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Anthony Ralphs has been speaking against Flock at San Diego City Council meetings for almost a year straight. When he showed up as Darth Vader, the world started watching.

One of the most common questions I get from readers isn’t just about speed or range anymore. Increasingly, I’m hearing more questions about battery safety.

People see the occasional viral video of an e-bike battery fire and wonder if they should be worried about charging their battery in the garage, apartment, or workshop. The reality is that quality lithium-ion batteries from reputable manufacturers are remarkably safe, but when failures do occur, they can be dramatic enough that many riders want an extra layer of protection.

That’s where products like Yolin’s lithium-ion battery charging cabinet come in. I recently spent some time testing the cabinet, and while I admittedly wasn’t sure what to expect going in, I came away more impressed than I anticipated.  

2 people in Pennsylvania have died from measles.

These are the first measles deaths within Pennsylvania in 35 years.

Host: The official X page for the White House posted this video of Trump at the Grand Prix. The internet quickly noticed that Natalie Harp was cropped out of the photo.

I take storing photos very seriously. Even with the EU outage this morning, there won’t be data loss. We put photos in a couple places in case something like this happens. For Mac users, I also love the Backup tab in our Micro.blog app. Full blog posts and photos backup in a single local file.

Micro.blog hosting is spread across Linode, AWS, and Hetzner. I’ve posted a couple of times about how Hetzner can be so inexpensive… Today I found out. Major outage with their S3-compatible storage.

Looking over the specs for the new Mac mini and Mac Studio. Not sure the Mac mini is a good box to put in the corner of your house running AI anymore. $900 base price. Would’ve been cool to have a stripped down MacBook Neo as a low-cost mini. I pay $14/month right now for my little OpenClaw server.

The first time I heard of Alejandra Driskell was in 2014, when the Texas Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit in Bexar County accusing her of practicing immigration law without a license. The assistant attorney general who’d filed the lawsuit against Driskell, her then-husband, and others was kind enough to include in the public record […]

The post Immigrants Keep Saying She’s Ripping Them Off. Why Won’t Texas Stop Her? appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Here’s my attempt to put all of the RAM/SSD configurations into condensed tables, so you can see which storage and memory options are available for each chip, and how much they cost.

“The Secret Service has said it is aware of a video broadcast by Iranian state media appearing to threaten Barron Trump, President Donald Trump’s son,” the Washington Post reports. “The footage, which was reportedly released by media linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, claimed a $10 million bounty had been placed on him.”

Nate Silver: “So much of my skeptical feeling, obviously, derives from Democrats’ long losing streak in Texas. But I’m not sure that tells you so much…” “But in politics even more so than in sports — at least in sports, there are plausibly psychological/clutch factors that models might not account for — this sort of […]

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A study of 50 new cars found that the compact but stylish Fiat 500e was America’s cheapest car to own and drive, beating out the Honda Civic Hybrid by nearly $1,300 per year.

And the second most affordable EV to own? It’s also from Stellantis.

Forbes: “A record 5% of non-exempt workers, employees who can receive minimum wage and overtime pay, across the 10 most populous states in the U.S. were paid below the minimum wage last year, according to a Cleveland Fed analysis drawing on Census Bureau data.” “Researchers estimated around 6.5 million workers in the U.S. were paid […]

“Archeologists are confronting an ‘unfathomable’ loss as the U.S. border wall is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites in Texas, many of which haven’t been fully studied,” Wired reports.

“A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to toss out her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking charges and 20-year prison sentence,” CBS News reports.

Discovered: Aug 25, 2026 13:53 (UTC) Cloudflare DNS issue? I couldn’t get holos.social’s Android app to work on my Pixel 7A my account if it ever works will be :-) @roland@rolandt.lol <– More info at holos.social

Discovered: Aug 25, 2026 13:49 (UTC) 100%, 50%, 25%, 15%, 10% CUSMA is a joke and so are the illegal tariffs and the embarrassing convict-led administration to the south of us. - Me on CoSocial