Mike Stip!

you can’t cut back on understanding! you will regret this!

math videos be like: this small list is infinite

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

there is only one hope for humanity- the synthesizer

The rise of legal online gambling in the US is irredeemably evil

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?

i just accidentally ate the fortune in my fortune cookie. is that good or bad fortune

Anyway follow the ESA accounts (e.g., @esa.int and @science.esa.int) -- they are great and use good alt-text so their posts are accessible to all!

you love to see it

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

Tomorrow is the fifth annual April Cools! Let's celebrate with my favorite posts from the last few years: 2022: To Ace Exams, Get Better At The Easy Questions (predr.ag/blog/to-ace-...) by Predrag Gruevsky, with apparently an invalid handle. I've shared this post with others; it's real helpful!

learning metric conversion via whimsical vintage australian stamps

Another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of demand! And it's not just a short peak anymore. Batteries stayed above 20% of grid supply from 5.50pm to 9.35pm, almost four hours.

Centimeter Wavelengths xkcd.com/3224/

WARNING: MISCHIEVOUS CROWS

are there any more things like this

Let's all pour one out for Battletech pods, an absolutely insane experience that was launched before most of you were born.

why did google maps change its logo again. stupid-ass app

Using the marshmallow flavored peeps to explain Hyperreality.

is it bad coffee? yes do i love it? also yes

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

"in order to understand media consolidation, one must consider that it's not about what kind of media people want, it's about the worst they can tolerate," i say wisely while scrolling through the third reel of someone eating a gochujang melona popsicle

my uncle runs a place in Anchorage that serves fish and chips, and he named the half portion the "Texas size" which is just an incredible troll

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

caves of qud outsold cybertruck by like 5x in 2025

Heartwarmed and flattered by a new crop of folks getting into Caves of Qud on Switch. If you're having trouble with how deranged it is at the start, please stick with it: it gets much worse

This is, like, a couple kilobytes of text. It should *not* be such a huge amount that you have to break core browser features to optimize around.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

On 1 February 2026, batteries in CAISO never reached zero discharge rate while the sun was down, displacing gas and imports in California and supplying renewable electricity all night long. #energysky www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

took a sec for me to get it, but this is incredible (it's an interrupt joke)

Joint statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees: In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. This is an emergency. Please pay attention. kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...

Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.

I've only started reading this article and already it's great www.wired.com/story/phone-...

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

one of my favorite pages on the internet