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Public infrastructure, built environment, and supporting resilient community. Honda Fit enthusiast. #PureMichigan

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Took the dog for an emergency morning walk just before rain hit.

07.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Great AI Arbitrage: making a killing before your client wises up There is a silent heist happening in the billable hours of every major software agency. We’ve entered a Golden Hour Β - a brief, high-stakes ...

This is a great history lesson on the mispricing of labor as technology cuts costs.

I’ve written how hourly billing fields are in an interesting spot when AI does hours of work in minutes. How long until clients figure it out?

This article argues software development faces this given Claude Code.

07.03.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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All batteries are recyclable. Here’s how to safely dispose of them in Michigan. β€’ Michigan Advance This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Michigan wants to improve how batteries are recycled in the state. Officials l...

All batteries are recyclable. Here’s how to safely dispose of them in Michigan. michiganadvance.com/2026/03/07/a...

From @iprnews.bsky.social and @grist.org

07.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of the reasons that the ~1990-2020 auto industry / highway agency plan for a national safety critical network of connected vehicles was completely unworkable and stupid.

07.03.2026 12:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GPSJAM GPS/GNSS Interference Map Maps showing daily possible GPS interference.

And how widespread is GPS jamming?

Really widespread. Today the problem is Europe and the Middle East. Even if Iran stops threatening to blow up tankers that entire region will probably permanently be a place where the safety of shipping and airline traffic will be permanently degraded.

gpsjam.org

06.03.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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GPS not working? It could be because of Pentagon testing. Pentagon weapons testing at eight U.S. bases, including Fort Hood, could disrupt satellite navigation signals across 800-mile swaths of Texas and other states.

my gps was sending me in circles and then the army was like okay yea sorry central Texas we are doing something weird www.expressnews.com/business/art... I was going in circles it kept re-orienting itself for my direction like popcorn and not actually the direction I was pointed

06.03.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Abdominal muscles make no sense in this physiology.

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Good Evening Motherfuckers it’s Friday

06.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 643 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 44

In the Expanse, there's no way Belters would develop a coherent culture.

07.03.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
USB is a stack of protocols which is over complicated. Many USB implementations are riddled with bugs and people are used to just
"disconnect and reconnect" when it crashes. See Raspberry Pl and how USB is a pile of shit, drivers are crashing and since they went with ethernet over usb, even ethernet is unreliable.
Implementing a working USB host support is ΓΌber-complicated and basically require your device to have a full blown operating system (Linux) This might sound "not a big problem" but it raises costs and development efforts a lot when all you want to produce is, eg, a audio speaker.
Compare this with just having a raw audio signal, and also think of when the dock connector was introduced (2002), when there was no Android in sight, USB support in Linux kernel was causing kernel panics when you plugged a USB pendrive, etc.
Even though it might be easier to deploy USB
today, it's still a complicated and unreliable bus, with many broken implementations and broken drivers. It's a total no-go in the industry world where things are supposed to be plugged in and then work 24/7 for months or years without crashing or without people having to disconnect and reconnect. I work in the industrial embedded field, I have worked in at least 3-4 projects where USB caused total failure and eventually forced a redesign to drop it. In the others, USB is avoided

USB is a stack of protocols which is over complicated. Many USB implementations are riddled with bugs and people are used to just "disconnect and reconnect" when it crashes. See Raspberry Pl and how USB is a pile of shit, drivers are crashing and since they went with ethernet over usb, even ethernet is unreliable. Implementing a working USB host support is ΓΌber-complicated and basically require your device to have a full blown operating system (Linux) This might sound "not a big problem" but it raises costs and development efforts a lot when all you want to produce is, eg, a audio speaker. Compare this with just having a raw audio signal, and also think of when the dock connector was introduced (2002), when there was no Android in sight, USB support in Linux kernel was causing kernel panics when you plugged a USB pendrive, etc. Even though it might be easier to deploy USB today, it's still a complicated and unreliable bus, with many broken implementations and broken drivers. It's a total no-go in the industry world where things are supposed to be plugged in and then work 24/7 for months or years without crashing or without people having to disconnect and reconnect. I work in the industrial embedded field, I have worked in at least 3-4 projects where USB caused total failure and eventually forced a redesign to drop it. In the others, USB is avoided

One of the reasons every device is basically an entire fully capable computer now

07.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 188 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 0

God created the universe and omnisciently tweaked its initial conditions, all towards enshrining a state and its people so it may build him a temple – the American highway system.

