Farmers have won the right to repair their John Deere Tractors.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
Whistleblowers contribute to our freedom
4/5/26
Reading this editorial about the publication of Careless People reminds me in no small way of the plot of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest. The difference, and it is as worrying as it as stark, is that in Larson’s book the danger is from a state actor not a corporation. It may feel like hyperbole for Mike Harpley to state that “[c]ompanies like Meta are wealthier than some countries and more powerful too.
Uterus in a box
3/28/26
According to a report in the MIT Technology Review1 la human uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time. The uterus survived for “1 day”2 though the scientists behind the experiment hope to extend that to a month in order to “study the menstrual cycle”. At the end of the piece they state that they hope to be able to gestate a whole person eventually. The machine keeping it alive resembles (according to the reporter) a metal box on the wheels and strictly speaking the uterus lives on top of rather than in it.
This is a signal boost more than anything:
An AI agent published a hit piece on me part 2
This stuff is worrying.
Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots
Which makes a change from bots posing as people I guess.
You what now?
Source: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyi…
Some things shouldn't be proprietary. This includes replacing brake pads.
11/16/25
On any level. Although Hyundai support the mandated J2534 standard (in the US) you do “need a subscription to Hyundai’s J2534 Diagnostic Tool Software, which costs $60 a week (or less over longer time blocks)” in order to use the interface. Replacing Brake Pads on a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Requires a Professional Mechanic’s Login
Dates are hard: github.com/torvalds/…
PSA: Samsung smart rings are spicy 🌶️🌶️🌶️
New shortest path algorithm: www.quantamagazine.org/new-metho…
5yo informs me that mermaids don’t wear hoodies… #colouredPencil #sketching #mermaid
We put ~88 characters in a line because that’s how our eyes work! When I moved to a wide screen monitor I discovered that 3 blocks of text could fit comfortably on my screen, with better widths than I could get on multiple monitors. The best line length
The impact of LLM’s on our lives will be both more, and less, dramatic than people realise. This is unlikely to end with the world exploding; which is not to suggest that it want be completely destroyed. For some it already is being.
People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”
Scammer: this is phone_company we’re going to cut your SIM off in 48 hours Me: yeah… no your not Scammer: how can you say that Me: because you’re not phone_company
Beautiful example of what I am reasonably sure is dryads saddle. Not sure enough to eat it mind.
Type “cous”, get recipes, press enter, phone “corrects” it to void, recipes vanish.
Appropriate I guess.
There is something very weird about a world in which I require a certificate to prove I can safely use ladder but here we are. I am safe for the next 5 years.
We found some insects in the park. (These were removed from our clothes not picked up from plants.)
Over the last few days I’ve had several of these messages spam. Do you think they realise the irony?
