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?

A leaked LEGO set of Gaudí’s Sagrada Família could dethrone every set before it. At 12,060 pieces and $599.99, set 21065 drops July 1, 2026 — right on the 100th anniversary of Gaudí’s death. Curious to see how it comes together. But with zero shelf space, I’ll admire it from afar.

That enclosed porch on the Shoreline Glass House is living rent-free in my brain. Warm wood, big windows, winter trees just beyond the glass. Tiny house goals aren’t always about the square footage. Sometimes it’s one good room where outside and inside stop arguing.

Wood walls. One good chair. A window. That’s all a writing space really needs. Everything else is just stuff pretending to be important. Link

New research finds the U.S. has caused roughly $10 trillion in global climate damage through its emissions since 1990 — more than any other country. The bill is real. The tab keeps growing. And we’re still arguing about whether it’s a problem.

Donald Trump has accelerated this abrogation, however, withdrawing the US from a loss and damage fund set to up aid vulnerable countries, as well as removing the country from global climate treaties, urging a “drill, baby, drill” approach to oil and gas extraction, and taking extraordinary measures to hobble domestic clean energy projects.