Notices by AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)

Gizmodo: "Microsoft is now trying a new, more inconspicuous strategy to keep users: When someone types “Google” into the Edge search bar, they are hit with a reskinned version of Bing that is made to look almost exactly like Google. Visit Bing and try it for yourself."

https://gizmodo.com/desperate-for-bing-users-microsoft-creates-sneaky-search-interface-that-looks-like-google-2000546313 #darkpatterns

@MiBaWi 😬

Your Favorite Billionaire not just happy with mucking up US politics, but apparently is mucking up UK politics, too.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxdzng92lno

Well, that didn't take long.

https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/

Always interesting to live in a time when people are either picking a party to accelerate the human race back into the dark ages (No vaccines! No weather forecasting! Women are property! Only white men are created equal!), or not.. and having it being a "close race" per media. 🤨

Gardening via bicycle. Also, how to make cars steer VERY wide of you on the road. #pitchfork #cycling #gardening

@vfrmedia @EverydayMoggie @ascentale @pete #BikeTooter Not the one I have, no access to the drive shaft (at least, not easily). That said, I was able to convert a treadmill into a bicycle trainer/generator fairly easily, I need to find those photos.

@ascentale @pete #BikeNite A2. I don't have a backup plan, but I did pick up a bicycle trainer (found on the side of the road, LOL) which works--I have considered using that instead of riding before, although sitting in my garage riding briskly to nowhere to do nothing seems... strange. (not a "cyclists for exercise" person, I cycle for utilitarian reasons, ha ha). Maybe if I get a disco ball and disco lights and have very loud music playing, and pretend I am trendy. (Edit: normally just sitting in the garage pedaling nowhere would seem to me to be senseless and stupid LOL)

@vfrmedia @EverydayMoggie @ascentale @pete #BikeNite Ha! Found it. Bicycle generator I made out of a treadmill (everything except the 2x4's there stripped off a treadmill). My challenge that day was to "build a bicycle generator out of treadmill found on the side of a road". #bikegenerator

Found a large bee in the house. #bee #dog

Ham radio/COOP weather stations on APRS near Asheville, NC in the last 24 hours vs. the last hour--near total loss of Internet/connectivity and or power in this region. #Asheville #NC #NCwx #Helene #hamradio #APRS

The Guardian: "... Reports continue to come in but, with at least nine dead and about 3,000 wounded in dozens, if not hundreds, of coordinated explosions ..." #Lebanon #PagerAttack #war #Israel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/hezbollah-pager-explosions-if-caused-by-the-mossad-would-be-a-big-escalation

"Dear Sister: our trip to Madeira has been wonderful! Aside from the airport being closed and the hills being on fire, the beaches have been wonderful, as long as you wear an N95 mask and don't breathe!"
https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/tourists-stranded-at-madeira-airport-portugal-as-wildfires-cause-perilous-travel-disruption-maximum-flights-cancelled-delayed-and-diverted/

#PostcardsFromTheAnthropocene #disasters #ClimateEmergency

LA Times: Experts blast CDC over refusal to test sewage for signs of H5N1 bird flu virus https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-10/experts-blast-cdc-over-refusal-to-test-sewage-for-signs-of-h5n1-bird-flu-virus #h5n1 #hpai #birdflu

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Largest U.S. fresh egg producer detects bird flu in chickens, halts production | PBS NewsHour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/largest-u-s-fresh-egg-producer-detects-bird-flu-in-chickens-halts-production

#hpai #h5n1 #birdflu #FoodSupply #eggs #inflation

The very wealthy people who complain the "system is rigged" neglect to mention it's typically very rigged in their favor, tax-wise. 🤔

Tesla paid no federal income taxes while paying executives $2.5 billion over five years
https://www.engadget.com/tesla-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-while-paying-executives-25-billion-over-five-years-154529907.html

Cheap way to reduce drafts and energy usage in a home: insulating gaskets for your outlets. 18 to 20 cents each in bulk. Invisible once you install the wall plate. #insulation #diy #weatherization

A moment of historic danger:
It is still 90 seconds to midnight

2024 Doomsday Clock Statement

Science and Security Board
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

#doomsdayclock #doomsday #AtomicScientists https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/

BBC: 2023 confirmed as world's hottest year on record. "The margin of some of these records - which you can see on the chart below - is "really astonishing", Prof Dessler says, considering they are averages across the whole world." #climate #heatwaves #weather #wx https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67861954?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=mastodon

@paul @ummjackson Ah yes, forgot, Mozilla not really a non-profit anymore. Kind of like the Red Cross (which has a giant business supplying blood to hospitals).