I was excited to read that, but the writing style is a little too chaotic for my taste.

How can we penny auction without pennies?

Has to be AI. Germans don’t have a sense of humor.

Minority report had a specialist review the footage and present the case to three two witnesses who teleconferenced in and approved the arrest witnessed the investigation before sending in the troops.

So this is not that dystopian cautionary tale. It’s worse.

Edit: re-watched the intro. The witnesses watched, but the police arrested the perp on their own accord. One of the witnesses is a judge though. So I guess it’s a pretty well supervised process.

My high school bully graduated second in our class and clearly thought he was destined to great things. Ran into him four years later, he was attending grad school a few states over. Confirmed he was still an asshole.

Looked him up a decade later. He’s a grade school teacher. Teaching is an incredibly noble pursuit and a miserably thankless job. I hope he’s enjoying it.

Gameboy Advance

Can someone explain what the joke?

The Romantic. Really cool animated fantasy feature film from ~2009. For a while, the creator had it on Vimeo and even uploaded it to archive.org. Then he seemed to wipe every trace of it off the web. I can only find a shitty 320p version that someone must have had cached. It’s better than nothing, but I want to see it again in the full resolution that was once available.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110103034132/http://theromanticmovie.com/

I’m a dude, and I don’t think I saw a single other dude’s dick through all of high school.

Some machines are now hiding specific features inside apps. At least that’s the case for some dishwashers.

Roll for criminal.

TIL. Thank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel

Considering their entire marketing campaign is “nobody, not even WhatsApp can see your messages,” I can see how folks would fall for that.

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/09/crunching-the-news-for-fun-and-little-profit/

You can run Windows 9 on an iPhone 9.

she once refused to back down on the fact that Jupiter doesn’t have a solid surface. Best I got was “I don’t know about that.”

My mom once asked if my Jewish girlfriend celebrated Thanksgiving. When I scoffed, she reminded me that there weren’t any Jews on the Mayflower.

I reminded her that there weren’t any Catholics either.

Vigil from Mass Effect. I think it’s the song playing when you first get the galaxy map, and playing that game and seeing the world open up while hearing that song really put me in a great mood.

I built my wife a gaming PC. She’s controller only. It’s basically an xbox. Decided to try ubuntu to see if we could avoid paying for windows.

She’s already 100% Hogwarts Legacy and played a dozen other games.

The only hangup was controller support for Slime Rancher on her 8bitduo. Had to use an xbox controller.

She knows nothing about linux, but she’ll install and play games through Steam no problem.