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Texas Tech Explosion: Video of 'Green Flames' Goes Viral

Videos showing green flames erupting from a manhole cover following an explosion at Texas Tech University have drawn wide attention online.

A number of university buildings were evacuated following the explosion, including the university library. Power was also shut off across the campus.

Students were later allowed back into their halls of residence, but were instructed to avoid the university's Engineering Key area.

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you wanna see what $500 worth of LEDs looks like?
5 very large cob LEDs 180mm in diameter
close up of one cob LED next to a 100w cob led
one of the 6 strips of 206 led dies is dimly lit up each dot represents a 1.5w led die 1236 dies in total for a rated power around 2kw
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🏳️‍🌈Real-Time
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@MLE_online yes
a flashlight to blind God
working name is "Photon Pack" but I'm open to suggestions
@Emily Velasco
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Emily Velasco
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I would name it after a mythological god of light, like Xiuhtecuhtli or Nefertem

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“Anti-vax moms are pro-life moms who wanted to get an abortion” is the hardest punchline I’ve heard in a minute.

#comedy
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Dauood Naimyar on Instagram: "Measles outbreaks are happening all over the country because parents are refusing to vaccinate their children. #measles #ᴠᴀᴄᴄɪɴᴇssᴀᴠᴇʟɪᴠᴇs #prochoice #prolife"

368 likes, 17 comments - dauoodn on March 24, 2025: "Measles outbreaks are happening all over the country because parents are refusing to vaccinate their children. #measles #ᴠᴀᴄᴄɪɴᴇssᴀᴠᴇʟɪᴠᴇs #prochoice #prolife".
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#Comedy

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Wait til he finds out that trying to enter Signal's offices with the "doge" team uninvited is Breaking and Entering

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Mississippi, once ranked 49th in #education test scores, is now among the top 20 for 4th grade reading. The state's #literacy reforms offer a model for closing early literacy gaps nationwide. An education policy scholar explains:
buff.ly/mzbgZ5X #Edstadon

Mississippi’s education miracle: A model for global literacy reform

The state, once ranked near the bottom of education standings, dramatically improved student literacy rates while using little money.
The Conversation
#education #literacy #edstadon

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Appreciate the extremely clear instructions here.
Screenshot from a manual for an uninterruptible power supply showing how to change the battery. Large note under the how-to images reads: "Warning: take care not to inverse the polarity + (red) and - (black) when connecting the battery as this will destroy the device."
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looks like instructions from APC that lure one into a false sense of “that should be easy”.
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ducksauz 🦆
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@dr_a

It's actually from an Eaton UPS manual, but all the same in the end. I'm looking at them for a UPS for my new server, as they're better supported by nut.

I've changed the battery in my old APC Back-UPS unit a couple of times. Wasn't terrible, but wasn't great either.

@dr_a

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Ontario's premier says he's looking to "inflict as much pain as possible to the American people" while sparing Canadians, in response to auto tariffs brought by President Trump. cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.670…
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Greg Gordon 🇨🇦
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What about cutting off their electricity, or cancelling that Starlink contract? Oh yeah, rolled over. Typical Conservative bluster.
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mcc
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He did cancel the Starlink contract tho, eventually

cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay…

So I think if you want to criticize him a better angle would be to ask why he was so gung ho to open the contract in the first place. I think the contract might have a termination fee we're gonna have to pay now 🙁

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@Greg He said he was cancelling it and then he said he was not cancelling it and then he said he was cancelling it. So I do not think it is your fault if you are confused.
@Greg Gordon 🇨🇦

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inu no osanpo, arcade (2001) '..a dog walking simulation. players "walk" a virtual dog by walking on a treadmill & control the pet with a leash attached to a plastic dog in front of the player. the game was only released in japan.' archive.org/details/arcadia001… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inu_no_O…
a promotional shot showing a woman in revealing white is walking on a slanted treadmill, while looking back at the camera, smile on face, plastic dog in front. hand rails are on either side. a virtual poodle is on the screen with a virtual lead attached.

2001 simulation video game

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If you have strong opinions about "dolls" or "drone pilots" click here bsky.app/profile/ctrlcreep.bsk…
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I want to see a fleet of these little guys swarm a Cybertruck like crows driving an eagle out of town

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h/t @blaine for pointing to this amazing website


[Hot Item] High Quality Long Range 2 Person High Speed Mini EEC Coc Electric Car Pickup

Voltage: 72V Power: 6000W Seat No.: 2 Certification: EEC, CE, Coc Body Type: Closed Motor: 6000W
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This mouse is so delightfully over-the-top girly that I'm almost tempted to get it. Almost.

