[Screams in Dallas’ Knox Park Trader Joe’s Parking Garage]

Scientists turn scrap car aluminum into high-performance metal for new vehicles Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a new aluminum alloy called RidgeAlloy that can turn contaminated car-body scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. Normally, impurities…

Aluminium used to build cars can now be reused to build cars. A new alloy called RidgeAlloy turns contaminated scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. This solves the problem where recycled aluminium from mixed or dirty auto scrap was too weak for structural use buff.ly/tmDSuWf
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Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate

No one in my family will play this beautiful game with me because I refuse to play any other way but as a monster 😅

GOATed 3rd gen Mazda3

The less-well-built 4th gen Mazda3

Many, many Mazda3s 🤣; 2nd (the go-kart), 3rd (the GOAT), and 4th gen (the maraca)

Yet another in a long line of I fucking hate the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport- nearly 50 minutes of waiting- that’s half the length of the damn flight!

If it’s going to be “30-40 minutes” for a gate, the pilot should just drive the plane over to the DART station and let me out there 😤

Stegosaurus is 🐐 don’t @ me

I’m happy to announce that I accepted a tenure-track appointment as an Assistant Professor of History at Marshall University. I’m humbled for the opportunity to continue doing what I love and bringing my expertise in radical political history to “Da Herd.”

On Yom HaShoah, we pause to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis’ systematic program of mass murder, along with the millions of others murdered by the Hitler regime. We remember the scale of this horror, and the systems of hatred and dehumanization that made it possible — and that still echo in our world today. In New York City, home to more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in this country, that memory lives among us and shapes who we are. The resilience of survivors is woven into the very fabric of this city, and it calls on all of us to act with courage and clarity in the face of injustice. Today, as antisemitism rises once more, we are reminded that remembrance alone is not enough. We must confront hate wherever it appears. As we light the yahrzeit candle, let us come together to protect its fragile flame — and shield it from the cold winds of hate and cruelty.    “Never again” is a promise. And it is one we must fight to keep.

A half dozen everything bagels on the grass outside my building in Kokomo, IN

Nature is amazing, check out these free range bagels in front of my building!

My book Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History is available for preorder from the University of Pennsylvania Press! It is an edited volume featuring cutting edge work on the creative roles of non-human things in business, past and present.

www.pennpress.org/978151283057...

James Keelaghan kinda the platonic ideal of a songwriter for a historian man didn’t get lucky 🤣🤣🤣

James Keelaghan at The Ark in Ann Arbor

Good decision

The Ark, Ann Arbor

Do I have any idea who I’m seeing tonight? No! But it’s the The Ark in Ann Arbor so 🤷‍♂️

Yep that was a waste for the staff 🤣

Pour one out for anyone still stuck at Comerica from the rain delay for a half inning that won’t matter

Inside the Burton collection, Detroit

From of the Detroit Public Library on Woodward

Front of the Michigan library and historical center

A box containing SEMTA records

Couldn’t let @jameslonghurst.bsky.social have all the research fun; stopped off at the Michigan state archives and Detroit Public Library to research my upcoming presentation on the botched attempt to put light rail on Woodward in the late 1970s… folks, this is gonna be a journal article!

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

All I see is Toyota Man doin’ a little dance 🤣

I… should remember where I put that then 😅😅😅

That was my experience cancelling Spectrum last year too; and they hide the f*cking phone number! Was told to hang on to the modem return receipt because “sometimes they lose your return and will try to charge you hundreds of dollars” 😅

Meijer gas pump, $4 for reg

Just shy of $4 for regular in Kokomo, IN

From historians of technology = innovation isn't always a good thing and technological objects have politics.

Digital humanities folks, a question:

I'm giving some thought to creating a searchable online database populated with data I've stored in Access and can export to Excel.

What software/apps work for this? Any tips for turning a spreadsheet into an accessible online form -- with minimal coding? 🗃️

A sales listing from BBB with a handmade model of the big fitz in a charmingly selective compressed format.

Bed bath & beyond, you feeling alright?

Generic image of a Staples retail employee who looks way too excited to sell a spiral notebook

The hacker:

Shameless plug for my Alma mater- UTA has a massive collection of Hulme’s cartoons (I use them in my lectures all the time!)

sites.libraries.uta.edu/ettahulme/home

Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles Wikipedia is done with AI slop.

The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.