Modular 18650 Packs, No Spot Welding Required

Building a battery pack from 18650 cells traditionally requires patience, a spot welder, and a supply of nickel strip. But what if there was another way? [Ben] is here with Cell-Lock, a modular bat…

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🐑 "DeFlock" is the latest attempt to captivate our diminished #attention spans with a map of random #sheep #cams. Because who doesn't want to spend their precious life watching grass-munching fluff balls? 🌿📹 Clearly, humanity has peaked.
https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180 #DeFlock #span #internet #culture #sheepwatching #fluffballs #HackerNews #ngated
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Love Complex Automata? Don’t Miss The Archer

[Oliver Pett] loves creating automata; pieces of art whose physicality and motion come together to deliver something unique. [Oliver] also has a mission, and that mission is to complete the most co…

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#MissKittyPolitics So much coming. I think this is posture. If you catch up to my research that I've been doing about this shutdown you know that I said that the #Democrats would be able to get the the #victory and secure no #masks, body #cams, and real #warrants. They proved me wrong. Damn it!

Democrat slams US justice depa...
Democrat slams US justice department’s release of Epstein files: ‘we are witnessing a full-blown coverup’ – live

Jamie Raskin tells CNN Democrats will seek unredacted version of Jeffrey Epstein files after 3m pages released last week

the Guardian
#MissKittyPolitics #Politics This is definitely the #W I predicted. *-see 2nd box. I will ask the staff to help us out about the way forward after I catch up on those two teeny little details, #masks and body #cams.

Trump Administration Live Upda...
Senate Passes Spending Package but Partial Shutdown Looms

The New York Times

2025 sees intense wildfire year in the Northern Hemisphere

In 2025, the #Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (#CAMS) continued to track #wildfire #emissions worldwide, offering detailed insights into fire intensity, associated emissions and atmospheric impacts. Several parts of the world saw significant wildfire activity, with record high emissions in #Europe, and #Canada recording its second-highest annual total of #carbon emissions from wildfires since the start of the CAMS fire emissions dataset in 2003. CAMS estimates that global wildfires and #biomass burning released approximately 1380 megatonnes of carbon by the end of November 2025 (compared with 1850 and 1940 megatonnes of carbon in the January-November and annual respective totals of 2024), with Canada contributing 263 megatonnes of that total.

https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/2025-sees-intense-wildfire-year-northern-hemisphere

#ClimateScience
#ClimateCatastrophe

Why CAMS doesn't always prevent hospitalization | Kevin Crowley posted on the topic | LinkedIn

I did CAMS, but my client STILL needed the hospital. What did I do wrong? Maybe nothing at all. I've gotten this question quite a few times over the years. And it's a completely understandable one. Setbacks and potential hospitalization questions in suicide-focused care are among the more challenging and feared situations we'll navigate as providers. Isn't CAMS supposed to prevent this? Doesn't "perfect CAMS" mean we keep someone out of the hospital? Not necessarily. Certainly not every time. We often talk about CAMS as a potential alternative to hospitalization. And it is! Especially when we consider the extent to which the standard of care for providers can still boil down to "You have thoughts about suicide? Go right to the hospital!" CAMS's alternative holds that the presence of a thought does NOT mean the necessity of a hospital. Instead, the presence of a thought means the reality of pain. And clients are always worth a conversation around what their pain is, and what the least restrictive level of care is that can facilitate prevention and treatment. Sometimes, when we cull through SSF responses, behavioral observations and collateral contact, we have no choice but to conclude that the level of care this person needs now is a hospital. That can be hard for both people in the dyad to hold. Especially when we work so hard to dig, and dig, and find any other option. In those cases, even if the outcome is not what was desired, I encourage clinicians to consider the message they provided by working so hard to offer alternatives. Demonstrating that we want to show up for someone in their pain because they are worth a conversation is one of the most therapeutic things we can offer. And showing that there are treatment options available and waiting post-hospital that can actually make life worth living is invaluable.