my best friend literally said to me this weekend, out loud, "I'm going to go on choosing to believe it, as a little treat"
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my best friend literally said to me this weekend, out loud, "I'm going to go on choosing to believe it, as a little treat"
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
it's all fun and games until the spider eggs hatch in your stomach
one thing Rudy Giuliani is always going to do is defensively announce a weirdly incriminating detail with his whole chest as though he sincerely believes it exonerates him
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
My Hard Opinion is you cannot call yourself a patriot if you don’t go to your local fair and nod approvingly at everyone’s beautiful quilts, lovely pies and amazing gourds
Sunday mood
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
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I hope it’s been made perfectly fucking clear that laws designed to bolster police powers to prevent ‘violent’ or ‘objectionable’ protests will never be meaningfully turned on Nazis. You can’t police your way out of fascism but you can certainly police your way into it.
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Well, see, you gotta look at the big picture. Nothing drives fundraising like the world going to hell in a handbasket. More bad means more donations. Less bad, less donations. You'd have to be crazy to stand in the way of that. The midterms are gonna be a goldmine!
Wow this is going to be a whole lot of people to be sued or jailed or expelled
'Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.’ Also AIs
Dual Roomba xkcd.com/3133/
![4-panel comic. (1) [Roomba next to two people] PERSON 1 to Person 2 with white hat: The Roomba keeps my floor clean. But what do I do when the *Roomba* gets dirty? (2) PERSON 1: Simple: I got a second Roomba and a ramp, so they can clean each other. [a second Roomba takes ramp to be on top of first Roomba] (3) PERSON 1: After the tops are clean, I flip one of them over so they can clean each others’ undersides. [flips Roomba upside down] (4) [stacked Roombas vibrating] PERSON 2: There’s nothing NSFW about this, and yet it’s the most NSFW thing I’ve ever seen. PERSON 1: Yeah, my YouTube DIY video about it got demonetized.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicowxulcoikrb7a7datbtfucl3yb2kfxjuoknszcvbrhjanpek7f4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Any Trump-voting plumbers out there want to explain how this valve stuff works?
This is such an embarrassing way to end a democracy.
hahahahahaha surge pricing for a newspaper is the worst idea I've ever heard, so it'll happen in like six weeks
I think I’ve concluded that Trump would definitely be that guy in a zombie movie who tries to hide that he’s been bitten and visible evidence suggests that he is that guy right now
One easy way to tell seals apart from sealions is that the latter have a different number of electrons
IMHO many nice American liberals can’t comprehend people who are properly malevolently, stupidly evil. They can’t comprehend the depravity & duplicity of Trumpists because they’re so not like that — so they construct ‘nuanced’ rationales for Trumpists’ behavior within liberal frames.
You will not believe the SEO traffic for "PDF editor" these days... It's like we have a tech problem we haven't solved yet.
I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
“The updated subscription pricing reflects the significant added AI value” First of all, fuck off
Just received a blanket pitch from a children's book author (sent, presumably, to many indie bookstores) pitching a clearly AI-illustrated book. In the interest of public service, this was my response. I'm fucking done with being nice to these people.
This must be some of that "limited government" we were promised.
Gonna go out on a limb here and guess the IRS is not here to grill rich people about their shell companies in the Caymans
Park police, MPD, HSI, and IRS CI stopping people exiting Rhode Island metro in DC.
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
oh no who could have seen this coming
Given what we've learned about El*n since then, I can't look at those photos without wondering if there's a hidden copy of Mein Kampf in the glove box.
We spent trillions on AI while China built renewable infrastructure, all because a ton of drug addled Silicon Valley freaks fried their brain on a potent combo of nazism and new age spirituality and thought they could invent God (who they would then own)
You don’t win an award for being the most not-surprised, is the thing
I just want to go back in time 30 years and show this to people without any context other than “This is the world’s most popular video game in 2025. And yes, that is Superman wearing Nikes murdering Edward Scissorhands wearing Vans.”
Es heisst Fremdschämen and you shouldn’t be.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
He won't be able to resist swiping the Hope Diamond, for one thing.
“Tesla Diner celebrity chef Eric Greenspan told Eater that the menu was scaled down due to unprecedented demand” lmaoooooooooooo
A golden land of opportunity and adventure!
Can’t wait to tell my students about this
They'll probably give her the WH intern program to run.
ChatGPT apologized for stealing the plums from the icebox and promised to meet me at the breakfast table tomorrow at 9am with more plums. It's not going to do that. It's also not going to learn from my feedback and do better in the future.
New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv. www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
As a rule, people will not invest in infrastructure if they think they're getting raptured any minute now.
There’s just alot of people looking directly into a camera and saying 2+2=7 and expecting you to passively take that because you now have no agency and are merely a vessel for that lie to be conveyed and that’s generally bad I think
I'd say it's been intensifying for roughly a decade.
