Some of these are from The Brother, some are stuff that I dug up.

Let’s start with the sad news.

First, we lost Walter Koenig.

Then, we lost Patrick Stewart. This calls for Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

On to other news.

After much pushing on the internet, Gov. DeSantis signed an order making John Anderson’s “Seminole Wind” the State of Florida anthem.

An interesting byproduct of the Iran War was the administration waiving the Jones Act. From the article: “Since March, when the first waiver was issued, Puerto Rico has imported more than 800,000 barrels of propane from the mainland. That’s more than twice the amount of American propane shipped to Puerto Rico in the last 22 years combined.”

The Florida DMV was hacked.

So was Quest Labs.

But at least we’re getting exo-skeletons.

Big Time is getting rid of the leap second. I’m being a little facetious with the link, but the reasoning is interesting. “There’s an unprecedented reason for its retirement being brought forward: changes to the Earth’s rotation may soon require timekeepers to subtract time instead of adding it in order to keep astronomical time in line with atomic time. This has never been attempted before, and there are concerns that doing so could wreak havoc on critical infrastructure that relies on time synchronization.”

This is a thinkpiece on being worthless to Big Tech. A lot of it is not giving anymore data than needed and don’t be afraid to give them fake data. Do they really need your real birthday? Again, no solutions, only trade-offs.

How to turn off one of the Amazon Echoes more annoying features.

Learning another language helps brain health. It’s one of the reasons I’m working on Japanese on Duolingo.

Well, this would be interesting if I had fuck-you money. Because a two-foot long transforming SDF-1 is cool. Especially with tiny little veritechs and destroids.

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Award winners.

And a couple neat photos from NASA: Spider Crater and Lion Nebula