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The universe doesn’t care about your feelings

Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions (2022) by Sabine Hossenfelder opens with a warning that it might damage your mental health... wondering if the decision to pick it up had been made thirteen billion years ago. This review has been a draft post for 4 years.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/22/sabine-hossenfelder-says-the-universe-doesnt-care-about-your-feelings/

California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

Your 3D printer needs to be on a DOJ-approved list or it can't be sold in California. Disabling the surveillance software? That's a misdemeanor. 🐻

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/californias-new-bill-requires-doj-approved-3d-printers-that-report-on-themselves/

OpenClaw vs. a 475-page datasheet: let the robot do the transcribing 🦞🤖
testing 1 2 3 😎

Humans and Machines, a Phase Transition... The Ice Is Deciding What to Become

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/18/humans-and-machines-a-phase-transition-the-ice-is-deciding-what-to-become/

Update: Limor spoke with one person there, he said they are going to decide if Limor is banned or not.

@Sablebadger Guys like @cstross do this to women online all the time, more so to ones that do open-source or electronics (like Limor), even after being told he targeted a different company, person, etc, he let it ride and went for the shares and stars... one his most popular ones already. Check out the pile on, it's... piling.

@adafruit @cazabon

@adafruit @cazabon @cstross I gotta say I'm disappointed in @cstross for this. I mean it's one thing to be against AI, it's another to sabotage a small industry business like this.
@mrgm looks like this Guy @cstross start a pile on (we are not Arduino btw) any way, reply-guys and men telling Limor what to do, not to make hardware, get in line...