07.03.2026 05:49 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Make people dependent enough, and then.....MAKE IT SHITTY!

Got 1000 photos of your deceased mother? So sad. We'll make you pay to keep them!

God this is good. Thanks for expressing how I feel!!

#makeitshitty

07.03.2026 08:27 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet from Jack Posebiec, above a picture of the tanker bug from Starship Troopers (1997): "From this angle it is clear the Tanker Bug had just dropped her larva off at school and panicked when Rico threatened her"

Tweet from Jack Posebiec, above a picture of the tanker bug from Starship Troopers (1997): "From this angle it is clear the Tanker Bug had just dropped her larva off at school and panicked when Rico threatened her"

Rightwing influencers are so bad at interpreting source material that they can only do it correctly by accident, when they're trying to make a joke

12.01.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 3780 πŸ” 509 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 116

They only work on party ballons.

06.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought this was about Trump.

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This may be the oldest β€˜butthole’ imprint on Earth Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal ventβ€”the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay eggβ€”which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice

Important fossilized butthole news

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

06.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

Say what you will about Leroy Jenkins. But you know his name.

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Drum Fever YouTube video by peter tee

Fever

06.03.2026 08:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there's an entire cottage industry devoted to helping Californians evade emission control tests, and I can't help but wonder what happens when that model hits congestion charging and per-mile tax/fee regimes

05.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Wicked burn, really.

06.03.2026 06:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They said "successful," not accurate.

06.03.2026 06:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Policy OptionsΒ to Hedge the Worsening Human Costs of Online Sports BettingΒ  - Citizens Research Council of Michigan In a Nutshell:Β  Many states,Β includingΒ Michigan,Β have legalized onlineΒ gamblingΒ and sports betting in the last decade, which has led to a proliferation of the industry and significant economic impact,...

"The state has a variety of policy options to blunt some of the negative consequences of online sports betting without abolishing the market."

crcmich.org/policy-optio...

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The steak of the future may be growing in a Woburn office park Cultivated meat has been promised as a solution to the climate impacts of the meat industry for over a decade. The industry has had a few false starts, and thus far has failed to come to market at the...

Cultivated meat has been promised as a solution to the climate impacts of the meat industry for over a decade. The industry has had a few false starts, and thus far has failed to come to market at the scale needed to fulfill its promise to feed our future.

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05.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

remember the Mystery Fluid running through the gutters of Palo Alto from Tesla's headquarters?

@plainsite.org got the logs, it was tracer dyed water from a data center that the city spent 8 hours cleaning up

www.plainsite.org/documents/gi...

05.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 215 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5
According to the Storefront Safety Council, more than 100 vehicles collide with
buildings each day, with more than half of those occurring at retail shops, restaurants, or convenience stores. Each year, the council estimates as many as 16,000 people are injured and as many as 2,600 people are killed.

According to the Storefront Safety Council, more than 100 vehicles collide with buildings each day, with more than half of those occurring at retail shops, restaurants, or convenience stores. Each year, the council estimates as many as 16,000 people are injured and as many as 2,600 people are killed.

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05.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

God help us if the storms ever organize

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Gooning is a slang term for male masturbation. Agartha, a mythical white civilization promoted by the Nazi politician Heinrich Himmler, has been repopularized by the young online right.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314928484.html#storylink=cpy

Gooning is a slang term for male masturbation. Agartha, a mythical white civilization promoted by the Nazi politician Heinrich Himmler, has been repopularized by the young online right. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314928484.html#storylink=cpy

I'm tired of learning things against my will.

05.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I, too, have arrived at this conclusion, as I walk past all the empty retail at MacArthur BART

02.03.2026 07:21 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0