Bruce Porter

@engineers_feed 49 1+6=7; 7 squared = 49 All lines are calculated the same way.

@elonmusk “Meritocracy must be restored to film.” No worries. Quite soon we will be watching quality AI films with actors nobody has ever seen. Some of them will go on to be “stars”. They will no longer congregate at galas wearing ridiculous clothing. Your time is very short, Hollywood.

Yes

@ClownWorld It is the arrogance they display. I wave at other open-air folks (cyclists, walkers, golf carts etc) when I walk. They generally wave back. The only ones that regularly don’t are what I’ve begun to call the “Lance Armstrongs”; cyclists dressed in their logo skin.

This is why people don’t like cyclists

@engineers_feed Would love to see this read by some HS grads followed by a question about how many stars they think there are in the solar system.

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System!

@DefiantLs Starbucks baristas' jobs are safe. No self-respecting robot would wear purple hair.

Bret Baier ordering a coffee from a robot in China

@OwenGregorian "– if the distance between your hairline and the top of your skull is longer than the distance between your eyebrows and your hairline, you are in luck." I am in deep trouble . . . and getting worse as the years go by 👴😁

The High Skull – China’s Bizarre Beauty Trend Has People Changing the Shape of Their Head | Oddity Central Who would have ever guessed that having a taller or longer skull would one day be considered a coveted facial feature? And yet, here we are! An unusual beauty trend known as ‘high skull’ has people injecting large quantities of hyaluronic acid under their scalp and even undergoing dangerous surgical procedures to change the shape of their heads. The concept behind the bizarre ‘high skull’ trend is pretty straightforward – if the distance between your hairline and the top of your skull is longer than the distance between your eyebrows and your hairline, you are in luck. If not, you apparently need to do something to achieve this popular face-hugging look. Often considered the most difficult area to ‘influence’, the crown of the head has recently become the focus of China’s beauty industry. There are special hairclips designed to create the illusion of a taller skull, hairspray to increase hair volume, and even innovative hairstyles to make the top of the head appear taller. For many, using tricks to create the illusion of a taller skull simply doesn’t cut it. Despite a host of risks, they prefer invasive cosmetic procedures like hyaluronic acid injections, plastic implants, and even bone cement, a type of adhesive typically used in orthopedic surgery to fix joints. “Cranial augmentation” procedures usually involve a 3-6 cm incision in the scalp, followed by separating the periosteum and inserting material underneath to lift the crown into the desired shape. Some high-tech prosthesis like PEEK, a 3D-printed implant that can be designed to fit an individual’s bone structure, titanium plates, or bone grafting. The use of bone cement for skull heightening is probably the most controversial and dangerous procedure. The surgeon makes a 3cm incision in the scalp, uses a drill to create small holes in the bone, then quickly injects the material and shapes it before it solidifies. Hyaluronic acid injections are arguably the least invasive way to get a high skull, but they are not without risk. Chinese social media is full of horror stories from people who injected copious amounts of acid under their scalp to boost the top of their heads, only to be left with permanent bald patches. Medical experts warn that injecting large quantities of hyaluronic acid is a recipe for disaster, as it can cause what is known as tissue crowding, which reduces blood flow to the hair follicles and leaves people with permanent bald patches. Photos and videos on Chinese social media suggest that this is a real issue associated with the high-skull beauty trend. China followed a variety of bizarre beauty trends over the years, like an obsession with protruding ears, but the high skull is definitely among the weirdest and most disturbing yet. odditycentral.com/news/the-high-…

@engineers_feed A hammer that will knock some sense into socialists/communists.

What hasn't been invented, but needs to be ASAP?

@adamcarolla Surely @adamcarolla you can’t mean service dogs—you know, those small white dogs that ride in the child seat of shopping carts and lick the grapes?

Don’t bring them to public places unless you are a narcissist

@Mr_Aejis @DavidAcostaJua1 @hostis_black @Rothmus Wow. Remove the implied context and call names. I won’t be responding.

