My voice sounds better to me recorded than in my own head. I guess for most people it's the opposite.
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 3, 2025
Same. I think my recorded voice sounds great.
Day: June 3, 2025, 5:14 PM
Drone Tu
What We Know About Ukraine’s Mass Drone Assault On Russian Bombers.
That is one of the slickest operations ever. And it’s been wonderful to see the Ian Welshian Putinoids weeping into their vodka.
This will change warfare a lot.
Battered Brain
The right-wing belief that batteries are hippie-dippy bullshit is putting our nation, and the world, in grave danger. https://t.co/VihMSeeyP6 pic.twitter.com/RJOCMX3Lp9
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 3, 2025
How the fuck did batteries get wrapped up in the culture war nonsense? I truly do think culture warring lowers IQ by 50 points.
If you’re against batteries, you’re a fucking idiot. Right or left, doesn’t matter: fucking idiot.
User Antics
Working help desk or anything near help desk leads to general misanthropy. It did for me.
One time I had a user who angrily declared, “I don’t want to have to turn on my laptop. It’s stupid I have to do that.”
I asked him what he thought about having to turn on his lights or his position on being required to start his car if he wanted it to go anywhere. He reported my comments to my manager. Fortunately, my manager just laughed and told me it was better to say nothing when the users were being dumbasses.
That was way back in 2002 or so and I generally followed her counsel after that.
Not a Pod Person
I wish I could appreciate and deal with things like audiobooks and podcasts but I just cannot.
My brain zones all the way out. So, so soporific. So sub-snail slow. I tried to listen to a podcast once and almost expired from utter boredom. The good new is that it (as they all are) was so plodding I could have 10 different thoughts between each word.
The rest is all bad news. Those things are just not for me.
Ukraine’s audacious drone attack sends critical message to Russia – and the West. That was wild and amazing.
Russia may attack Nato in next four years, German defence chief warns. Correct.
When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life.
U.S. Imports Drop 19.8% in April (Yes, That’s a Record).
AI is ‘breaking’ entry-level jobs that Gen Z workers need to launch careers, LinkedIn exec warns. It is; a very bad trend.
Flippy
I cannot for the LIFE of me work out how this could have happened at the supermarket carpark near me where you can barely drive forty feet in a straight line (not my picture).
— James Alistair Henry (@jamesbluecat.bsky.social) June 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Tire-to-tire contact has an insane amount of traction. It only takes a bit of that for cars to flip, roll over, climb another one, or do something else that seems at first glance improbable. I’ve seen a car flip from tire-on-tire contact at 5mph.
Here’s one example of low-speed tire-to-tire contact causing a rollover: