Dandelion Break for real.

Way harsh, Tai. And you’re right of course, I more meant that it is being done now viably not that it was my idea.

Watching a corgi puppy frolic in a dandelion patch really puts things in perspective.

Tired of waiting for your EV to charge up? One Chinese company has a novel solution Chinese car company NIO is putting up EV battery swapping stations all around the world. NPR took a ride in one car for the experience.

Battery swapping stations for EVs were heavily featured in Constance. It is a satisfying feeling when a technology you speculated on in a book pops up a few years later in real life.

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Axios AM - 1 big thing: Sam's superintelligence New Deal

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"Altman told us in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract."

Well, maybe don't build it. Maybe it's not your right to disrupt the social contract of 300 million people...?

The Mystifying Syndrome That Makes People Spontaneously Drunk

Well this sounds like a circle of hell.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

There are movies that, once you admit are terrible, become masterpieces. 🎥

Is that a Formstone burial plot?

The hacked cameras behind the wave of assassinations in Iran — Scientific American Security feeds and traffic cameras have helped guide some of the most audacious targeted killings in modern history. Security researchers say the underlying vulnerabilities cover the planet and are ea...

Supremely Gibson Vaughn…

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I am entranced by the beautiful door.

Writing prompt: one lonely Jack Skellington Croc on a city sidewalk at 7am…

#writing

Rewatching Halt and Catch Fire. Major Takeaway - Lee Pace can eat a damn doughnut.

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

Your tax dollars at work.

www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Do you arrest him or give him a damn medal?

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"Unprecedented" ... The Pentagon Papers have entered the chat.

I'm kind of ready for James Marden to really get his due.

Project Hail Mary Should Be Easier to Root For The high-stakes space drama badly wants audiences to loosen up.

Sometimes criticism unintentionally offers more insight into the critic than the art.

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Not long, the drier is an evil monster that you can feel from a floor away. But a house warms and cools, expands and contracts, so things are always shifting around more or less quickly.

My clothes drier slowly vibrates most of the artwork into a slant and about once a month I have to make a lap around the house straightening everything.

Station Eleven

George Washington University curried favor with their hippo overlords by putting up a tasteful statue to their greatness.

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Of course this is on K Street.

At least Newhart looks like a CIA analyst.

Amazing.

Erica is the best human, and the first friend I made at my first Bouchercon. So great to see.

Might be down to having read the book. Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are woefully miscast.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson’s War.

I finished it! I absolutely ❤️ this book & was riveted the whole time. Espionage! Hacking! Came out 11 years ago but there’s already 4 more books in the series!? I’m hooked. If you like Bourne, Blacklist, Homeland, etc. you’ll like this.

I have no rhyme or reason to this bingo card. 😭 #RootRootRead