(Alas, I don't like that style of mouse wheel.)

A Logitech mouse with a white body, pink side panels, and an upper surface that is pink with dark pink and white speckles. The "logi" logo appears in pink letters on the trailing edge of the mouse that nestles under the user's palm.
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Trivial Einstein
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If I might ask, what type of mouse wheels are there? I've pretty much had one type ever since they started including them in mice, so if there's a better option, I'd love to know about it, particularly since my current mouse wheel is starting to go and I think I'll be replacing it sooner or later.
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@intransitivelie I like mouse wheels that allow you to push the wheel to the left or right, activating a "back" and "forward" command when using software where those commands are relevant. The mouse in the picture has a wheel without that side to side movement.

Alternatively, there are mice with a fixed mouse wheel without the side to side motion but have two buttons on the left side of the mouse which are accessible to one's thumb that function as "back" and "forward" command buttons.

@Trivial Einstein
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Trivial Einstein
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I see! I've never had one of those and it would probably drive me batty because I click the middle mouse button to do things *a lot* and if it did multiple things I'd probably do them by accident. I use the middle mouse button until it breaks, hard. My last two mice suffered catastrophic failure of mouse wheel for this very reason 😅
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@intransitivelie I think the pictured mouse has a middle click but not the side-to-side click that does "back" and "forward" commands.
@Trivial Einstein
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@intransitivelie To make things even more fancy, there are mice with wheels where you can turn off the "click, click, click" 1 to 3 line scrolling when moving the wheel, placing the mouse wheel into a mechanical mode where it spins freely. This is useful for rapid scrolling or scrolling in finer movements than the "click, click, click" line by line movement allows.
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@intransitivelie The Logitech Triathlon is a lower priced mouse which offers that option. Although, I prefer to just leave it in "free wheeling" mode because the "click, click, click" sensation is very harsh compared to other mice.

You can find if for much cheaper than the $39 manufacturer price on eBay.

logitech.com/en-us/shop/p/m720…


Logitech M720 Triathlon Multi-Computer Wireless Mouse

Logitech
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@intransitivelie Also, you can find the Triathlon bundled with keyboards as well. Costco sells this bundle sometimes.
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Trivial Einstein
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...I kinda like the click click click 😅

Seriously though, thanks for the info. I'll look into it, though I confess given my current monetary situation that the lure of a $3 Logitech knockoff from China may be too much for me. The cats like to knock my mice off the desk and I'd hate to do that to a fancy piece of tech.

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@intransitivelie Oh, yeah kitty destruction of tech is something I don't have to worry about. Sadly. I like cats but I don't currently live with any.
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I actually switched to wireless mice and keyboards because one of our cats, now sadly deceased, could bite through wires like a pair of pliers 😅 Dib destroyed so many pairs of headphones too. He didn't seem to do it maliciously, he just liked to do it, I guess. We really only worried about electrical wires, so we would wrap those in aquarium tubing or similar to keep him from electrocuting himself.

I'm sorry you're kitty-less. I saw that you got to visit one recently though. Maybe the cat delivery system will have one for you someday.

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@intransitivelie Oh gosh. I have heard stories about so many cats loving the chewy licorice goodness of electrical cords, wires, audio cables, and so on.

It does seem to be a thing for parts of feline-kind.

Alas, I don't have the kind of life that would be good for a cat friend. I am literally away from home for a week at a time when I'm at work. One week on, one week off.

I'll continue to find joy in other people's cat friends, I guess.

@Trivial Einstein
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Your schedule is a bit of a sticky wicket, I agree. But maybe someday.

*bad idea chimes in* ☝️😈 You could get multiple kitties who could entertain themselves while you're away! They sell automatic food dispensers and you could put up cameras to talk to them while you're at work!

🤪

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@intransitivelie LOL, that would be a solution but if they got into mischief, I would be miles away and unable to cat mom their little fur mischief in a safer direction.
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We regularly have to leave our five home alone for the day while we're at work and they manage to sleep most of the time, but that's the day. For a week, yeah, I agree, they'd probably get up to mischief greater than one would want 😅
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@intransitivelie I'll probably find that they've hacked my computers in my apartment and have re-engineered them into a kitty doomsday machine for control of the planet and the annihilation of human rule over the world.

