I legitimately do not understand why this guy is popular

A fun fact about books is that they’re usually not edited all that much Which is to say, there’s no one to save you from yourself

1/ I may write something about this, but I've noticed some folks, notably Noah Smith, but others as well, deriding the $140,000=poverty in today's US guy. So I thought I'd work out what a family of 4 budget would look like in my well-off Boston suburb (Brookline). TL:DR--pretty damn tight...

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

AI is a lack of consent project, and we’ve now entered the lovebombing and smear campaign section of the engagements

I'm currently working as a game artist on several games at the same time and I think it might be confusing so I'm making this thread to (re)introduce them!

Part of letting yourself learn is not letting people who are being intimidating govern what resources you seek out and what questions you ask Who cares of Waldo thinks you're not very smart because you ask "basic" q's? What matters is whether you understand the what the Clebsch-Gordon coeffs are

A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students: At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same

I have a new 40-page comic book out that is a love letter to the brain, a visual exploration of the joys of thinking and perceiving, and also giant middle finger to AI, on sale today, too, for $6 alexandragallant.itch.io/brains

Information collected includes the older person’s name, date of birth, contact details (address, email, phone), demographic information (e.g. gender), identifiers (e.g. Medicare number, healthcare identifier, aged care ID), applications, consents and supporters

Yes, this is entirely the case.

I've had a rough day, and I think I've earned this. GOAT PAJAMA PARTY. Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

So delightful. Really looking forward to seeing the new one 😊

Smells like Robodebt 2. And given that clear warning/lesson exists, I hope that all decision makers face genuine consequences when this catastrophically fucks up. I’m just deeply saddened that we can’t just shut it down now before it hurts people.

Two splendid historical moments to celebrate today: the 25th anniversary of the news of Sooty the guinea pig’s sexual excesses, and the 1,009th of Edmund ‘Ironside’ II getting done in by being stabbed up the bum while on the privy. Possibly. As you can see, we’re starting with the ‘Romeo’ rodent...

gimme yule gimme fire don me now with gay attire

December, eh? Not sure I’m ok with that.

At least nine Trumpeter Swans seem to have settled down to overwinter on our stretch of river. Hopefully they will find enough submerged vegetation to keep them going for another 5 months! #Ab #YYC #birds

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Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here's your chance to make a positive difference for people (and animals!) after a tragedy, AND get a personalized doodle from one of the greatest living paleoartists 👀

Doodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰 In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com

Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Damnit I am intrigued

Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?

- Disney would be forced to make the "King of the Elves" Philip K. Dick story adaptation they abandoned - Pixar would be forced to make their abandoned stop-motion movie "The Shadow King" - "Phantom," "Reverse," "Dreaming Machine..." basically everything Satoshi Kon was working on when he died

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Ireland should be doing this too. There isn’t an alarm bell big enough to wake this government up. We should be in crisis mode, but instead it’s still shaking-developers’-hands-at-the-race-course, business as usual.

A coyote & badger pair were captured on a trailcam by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) near Gilroy, CA in 2020. Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here. Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.

1. I do not think this is going to go well for them, because it is going to be just as clown shoes as everything they've tried to throw at Comey or James 2. "we can go after ex-military congressmembers for things they say in public" is really not a pandora's box the GOP wants opened

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.

A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.

Yes. This. If you don’t rattle doors or windows, are you even sneezing?

It has been a very short hop from ‘this is not who we are’ to ‘ok this is exactly who we are’

I've had a weird life. Over 30 years I've worked with, but never for, governments both in Australia and abroad, at both national and semi-sovereign levels of jurisdiction. The one thing I've learned from experience is that THE only good governments are ones that are willing to upset vested interests

Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card. AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.

“Original and interesting” is about as high praise as I could hope for, especially from an experienced and acclaimed science writer. Forgive me for the not-so-humble bragging but this book took me years to write (for a tiny advance) and it’d be incredibly gratifying if more people read it.

Dunkleosteus ~ Dunkle’s Bone 🐟🦴 . Coming soon… #paleoart #sciart

I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.

Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it). "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

Male superb fairy wren standing in a chain link fence From my archives #BirdOfTheDay #round #Wrensday #photography #birds