1h ago@thomholwerda HaD always was independent and nerdly cool, and hasn't changed their staff or outward appearance much since being bought. It's still in line with what the editors were saying when announcing the sale a couple years ago.
My canary in these indie-blog coal mines is if the main editors all go silent around the same time. That often indicates a new corporate policy spelling doom for their independence.
1h agoMy hobby: figuring out who owns which scrappy-looking website pretending to be independent and cool!
Hackaday.com is owned by Siemens.
3h ago4h agothis should've been a poll of [tuck into bed] & [chuck out of window] [muck about loudly (don't want to vote)]
4h agochange happening slowly is... not quite the whole story
more like plate tectonics
pressure builds and motion slows until it gives violently
and then the rate of change abruptly slows again
4h ago4h agoReading the subreddit /r/ManualTransmissions is really incredible, because it’s full of tips on how to drive a manual and I’m like… I do none of these things while operating a manual car. But also, it is so strange how elitist these people are about driving a manual, there’s a strange amount of superiority complex.
4h agoi hope im not only a fedi account and friend, but also a sort of baby sensory video to y'all <3
5h agoif they made the nerd emoji into a greek god they'd name them Specificles
5h agoYou can put in water to that water melon, and it will be water flavoured
5h agoContinuing with Norwegian church theme. A quick stop in Borgund. #Norway
5h ago5h ago5h agoYou gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.
I now travel with a portable CO2 monitor. Outdoors it reads around 400 parts per million. In a closed meeting room with a handful of people in it, I have watched it climb past 2,000. The photo here is a real reading: 2,143.
That number matters more than it looks. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put people in a chamber and varied only the CO2. At 1,000 ppm, performance dropped significantly on six of nine decision-making measures compared with a clean-air baseline of 600. At 2,500 ppm, seven of the nine fell substantially, some into a range they called dysfunctional. A separate study out of Harvard found cognitive scores declining as CO2 rose, with the steepest losses in exactly the domains you called the meeting for: strategy, planning, and using information under pressure.
Continue reading on my blog because it's too long for here. https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/
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5h ago5h ago5h agopress arrow keys to tilt
#pico8 #dailycarts
5h ago5h agothe phrase womens studies always calls to mind the imagery of placing a woman in a comically large glass jar with air holes to study her