George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

To use the Montreal subway, you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. But how does it work? And how can the ticket be so cheap that it's disposable? I opened up the tiny NFC chip inside to find out more... 1/15

There's a floof among us...

There are so many quotable parts in this lmao https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

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"Mr. Brecheen was 22 years old on 9/11 and a healthy, able-bodied young man. He could have enlisted that day or in the many years afterward, but he did not. He declined to serve his country in uniform during a time of war. But more than 300,000 women *have* enlisted since 9/11."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-curious-cowardice-of-josh-brecheen

@thomasfuchs have you heard of the Cromenco Cyclops? It uses a decapsulated 1 kilobit DRAM chip as the image sensor and can be built from plans in Popular Electronics (Feb 1975). Here's a selfie at an astounding 32x32 pixels:

Happy first birthday to my baby Gemma

My "we have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often" T shirt has a lot of people asking questions answered by my shirt.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/inside-the-titan-submersible-disaster/

I haven't gotten any #YouTube content created by myself out in a while, but I am still working on this video about Webmaster (aka Skyggen), a Danish #cyberpunk movie about a #hacker on the run.
#hackers #hacking #history

While goofing around with a retired coil-on-plug pack, @MLE_online and I tried driving it far faster than spec. Fast enough to generate musical tones.

Please enjoy this rendition of "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Symphony #9 performed by sparky danger organ.

This hideous hack proved the concept is possible. But making it play WELL (bring it in tune, for starters) will take a lot more work.

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More on the NY Times 'lab leak' fiasco from This Week in Virology. Again, Kathleen Kingsburg, Patrick Healy and the opinion editors made a choice to give a platform to this nonsense from Alina Chan. It was a mistake. Here's a discussion among experts. https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

One more cool generator video - threading the rotor (the rotating bit) out of the stator (the stationary bit) on a 32MW synchronous generator.

You see the four poles with the magnetic windings sticking out around the rotor shaft - they call these “salient poles”. There’s also slip-rings on the rotor so it can get DC power (ballpark a hundred volts,
couple hundred amps) from the motor/generator exciter to energize the electromagnets (poles) on the rotor.

https://youtu.be/d4GwikOQh8s

WE’RE GETTING A NEW CAT!

Internet, please bid a warm welcome to Miss Saison du Pris, late of Boone County Animal Care and Control and arriving at Beercats Manor likely tomorrow after some last-minute routine tests.

The last picture on the right may well be the moment I became smitten.

#CatsOfMastodon

"While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity"

― NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman

The son gets it.

#JohnRose #JamieRaskin #DonaldTrump #GOP

A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it.
So now the philosophy professor and finance professor are suing for the right to punish their students who, outside of class, have abortions.
"Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not 'health care,'" University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneers in a federal court filing with professor John Hatfield.
Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of "voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse," students should not be allowed time off to get abortions.
If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students.
Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women "criminals."
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/

Remember our siblings who, for whatever reason, are not able to be their true selves this Pride Month.

#PrideMonth #Pride

Outstanding move!