Wait, I like this plan.

I'm going to see if I can gather a team of cat friends together at my apartment...

@Trivial Einstein
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Trivial Einstein
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If you've got an electric can opener and a bullhorn, you can call them from miles around 😅

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DC folx: Come see "Sylvan," my collaboration with Ceci Cole McInturff, at Freight Gallery in northeast D.C. on Sunday, March 30, 4–6PM.

The opening is the show; for these two hours, a working, hundred-year-old freight elevator is converted into a gallery space. freightgallery.com/

Made possible by Julia Bloom and DC CAH. 2414 Douglas St NE. Be there or be square.

An enigmatic detail photo shows a shiny ball covered in dappled light, reflecting onto a brown, concrete floor. It looks a bit like a spacecraft.

FREIGHT GALLERY

FREIGHT GALLERY
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I've had the privilege of showing at Freight Gallery once before. Here's what that looked like.
A glowing, flower-shaped metal sculpture stands in a dark elevator. It is covered in lights and screens glowing blue and orange.
From further away, the dramatic setting of Freight Gallery is more apparent: a long, dimly-lit hallway, ending in a small, square box: the elevator.

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Manhwa What A Bountiful Harvest, Demon Lord! (풍작이에요, 마왕님!) dalam Bahasa Indonesia
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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari What A Bountiful Harvest, Demon Lord! (Chapter 27) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
✨ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya!
👉 Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/443323
⏳ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya!
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Action #Adventure #Comedy #Fantasy

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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari What A Bountiful Harvest, Demon Lord! (Chapter 28) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
✨ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya!
👉 Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/443323
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#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Action #Adventure #Comedy #Fantasy

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@ThreeOhFour

fucking

finally.

A screenshot from gold rush, showing two brothers dancing in their cavern of riches
@Ben Chandler
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️
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I love this game so much. It's the game that got me into Sierra
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@foone wow, you picked the 🍾 of the sierra catalog to start off with! so few people know about this game, and it's so unique and a fucking pain in the ass
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@foone I love this game specifically because it's so unique and takes an established form and does something so different with it. A really good experiment!
@Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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anyone with an RS/6000 42T (or 41T) willing to measure the case badge on the front? i just need WxL and maybe a closeup photo. this is the only other picture i could find on the entire internet.
very blurry front panel of a 42T with the badge on the right circled.
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@muzej do you have one?
@Computer History Museum 🇸🇮
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29mm x 20.25mm
Any other measurements which you need?
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27 March 1909 | Norwegian Jewish woman of Polish origin, Gittel Hirsch, was born in Bergen.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Portrait photograph of a young woman. She is smiling and exposes her upper teeth. She is wearing a blouse with a collar. She has dark lush hair, combed very high. It covers her ears.
#auschwitz

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Can't buy one in Canada either!! 😤

Time to disconnect from American fossil fueled tarifd insanity!
#canpoli #cdnpoli #cars #ev
cnn.com/2025/03/26/cars/china-…

#cars #ev #cdnpoli #canpoli
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I was in Beijing in November, and it was amazing. 22 million people, freeways everywhere, virtually silent.

We haven't even gotten into trucks: made-in-china.com/showroom/kin…

Offer any rural Canadian a new 4x4 truck for $20K with manual window handles, no radio, and an 4x8 bed and the answer will be "shut up and take my money" - except we don't sell them here, or anything less than an $80+k luxury SUV with tiny beds and electronic tailgates that never work.


[Hot Item] Electric Mini Truck V100e, Suzuki Carry-Type Pick up

Model NO.: V100E After-sales Service: 1 Warranty: 1 Seat No.: 2 Type: FCEV Body Type: Closed
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@blaine @ErickaSimone That is pretty much the perfect truck for me. If only we could produce them or import them.
@Ericka Simone @blaine

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We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

▶️ Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: dair-institute.org/blog/techno…

▶️ A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: dair-institute.org/blog/educat…

▶️ An Internet for Our Elders: dair-institute.org/blog/elders…

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Nobody Owns The Technofuture

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
www.dair-institute.org
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Timnit Gebru (she/her).
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▶️ Closure for Families of the Missing: dair-institute.org/blog/eritre…

▶️ Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology: dair-institute.org/blog/decent…

Closure for Families of the Missing

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
www.dair-institute.org

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Medetomidine, an animal tranquilizer, is replacing xylazine in Philly street #fentanyl. An ER doc and a nurse explain how this creates new hurdles for health care providers and drug users:
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Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in Philly street fentanyl − creating new hurdles for health care providers and drug users

An emergency physician and nurse scientist explain what medetomidine is and how to respond if someone is overdosing on it.
The Conversation
#fentanyl

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WIP Wednesday 26 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development:

Draft: Roy_043 contributed several improvements and bugfixes including one for the bug where Near Snap would not obey the Always Snap setting.

