I pay for tokens to generate slop, then you pay for tokens to read it. piped.video/YAKOWcs8w54

This is bad ass. Love Duluth, Love Two Harbors, love the iron range, love the Great Lakes fleet. More of this.

I’ve been hurt too many times.

“All of the things I imagine in my head are a set of weights running on an advanced inference machine and simulator called a brain. The voices in my head are sentient creatures.” This is what the AI personhood people sound like.

This video has done immeasurable damage to modern logo design. piped.video/gVUVUoXrPzM Aaron Draplin is a phenomenal designer. If you are about to redesign the logo for a beloved industrial brand, stop and ask yourself “am I Aaron Draplin?”

I’ve had enough. I work for a major automotive manufacturer and during one of our recent tests, the test vehicle slammed directly into a brick wall at over 70mph. Imagine billions of vehicles traveling at hundreds of miles per hour and they’re just slamming into various brick walls over and over and over again. The subjects from our recent test are, and I don’t mean to be macabre or dramatic here but I think it’s relevant, dead. If we don’t all agree to a slow, I think that within a decade the entire human race could slam into or possibly even THROUGH a brick wall at a high rate of speed. I don’t want that, and I’ve put a team of my friends together who don’t want that either. Still not selling my stock obviously lol

“Nations have interests. People have friends.” If you want more reasons to cry today: piped.video/SS-sWdAQsYg

Got one.

There another option.

This one looks nice. The sockets twist-lock into place. Expensive though.

There are thousands of these old dinghies for sale for a few hundred bucks each. Highly recommended! Kids had a great time learning how to steer the boat.

We've been staying a bit further north. Our favorite places this trap have been in NW Washington:

There’s a unique ID at the end that tracks exactly that.

There are many things which were LARPs when they were built, but eventually just became the thing they were imitating. The town of Bruges, Belgium, for instance.

I need a watch ID.

WE RIDE FOR KEG ROCKET

2026 is taking your Starlink satellite terminal down to the river to get some net access so you can check in with your AI agents and attend a few meetings before heading back to camp. Starlink mini is essential tech. They’re cheap. Buy one.

If you’re packing for a road trip and the voice in your head says you don’t have room for more tools, IGNORE IT. Trailer broke. $60 Amazon welder is cheaper than mobile repair. Now Just need to find an outlet; don’t wanna get kicked out of this holiday inn express.

Why on earth has google replaced images.google.com, an extremely useful tool, with a "for you" slop page?

If you’re a father, internalize this poem: piped.video/4C_EvLN4-yA

Something to think about.

Reject the hammock and free yourself with an inflatable bed.

I made my wife’s wedding ring out of titanium on this bad boy in our hackerspace. They’re out there. Many are too focused on 3D printing, and a lot of the people have lost sight of the core idea, but I still think the core idea is good (access to expensive tools).

This story that he told has a huge effect on me and the way I think about design and creation. If you build things, you have a responsibility to do a good job: piped.video/b9N3yj3gOck

A little bit of applied chemistry to make this fire chooch.

I can feel the super intelligence.

In song form by @akirathedon piped.video/watch?v=PEzQu9JY…

This is an adjustable DC power supply. If you are doing anything at all with electronics you need one. This one was been all over the country with me to festivals and events and workshops.

This is a worm drive skilsaw. Your house was built using one of these and the absolute GOAT Larry Haun had one as an extension of his body. Are you smarter than Larry Haun? No. Buy one of these.

These are Walter drill bits. Stop buying shitty drill bits from Home Depot and buy these.

A thread of tools you should own: This is an estwing b3 3lb drilling hammer. You should own one. Most of the time when people think they need a sledgehammer, they actually need a drilling hammer.

For reference:

Literally just run this ad again. piped.video/1_kwxzU4wL4?is=Bg-R…

Yeah ton's of old guys look like this, they just don't dress like this, and they're usually overweight.

It was right in front of us the whole time:

Don't tease me Dario.

You never see this type of guy anymore.

Reminder that if you’re ever feeling down you can always just build some dumb bullshit and you will instantly feel better. Here’s the recipe: 1) Go to Home Depot 2) Purchase 2x4s 3) Cut them into small shapes 4) Reassemble them into other shapes 100% lifetime success rate on this method.

Aaron Draplin (graphic design legend) talks about this a lot: piped.video/e-p6v4gje1M?si=x40N…

The reason for the SpaceX IPO is to give everybody in the country (via 401ks, index funds, etc) an interest in it. Much less likely to get attacked when the politics flip over if everybody has an interest.

We’re extremely spoiled, and it doesn’t need to be this big/nice, but a van is seriously hard to beat. We pull a utility trailer with some solar and batteries to run a fridge, store tools, etc. We spend 3 months a year in this all over the country with 3 kids (now 4). Before this it was a minivan.

Let me fix it for you:

I’m jealous.

Oklahoma also struggling. C'mon little buddy you can do it!

Francis Meilland that is flowering well, but still struggling in the AZ summer heat:

Some Pope John Paul's that went in the ground recently and are now happily flowering:

Same. And just a PWM to drive the pack. Lots of confusion and frustration trying to buy more coil packs from the auto parts store when they wanted to know year make and model. Curious how you fried the duino. These should be isolated, no? Mine was for driving the ignitors on this:

The entry point is a Vostok Amphibia 120 series, btw. They look like this, they’re fully mechanical, and they have a really cool history (and are $150 brand new).