Relevant item from The Mash Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBop7xvcIU

iOS version: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nearby-glasses-original/id6761056896

I see some others in the iOS app store that claim to detect nearby “smart” glasses via BLE. I have not tested any of them, so I have no opinion on their usefulness, reliability, privacy, etc:

Nearby Glasses (same name, different app): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nearby-glasses/id6776279207
Nearby Lens: Glasses Detector: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nearby-lens-glasses-detector/id6760046620
NoGlasshole: Glasses Detector: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noglasshole-glasses-detector/id6760988897
Nearby Glasses Ray-Ban Scanner (in-app subscription required): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nearby-glasses-ray-ban-scanner/id6760216782

That’s true of pretty much everything. As John Von Neumann put it, “Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.”

It’s an old IBM “Bus and Tag” peripheral interface cable. Before my time – I’ve seen 'em, but only in parts bins, not in actual use.

I’d be tempted to modify my user environment as much as possible, so the ways I use it wouldn’t be transferrable to anyone else’s environment. I’ve already done this to some extent, with e.g. nonstandard command line aliases and highly-customized wrapper scripts around the tools I use a lot.

Reminds me of this:

So according to that, the company’s address (both physical and mailing) is 3739 E Sandstone Way, Washington, UT, 84780-1952.

(from https://maps.app.goo.gl/q48YJf3XndfY5Ges8)
…yeah, honestly that’s about what I expected.

I’ve actually been really impressed by some of their recent videos. I especially liked the one on jet turbine blades (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM), and their explanation of how displacements propagate through crystals, and how the blades are made with variations in crystal structure that limit that propagation. Yeah, they’re using clickbaity titles on it, but the content’s solid.

Looks like it happened in Chicago, last october. From what I can find, they dragged her off, shuffled her around for a few hours, then released her without charges. In December, she was one of the people that testified before congress about ICE’s abuses.
Sources: https://newrepublic.com/post/202593/federal-agents-immigration-crash-car-drag-woman-by-legs, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/04/chicago-woman-us-citizen-detained-by-immigration-agents/87074841007/

It’s available as an extension: https://webextension.org/listing/javascript-toggler.html

Leading to my favorite conspiracy theory, that his shirt choice is really a subtle viral marketing campaign. I call this theory “Tom Scott is in the pocket of Big Red Shirt”.

This is “Serendipitious Green Meteor”, taken by Prasenjeet Yadav in October, 2015. The town is Mettupalayam, in southern India. The meteor was captured entirely by accident; he’d set his camera to take 15-second exposures 10 seconds apart over the course of a night, and only afterwards discovered the meteor in one of them. The picture won an honorable mention in National Geographic’s 2016 nature photographer of the year contest.
Some more info at: https://petapixel.com/2020/04/28/this-once-in-a-lifetime-meteor-photo-was-captured-by-accident/

“Drawing Bayesian inferences after extensive sampling, I’ve determined that it’s 99-percent certain that anyone who uses ‘woke’ as pejorative will turn out to be a fuckhead. Please don’t blame me for pointing this out—it’s just science.” — Mike Godwin