I don’t even know how this partnership happened but it’s a good seltzer 😆🍻
Drafts + Micro.blog
Woman started wildfires so she could flirt with sexy firefighters
A 44-year-old woman from Tripoli, Greece, was sentenced to three years imprisonment after deliberately starting two wildfires. Local media reports that she wanted to flirt with the sexy firefighters responding to douse the blazes, which did not spread far before being put out.
Sounds like one of those “only in America” things but not this time!
You don’t realize how fast time flies until 1Password tells you it’s been two weeks already and you need to manually type in your password again 😵💫
This robot is being controlled by a King oyster mushroom
When the researchers shined a UV light on the fungus, it triggered an electrical impulse that quickly sent a signal to the motors and actuators in two custom built robots.
This mostly feels like “powering a lightbulb with a potato v2.0” but the goal is to one day use fungi to monitor soil health. The robot thing is kinda click-baity but it’s cool they’re able to do something using electrical impulses from a mushroom. Reminds me of how they can “play a synth”
We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world
I like this guys’s take on defining what addiction and trauma are and how they correlate. Gotta figure out who you are before the healing starts 🧘
I love brutalist design. Especially when it’s something useful, like the Brutalist Report. I don’t remember who showed it to me, who runs it or how I even found it, but it’s a really good no bullshit way to get all the top news stories for the day
Live for today
I quit energy drinks
Little white lies about blue light
The frequently cited 2013 study about blue light and its affect on sleep had just 5 participants and questionable methodology…Melatonin levels—not sleep quality—were measured before and after the 30 minute experiment. There was no control group.
a 2021 study with 167 participants that tracked actual sleep quality between 3 groups of people…concluded there was no observable benefit from using Night Shift.
Reminds me of when Bionic Reading was going viral. It sounds like it makes sense but its probably just a really good placebo effect
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without the approval of publishers. In a decision on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that permitting the Internet Archive’s digital library would “allow for widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works.”
Honestly I’m a little surprised physical libraries haven’t been outright banned at this point 🤦
Labor Day is the dumbest holiday. Let’s honor the working class by making all of their checks a day late this week 😫
Thoughts on AI to help with little bits of code
In honor of bleptember 🫡
It's ok to disagree
I was talking to a coworker about his experience buying a car recently. Every time the salesman would suggest something, he’d push back like “eh I don’t like that color” or “yeah I don’t really like that brand.” Then the salesman would cave and agree like “oh yeah; that’s an ugly color. I hate Chevys too.”
He got annoyed and bought a car somewhere else. Don’t be a sycophant. It’s okay to have your own opinions, even if you’re a car salesman.
I thought I had this profound thought about picking the people in your life, etc then I realized it’s already a thing:
If you can’t change the people around you, change the people around you
Cheesy? Maybe. But I like it 😜
New VWs will answer some of your questions with ChatGPT
I was just reading about how people don’t want fancy tech packages in their car if it raises the price. Then I saw this article from The Verge:
Drivers in cars that support ChatGPT will need to be subscribed to VW’s Plus Speech with AI service to get it
…the company says when drivers ask for things like restaurant recommendations or for the chatbot to tell you a story, that will go to the cloud
It’s like onboard navigation. A shittier (paid) version of a free thing your phone can do and probably no one wants built into their car