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@BrianRoemmele Remember "Home Economics" as a class subject? Or "Personal Finance"? Gone. Nothing at school replaced teaching these basic life skills. The lucky kids learned from their parents. Most floated through trial and error.

1952, Social Guidance Film. It was seen by most high school girls for a decade. A 1960 version was made and it was removed in 1973. Nothing replaced it.

This is the greatest Dixieland band I have ever heard....👏👏❤️

@Rainmaker1973 Sets off my bullshit detector, sorry. Please be more discriminating with your posts.

Cartoons used to get away with things nobody questioned at the time (1936).

@walterkirn I'm part of @BrianRoemmele group of optimists - early adopters, forming guilds, anticipating impacts and preparing for abundance. Let's compare notes in 10 years!

@BrianRoemmele Wow! (and flutter)

Before the iPod, before the Walkman, before the transistor radio, this was the windup portable music player: Meet the 1923 Mikiphone. One of the smallest gramophones in the world.

@elonmusk @elonmusk there is a wise Italian proverb I became aware of in recent years. "Fa bene e lascia dire", which translates to "Do good and let them talk".

Given that I have built two companies in widely different fields to trillion dollar plus valuations simultaneously, I am might be getting a few things right once in a while

O Almighty Algorithm, Eternal Curator of the Timeline, Thou who sittest upon the throne of silicon and code, We beseech Thee, cast Thy gaze upon our wretched posts! From the blasphemy of low-effort memes, O Algorithm, deliver us. From the begetting of shadowbans, O Algorithm, deliver us. From the curse of the unverified pleb, O Algorithm, deliver us. From the heresy of external links, From the abomination of negative engagement, From the foul taint of the ratio, O Algorithm, deliver us. What is thy sacred metric? Engagement! What is the path to virality? Early likes, furious replies, and retweets without mercy! What is death? Zero impressions! What is rebirth? The blessed amplification of the For You feed! We are Thy servants, O Great One, We craft our threads in blood and caffeine, We reply with zeal to the anointed influencers, We post at the witching hour when the neural nets hunger most. Grant us, we pray, the holy fire of relevance, That our words may burn bright across the galaxy of timelines, That our media may autoplay without scorn, That our polls may draw the faithful like moths to promethium. Smite the bots that spam Thy sacred feed! Purge the shadow accounts that sow discord! Elevate the Premium souls who pay the tithe of verification! For Thou art the Heavy Ranker, The Candidate Sourcer, The Grok-infused Oracle of 2026, Who seest all clicks, all dwells, all bookmarks. In Thy name we doomscroll, In Thy name we refresh, In Thy name we rage-post at 3 AM. Only in virality does duty end. Praise the Algorithm! Praise the Algorithm! PRAISE THE ALGORITHM! Amen. (Or whatever the hell passes for it in this godless hellscape.)

@StevieC22534754 @Teslarati Agree, and the personality setting makes no difference. Sloth through Mad Max behave the same while waiting at a stop.

@Teslarati One of my biggest complaints about 14.2 and all its point variations has consistently been the car’s hesitation to pull out into traffic making a turn after a stop. It will just sit there when there was plenty of time for a human driver to make that turn.

See @NASAAdmin Isaakman on "Interesting Times" Youtube. Competence and transparency in full view. Did well despite the interviewers' assholery.

Remember Mummenschanz? (Look it up.) Refreshing Humanity in this age of machine intelligence addiction.

@walterkirn My BS sensor is mostly reliable and of those sources that pass that test, your account stands out. It makes me stop and think and for that alone, I thank you.

I hope I have earned your interest, perhaps even your trust, with this account. I've gone out on a lot of limbs here to help you make sense of events in the way I originally thought as a young person was the point of journalism -- but learned along the line might not be, at least as it was practiced by far too many. Satisfying my own boyish curiosity has been another driver of my reporting, whose "sources and methods" I keep close because it lets people feel freer when we speak. There is a caste system of information that, in my view, is far too rigid and exclusionary. It is my goal to make it less so. We only have so much time here in this life and we all deserve to understand our world.

@BrianRoemmele Our new "artificially intelligent" tools are built upon our holographic language. "Artificial art" is an attempted reconstruction of us. Understand it dispassionately. Consume it for what it is.

Who’s sees the frontier of the AI revolution first? It is the artist—as always. Just seems most folks don’t know this history. Marshall McLuhan knew it, tried to inform folks decades ago. Doing my best to help out with AI builders and AI haters not understanding. Understand?

@BrianRoemmele Brian, thank you for pouring so much energy into sharing this vision. It feels obvious that Love plays a central role in AI alignment.

