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The work that Perplexity has done with my 25 years of blog posts makes me wonder if there have been similar efforts by other bloggers. On the open web there are clear signs of people doing very similar things: giving … Continue reading →

Few foods feel more American than the hot dog, a mainstay at ballparks, street carts and Fourth of July barbecues. But to simply call hot dogs “American” is to miss a whole lot of nuance, and potentially offend local connoisseurs across the country.

The Trailseeker was Subaru’s best-selling electric SUV last month. Starting at under $40,000, the “go-anywhere, rugged SUV” offers a spacious interior, standard AWD, and a combined 375 horsepower.

I wrote about Maxinomics a couple of months ago. The team is still cranking out great videos. In the latest it asks and answers the question: “Is AI going to take my job? No. But, someone will take your job if … Continue reading →

Switching to just maintaining the server, the client is managed in rss.chat repo.

Changes

took the "testing/" out of the path for this project.

/scripting.com/code/testing/rssnetwork/ becomes /scripting.com/code/rssnetwork/

all the work was in the build script

nodeEditorSuite.utilities.buildRssNetwork

How to save a copy for Claude to read.

file.writewholefile (user.prefs.claudeFolder + "rssNetwork:misc:buildRssNetwork.opml", op.outlinetoxml (@config.nodeEditor.projects.rssNetwork.scripts))

ON THIS DAY in 1971, Pamela Courson found Doors frontman Jim Morrison dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment. The cause of death was heart failure. No autopsy was performed. Morrison was 27. A year before, a teenaged me had watched the Doors play live at Pittsburgh Civic Arena. Tension at the concert was […]

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Don’t miss this animated explainer showing what we learned about the court this term.

New on WordPress.com: tailor your newsletter signup experience and and let the support assistant handle your domain settings.

The salary of the president of the United States is $400,000 a year.

A note about the guided tour facility in the Pootlepress Blueprint Generator for the WordPress playground.

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Gazelle, Amflow, and Monarc, the CPSC wants to clamp down on e-bike safety regulations, DeSantis vetoed an e-bike safety bill in Florida, and more.

Volvo CE announced its first-ever electric articulated haul truck at last year’s Bauma construction expo; less than a year later, the first examples of Volvo’s new A30 Electric are in customers’ hands, doing real work.

[2026-07-03 Fri]: All right, quick video form of this post is at Yay Emacs 35: Reacting to Linkarzu's reaction to my video with Prot about newbies and starter kits - YouTube in case anyone wants. That's how it works, right? =) Hey hey hey, now I'm linkarzu-famous. =) ...

I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the Bill Simmons podcast, but that's because the Knicks won and the NBA is re-forming itself around the Knicks. It's so freaking unusual to have your team, which was once right up there with Charlotte, New Orleans...

I asked ChatGPT for this. "If we had a talking head version of ChatGPT, a human-like image of a person that spoke Claude's words what would it look like?" Claude's words coming through ChatGPT's image. There was a typo, I typed Claude when I meant ChatGPT. So I asked it correctly, with ChatGPT both times. Except I forgot to ask for an image, and got the text behind the image which is generous and revealing. I would vote for a politician who was this honorable, generous and idealistic, a modern day John McCain. Claude speaking from Claude's head, described in words by ChatGPT. Final image, Claude head speaking for Claude AI as an image. Claude speaking for Claude as rendered by ChatGPT.

At Portland International Airport, PDX, there have been some big changes. The years-long main terminal redevelopment is currently in its final phase. The 9-acre timber roof makes the terminal stand out as an architectural wonder. Timber for the structure came from local sources, including small family-owned lots and tribal lands. The timber was harvested within […]

Thanks to the AI-driven chip shortage, prices for phones, computers, and consoles are sky-high—and still climbing.

This is from a 2024 company presentation:

Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporary and unique state tags.

Flock calls it a “Vehicle Fingerprint” and it’s touted as a way for law enforcement officials to get more information “even when you don’t have full plate information,” the company’s presentation shows.

The company gives police officers the ability to search that data as well, to “build stronger cases with less information upfront.” That includes being able to locate multiple vehicles law enforcement officials believe are moving together and what Flock calls a “multi geo search.”...

Eurobike, the annual bicycle tradeshow that takes over Germany for several days each summer, always brings with it a fun array of new bikes and bike-related goodies. While the show wasn’t as big as it had been in previous years, there were still plenty of fun treats for the eyes and for the riding.

Check out the selection of fun takeaways below, in no order other than how they came out of my camera.

ZYN nicotine pouches, the FDA found, can be advertised as a less-harmful option for adult smokers. But quitting all tobacco and nicotine products remains the best idea.