i kneeled to take a sweet pic of her with her eyes closed and facing the sun and instead i instantly got a whole serving of stanley kubrick shit from someone who’s afraid of shadows, plastic bags, shoes, and her own tail.

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂 Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

he’s right behind me isn’t he

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

My brain: Oh no, not again! Me: Emily, Charlotte, Anne

Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest

Anything that deviates from normal is a conspiracy, including when things are precisely normal. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/curse-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Retelling the parable of the English paying poor native Indians to catch venomous snakes for them in 3, 2, 1…

This extremely rules

Ooh, just saw “without Asimov there would be no science fiction,” and no, you stale crouton, you waterlogged saltine, without Mary Shelley—harassed by her husband and Lord Byron—there would be no science fiction. You’re confusing fandom for canon.

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Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

…can it hurry up?

In the paper, we find that people tend to rate AI empathy as more empathetic than human empathy, even as they tend to choose human empathy when given the opportunity to do so. It’s an intriguing paradox in human choice that speaks to broader debates about the nature and value of AI empathy 2/n

put it in the Louvre

Is it possible to 100% enforce requirements to wear a seatbelt when in a moving vehicle? No, it is physically impossible. And yet we require people to wear them nevertheless, because a) even lossy enforcement can change behaviour and b) laws can create clear expectations about behaviour

New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

Pretty sure this museum is trying to pull a meme, here

This is Bowie. He overheard you talking about his rubber ducky jacket. Jealousy is a disease. Hopes you get well soon. 12/10 (IG: bowiethegoldenbear)

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn posing with Fon, the Thai actress who became the scale double for Pippin (Billy Boyd) in The Return of the King, showcasing the perfect fashion combo of sword, lollipop, cute hat, and brilliant smiles. #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

Jeremy Galton (British, b. 1949). Soft Boiled Egg (2020, oil on board).

Sometimes I take a pic of a squawking bird and give them stuff to say There are worse hobbies

This Is Just To Say I have arrested the agent that lurked near the dropbox and which you were probably saving to blackmail Forgive me they were devious so naive and so cold

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

I've always been pretty annoyed at Kim Carnes for failing to explain the process of getting bettydavisized.

In case you need this today. 🐾🤍

at least 70% of the AI hype that’s bottom-up — eg, excited users — is people who never learned how to actually use their computer suddenly realizing the computer can do things for them

Alexander Skarsgård is big guy hardware running freaky little guy software

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read Edgar Allan Poe in front of a crackling fire in a mysterious Victorian mansion on a cold winter's night during a full moon with the sound of wolves in the distance whilst enjoying a plate of freshly-baked croissants?

so many mistakes could have been avoided, if Pippin had simply been given some prescription Adderall

looked this guy up because of a reply, this is apparently not some dude putting on a stunt but a member of the community who does a lot of volunteer work with unhoused people www.kqed.org/news/1206981...

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

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Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

Your stomach called – your striatum picked up! But does this actually happen in humans? Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need. Here’s what we found👇 Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3 #neuroskyence #🩺

The world feels like its on fire, but things like this is why im thankful to be born in this day and age with science advancing like it has been. These are heroes www.unilad.com/news/health/...

Dali-chan, a bright and energetic dahlia fairy, is the mascot of Hanawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where dahlias are cultivated.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

it’s rarer to find an academic who writes about power and who actually brings a meaningful analytic for power to their everyday lives than it is to find an academic who writes about power and who is, in fact, an abuser. yeah, this is about chomsky. but also about academia. we’ve so much work to do.

ideas are for everybody!

Don’t shame me like this google