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‘The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet’ Has Finally Been Identified

It’s been an incredible year for solving long-running internet mysteries. In May, investigators tracked down “The Backrooms” and in September investigators identified “Celebrity Number Six.” Now it seems that The Mysterious Song has been discovered. It’s called “Subways Of the Mind” by the band FEX.

OMG this is like discovering life on Mars lol I’ve been following this for years.

Perplexity CEO offers AI company’s services to replace striking NYT staff

“Hundreds of millions of people are depending on The Times’s journalism on Election Day and afterward, and it is troubling that the Tech Guild would try to block this public service at such a consequential moment for our country.” - AG Sulzberger, NYT’s publisher

“Hey AG Sulzberger @nytimes sorry to see this. Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election. DM me anytime here.” - Aravind Srinivas, CEO, Perplexity

Gross. This just goes to show the very real goal of some AI companies to replace humans with chatbots.

Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First

It had taken seven months and cost $50,000, but that cat was one of the first pets to be commercially cloned in the United States. Since then, a couple thousand dog, cat, and horse clones have followed, and every year the waiting list grows longer. Of course it does. Haven’t you ever wished your pet could live, if not forever, then at least as long as you? Now it can, sort of.

We’ve come a long way from Dolly the sheep 😳

I’ve been watching this TikTok page for a couple months and it’s been such an inspiration. Super sweet down to earth guy who laughed in the face of adversity and got his PhD in chemistry, in spite of people telling him it would never work. This video is my favorite. He talks about using your disadvantages as a super power. If you’re not crazy about TikTok, his home page is hobywedler.com

video: tiktok.com/@hobywedler/vi…

Nintendo made a music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers

It’s like Apple Music Classical but for Nintendo games

App Store | Google Play

Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media | Techdirt

I’m enthusiastic about Bluesky’s approach. I think the ATProtocol gives us the best chance of reaching that breakthrough. But I’m happy to see others trying different ideas as well, because all of these experiments will help bring us to a world where more people embrace decentralized systems and move away from old walled gardens

This is interesting. Bluesky is my first choice too. I really dig the fact that Micro.blog lets you comment via Bluesky or Mastodon ❤️ decentralization

These hornets break down alcohol so fast that they can’t get drunk

“To the best of our knowledge, Oriental hornets are the only animal in nature adapted to consuming alcohol as a metabolic fuel," said co-author Eran Levin of Tel Aviv University. “They show no signs of intoxication or illness, even after chronically consuming huge amounts of alcohol, and they eliminate it from their bodies very quickly.”

I wonder what they do to wind down at the end of the day

Power-sucking GenAI set to create mountain of e-waste

The study…indicates potential for rapid growth of e-waste from 2.6 kilotons each year in 2023 to between 400 kilotons and 2.5 million tons each year in 2030, when no waste reduction measures are considered.

AI can do some really amazing things but do its benefits outweigh 2.5 million tons of waste per year?

I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck

I was taking a right turn out of a convenience store driveway the other day, waiting for the traffic to go by, and noticed the driver, a female, was apparently laughing hysterically at my truck…Then today, I was at a four-way stop, and a guy in a Nissan Titan/Toyota Tundra or something smiled and then chuckled like: “What a tool.”

Hmmm I can’t think of any reasons someone would mock you for driving a sheet metal polygon that costs as much as a house and can’t survive an automatic car wash 😆

We can Terraform the American West – Casey Handmer’s blog

I like this. Terraform Earth before we terraform Mars.

The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

Loops…was developed by Daniel Supernault, who also created the federated Instagram rival Pixelfed. In fact, Loops will run under the Pixelfed project, according to an FAQ on its website.

This looks pretty cool! I registered an account and now I’m just waiting for the welcome email to come through. I wonder how it will hold up to TikTok. I think it’ll be difficult to pull in creators without any way to monetize, but then again look at everyone here who blogs every day just for fun. It might just be crazy enough to work

Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June

Single-use vapes are difficult to recycle and typically end up in landfill, where their batteries can leak harmful waste like battery acid, lithium, and mercury into the environment, the government said.

This is my biggest concern with disposable vapes. I use one daily, so I’m definitely a hypocrite here. One vape store out of dozens near me has a drop box for used ones and I always dump my old ones off there, but I still have to wonder whether or not they’re actually recycling them.