Thoughts

sometimes you just have to admire the work ethic of some scammers. i can barely keep up with a couple text message chains but this guy had 60+ people convinced they were in a relationship

The Clarity Act cloture vote has failed by a 49–50 margin; well short of the 60 votes needed. No Democrats crossed over to vote for the bill, and three Republicans voted against.

Senator Collins’ (R-ME) NO vote on Clarity was the most surprising today. She was defending the bill to constituents as recently as last week. My guess is she did not believe the bill had a chance to pass, and was more worried about defending a yes vote as her re-election prospects look slimmer.

Senators Hawley (R-MO) and Moran (R-KS), neither of whom are up for re-election, were the other NOs. They had already pledged to vote against the previous version of the bill, citing concerns from farmers over loan availability from local banks competing with stablecoins.

me and my runaway zucchini patch beg to differ

i had a zucchini so big that i could only use half of it in a meal i was making, and the remaining half alone is 550 grams

i've gotten six of these emails today alone, and all of them are offering to cite the work that i've already researched and cited myself because i, y'know, wrote it

• NVIDIA DGX Spark (AI-focused PC)
• Gemini Spark (AI agent)
• Meta Muse Spark (LLM)

can someone please inform these companies that there is more than one noun available to them

it's funny to me that the non-RGB versions of computer hardware now sometimes go for ~$20 more than the RGB

made some tiny stamps out of lino scraps to make labels for my jam jars

make bad art

A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."

Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.