On the one hand, yay electrify everything. However I'm wondering about the cost/benefit on already heavy vehicles going EV. The added weight will cause almost geometrically more road damage and a lot more tire wear (particles==bad). Versus SULEV/hybrid.

School bus does seem like a great candidate for today's battery tech. Gonna call this a win.

#climate #EV
https://investors.blue-bird.com/news-financial-reporting/press-releases/news-details/2023/Blue-Bird-Premieres-Next-Generation-Electric-School-Bus-at-STN-Expo-West/default.aspx

@yogapaddlerun @Oma_Trisha
Excedrin? If my fuzzy memory serves

Y'all are going to want to log off the Internet now. The counter measures I've sent* to crush this obscenity could yield significant collateral damage.
Software resurrection of Johnny Cash singing 'Barbie Girl.'

*Kidding. Barely.
https://youtu.be/HyfQVZHmArA

@DavidSalo
Less bat, more flying-squirrel? Is that the strategy?

@Xponent
just please pre-sort the silverware

#teamSort

Tree frog congress weighs in. I think they've approved the minutes of the last meeting and are reviewing today's agenda.

Or they're praising the clouds. Frog is not my native language.

@Alfred @_Psyber blink twice if we're all in one of those right now

Deep

Fried

Jam

Sandwich

#thatIsAll #recipe

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jul/14/better-than-a-doughnut-delia-smith-dishes-up-a-deep-fried-jam-sandwich

What happened at the BBC??! Jonathan Pie has things to say about it

@Dane
s/allegedly dismissed/ate a Storm Shadow/

#politics #ukraine

@kel welcome to the "Now we're cooking with fire" catchphrase club. Apply the phrase indiscriminately for best results.

@Render coinkydynk, comrade

@Blue_Skyesr_here
let's see what cats taste like

Smells like cheap text classification. Gonna try this:

...we use gzip with a compressor-
based distance metric to do text classification.
Our method achieves an accuracy comparable to non-pretrained neural network classifiers on in-
distribution datasets and outperforms both pre-trained and non-pretrained models on out-of-
distribution datasets. We also find that our method has greater advantages under few-shot settings.

#nlp #programming
https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

@Brisse how cool is that.
What'll these kids think up next?

@ianthealy @LiberalLibrarian
Hard agree about flying cars, and the same applies to self-driving. I will not tolerate robot cars around me. I will be ungovernable. Fair warning.

Uh, is this the book? Lawbreaker, aka Violation: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258272/short-story-identification-young-man-driving-a-manually-controlled-car-gets-de

@ianthealy @LiberalLibrarian
Sounds like Nolan
Logan's Run?

@Brisse Don't know much about 3D printing so apologies if this is old hat. New to me, dropped an image on it, got an stl file. can be flat, curved, etc

Image to lithophane
https://3dp.rocks/lithophane/

@BrentSullivan Indeed! FDroid as much as possible

@mcfate how would we know