@BDouglasPorter @DavidAcostaJua1 @hostis_black @Rothmus War and Peace is public domain illiterate sow

The largest open library in human history, Anna's Archive, has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three largest record labels on the world $322 million. The defendant has not appeared in court and is not going to. The site is still up with two backup domains standing by and there's nothing the censors can do. Anna's Archive currently holds 63 million books, 95 million academic papers, and 1.1 petabytes of mirrored torrents. It is free. It is searchable. It is run by a pseudonymous person nobody has identified after four long years of searching. In the four months since the music industry filed the first of three coordinated lawsuits, the library has lost six domain names and added two million books to the catalogue. The cartel is suing it faster every month, and it is growing faster every month. In December, Spotify and the major labels filed. In January, OCLC, the company that runs WorldCat, won a default judgment of its own. On March 6th, thirteen of the largest book publishers in the United States, including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Elsevier, Wiley, and McGraw Hill, filed a third lawsuit in the same federal court. The publishers' complaint runs to seventy-four pages. They call Anna's Archive a "brazen pirate operation." They call it "an illegal supplier of stolen content to the AI industry." The same publishers are simultaneously suing Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and NVIDIA for training their models on the same corpus the publishers want Anna to destroy. The cartel argues, in two parallel federal courts, that the corpus cannot be used by anyone. Not the pirate who built it. Not the AI company that downloaded from it. Not the graduate student who pulls a paywalled paper from it at two in the morning. Anna did not respond to any of the three complaints. Anna has never responded to any complaint. Anna is a name on a blog and a public key on a server and a person, or maybe several people, in a jurisdiction nobody has identified after four years of searching. The judgment is uncollectable. The permanent injunction binds Cloudflare, Public Interest Registry, Njalla, the Switch Foundation, Tucows, and nine other named intermediaries. The Greenland registry is not on the list. The Greenland registry has not complied. The site currently lives at .gl, with .pk and .gd standing by. The corpus has always moved faster than the censor. The censor has always called the corpus piracy. The corpus has always survived the censor by becoming the readers themselves. The publishers' lawsuit cannot reach the torrents. The torrents are already seeded across continents and IPFS nodes and personal NAS drives owned by people the publishers will never find. The default judgment is paper. The corpus is everywhere. The cartel will win every lawsuit but they will lose the war. The publisher who walks into court next month with a fresh filing will be filing against a defendant who has, in the time since the last filing was sealed, mirrored another half million books to another seven hundred volunteers in another forty countries. There is no defendant to find. There is only the next upload. It is already seeding.

@BlondeOfWar Wait! You mean a service dog is NOT one of those little white fluffy things that ride in the child seat of the shopping cart and lick the grapes?

Traveling with a service dog is very different from traveling with a pet. He's a working boy and he's committed to his job until you say he's done and can relax. I love how he stays so alert and is ready to assist, no matter what. He really is the best boy! 🥰

@KatTimpf Deepest sympathy, Kat.

