Soviet Venus lander #Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit. What a ride. space.com/space-explorat…

This was such a great Hidden Forces episode, for both the tech nostalgia and The Rest Of The Story relative to Apple and China. I promptly added this book by Patrick McGee to my reading list.

The Robot Apocalypse has been postponed - or at least the robot arms that attack our socks. Roborock is making good progress though. nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…

This is stunning. These #Veo3 prompts create video clips that are more real than... reality?

Love #podcasts 👍 Hate when podcasters promise details in the show notes but don't deliver 👎

How to deal with mosquito bites. Sort of. With no side effects. nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…

Looking forward to the landing of the ispace #RESILIENCE #LunarLanding in about a half hour. Streaming now youtube.com/watch?v=BVSMXQ…

Happy #NationalDonutDay for those that celebrate. How do YOU celebrate it?

It's #WorldBloodDonorDay Thanks to all of those who #GiveLife who.int/campaigns/worl…

Congrats to Apple for adding Apple Podcasts to iTunes 20 years ago today. Apple didn't develop the underlying technologies, but they certainly helped popularize what became known as "podcasts." #TodayInHistory descript.com/blog/article/h…

Happy #CanadaDay to our neighbors to the North 🇨🇦

Hundreds of earthquakes at Mount Rainier today - the largest earthquake swarm since 2009 - but USGS Volcanoes🌋 says no worries. Feeling better now?

One of the available perks for backing this Space Command crowdfunding campaign is a personalized #SpaceCommand avatar, illustrated by artist Hal Hefner. Check-out mine!

Any idea what to do with used bread tabs? (Please, no more clickbait ads telling me to use them as emergency guitar picks or security devices.)

I'm all for nostalgia, but I'm not sure that chips flavored like a 9 Volt battery are the kind of nostalgic that I'm looking for. What do you think? dexerto.com/food/new-snack…

Today was #PaperbackBookDay I feel bad that I was reading an eBook instead

Trouble with the holodeck - wait, the Enterprise on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has a holodeck? So wrong, but what a ride! Kudos to Christina Chong for following in Brent Spiner's footsteps, challenging the computer to outwit her. #STTNW

One of the problems with large language models is we conflate fluency with authoritativeness. If you're a convincing talker, people think you know what you're talking about, and that of course is not necessarily true for humans [or] AI systems - Ed Lazowska via GeekWire podcast

Today was National Book Lovers Day Did you read a book today? #NationalBookLoversDay

Talk about nostalgia, AOL is finally shutting down dialup service after a third of a century of that nostalgic modem connection tone. When did you stop using dialup - or do you even know what we're talking about? theverge.com/news/757194/ao…