Geely, Volvo, was granted the authorization in May.

What’s the Connected Vehicle Rule? From the Bureau of Industry and Security (is that a thing?):

On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a rule restricting the import and sale of certain connected vehicles and related hardware/software linked to China or Russia. BIS determined these transactions pose national security risks, as companies from these countries may be compelled to share data or allow remote access to connected vehicles in the United States.

So, the reported ban seems capricious, but I wouldn’t mind one solution: stop making cars connected. The key fob uses its local protocol for lock/unlock and remote start, my phone uses bluetooth for charge controls and status, and there’s a scren that uses Android Auto. Car companies stop trying to write UX and network stacks.

What’s the lived experience of the workers there whom you trust? Do you have evidence of leaders in the organization making hard choices to do the right thing?

Very helpful, and very hard to get around if you don’t already have a connection.

Though in my experience, people will tell you a fair amount about the organization indirectly; and will often answer direct questions.

I worked at a company making a project to auto detect poopy diapers (help new parents change them quicker and track schedules — unclear if there’s real benefit but anyway). It turned out to be surprisingly hard to differentiate poop from other organic odors, like coffee.

Anyway, I could see better auto olfactory sensors having applications outside of food.

Yeah, “if you put a key under the mat for the cops, then you might unexpectedly have cops in your house” is plenty bad.

And because SMS 2FA is actually opening a common attack vector. I have yet to find a credit union I qualify for that uses TOTP or Yibikey.

Bluetooth also had variable and high latency, which makes it unusable for quick-reaction / rhythm games.

Are people not trusted to pinch their own noses?

When they compared cartilage from young and old mice, they found that levels of 15-PGDH approximately doubled with age. To test the idea, researchers treated older mice with a small molecule drug that blocks 15-PGDH activity. [And cartilage regrew.]

Sounds very promising! I couldn’t figure out the peer-reviewed-ness status.

Slate’ service partner blurb at least has some sound bites related to ease of repair. But aren’t they also a ‘our car only has 3 parts’ company?

I was just looking at the tree outside my window smirking at me. They’re everywhere!

Ionescu decided to use the chip’s ability to handle the old Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP).

With it, he turned the unit into a very basic 56K modem equivalent. He then added uIP 0.9 code to enable TCP/IP communication and web serving.

Hah, cool. I was wondering if it has WiFi, serial stuff makes more sense.

The ecig waste is tragic though.