A female Labrador retriever named Sage has served as a therapy dog on the Ford since 2023, initially as part of a trial of the concept for the Navy. Sage, who holds the rank of captain, is “trained to alert to anxiety, reduce stress, and interrupt detrimental behaviors,” said Tara Fisher, a spokesperson for Mutts with a Mission, a nonprofit that connects specially trained dogs like Sage with military and law enforcement personnel.
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Artemis II Photos
Of course NASA has an entire page filled with photos from the mission.
Disco Is important
The album was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2012 for being “culturally, historically, and/or aesthetically significant”.
No Kings Protest
Before Springsteen took the stage, organizers played a video in which actor Robert DeNiro said he wakes up every morning depressed because of Trump but was happier Saturday because millions of people were protesting. He also congratulated Minnesotans for running ICE out of town.
The bill also included singer Joan Baez, actor Jane Fonda, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and a long list of activists, labor leaders and elected officials.
Protesters held up a massive sign on the Capitol steps that read, “We had whistles, they had guns. The revolution starts in Minneapolis.”
Station Wagons Rule
The idea started as an April Fool’s joke last year, but the overwhelmingly positive reaction from fans worked something loose, and someone in Munich signed off on a budget to make a station wagon version of its GT3 race car (the M4 GT3 EVO). It makes its NLS debut next week, with the highlight of the program being the Nürburgring 24H in mid-May. That race will also be contested by one Max Verstappen on a weekend away from F1.
The Mac Book Neo
From the Dept. of You Aren’t Supposed to do That.
Interestingly, this wasn’t the first time they tested the A19 Pro chip. Back when the iPhone 16 Pro came out, they ran the TCP-H benchmark with the device inside a bucket of dry ice at -50ºC, where it completed the run in 478.2 seconds.
Also, very interesting to see the Mac Book Neo perform so well. I’m genuinely curious about this device and could easily see me owning one of these.
Don’t Buy an Electric Car
Electrek.co says:
For under $1,000 today, you can buy a surprisingly capable e-bike that can reach 28 mph (45 km/h) and with at least 20-30 miles (30-50 km) of range. In fact, the single best-selling e-bike in the US is priced at $999, and it’s a darn good one! Spend a little more – say $1,500 to $2,500 – and you can get a genuinely excellent commuter e-bike that can easily replace a large percentage of daily car trips, and that you can count on for years and years of use.
There is some great information here about using a bike, especially an ebike, for more errands. I can tell you that I no longer driver to the drug store, the dispensary, Home Depot, my primary care doc and, a 2 bag grocery order. And I live in one of the most bicycle hostile cities in Arizona!
The Macbook Neo
Steve Jobs would have loved the MacBook Neo. Everything about it, right down to the fact that Apple is responsible for the silicon.
I like how Gruber puts it. Click through for the short Youtube video. It’s worth watching. Steve Jobs in 2007, on Apple’s Pursuit of PC Market Share: ‘We Just Can’t Ship Junk’