Ford Seeks Patent for Software That Records Your Conversations to Serve You Ads
If this kind of thing catches on I’m trading in my car for a Huffy. My phone already knows enough about me.
Instead of mindlessly scrolling “for you” feeds, I now spend that time reading posts from other bloggers I follow via RSS. It’s been a wonderful experience.
There’s great content out there, but you must curate it yourself. An RSS reader is a great way to do that.
I’ve been doing the same thing for a while now too. I blogged about quitting social media and shifting over to Micro.blog recently. I don’t think that would’ve been possible without a well curated RSS feed to fill the void!
I waited for the public beta of iOS 18 before I installed it on my daily driver last night. An official Apple ROM is obviously a lot more stable and easier to install, but it felt a little like the good ol' days circa 2013 when I used to flash a new custom ROM on my Android phone every week or two 🥲
The old man down the road
I woke up to the doorbell ringing this morning. Who in the hell could be here this early?
So I got up and opened the front door. There was this little old man standing there in a brown Member’s Only jacket and some khakis.
“Hey, I’m your neighbor from two houses down,” he said. “You guys have a grey cat?”
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
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 😫