if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game

wife is asleep, time to watch William Friedkin's Sorceror

great trip to red oaks today, more warblers in ten minutes than i've seen all year combined, plus the first white-throated sparrow of the season #birds 🪶

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!

on the other hand, my merlins are back #birds

honestly probably the worst year for Michigan birding that i can recall - spring migrants didn't bother to stop here (too cold? 20F well into May!) and don't seem to be stopping on the way back now either better luck next year, one hopes

sunset merlin #birds 🪶

I just cleaned up three of these piles in my house this weekend! A miracle.

People with mental illness, even severe, or who are poor, do in fact experience a full range of human emotions, including the capacity to love and be loved.

Birders admire the biggest migratory screwups of each species! #BirdLinks www.popsci.com/environment/...

Now that President Trump has approved the disaster declaration for August’s flooding in Milwaukee County, residents can apply for individual assistance directly with FEMA. Please share this information with anyone you know whose home was damaged from the flooding. HT @davidcrowleywi.bsky.social

green heron has returned to the detroit riverwalk, and is perhaps unhappy that i noticed #birds

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

let's have another look at that heron #birds

A western screech owl started hanging out in my parents carport so my dad made them a box! They moved in immediately and provide my parents with hours of entertainment when they’re around. I’m pretty jealous, not gonna lie.

also this other turtle, look at this guy

missed the news for a few hours as i was out looking at #birds and turtles 🪶

"u takin the piss?"

Huh, running someone who comes across as a nice and decent person, on a platform that offers to make people's lives better, fascinating approach

What we should do instead of training people to use LLMs? 1. Provide education on what they actually are 2. Provide education on their environmental & labor impacts 3. Work towards regulation that holds LLM providers accountable for their negative impacts

firing up the boiler :/

my body is but the lees of my better being

silksong somehow nowhere on the front page of the playstation store, had to search for it

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

#birds 🪶

red-headed woodpecker! theoretically not uncommon in SE michigan, but maybe the third i've seen in five years

The DNC is a machine for huge donors to funnel millions to ~five consultants who have been coming up with new ways of saying "pivot to the center" for forty years Winning is not necessary for this system, and in some cases it is even detrimental

treated myself to a new lens for my birthday, pretty good so far! #birds 🪶

#OnThisDay in 1937, American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane was born in Detroit, Michigan. She was also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda, or simply Turiya. She died in 2007. #AliceColtrane #SwaminiTuriyasangitananda #Turiya

Don’t know who made this but thank you

They better settle for eleventy bajillion dollars because if this thing gets in front of a jury that's game over lol lmao lol Please dear Lord may it get in front of a jury

If people want some of the things AI can do, have those technologies be provided by tools & platforms created by cooperatives, by unions, by universities and governments, by municipalities and by individual creators, or as open source owned by nobody. Destroy the economic value of proprietary tools.

V2 in my gym

KEEP HONKING IM MEDITATING ON GRIEF

signals being collected in a book

He's watching the equivalent of Dog TV for neoliberals. It's just fake news shows run by Third Way to tell them what to think or be mad at or footage of Ronald Reagan with Steely Dan playing 24/7

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

4Q531 frag. 17. A bit hard to read but it says [ג]לגמיש אמר

did you know he’s mentioned in the dead sea scrolls

Recently learned that Gilgamesh's name 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌 is supposed to be read "Bilgamesh" and I'll never recover

used a couple for a 'connected village' pilot in kenya - neat tech, no idea if anyone ever used it

Mechanical Turks all the way down

great #birds 🪶

Democrats writing letters

"LLMs are not principled reasoners but rather sophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text"

AI converts simpletons into monsters, turns lonely people insane, and it does so by looting public resources, destroying the planet, and stealing from the creative. It’s not revolutionary. It’s just Facebook 2.0. But now every tech oligarch can get in on the ground floor.

It’s an obvious statement, but you must go to Belle Isle in Detroit if you get the chance. Beautiful place. #puremichigan