I'm so so so furious at the future creativity and artistry that AI is taking away from all of us by convincing kids nothing is worth doing on their own
CAPTCHA for Birders #birding #birds #birders
I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
Work doing what, exactly? Her most recent job is why she's in jail now
They look like a bunch of tourists, randomly wearing tacti-cool gear for no reason
Another day of carnage in crime-ridden Washington, DC.
Stephen Miller is lying to you. I live in Los Angeles. People here are safely jogging, hiking, biking, and walking all over this city. I feel safer here than I did in Texas — because California doesn’t have concealed carry and a bunch of Conservative gun nuts just itching to open fire.
In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)
The Air & Space Museum's new Mile High Club exhibit is bound to be a big hit.
The Air & Space Museum will overpay for his old 757, and it'll become the new centerpiece of the museum. The Wright Brothers plane and Apollo 11 will go into storage or maybe be sold off or junked since his supporters don't believe either one really happened.
AI guys: "Actually AI is a TOOL." Tool guys:
It's super cool how conservative judges have created an unrebuttable presumption that any anti-social behavior a Republican gets into their head is actually religious doctrine
RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid
With a 30 year low in violent crimes, Trump got the feds harassing folks sitting on their porch.
Guess I'll have to just plant a flag then. I don't think this is a good enough reason and I think writing simple correspondence is a necessary skill that people should develop without outsourcing it.
Clearly you are not spending enough time on LinkedIn. The deal is that salt would make the eggs taste better, so denying yourself that salt is "dopamine fasting", which is one of the secret life hacks of the Stoic philosophers.
Usually Japanese, sometimes Chinese
Personally I think it's such an abberation that they think they can just give in now to make it easier short term and it'll go back to normal in 3 years without any real consequence
You never know, one of those parked cars could be full of Epstein files
NEW — Video taken by a witness and shared with me tonight from DC’s Trinidad neighborhood shows FBI and Secret Service agents patrolling by foot and peering into cars with flashlights. (Per witness, residents made fun of agents, saying they can't get women and that's why they were doing this lol)
horrible place to live, definitely don't miss it terribly every single day or anything
Post your last photo of DC to show what a hell-hole it is. [I think the subjects of my last photo in DC might be somewhat upset at that characterization]
does anyone have 3500 dollars bringatrailer.com/listing/1984...
saving old bread for when rfk outlaws penicillin
are long distance mind melds encrypted
The old world is dying, and the new world is so fucking stupid dude
if you've ever read a book by a tech founder you understand why llms talk like that
I once put this meme in some seminar slides and I regret nothing, in fact every day I regret it even less than nothing (by @janelleshane.com, previously posted on twitter: twitter.com/janellecshan...)
Great summer afternoon of 2 diff board games with next-gen relatives. One game, from 1960s, an actually-interesting mix of strategy and luck. The other, from 1980s, based on payoffs and DEALS DEALS DEALS. Many cards let you hurt another player, w/o helping yourself. Game tokens all big "T"s.
It's hot in Portland Oregon today so mentally I'm channeling cooler places. #stunday #eastcoastkin #art #photography #nature #landscape #PhotographersofBluesky
It’s not yet 7am, but the train is now so packed that we’re shoulder to shoulder. A padded bag is protectively being held between my feet, like a baby lion cub. Inside, is a 4.56 billion year asteroid fragment.
Yeah. God knows there's worse things being info-fucked right now, but also, this feels like something cooked up by one or two douchebags on Wikipedia that a few more Youtubers then glommed onto in order to have a stupid new shibboleth to impart to their impressionable/ignorant viewers.
My new favorite thing at the coast: Letting Google attempt to translate the beach plants into English.
An update on the MITRE ATT&CK situation.
As it should.
A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.
This is the best movie I've seen this year.
Watch the master predator at work
This is the Casablanca you're referring to, right?
Today was a very good day at the convention, although I made some people pretty upset when I said that trying to get kids excited about the NES launch today is like trying to get kids at the NES launch excited about Casablanca
Huge shout out to everyone @schmidtocean.bsky.social and all the scientists and team on board. 1.6 million people a day, with 50,000 simultaneous tuned in from Argentina to support this work. Bravo! 👏🏻🪸🪼 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...
Needs emergency repairs after most winters. Doomed to eventually end as debris at the bottom of an 800' cliff someday. Absolutely nothing about it pencils out in Excel or makes any logical sense. But if you want to make a vast horde of lifelong enemies, just propose tearing it down.
The Vista House is our new economy, turns out. Authorized as a highway restroom building with a view & a gift shop, got delusions of grandeur. Cost 10x the projected amount to build, and has lost money every day it's been open for over a century now...
Orange-tipped Oakworm Moth caterpillar is our new economy 🤷♀️
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
Listen partner, this towns not big enough for two idiot pieces of shit who only talk about how successful their dad was while having no discernible skills of their own