Yeah, the analysis was that the thermal fuse didn’t disconnect power correctly when the motor overheated, but there was some technicality about not being able to either (a) show exactly why it failed, or (b) make the claim that it doesn’t matter only that it did fail at the right time in the legal proceedings.

The title is still driving one narrative by omission, and sending traffic to OpenAI. Let’s promote sources telling the whole story instead.

Welp, how is MapQuest these days?

Edit: Actually, looks pretty good. I didn’t know why OpenStreetMap can’t autocomplete an address to save its life, but MapQuest does fine. Also, Yelp review integration and I didn’t see obviously sponsored chains.

No public transit directions apparently? Which would be a problem if it weren’t always faster to bike than take transit in Boston.

Interesting read. HCI (human-computer interaction) turns out to still be very important.

The headline sounds wrong to me — it’s not that shaking babies is not dangerous (that’s not mentioned one way or the other), it’s that evidence used in courts to identify SBS is being found invalid, exonerating some cases that sound like heartbreaking miscarriages of justice.

“Crash” seems hyperbolic, but clearly in the video the driving software choose to push through bollards rather than back up to get out of a prohibited part of the road.

And a lot of enabling parents.

Hopefully. But there are parts of the climate that are delicately balanced and may suddenly cut loose, like potential Gulf stream collapse.

Now, a $1,999 MacBook Pro can have a monthly payment of $38.99 over 36 months.

$38.99 * 36 = $1403.64. That doesn’t seem right.

Macrumors has a more detailed analysis (different device in their example):

If you return the iPhone 17 Pro and simply move on from the Apple Upgrade program, then your total cost to own the device would be $551.88 after 12 months, plus sales tax if applicable. While that is less than paying $1,099 upfront, the catch is that you are no longer in possession of the device after your lease ends and cannot resell it or trade it in.

Seems like it’s just designed to keep people buying new hardware regularly.

Original link is getting a “not found” for me. But from mass.gov:

Governor Maura Healey today stood with immigrants, advocates, community leaders, law enforcement, teachers, nurses, doctors, clergy and elected officials at La Colaborativa in Chelsea to sign the PROTECT Act, landmark legislation that provides the strongest protections in the nation against the dangerous and illegal tactics of President Donald Trump and ICE. The bill keeps ICE out of courthouses, schools, child care centers, hospitals and health care facilities, while also providing stronger protections for parents in case they are detained or deported, banning new 287(g) agreements and allowing civil rights claims to be made against government officials, including ICE agents.

Not a lot of reporting in it yet, but I see an article from 404 media. Maybe I’ll donate to them instead.

Find this reference on Reddit.

I think I’ll stop my donations. Nothing gets executives’ attention like dropping revenue. I read a lot of exec responses to employee dissatisfaction at other big tech companies that basically said ‘too bad if a bunch of you are unhappy, the company is doing great so we’re right, you can leave.’

But only if you shared the generated link on some crawlable page? Or did they leak a list of share links so crawlers found them? The latter seems much more serious, and I can’t tell which it was from reading a couple articles.

Yeah, I can already find more bugs than can be fixed on schedule just by looking in the Jira backlog.

I learned Ansible for this purpose, so all the modified configs live in a git repo. I still get lazy and modify some things directly (looking at you Minecraft plugins) but a lot of it is pretty easy to set up via IaC.

Many of the most practical uses I’ve heard for AI are cleaning up messes AI caused.

In a potentially more ominous development, SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, and the University of Southern California have in separate legal actions challenged the constitutionality of the NLRB

Nuts, didn’t realize Trader Joe’s was on the evil list.

Lots of useful examples in the article though, thanks for sharing.

OK I won’t read to much from a mouse model experiment yet but this is amazing:

members of the research team built something that had not previously existed: a mouse model of weightlifting.

In this model, mice lived in specially designed cages where food was accessed through a hinged, weighted lid. To eat, the mice had to lift the lid while wearing a small shoulder collar, causing a squat-like movement that engaged the muscle contractions people use during resistance exercise. The load was gradually increased over several days, mimicking progressive strength training.

“You know what I want to research? Mice doing squats.”

The landing page doesn’t really show any of the cool stuff.