Mickey McManus

Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for certain iPods. “Sprout only replaces the motherboard and uses your iPod’s original parts. No soldering required, and fully reversible.” Bluetooth, WiFi, 500K songs, USB-C, even streaming. [certainthings.studio]

Free on Steam: The Onion Voting Simulator 3D. Enjoy a superior American election experience today. https://store.steampowered.com/app/5372440/The_Onion_Voting_Simulator_3D/

Awesome and somewhat surreal day today. Michael Lewis is in Pittsburgh to promote his book Blockers. He visited with faculty and postdocs from our department this morning. I get to interview him tonight on stage at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Hall tonight.

Zuckerberg's own employees confirm that he directed an intentional effort to throw the Brazilian election in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro, apparently because he understood this is what Trump wanted. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

I read the quote before I heard him say it in the clip and, no disrespect, his delivery was exactly as insane as I hoped

Had a great conversation this afternoon with my colleague @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com Steve Hassan on his live stream. We had a wide-ranging fast-paced discussion with lots of good info, just in time for the midterms! Have a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAoK...

You still have time to learn to make a creepy costume with wearable electronics⚡by buying a DIY Halloween Humble Bundle. You'll also support EFF with some of the proceeds! www.humblebundle.com/books/diy-e...

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

Annie “Ancho” Choi is a brilliant young artist whose wonderful animations landed her a gig working for the famed Studio Ghibli. This is a short compilation. [🎞️ anchoponcho] Original post

PictoLondon conference coming up end of next week: from meticulously hand-crafted character worlds to wide angled minimalist vignettes, from pitch black tales of a society in crisis to viral one liners... Only a handful of tickets left!

A rich and deep talk last night at @longnow.org with @baratunde.com & @blaiseaguera.bsky.social about interdependence… www.youtube.com/live/FPx_TTG...

Imagine tapping the screen for your chosen candidate and watching the machine switch your vote to Marsha Blackburn. Voters in Tennessee are sounding the alarm. Check your review screen carefully before you cast your ballot so your voice is actually heard. #TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime

Abdul El-Sayed on "MAGA bingo": The thing about MAGA is whenever they're talking, they are trying to distract you. Every time you hear one of those buzzwords, just remember: When they're distracting you, they're also trying to pick your pocket.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

It's that time of year when the first trampolines begin their migration south for the winter. #StormAusten

If you’re in London a fun please to visit in Earl’s Court area? A speakeasy! But be sure to have a good case for the detective to solve!

The flying car. It's just tragic. It's tempting to think that Musk got his cronies to make it just to own the libs, who'd bewail the emptiness of all that engineering nous being squandered on something so silly. But I don't think he even thought that much; he actually thinks it's really cool.

Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?” [youtube.com]

Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.

what is "funny" is that those are very clearly spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (articles 25 and 26), which was accepted by all UN members in 1948. It's not AOC's invention, it's not a radical idea of "the squad", it's the basis of civilized post-WWII society. But we forget.

Perfect

In case anyone is wondering about the vibes in Washington DC right now, you can buy this here

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

Amazing.😂

Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want

One for our “data collection process is model” slides

Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...

The dangers of flying too close to the sun… with robotic angel wings…https://partiful.com/e/nfIQX967M5xj1Br0GOt8?c=1OmXSvE0 ##sftechweek

Are you in the Bay Area next week for SF Techweek2026? Wanna learn about how you could make your own pair of 16’ robotic angel (or devil) wings? Free demo day and presale for the maker experience October 8th 3-5pm PT Come/share! luma.com/iwybkc04?tk=...

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books

Priceless… youtu.be/crNcV0k0aMQ?...

I feel like in solidarity I have to pull out of playing on Ed Sheran’s tour too. I feel like we can all agree on that!

IKEAs marketing team doing a bang up job

25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

My quote of the day The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Stephen Jay Gould

demonstrating reason and language capabilities in coat hooks alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

"Flock Safety says an automated maintenance system mistakenly triggered the reinstallation of license plate cameras that Grass Valley police had already removed after canceling the city's contract with the company." 🤦‍♂️ www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/v...

Pippen Windfall, a forced evolution experiment to ultimately give the power of personal computing to mitochondria. A bicycle for the mind is how Jobs described the Mac. So let’s give them to squirrels! (On the way down to mitochondria by way of IPSCs and morphogenesis.) vimeo.com/1223504631/0...

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yes please tell me how can I improve my name with AI

In Pittsburgh this week and care about artists, art, and a thriving and just society? Join us at silver eye gallery! us10.campaign-archive.com?u=b655f0e233...

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Earlier in the summer I suggested I’d do a thread on this gnarly paper. Better late than never. (Yes, it's more WTF biology.) 🧵 /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...