Sketcher: PaddleStroke improved the way length is enforced in Line and Slot tools when an angle is set.

Part and PartDesign:

PaddleStroke added missing tooltips to Clone and Subshapebinder
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#DevelopmentUpdates


WIP Wednesday 26 March 2025

This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 contributed several improvements and bugfixes including one for the bug where Near Snap would not obey the Always Snap setting. Sketcher: PaddleStro…
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It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.

Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
apnews.com/video/turkish-stude…

It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.

tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03…

She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.

This is the new America.

Citizens are next.

Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions

The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
Rumeysa Ozturk (The Tufts Daily)
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Re: Rumeysa ~ Stasi tactics. Tufts needs to push back on a student abduction.
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Tody Motmot
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*AND* they transported her over state lines illegally.

A federal court had specifically ordered ICE not to transport her across state lines unless they notified the court.

It's here, if not in the AP article above.

(edit: according to the Guardian, the court's statement applies specifically to this student, Rumeysa Ozturk)

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…


Footage shows masked Ice agents detaining Tufts graduate student

Rumeysa Ozturk, Turkish national on a student visa, sent to Louisiana detention center over pro-Palestinian activism
José Olivares (The Guardian)
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I should really be asking what would @geerlingguy do?
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Ric Harvey 🇪🇺🌍💚 (@Ric@mastodon.squarecows.com)

Hmm k3s cluster or docker swarm cluster on my pi’s? What do you think folks? #raspberrypi
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Jeff Geerling
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"why not both"

And then automate both. And then build an Ansible playbook to switch the cluster between the two haha

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ok so i've worked with microcontrollers before but fuck if i know what to do with this specific thing. bought it on impulse because i liked the vibes, but now i need actual project ideas.

it's basically a raspberry pi pico in a handheld form factor with keyboard, screen, speakers, battery, etc. oh and GPIO on the side

what should i do with mine? i need ideas!! funny, wild, any ideas

The image shows a handheld electronic device with a screen and a full QWERTY keyboard. The device is labeled "Clockwork" at the top and "PicoCalc" on the right side, indicating it is a calculator. The screen displays a graph with a mountain-like shape and a command line at the top that reads "save image "output.bnp"". The keyboard includes function keys (F1 to F10), navigation keys (up, down, left, right), and a directional pad. The keys are black with white and green lettering, and the device has a green power indicator light on the right side. The background is a plain light gray, emphasizing the device. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B

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@pluralistic -- "Politicians who make themselves beholden to organized supporters who really care about the issues are armoring themselves against the enormous pressure on elected representatives to make compromises."

Schumer compromised and capitulated; "you're not a wartime consigliere, Chuck." It's time for leaders who will go to the mattresses.

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Pluralistic: The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing (26 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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@Cory Doctorow

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It's that time again. Homemade pizza time
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John Faulkenbury
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amazing, my favorite pizza. I call it "The Thackerville" because I discovered it on the menu at Tin Star Pizza in Thackerville OK about 10 years ago.

I just looked it up and it turns out that Tin Star is actually in nearby Ardmore OK. I am speechless.

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Fitting a Spell Checker into 64 kB

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Fitting A Spell Checker Into 64 KB

By some estimates, the English language contains over a million unique words. This is perhaps overly generous, but even conservative estimates generally put the number at over a hundred thousand. R…
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Raven Luni
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This is exactly the kind of thing I've been working on myself (trying to compress the text for my ZX Spectrum demake of Undertale)
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hackaday
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hackaday
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@RavenLuni Definitely keep us posted on that one! tips@hackaday.com when you're finished 😁
@Raven Luni

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Magnolia season: their blousey, bold and beautiful, momentarily here, then gone.

