“Hi it’s Elon. Can we be friends? Will you be my friend? I’ll give you a cybertruck I promise.”

Palo Alto Online

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices

Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk be...

Here’s a graph based on data from the Digest of Education Statistics, derived ultimately from IPEDS, both of which are overseen by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a federal agency that traces its roots to legislation passed in 1867, which been collecting data on U.S. educational enrollment and attainment since 1870, and whose staff were apparently all fired yesterday.

I assume this is a direct translation from the Māori that the surveyor wrote down thinking it referred to a feature of the landscape.

Very helpful and accurate answer from Google AI to a search about how many episodes are in this season of Severance. Carefully reasoned.

Should probably make a habit of just reposting this.

I made this graph just now—sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee—with free software and a subset of the four million data points provided for EVERY DAY since late 1981 publicly and without restriction by NOAA just on this measure alone. Now I wonder how much longer it will be possible to do this.

Jesus Christ

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After a day spent fighting with R about fonts, preventing the rise of authoritarianism in the US seems like a reasonable and achievable goal.

This Thiel Op-Ed is really nuts. I mean, truly. His focus of attention is like a pinball careening around in a machine where every bumper and paddle is a noisy, flashing conspiracy topic. I get more measured and carefully-reasoned emails on these topics every other week from mentally-ill cranks.

Client Challenge

On Instagram, this “Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” who is “Your realest source for life’s ups and downs”—it’s a bot created and managed by Meta—posts amongst other things about making imaginary charitable donations, complete with picture of imaginary boxes of coats. Oh, Jean Baudrillard, how the rock-kickers sneered at you back in the day.