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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • The beer can and the image on the mug look especially “melty.” And his arm looks super smooth. And he has a wedding ring on both hands. And his leg starts out looking more or less like a leg but on the left end it looks more like a pillow.

    I’m fairly confident it’s AI.

  • As a kid, Sonic and his friends were my favorite video game characters. I had all the Genesis games, and Sonic CD, and I collected merch and read the comics and watched the TV shows and drew bad fanart. (I didn’t have an OC, I just made Sonic cross over with other characters I liked, like Mega Man.)

    Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for Gamecube was the last official Sonic game that I thought was really good all the way up until Mania released, which was a LONG drought. I have a complicated relationship with mascot characters these days because I resent that they’re owned by corporations and primarily exist to weaponize my nostalgia, but the honest truth is that it works. I can’t help but still love Sonic and his friends, even though I’m acutely aware that they mostly exist to sell me stuff I don’t need.

  • Mozilla’s DAU count has been dropping for years. There’s all sorts of reasons for that. I bet you can come up with a few yourself.

    I honestly cannot. I would expect DAUs to be increasing as Chrome becomes increasingly user-hostile and Firefox is the first stop for people looking to jump ship from Chromium-based browsers. Where are the users going?

  • This seems to be a smoking gun:

    Researchers say the most convincing evidence came from measuring how the cell expanded during charging.

    When a battery charges, ions move into the anode, causing it to expand. Graphite anodes have a unique expansion pattern because of changes in graphite’s layered structure. The Donut Lab cell showed this exact pattern.

    This finding matters because sodium ions are too big to fit into graphite the way lithium ions do. According to investigators, the graphite expansion pattern clearly shows that lithium is the active ion in the battery.