Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles, gets a visit from police — officers visit his home to express privacy concerns | Tom's Hardware

Funny how when cameras are turned on the police, rather than the public at large, the police take exception and feel “at risk”…

Turnabout, as they say, is fair play. 

But they have the supposed authority, and therefore control the conversation.  

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/canadian-youtuber-builds-flock-like-camera-to-exclusively-track-police-vehicles-officers-visit-his-home-to-express-privacy-concerns

How did Roman aqueducts get water to go uphill? | Live Science

I love reading about how to engineer things. This is an example where the Romans used siphons to get water to flow uphill 

It’s cool and worth a read.  

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/how-did-roman-aqueducts-get-water-to-go-uphill

https://fortune.com/article/mackenzie-scott-alone-accounted-for-one-third-of-americas-19-2-billion-in-megagifts-last-year/

The article is behind a paywall, but even the headline is worth noting. McKenzie Scott gave away 19.2 billion (and yet remained a billionaire!) and that was 1/3 of the total that billionaires gave to charities. 

C’mon über wealthy! You can do better. And remain a billionaire. 

Stop hoarding the money and wasting it on stupid shit.  How about helping to build something better?

 

https://fortune.com/article/mackenzie-scott-alone-accounted-for-one-third-of-americas-19-2-billion-in-megagifts-last-year/

A French company raised 5,184 solar panels 16 feet over a Normandy dairy pasture, and when the open field nearby dried out in July, the grass underneath stayed green and on hot days the cows in their shade grazed until noon while the herd in the sun headed in at 9:30

Here’s another in the list of benefits of solar panels. They protected the fields underneath and gave cows a place to graze that was out of the sun. 

https://www.autonocion.com/us/5184-solar-panels-normandy-cows-noon/

RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing - Ars Technica

Sadly, we lost a true pioneer in the field of software development. And a pioneer who literally saved the Apollo 12 mission with her calculations. 

The fact that she was a woman is icing on that cake in a way….

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/r-i-p-margaret-hamilton-whose-code-saved-the-apollo-11-moon-landing/

How Do Ocean Buoys Stay In Place In Deep Water?

This is kind of an interesting (though brief) look at how navigational buoys stay in place. It’s simple, yet takes some engineering. 

https://www.slashgear.com/2274756/how-ocean-buoys-stay-in-place-deep-water/

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights lawyer Navi Pillay : NPR

She deserves it…. Just saying…. https://www.npr.org/2026/10/08/nx-s1-5994952/nobel-peace-prize