#flowers #photography #BloomScrolling #alttext #art

A portrait of a magnolia tree, full frame pinky blooms and branches in contrast, green complimentary buds inter dispersed.
#photography #bloomscrolling #art #Flowers #alttext

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A young ivy shoot on a very old elder tree. I love the light in this photo.
A young ivy shoot on a very old elder tree. The sunlight is highlighting all the intricate detail, especially in the moss and ferns.

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Coconut scented sunshine. ☀️ #bloomscrolling
Beautiful, vibrant yellow gorse flowers that smell of coconut.
#bloomscrolling

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NSC Chair: "Yeah, well, Mike Waltz, I guess he said, he claimed responsibility, I would imagine. Had nothing to do with anyone else. It was Mike, I guess. I don't know, I was told it was Mike."

He imagines a lot of stuff but can not be bothered to find the facts.

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#SignalGate #Insanity


‘Where was the president?’ Hayes on Trump’s alarming absence amid war plans group chat

Based on the group chat, it's not clear that the Commander-in-Chief made the final decision for the United States to bomb another country. "The core thing th...
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#insanity #signalgate

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I was laid off last month, so I had to scramble and build a new portfolio from scratch. Really happy with how it turned out!

🎨 I am primarily a UX/UI designer
🤖 I also do front end development
🏃‍♂️ I’d love to animate some stuff
🚀 Boosts appreciated

stublag.com/hello
#getfedihired #design


Paul Carroll

Paul Carroll is a designer and animator from Minneapolis, MN.
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#getfedihired #design
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Decided to go out in the backyard when the sun was still up and the rain was just starting.
Close up shot of a small cluster of light pink cherry blossoms. It's 6:45pm and our rain storm is just starting to trickle down. Some of the flowers are open or in the process of opening with drops of rain caught on a few petals. Criss crossing moss covered branches are slightly out of focus in the background.

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When you add new features to your legacy code
An air conditioning unit which has been taped to the back of a truck

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A taste of their own medicine. comicsands.com/moskowitz-waltz…

Moskowitz Mocks Michael Waltz Over Chat Emojis: VIDEO

Alan Herrera (Comic Sands)
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JimJoe
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I thought those were the universal signs flashed among the Jan 6th gang? Btw, can we get THIS gang on a plane to El Salvador?
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Freya Anduin, author
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and as far as I can read from Danish papers, the Chinese papers are having the time of their life mocking certain people and talking about loosing face.

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New work in progress: space filling curves and variegated floss
A cross-stitched Hilbert curve that fades between light and dark gray
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Rob
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I like DMC Coloris series much less than I expected so far - the colors change more often and more abruptly than what I’d like to see for this kind of project. It works for this piece (and the next one I have planned) but it’s busy. The variegated floss from the first piece was just perfect in terms of rate of change for a fifth-iteration curve.
Close up of Hilbert Curve cross stitch. Candy colors on a black fabrics.
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Rob
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Rob
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I’ve been working on the Hilbert all the live long day I’ve been working on the Hilbert just to pass the time away
More candy colored floss on black fabric - just over half a fifth iteration Hilbert curve

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Questrial, designed by Joe Prince and Laura Meseguer

During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages the official ones. Many African languages still lack typographic support, making it hard to write them correctly due to missing letters and diacritics in most fonts.
In post-colonial times and to address the lack of open source fonts for African languages, @googlefonts gave me the task of expanding Questrial for that purpose

More here:
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Questrial - Google Fonts

Questrial is the perfect font for body text and headlines on a website. It's modern style, suited with past characteristics of great typefaces, make it highly r
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The future is more stuff.

Slightly better stuff.

More marketing to convince us we need the slightly better stuff.

More debt to buy it.

More work to pay off the debt.

More environmental damage to produce it.

And more waste when we discard it for the next slightly better iteration.

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The Future is More Stuff

Let me tell you about my smartphone. Not the one I have now - the one I had in 2015. It took decent photos, browsed the web reasonably well, and let me text my friends. When it eventually died, I replaced it with a newer model that...
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if the systems aren’t explainable then you’re not a “Vibe Engineer” or a “Vibe Architect” as much as a “Vibe Eloi” to the AI’s Morlock. You have to wrangle the Morlocks into doing what you need and avoid being eaten

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From Fair Haven to Technomic Empires. - MapAI - Medium

For the best part of a decade, anyone who knows me has had their ear chewed off over the idea of conversational programming. But, what is it and why?
swardley (MapAI)
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