"As the Roman empire collapsed, people pulled back to the Ile de la Cite, where Notre Dame would later rise, and fortified the island with walls of stone taken from earlier buildings." I've been a miner for an isle of stone; keeps me searching and it's gettin' old - not neil young

I think given modern day standards he may be overqualified

My vote probably changes every few years (there are a lot) currently: Black Bag

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

The guy who named the "splendid hermit crab" was in a good mood that day

I imagine science journalists in 2026 cannot stand to watch the 2021 film "Don't Look Up". Unless they are ex-CIA field agents who learned extreme psychological compartmentation. Also hard to say if that film could get made today. 😜 CW: dumb anti-science hijinks arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

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Method and apparatus for social conversion therapy, claim (1) NLP system to detect positive sentiment in likes and comments, claim (2) battery powered electric shock system with undershirt electrode network, claim (3) system to generate new social network sites, claim (4) system to email VC's

Gravitational time dilation. I may have extended my life by a couple of nanoseconds shooting this scene.

thread: reasons you want scientists to exist, doing various things

I'll see myself out

a yokel who is articulate is a yokel

Some radioactive particles on Earth are from stars that exploded. Our solar system is in a bubble of less-dense gas because some stars nearby blew up in the past 10-20 million years. If you want to think about a "genesis" you could think about this stuff.

new term for LLM's: minimaxxers new term for AI corp's: minimaxxermaxxers

Mark Cowan, Caiman in the Amazon butterflies & bees sometimes drink tears from reptiles where salt is scarce

The time-honored ritual of greeting an unquittable old pop song friend, welcoming it through the front door, just to kick out the old pop song jerk that invited itself in and started cooking your attention for its lunch.

Sunset Ireland - Timelapse video - Sunset over West Field tonight, Co. Galway, Ireland. #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Galway #Ireland #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #CloudScape #SkyScape #Photography #TimeLapse

actually the leviathan rising from the depths of the ocean to bring chaos and devastation is just a metaphor for how hard it is to wake up in the morning

"LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false" In the same way, a foolish headline writer can believe false statements about LLMs. @arstechnica.com do better. Do you really think an LLM can believe? Then write your editorial statement on belief and consciousness.

I propose the acronym NOPEM: Not tOtally apParent supEr backronyM in honor of these AI beauties GRAM: Generated Recursive reAsoning Models LION: evoLved sIgn MOmeNtum

A tiny human (2?) is showing a sales lady the bracelet she's wearing. Sales Lady says: "They're pretty colours aren't they?" Tiny Human says proudly: "Dad gave it to me so I wont tell anyone about his secret girlfriend." Sales Lady and Mum are now giving each other VERY strange looks indeed. (4)

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Bluesky isn't a bubble or an echo chamber, it's a garden. You plant some seeds and pull some weeds, you tend to it with care, and you make it into a space that pleases you when you come to sit in it a while. Other people can plant and tend to their own gardens, if they like. This garden is yours.

"Death Blowing Bubbles," 'Created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany.' bamberger-dom.de/gotteshaus/N...

Trash bags can be removed. Cities may remember they employ maintenance staff who can operate paint cans, sandpaper, and so forth. Did you know all lenses are made of glass?

This fungus was growing in a French wood - son James popped his specs on it!

Scale this up to a car! Surely 3-4 people besides me would buy it.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Time to invent the horse bicycle

has this apocryphal quote ever been more literally true

No one could have possibly seen this coming except for the many people documented in this story who saw this coming.

"as it turns out, having large, multi-ton blocks of metal spinning uncontrollably around low-Earth orbit becomes a problem over time" 😂 😂 😂 💥 😭 It's a race: collision cascade vs. launching a fleet & fuel to drag all the junk to L1 to make a permanent station. Nobody's working on #2 though. ($$$)

Unsuprising if the class that implements "qualified immunity" imagines that it leaks onto them. 🙈 Impunity is an easy step when power audits itself. "Qualified" indeed.

anyone can make a zen meditation garden with common household items - hummus, broken cracker

It is the most effective op they could have planned against their opponents, and they couldn't have planned it! Related -

redefining hours spent on social media as "attending to my correspondence"

I hope someday to see a well-made movie of this: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within - Becky Chambers The people there are not like you, not like me, not like each other. Except in the important ways.

tribe is finishing down in the valley. i came through the lake but its waters stay down. I will cloudbloom this hill and tribe will come. we cover land for you, hide the place you live. you learn how to look nothing, then tribe completed, we go.

This on a billboard! Sometimes I read "People should ..." and I don't know what was written because I learned to stop at "should". Same reaction to "<bad thing> needs to stop." Sure, it signals I could hang out with that writer, but it is unrelated to possible tasks.

A couple (40s?) wearing a Metallica and Megadeth T-shirts are sharing big slices of cake with their young humans (7 & 10?). All reverentially quiet, forking up deliciousness. Beatific smiles all round. Metal cake is best cake. (3)

Google straight up calling for genocide. 🤷‍♀️ One of these morons should ask their LLM what biological process evolution uses to reach a specific state. What is it that happens to the people on pruned evolutionary branches? How quickly do they want that pruning to go?

Beckett's "Imagination Dead Imagine" as rendered by The Salvage press.

Counterpoint: No I will not

nationalize RAM production as a public utility y/n?

Saw this one posted the other day

Log off? In our moment of triumph?

If someone offers you a seat to watch an atomic bomb test, you do not ask how close, you just sit down.

The sky above the port wa

Dear automated phone tree, we both know your menu options haven't actually recently changed, so why don't we skip the formalities and cut to the part where I yell "representative" six times and you connect me to a human