For newer pixels there’s a feature that runs a local AI to monitor the conversation and will alert you if the conversation seems scam-like.

Telling grandma to be suspicious of buying Target cards to pay the IRS might be an actual good use for AI.

Pykrete was invented by the cousin of the science TV presenter whose voice can be heard on Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me With Science”.

Via Tom Scott’s newsletter, an explanation of a strange ngrams anomaly in an xkcd. Why is the 11th of all months apparently the least popular date?

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

You know how the weather forecast has the temperature and the “feels like” temperature?

Well, this is the 405 and the “feels like” 405.

https://xkcd.com/723/

BASIC uses (used?) it to declare variables. (I don’t know if earlier languages did.)

Not that that’s a reason for other languages to copy it.

From the person who brought us “This video has [number] views.”

With a mesh screen.

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

My autistic son would happily play in the park. Just once every few months he would decide that “now is the time to run” and just take off as fast as he could in a straight line. How would that play out in a busy street.

People can’t imagine that: so much of the time things are calm, straightforward to handle, but if EVER you let your guard down for a second at the wrong time, you’ll end up on the news as a “tragic story of grieving negligent parent.”

Oh, many years ago I had a baby monitor that included a pressure mat. If it detected no movement for a while (it was sensitive enough to detect breathing) it set off an alarm.

Although if such a thing exists today, it probably requires an app and a subscription. Enshitification.

Looks like the pixel watch 3 can do something like this, but it only calls emergency services (and plant l only in some regions!)

https://support.google.com/fitbit/answer/15250403?hl=en

“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the- World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH, the paint would’t even have time to dry.”

• Terry Pratchett

Lithobraking.

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“My leg!”

Except for the Doofenshmirtz “2 nickels” one, I see that everywhere.

“It’s too late for me. But you can still save yourself.”

Well, I used to. They don’t let me talk to the interns any more.

Stop this Madness!

I have seen a gas pump have a “press cancel to skip PIN entry” message…

Edit: here it is https://imgur.com/bypass-pin-veorkyV

Usually they ask for the zip code of the billing address, and if you found a card, there’s a good chance you’d be in that zip code.

I see some end in a thin pin or are short. I was thinking of the ones that are the full size of a plug, of course.