My seemingly healthy, strong father Daniel “Dad Timpf” Timpf died very unexpectedly on the evening of May 7 at just 69 years old.   It does not seem like enough to simply call him my father, because he was so much more than that. He was my rock, my hero and my best friend. He was loyal, funny, kind, selfless, hard-working, and so devoted to his children that it was impossible to be near him and not find yourself inspired. He was a writer, a painter, a sailor, and somehow knowledgeable on every subject from world history to literature to accounting. He was the most dependable person anyone has ever met. I always felt like, as long as I had his phone number, there was not a problem I could not solve. I needed him here with me; I am not okay, and I am far from the only person who feels this.   The birth of my son in February 2025, his first grandchild, was supposed to be a happy new beginning for our family. A family that had been already once devastated by an untimely loss: the loss of my mother Anne Marie to a rare disease in 2014 just a matter of weeks after her diagnosis.   The joy of my son’s birth was, of course, complicated by my also very unexpected breast cancer diagnosis just a matter of hours before going into labor with him. During this time, my dad did what he did best, which was to save the day. As soon as he heard about my diagnosis, he simply got into the car and started driving to New York -- making it through the tunnel just as my  son was born…on the day that happened to be his own birthday, as well.   In the tumultuous time of a simultaneous new cancer diagnosis and new baby, my dad was the sole reason for our stability, rushing in to help care for our son, and returning to do so again for my double mastectomy, reconstructive surgery, and any time that we ever needed him. It was an awful, awful year… but I found so much joy and hope throughout it by watching the beauty of a very special relationship form between my son and my father. This horrible thing that was happening was creating such a very special bond between the two of them -- almost making the terrible thing worth it -- and I was so excited to see how that bond would grow.   The bond was of top priority for my father, who visited from Michigan often. I saw him last on the Monday before he died, and my son was so proud to help his grandfather push his suitcase down to the car as he left. The goodbyes were quick. Why wouldn’t they be? We would all see each other again at the beginning of June, when we would all head to Texas for my shows and to see my grandpa. We wanted to make sure that my son could spend as much time as he could with his great-grandfather. He is, after all, 93.   I was certainly not over the trauma of my cancer or having to amputate the breasts I so badly wanted to feed my son with, but the one thing I could always count on to get me through my worst moments was seeing my son’s and my father’s faces light up when they saw each other, be it during the visits or our routine morning and bedtime FaceTime calls.   That is, at least, until I had to hear over the phone from a doctor I had never met in an emergency room in the same town up north that I’d previously announced to my father that I was pregnant that my dad was dead; I would never see him again, and neither would my son. It would turn out that last year was not the hard one, after all. Rather, it was the one I would now do anything to relive. I would amputate my breasts every year just to be able to speak with him one more time, even for five minutes.   I am currently living an unimaginable horror. For many people, this is a tragic story. For me, it’s my life. I do not know how I will recover from it. I only know that I have to for the sake of what is left of my family.

@PhysInHistory Yeah, but it did a bang up job!

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. -- Alan Guth

@VoicesUnheard Get up, walk out, and go teach in a private school.

Kids are waking up, and that last line says it all: “I didn’t ask to be taught this.” Enough already. This isn’t education. It’s emotional validation for adults at the expense of children’s minds, and it only creates more confusion and division. Parents want schools teaching math, reading, science, history and real-life skills, not identity obsessions and social programming. More families are choosing homeschool and private school for a reason.

@Geniustechw The last Carnival cruise ticket.

What do you think they're fighting over? (wrong answers only)

@adamcarolla Looks like the makings of an”infinity slab”.

Before the 13” slab

@DavidAcostaJua1 @hostis_black @Rothmus Ideas are not scarce? I suppose just anyone could scribble out “War and Peace” some evening when they aren’t busy. Or actually nobody needs to read any books because all those non-scarce ideas are already running through their heads.

@BDouglasPorter @hostis_black @Rothmus There's no such thing as "intellectual property." Private property is the civilized position in the face of scarcity. Ideas are not scarce.

@brad_ebel @hostis_black @Rothmus And I mean that the author will end up writing those books FOR FREE.

@BDouglasPorter @hostis_black @Rothmus So, the city library is committing theft of intellectual property as well? I mean, anyone can go in there and read those books FOR FREE.

@DefiantLs OK. You go first. BTW nice specs.

Breaking Bad actor: "This is the time for a revolution" "They can't take us all down. If the whole world showed up... in Washington, they'll kill a 500, 50 million or however... The rest of us would survive"

You can blame the following decision for most of these instances . . . Search Assist: The Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London (2005) upheld the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another for economic development, ruling that this did not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. This controversial ruling led to significant backlash, prompting many states to amend their laws regarding eminent domain.

The government is preparing to seize homes and land using eminent domain for the construction of a Data Center in Coweta County, Georgia This American’s childhood home is being “taken by force by Georgia Power. Homeowners in this county do not have a choice” It affects over 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and use eminent domain Georgia Power claims its to strengthen the grid for the growing energy demand in Georgia (due to many new data centers) The lines are widely linked to Project Sail, a massive proposed hyperscale data center campus that will span 829 acres