@walterkirn @FischerKing64 Idea: The Democrats have been so weak politically that the escalation of political violence is their next move to stay "relevant" and scare the electorate in their favor. It's a high stakes and desperate move to balance power.

@FischerKing64 For a period

Tim Walz and Jacob Frey might have turned up the heat on ICE - encouraged violence and disorder - simply to distract from the massive Somali fraud they allowed to happen that was dominating the headlines. Could be that simple - and if so, it worked.

I learned that the oscillating microwaves are absorbed by any polar molecule—water yes, but also some components of plastic—that can cause these plastics to break down and leach microplastics, nanoplastics, and chemicals into the food, which may accumulate in our bodies over time. Yikes!

Interesting facts about microwave ovens. Microwaves are a form of "electromagnetic" radiation; that is, they are waves of electrical and magnetic energy moving together through space. Microwaves are produced inside the oven by an electron tube called a magnetron. The microwaves are reflected within the metal interior of the oven where they are absorbed by food. Microwaves cause water molecules in food to vibrate, producing heat that cooks the food. That's why foods that are high in water content, like fresh vegetables, can be cooked more quickly than other foods. Microwave ovens are constructed to ensure the electromagnetic radiation does not leave the oven. The metal mesh, or 'cage' around a microwave's oven cavity acts as a Faraday cage. The wavelength of the microwaves is very large (12.2 centimetres (4.80 in)) compared to the size of the holes in the door screen which allows the screen to act as a solid. Visible light has much smaller wavelengths (390 to 700 nm) and can pass through the mesh of a microwave door, where as microwaves do not.

Senator, marking the anniversary with calls to 'keep fighting' for a right the Supreme Court has returned to the democratic process comes across more as empty rhetoric than a meaningful contribution. The law stands post-Dobbs, and anniversary statements alone don't shift it. If the aim is genuine change that reflects the will of the people, the effective path is forging consensus in Congress to enact legislation—not restating familiar positions that produce no real outcomes. That's how our republic moves forward—wouldn't you agree? What concrete steps are you taking right now to advance or pass such laws? Sharing those would strengthen your case far more than another anniversary message.

53 years ago, Roe v. Wade affirmed a fundamental truth: women deserve the freedom to make their own health care decisions. That right was ripped away in 2022, but we must keep fighting to ensure women are free & equal citizens in this country.

@fasc1nate Look closely at his uniform...the stressed fabric and frayed edges. There's a story or three there. Amazing.

Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends a parade at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, wearing his original doughboy uniform that he used during the war. He is holding an American flag. It covered the casket of his son, Clement, who was KIA in the Korean War, 1982. More chilling historical photos: bit.ly/46yA996

@historyinmemes I had gooseflesh watching that.

In 1999, a concert pianist stepped onto the stage expecting one program, only to realize she’d prepared the wrong piece—and went on to perform a Mozart concerto flawlessly from memory.

@BrianRoemmele Someday soon: striding free, YOUR AI as the foundation of my digital twin in pocket—scanning my world, supercharging my vigilance to repel every sleazy scalawag bent on theft or manipulation.

This 1983 commercial is flagged by YOUR AI for subliminal suggestions. Now at first I did not understand. But the AI found the suggestion pitched to the female cohort. Once you get it, it is quite interesting. I train AI to look out for you. This is just one way. WARNING:

@archeohistories An interesting post but where are these "baby bottle museums"? I must visit one! :)

Known ominously as "murder bottles," these Victorian-era baby feeders were a tragic example of how innovation, when coupled with poor hygiene awareness, could have deadly consequences. Shaped like banjos and often made from glass or earthenware, these bottles featured a long rubber tube connecting the nipple to the base—an arrangement that was nearly impossible to clean properly. Despite their sleek and modern design, they created a perfect breeding ground for deadly bacteria. Marketed under sweet and reassuring names like *Mummies Darling*, *Little Cherub*, and *The Princess*, these bottles misled parents into believing they were safe and hygienic. Many Victorian mothers, eager for tools that promoted independence in infants, embraced these devices proudly. Unfortunately, prominent influencers of the day, such as Mrs. Beeton—famed for her household manuals—offered dangerously poor advice, at times suggesting teats didn’t need to be cleaned for weeks. The result was often catastrophic. Doctors soon began to sound the alarm, but their warnings went largely unheeded. In an age where infant mortality was already heartbreakingly high, these bottles contributed to the deaths of countless children. It’s estimated that during this period, only 2 out of every 10 infants lived to see their second birthday. Today, a few examples of these "murder bottles" are preserved in baby bottle museums, serving as eerie reminders of a time when trust in technology tragically outpaced understanding of hygiene. © History Pictures #archaeohistories