Watched: Project Hail Mary 🍿 The start is somewhat slow, but I really enjoyed the ending! I also loved the portrayal of their friendship in space. This film has a strangely adorable charm. Overall, it was an enjoyable movie. ★★★½

There are only 51 Rice’s whales left on Earth. They live exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico — that’s their whole world. Today, the Trump administration’s “God Squad” voted to strip their Endangered Species Act protections so oil drilling could proceed unobstructed. No energy company even asked for this.

That would be devastating if those whales are gone. No more whale watching. Can you imagine that?

As one law professor put it:

“If Trump is successful here, he could be the first person in history to knowingly extirpate a species from the face of the earth.”

Most streaming services default captions to the smallest size, don’t carry across devices, finding where to adjust them varies. The How-To Geek article breaks down where to find the settings. For Deaf/HoH viewers, that’s not a minor annoyance. It’s a barrier.

NASA’s Artemis II launches tomorrow, April 1 at 6:24 PM ET. Four astronauts will spend ten days flying around the Moon and back — no landing, but the first crewed lunar mission in 53 years. The actual Moon landing won’t happen until Artemis IV in 2028. Weather is 80% go. 🚀🌕

The Court says banning conversion therapy silences free speech. But every major medical group calls it harmful and discredited. So when does “free speech” become a license to hurt kids? And on Trans Day of Visibility, of all days — that timing stings. It is a sad day for the LGBT community.

TIL you can soften cold butter fast with just hot water and a glass. Fill it, wait 5 min, dump and flip it over the butter like a little dome. Ten minutes later — bake-ready. No microwave meltdown. Bookmarking this.

“If we write properly, we get accused of being AI — it’s absolutely ridiculous. Long term, I think it’s going to be a big problem.” — Aldan Creo, grad student studying AI detection at UC San Diego.

So we’ve built detectors that penalize writing well. Students are paying $20/month to make their own work sound worse just to pass a broken test. Non-native English speakers are getting flagged at higher rates. One student said she rewrites everything until the detector approves it — not to cheat, but to survive.

At what point does “proving you’re human” become the assignment? Link

“Three central components of subjective well-being were considered: life satisfaction, positive emotional states, and negative emotional states.” - Dr. Susanne Bücker

Research points to the 70s as the happiest decade of all.

But for me, at 50 is my happiest time of my life, living in a tiny house in the Appalachian hills, working a side job on my own terms, sitting on my porch watching the mountains do nothing fast — I think I’ve already found it. Maybe happiness isn’t an age. It’s a life that fits.

But I’ll check back in at 70. Just to see.

Still rocking my 2017 Pixelbook, minimal lag. The 16GB model was the right call.This article nails it, sticking with Chromebooks over the MacBook Neo makes sense. ChromeOS and Android work seamlessly together. With AluminiumOS merging both, why switch to Apple now?