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Great insight.

Stripe's Tempo And The Ghost Of Facebook’s Libra’s Past https://www.forbes.com/sites/christiancatalini/2025/09/05/stripes-tempo-and-the-ghost-of-facebooks-libras-past/
September 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This thermal sand battery is brilliant.

Polar Night Energy https://polarnightenergy.com/
June 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The coolest feature yet to be properly utilized is shutting down on Android. I hope Apple keeps the iOS equivalent: AppClips.

Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage
Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage
The Google graveyard is growing.
www.theverge.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Go Forth and Discuss"

3 of my favorite languages:
• Go = server application language
• Forth = firmware debug language
• Discuss = my new programming language leveraging AI
April 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reposted by tetherpoint
Bluesky is currently centralized and there has been no proof beyond virtue signaling with an API (prove me wrong!)

Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps ... yet https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/government-censorship-comes-to-bluesky-but-not-its-third-party-apps-yet/
April 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Research similar to Motorola in 1999!

2025 HaptiCoil https://www.interactivedisplaylab.com/research/2025-hapticoil
April 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
beam-scanning makes these breakthrough lasers so much more awesome! I hope to never purchase a CO2 laser: bring on the 100W PCSELs!

Technology | Center of Excellence (COE) for Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers (PCSELs), Kyoto University https://pcsel-coe.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/technology/
March 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I'm still waiting for my 50W PCSEL galvo laser to cut clear acrylic

The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel https://spectrum.ieee.org/pcsel
March 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone https://hforsten.com/homemade-polarimetric-synthetic-aperture-radar-drone.html
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Better than Lithium

A Pinch of Salt Boosts Aluminum Batteries https://spectrum.ieee.org/aluminum-battery
February 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
January 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
January 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell for personal at home AI that handles 200B parameters.

My guess is that you may need an electric generator to run this lol
#AI #ces2025
January 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security/
December 30, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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November 7, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,009,000!
September 24, 2024 at 8:21 PM
When you create a trillicorn you can say ridiculous things and no one makes fun of you.

#trillicorn
February 21, 2024 at 3:36 AM