Aaron Parecki

The US was not built for cars,
it was demolished for them

There's a guy currently flying a Cessna 172 to freaking Hawaii at 140mph and I just hope someone is there to buy him a beer when he lands

According to Newton’s Second Law, for equilibrium, the net force and the net torque acting must both add up to zero

The geometry of the sticks are locked in place by the weight of the bottle creating tension, the centre of gravity is behind the edge 1/
https://t.co/iRDzB0jgAS

SO ITS A SYSTEM OF SMALL INTERLOCKING PLASTIC BRICKS WHICH CAN BE USED TO BUILD CREATIONS OF ANY KIND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THESE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BUILDING BRICKS IS ONLY LIMITED BY YOUR IMAGINATION AND YOUD BE AMAZED AT HOW MUCH SATISFACTION YOULL FIND FROM CLICKING THEM TOGETHER

Fun fact that I'm sure will preturb a few of my followers: "helicopter" is not a mash up of "heli" and "copter" like we tend to say but if "helico" (spiral) and "pter" (wing)

Map by @AEI of areas no more than a 10min walk from at least 6 restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, hardware stores, and/or drugstores.

Apparently there are two ways for a Portland neighborhood to not have walkable retail:

1. be uniformly poor
2. be uniformly rich

Entire city of Portland currently feels like the enclosure surrounding an indoor pool at 2-star hotel

Award for best use of "aud" claim 🏆

Show me voice recognition software or AI that can do this live, in realtime. I’ll wait…

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To people appearing on shows (NPR, TV, Radio, or meetings that matter)...
Your laptop mic, little headset mic, webcam mic, $40 desk mic, cheap lavalier you got on amazon - all suck ... I really do get you do this all the time. It doesn't change the fact you are ruining the show.

Just a reminder to others that you're not entitled to force your negativity on others. Enjoy that with yourself.

The rest of us are good ✌️

See you soon, Fancy Mondays! we’re headed to the beach tonight. Meet at 6PM at Colonel Summers by the fountains and ride at ~6:30PM. @pedalpalooza

As an elder millennial who came of age when Google became a verb, I had difficulty grasping that ~40% of Gen Zers use TikTok for search.

So I hosted a mini-focus group with Gen Zers to learn more.

Here are 3 takeaways:

"99 Luftballons" implies the existence of 99 Wasserballons, 99 Feuerballons, and 99 Erdballons.

so i made a lil #CSS library that allows you to implement a classic monochrome MacOS interface.

calling it System.css, as it's based on Apple’s Monochrome System OS that ran from 1984-1991.

🔗 https://github.com/sakofchit/system.css

Right now the CDC sounds like when we would REALLY get on our mom’s nerves and she’d be like “You know what? Do whatever you want then.” And like, for a second you think you won. But you really did not.

Two-factor authentication doesn’t protect you in the way that many people think when the second factor is phishable.

Passkeys are phishing-resistant.

E.g. here's an example of grading a video to match a still clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV4KEmajWsQ

I don't want self-driving cars and trips to Mars, I want a planet where we don't get headlines like "all the rain is now toxic"