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Can you guess the two voices?

Mr. Rogers meets the bass player. Still funny 50 years later.

It burped in our direction

How and why the Sun grounded 6000 planes last month.

Watch out above

As of 7pm ET, a solar storm is starting, causing auroras that may be visible in North America across many of the Lower 48 states, and not just in Canada and Alaska. Right now Scandanavia is getting the beginning of it. Watch this oval for more.

On the AI and human bubbles

Re-read what John Naughton wrote about the AI bubble more than a year and a half ago, and his pointage to what I wrote here about why we need death.

Sometimes stupidity takes teamwork

I spent much of the last two days in lengthy correspondence with ChatGPT, and conversation with three different AppleCare agents, figuring out what caused my monitor (a 27″ LG 5K Ultrafine)  to blink off and on every minute or so. The culprits were the original and the replacement Thunderbolt cables. A non-Thunderbolt (plain old USB-C) cable I dug up seems to be working fine, while the others are duds.

Thus demeaning another innocent and well-intended practice

When a human correspondent ends a long answer to a question with a question of their own, my knee-jerk response is to assume the correspondent is an AI.

Though ATL is in the lead

Not many flight delays yet this morning.

Seems physical media are a thing

And the place to find them is your local library.