I like how if you are discussing some large amount of money via text—like, a house price, or a federal grant or something, it doesn't matter—and you write out the number, then no matter what the number is Apple Pay will helpfully pop up and be like Hey! You need to send this cash to someone???
@drdrang I loved this whimsical detail in the cement factory diagram. Reminded me of the oil refinery (constructed in the 1950s) that I used to work at a long time ago.
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices
Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk begin speaking.
Man, for an honorable warrior honorably guided by an honorable code of honorable honor I do seem to be killing a lot of people by sneaking up on them
Bad. I have upset more than one person in my life by introducing them to real butter instead of the tasteless pap it is somehow legal to sell under that name in this country. Upset because they realize they did not actually know what butter tasted like at all, and that they have been living a lie in Plato’s Margarine Cave, as it were.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0406/1505938-irish-butter-us-tariffs/Everything is fine over there
John Siracusa
