Han dynasty tomb horses like this were meant to accompany the dead into the afterlife. The exaggerated open mouths and flared nostrils were deliberate. They were showing the horse mid-whinny to prove it was alive and spirited enough to serve its owner forever.
What also struck me while visiting an Nvidia robotics lab years ago was that the systems governing a lot of robotics should be open and interoperable because there's simply too much to do and creating moats is counterproductive.
I love riding the ferry on Comic Con weekend. Great costumes so far Kitsap!
Adrienne Rich or Lydia Davis (she's not a poet but she is)
I cackled!
This is the story of this explorer who lived roughly 1200 years ago. She would be considered well traveled even by today's standards. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrid_...
A close-up of the the figurehead of a ship with a hand on top of it. It is a sculpture made of bluish stone. It is unclear what animal it is but it seems a little silly.
The entire sculpture features a woman standing in a boat with the aforementioned figurehead and she has a baby or small man standing on her shoulder. The woman is looking ahead, wearing a cape, and has one arm jutting out with her hand on her head. She appears to be holding the hand of the tiny man who is on her shoulder with the hand that's on her head. The sculpture is standing in a field with a body of water in the deep background.
Here's a derpy figurehead on a sculpture of a famous Icelandic explorer.
A terracotta horse with a lively facial expression, a slightly open mouth, ears pricked up, and a bobbed tail. It seems very eager to be where it's at. It is Chinese and from 24 to 220 AD.
Look at this incredibly enthusiastic, 2,000-year-old terracotta horse at the Seattle Art Museum. I love a derpy animal sculpture.
Side of a Washington ferry boat and wooden pilings on the water. It's a sunny day with blue skies and deep blue water. The boat is white and green.
Is it possible to take a bad WSDOT ferry photo? Maybe.
Y'all, the FCC is celebrating National Consumer Protection Week. A fact I found surprising given the steps it has taken to make Broadband Labels less useful, slowing down the cybersecurity label for IoT devices, and essentially turning the public airwaves for broadcast TV into a corporate asset.
For $1,200 I need a lot more details on the physics-based research that makes this device work.
"Unlike traditional signal jammers that rely on strong radio interference, the device uses artificial intelligence, signal processing, and physics based research to target microphones directly."
If we survive this kakistocracy we really are probably going to have to completely rebuild the entirety of U.S. IT infrastructure
The reason for the delay is unclear. Ordinarily, the city has provided a .csv file within weeks of my request, but this time, they're saying it will be at least April, or 10 months after I requested a directory that was current as of last June.
If anyone has wondered why PubliCola hasn't updated our City of Seattle employee directory, which we've maintained ever since ex-mayor Jenny Durkan took it off the city's website 5 years ago), it's because the city hasn't provided the records. I asked in June, and just got another delay notice.
Sigh....
I am so sorry. I've been there. I've found body doubling to be helpful. Only in that I can tackle a few tasks, not that my brain actually changes. YMMV and I am happy to volunteer as a double.
Is it possible for a cellular provider to be private? They must know where your phone is, but can they not know who owns it? I ask Nick Merrill, founder of MVNO @phreeli.bsky.social, about their Double Blind Armadillo #privacy protocol.
podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2026/03/02/d...
Also, the lack of blinding pain fools you into thinking that you *could* be productive and then you just feel bad about yourself.
Feel better and take your meds.
Oh it's Thursday! I need to check in on the cyber attack going down on The Pitt.
I constantly dream that I have scheduled interviews that I have actually not scheduled and am baffled when they are not on my calendar. I just assume my brain is telling me who I should reach out to in the only way it can at 4 AM.
Logitech Keys-To-Go 2 Bluetooth keyboard with open battery tray and mini screwdriver.
Truly idiotic #ProductDesign: you need a special screwdriver to change the #Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 batteries.
They die soon, with little warning.
What if youβre traveling?
This should be taught at design school as an exemplary #fail.
#engineering
As someone who ran SETI or IBM's protein folding project back in the day, it's kind of sad to see a company using a consumers' bandwidth, IP address and compute for scraping the web for AI. And using that IP address to circumvent tools to prevent such scraping.
This story from @jank0.bsky.social detailing how Bright Data is turning smart TVs into the backbone of a giant residential proxy network for scanning public web pages has me wondering about the potential harms. It feels like turning consumers into digital drug mules of a sort.
Yes!
oh, sad.
Congratulations! And I am sad I will never see you on TWiT again π
wow. so everything. My car does show the make and a number. And yes, I have a huge issue with my car's lack of security. I had to make a phone call so it wouldn't post my actual name in 28pt font on the display every time I got in or out of the vehicle.
Does it show off a MAC addy, something else, or just an SSID? I am familiar with the concept, but don't know what information they actually show.
thank you!
