frolicing, japing about, and so forth

i am sorry to let you know that the angel of history has started eating history. they say it’s the only way forward from here. they are asking if you can eat a few decades too

I love politics; it's so easy! 😜 The new dividing line is the grass vs the concrete. It's the suitcase handle vs the shopping bag. It's the bee vs the crow. It's the halftime show vs the oil refinery. It's the apple vs the orange. The line is the people who accept the line vs people who eat soup.

remember kids, "pandemic" is a Woke Word signed, Bourgeoisie Bobby 🪱🧠

art

Exactly one year ago today:

blatant militarism enables more blatant militarism

A chance comment led me to search and ... yep, that person's a Tphobe, so that's a whole set of software I will stop using, which was semi-crucial in this stuff I did. These people are so tiresome.

lololol - they are not at full datamining profit extraction yet! Just ask MurderBot how long this policy will last. Or, you know, look around.

art to immobilize your local maze-OCD

"I'm sorry, sir. I make many mistakes."

the years of free lesson plans for comparative religion teachers

"API key leak via insecure S3 bucket" - a modern problem statement with a really high ratio: (normal people who are affected) 🌏 / (affected people who get the jargon) 🤷‍♀️

I listen to a lot of music that is lightly enhanced by the choir of an electric vehicle going by at 10-15 mph. stay slow, street music

You have read about "cognitive surrender". (lose thinking ability because AI did it for you) But did you know about "cognitive busybee"? (stuck analyzing which parts of complex AI output are true)

TIL the word "democrazy" and, well, yes, of course

the card next to this entry on a museum wall says: ✨ Byzantium Rising ✨ 2026 summary of a text (a person may have written the summarized text) ... the summary presumably written by a person, making a point that an AI could not make until a person had made the point and that AI had processed it

"posted an AI image of himself with Jesus" 🎉 "deletes image of himself with Jesus" 🎉 Even if you think the behavior's deranged, it's not great to ignore. Any actual Chr*sto-f*scist the right elects would do this stuff and mean it. Don't want that? Cause parties to promote another type. (✨easy✨)

Another morsel of sneaky food intel just happened to me The name "Marathon" (Μαραθών) comes from the herb fennel, called márathon (μάραθον) or márathos (μάραθος) in Ancient Greek, so Marathon literally means "a place full of fennel".

He’d once told her that the problem with war was that humans are “materially corrupt, inefficient, and they get tired.” Their weaknesses could be balanced with machine strengths. “ ‘If you get these things tuned up the right way, they can perform better than humans,’ he insisted. 1000 SF stories 🔥🌎

parallel evolustone

If I ever get to the forests in the UK, I have to go in spring.

You can't write satire any more, but you can write satire and say to yourself, "business plan."

TIL about Markarian's Chain: 7-8 galaxies all visible in a tiny part of the sky, moving together. They contain around 2.2 trillion stars estimated with astrophysics data. Human brains contain 80-100 billion neurons, around 1/25th the stars in this little dot. Unrelated numbers except in your mind.

Dóra Maurer ... wow, some of her art just says "go"

civilization goals

humans are born to think and feel, all at the same time "Inside the little toy are over 5 million names on an SD card, submitted by folks around the world looking to fly their monikers to the moon."

Zen Buddhists are like: “try sending that email again without attachments”

good things still happen

uncovered the secret name of the next moon mission

every president gets the same reaction, really (movie: Wag The Dog)

Cool thread! But over here, we know it was because they just wanted a little more time.

hey they came back from space! I wonder what they traded at the exchange on the farside.

What if they had splashed down in the Strait of Hormuz... such an opportunity for diplomacy!

Spaceship? Or Nessie? Or Cookie Monster?

"What the world needs you to say, sir, is whether or not the moon is haunted."

mars googly eyes eclipses red skies far away rock or potato (not fries)

these people are coming to speak at my work today and i am trying to convince my colleague to deliver his introduction to them via sock puppet

Am I a Lizard People because I watch carefully and count lizards when out walking?

It's like ASLR for product managers.

tree in the boardroom votes No

The thing that keeps me locked in a Dali painting is the so-called Christian movement that supports this nostalgia. "Politics makes strange bedfellows" well buddy so does credulousness

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

Simon Stålenhag vibe www.simonstalenhag.se

To be fair to the betting/prediction markets, the odds of alcohol going up & to the right have been pretty solid for a couple years, and that'll go for three more.

The great thing about threatening doom on a major hacking power is that they have time to finalize and deploy all expoits and put them all on a dead-man switch. Then you can find out how thorough they were! If you can still communicate with anyone.