In case people care, the maker of Boox devices flagrantly violates GPL license terms, basically stealing and profiting from open source code.

Edit: thread with details

Love my Supernote. One of the objects in my life that as soon as it breaks, I’m immediately buying a new one (or in the case of the newest model, replacement parts).

A similar game I’ve played is someone names a word, nothing crazy obscure, and a song with that word in its lyrics. To use your example, maybe “Sunday” and then Lithium. Next person has to come up with a song that has that lyric as well. Go until someone can’t, then start a new word. The one who ended the run could easily be made to take a drink if that’s your setting.

The Special Edition of this game is that you have to sing the line as “proof” that the lyric is in there.

Spies on you

Very true. Any publicly traded corporation is basically by definition operating as a psychopath. Sometimes we get lucky and they’re slightly less terrible than the others and sometimes that changes overnight.

I have heard a bit of that. I’m somewhat wary of the overall commoditization of cheap, dubiously sourced batteries in general. I feel like they’re getting big enough that maybe their brand is becoming valuable enough to raise their standards, but it’s a hard thing to measure. I think outside of the standard AA/AAA form factors, even Energizer is putting out some shaky quality these days.

Any specifics on why you’re anti-Anker? If the quality sucks, that can be improved. If they’re actively trying to destroy democracy and the middle class, that’s kind of different.

The agreement is only as good as the hospital’s vetting, so I may be a little optimistic after seeing a very thorough and protracted process on my side. If you work for a healthcare system that’s okay with Beacon and Oracle, then it may be time to evaluate whether they’re a good healthcare system to work for.

Medical AI has guardrails out the wazoo. By the time it’s made available to a physician, it’s probably been reviewed by a council, vetted by IT, and negotiated heavily by Legal. If the data leaves the premises, it’ll be thoroughly protected and isolated.

That said, fuck AI. I’d give up medical transcription to get the environment, economy, and sanity back. Musk’s data center is running dozens of natural gas turbines in a low-income, primarily Black neighborhood 11 miles down the road from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It’s positively ghoulish.

Somebody once tried to sell a box that would cancel all your streaming services and only fire the account back up for a month at a time when you wanted to stream something. It was a phenomenal idea with a genuine problem worth solving, completely torpedoed by the fact of the box costing $400 up front and I think requiring its own subscription.

Fuck Jeff Bezos. He’s a walking erectile dysfunction.

I used one a million years ago when I was a teenager and I hated it because it legit sounded like a lawnmower. Are they still so insanely loud?

• Michael Scott

Syphilus?

Lost wasn’t trying to be ridiculous, but got close. Damon Lindelof is a terrible writer who thinks “mystery” means “random unexplainable bullshit”.

David Lynch was doing it on purpose.

My approach:

Get really comfortable, making sure nothing is off balance, applying unneeded pressure, or likely to lead to soreness later. Make sure it’s not too bright, too noisy, too warm or cold. Then from head to toe, take stock of your body state and relax every muscle. Let your shoulders sink, your hands open, neck loosen. Sink into the bed. Exhale and you should feel like a pile of noodles.

Then just listen to your own breathing. Don’t breathe deeply, just breathe comfortably. Listen to the sound. The goal is literally to bore yourself to sleep. If you catch yourself thinking, stop. Just go back to the breathing. Don’t count, manage, or time anything. Just relax and breathe, listening to the air moving.

Hopefully, the next step is to wake up.

It’s not presented like a meme. Comes across more like a deception.

Fuck MAGA but this is photoshopped as hell

I’ll file it up there with “Space data centers” as if any part of that idea even remotely obeys basic physics.

So just put a 23 million square meter lens near the ground to focus it onto a smaller solar panel. Do I have to do ALL the thinking around here?

(/s because that lens would be so big)