It’s not every day that the largest technology company in the world changes CEOs. Even though this had been strongly rumored for awhile, Tim Cook stepping down in September and John Ternus taking over as Apple CEO is quite a big deal for the future of the company.
www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/…
text that reads: We're hiring! Software Engineer, MESA
We're seeking a research software engineer to develop, maintain, and contribute to community-oriented software instrument tool MESA (Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics). Learn more and apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/182988 #science #astrophysics #hiring
a photo of a little caesars pizza box with lots of knives stabbed into it
sic semper tyrannis to all who celebrate
Next up in our #GOSHat10 series is a piece on Suleiman Abdulsalam and his work with GOSH. His academic work in participatory governance applied to GOSH governance has helped the community grow stronger over the years.
opensciencehardware.org/2026/03/gosh10…
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted.
https://watermonitor.gov
Action taken by the nan (Department of the Interior) at or around 2026-03-03 06:41:07.
Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...
A pale pink elongated tulip magnolia bud just starting to emerge from the tan casing. The bottom petal hangs down so it looks a little like an open mouth. The whole thing is covered in water droplets.
It's Monday and this tulip magnolia bud vaguely resembles Audrey 2.
I would watch this show.
Clawdbot/OpenClaw is a local agent that has hooks into a TON of desktop activities on a Mac, with your choice of cloud services behind it. I’ve just been playing with it and it is extremely compelling as an overall model for personal chat agents. Would be interested to hear your take on it.
Have you tried Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw yet? Similar risk profile, but so compelling in use. Seems to indicate to me a market for (secure) local agents that’s just starting to be explored.
That morning was, in many ways, my first experience with tragedy. I'd dealt with loss & grief. But this was bigger than that in ways that I didn't have words for. I can still remember the numbness and shock, how it felt in 12-year-old me.
Space Shuttle Challenger Mission Patch
40 years ago this morning, I was 12 years old and sitting in front of my grandmother's TV. We had a snow day off school, and I was so excited that I got to watch the Shuttle take off.
Looking to grab food in the Zurich airport to eat at gate, saw a takeaway sushi place.
First roll I saw was an “Italian” roll that has freaking parsley on the outside of it.
Uh. I’ll pass. WTF Zurich?
mothbox shell setting next to its own brain
putting wires into stuff with fingers
a bunch of mothboxes on a crazy person's floor
Man, documenting something while you build it makes it take like 100 times longer! But i finally finished the steps for how to build the latest "Mothbox Pro."
Now, when I put them together, it's a breeze!
digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/docs...
Have not been overly impressed with the food in Geneva, with the exception of anything containing butterfat.
Here are the rare instances when the Fed has issued a formal statement on a Sunday:
I was featured on the Preprints in Motion podcast, talking about open science hardware, running an open science non-profit, and my thoughts for the future of the Open Science Hardware Foundation. #openscience #OScH #openhardware
Check out the interview here:
opensciencehardware.org/2025/12/oshf...
What's the URL again? Is broken for me...
This is the same cooperation problem that has faced libraries (and other hyper-locally funded community orgs) for the last 30 years - it's a hard-sell to convince a Board or local government to fund non-local groups. Politically, I mean. Makes all the sense in the world, and yet....
My kid finished her "final" college app last night! Applying for a BFA in Musical Theater. A few stats:
24 different schools
48 different applications (each has both academic AND artistic)
28 different versions of edited, final prescreen videos
89 different videos recorded in total
Insane process!
This is a very well expressed sentiment, and is a thought I've presented on far less succinctly in the past.
LIBRARIES WIN IN COURT. Federal court issues permanent injunction in Rhode Island V. Trump, stops the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The court ruled that all actions taken by the Administration to dismantle IMLS are nullified. This injunction takes immediate nationwide effect: all grants, in every state and territory. The Administration is stopped from taking these actions again in the future. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
"November 14th: A partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing..."
same, partially muscled skeleton, same
What did you think??
Was lucky enough to see it earlier this week...it is SPECTACULAR. My goodness Joshua Henry! And Cassie Levy! The whole thing left me and my family a blubbering mess.
