Slate says its electric pickup will never track you

With no embedded modem, the Slate Truck is the antithesis of today's connected cars.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/slate-says-its-electric-pickup-will-never-track-you/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is cool: “In a study published in Apidologie, researchers at East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York, uncovered one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting solitary bees ever recorded, estimating that an average of about 5.6 million bees emerge from a single section of lawn each spring, with totals ranging from roughly 3.1 to 8 million.”

https://www.discovermagazine.com/up-to-8-million-bees-are-living-in-an-underground-network-beneath-this-cemetery-48977

while mama's away, the nestlings will PLAY!!!

chestnut-fronted macaw babies emerging to explore the trunk of their nest tree, too cute for my ❤️ to handle

(while parrots are a vulnerable family, this nest is on a road to a reserve where it is kept an eye on = not attractive to poachers)

#Birds #Birding #Parrots #Nest #Neotropics #Cute