Two devices, one command. My Nest Hub and phone both try to answer when I say “OK Google.” Gemini seems to relay the command to Assistant, causing overlap. A strange fix works: add a pause or say “please” after the trigger. It gives the devices just enough time to sync responses.

#GoogleAssistant #GeminiAI #SmartHome #Google #Weird #WeirdFix

I came across this today and I can't tell you how true it is. Even from my perspective being an older man, I graduated high school in 1997 and to this day I find I have to define for myself what it means to be a man. Through no problem with my own father, who I have a sense struggles with the exact same thing but does not know how to talk about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/upshot/boys-men-mentors.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

#MaleRoleModels, #MenInEducation, #PositiveMasculinity, #NYTimes

I'm still working on my new system, which I've decided to call (for now) "Aetherfall". In doing this I've been thinking about how I want to make a variety of races with scientific underpinnings.

https://db.moltenaether.com/en/content/life-types

#WorldBuilding #SpeculativeBiology #Aetherfall #AlienRaces #SciFi #ScienceFantasy #TTRPG #SpaceOpera #Exobiology #RPG

So I had this idea randomly of like how to maybe do a Shadow World that has some science behind it.

https://www.tumblr.com/uthertibbs/773658005662269440/a-shadow-realm-w-chirality-and-science?source=share

#sciencefiction, #scifi, #speculativebiology, #speculativeevolution, #worldbuilding, #fantasybiology, #creaturedesign

My mom has to go in for brain surgery, anyone who is religiously minded enough and wouldn't mind, please say a prayer to your deity of natural force of choice that she will be alright.

#medical #worry #hope #parents #surgery #prayer #PrayerRequest