Visual Juggling Robot 😄

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share. “Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count. First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you. Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would. Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands. Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick. Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you. The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

Ever wanted an AI that sees images AND talks without filters? Meet Qwen3.6-35B-A3B uncensored. This image-text-to-text model is abliterated, meaning it drops the usual guardrails for raw, uncensored conversations. It's a heretic in the best way possible.

This video makes me unreasonably happy I want to clap like a baby seal

This original medieval-style dance piece is in G minor, with a chord progression that alternates between Gm and Cm, incorporating variations like Gm6 and Cm6 for that hypnotic flow.

People who are far from electronics don’t realize how bad this PCB is. Look for example at the 3V and 3V− labels - they’re copper, and both labels are part of the circuit since they’re connected to traces! How stupid do you have to be to do something like that? Especially when you’re already using silkscreen?

Found this piece of nostalgia while sorting through old stuff. I charged it, and battery seems ok. Good, simple times - that was the top of BlackBerry hardware.

People in my office are complaining that the camera isn’t working.

空中配線展開催中です！ 空中配線スピーカー ハスのひまわり サボテンタワーなど……

Testing off-axis projection demo. Basic scene layout in Blender glb -> detailed splat via World Labs Three.js for engine MediaPipe for face tracking Next step is to add a character you can move around in the environment

My 2024 Triangle Tube boiler has started having ignition errors. I tried to contact tech support and just discovered that the company went out of business a few months ago. All warranties are void. Now I have an almost new $5k boiler and no way to fix it. Life is full of such surprises.😡

Startup idea: two-wheeled human-powered terrestrial locomotion apparatus that converts muscular force into torque and generates translational motion through rolling contact with a supporting surface.

NJ makes a portal to report ICE, and what happens? Pics of literal ice, freezers, and now electric bills demanding fixes. 😂 NJ residents win the internet again!

There’s a word, ‘pastoral’ - the idealization of country life. Sorry, city folks, but you aren’t building anything. Your crops will die while you’re playing with computers. Your livestock will get killed by predators or fall sick, and your broken robots will be useful only as scarecrows. The only thing that may happen is that your kids will eventually be running barefoot because you won’t have any money to spend on their shoes.

Grammar: The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.

Mikie Sherrill doubled down on Phil Murphy’s failed energy plan. Now rates are up 17–20%. To add insult to injury… she admitted it would cost New Jerseyans “an arm & a leg” — and said if you’re a “good person,” you’ll pay it. That’s not leadership. That’s arrogance—and New Jersey is paying the price. We need change. #ItsTime

BOMBSHELL 🚨 New Jersey Governor Candidate Mikie Sherrill got BUSTED cheating her way through the Naval Academy. It was so bad she did NOT walk with her Graduating Class. Clueless fraud then, clueless FRAUD now. VOTE @Jack4NJ!

Liberals are complaining that the Amish are now getting more work, after illegal immigrants have been deported.. I voted for this!! 👏👏

POETIC JUSTICE: Someone thought it would be funny to 'break' the escalator as soon as Trump stepped on. Presumably the same people 'broke' his teleprompter just as he began his 15 minute speech. Due to the 'malfunction' Trump extended is speech an additional 40 minutes - those who sought to silence him were awarded with almost an hour of solid gold from the president... 🤣🤣🤣