roguish familiars, which one would you take on adventure?

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I just like the chart of lexical gaps:

This inside footage, which I maintain is some of the best footage ever posted to the platform.

Scroll up in the thread to find the article from which this is quoted.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

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Now that the discourse has died down, and my birding has lessened, I want to talk about lists in rpgs. I like what both sides of the debate make. So, like everything else, "good" isn't about which side you choose but how you execute the idea. If you choose to use lists, use them well.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I thought you might enjoy this campaign advertisement. It’s always infrastructure week in our hearts.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen today named 25 recordings as audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage. 🧵 ⬇️ #NatRecRegistry

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

The metrics that various AI products brag about sound impressive, until you get a real user research expert to look at them, and learn all the tricks they use to sound like they are saying something while in reality saying nothing. By our very own @lauraklein.bsky.social:

hey, fellow brits and europeans in this heat wave! If you're on any of these you're more sensitive to the heat. Make sure you drink water, stay in the shade, and avoid over-exertion.

for folks wondering about uppercase vs lowercase numerals: here you go

As a former Jones Beach Lifeguard, I urge everyone to read this.

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

As tick season ramps up, keep in mind importance of preserving any tick that attaches. In theory, a tick not engorged cannot pass on disease, but there can still be infection and for peace of mind I always send them to the Tick Report. Testing is fast and not that expensive. 1/2 www.tickreport.com

...Anyway, the recipe's over here. (In our-Earth jargon: this is a light, summery mayo-free slaw flavored with red wine vinegar and various readily-accessible spiceries.) (3/3) foodandcooking.middlekingdoms.com/pickled-summ...

BIG RAMBLING RICE THREAD IT IS. Rice is a cereal grain, aka a grass with edible grains (other examples: wheat, corn, millet, rye, oats.) It is the staple grain of OVER HALF OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION, which is quite remarkable since it's one of the most labor- and water- intensive grains out there.

Fantasy is bouba and sci-fi is kiki? @gretchenmcculloch.com

If you’re a fan of Scots (the language) you should definitely check her out. www.instagram.com/reel/DYP0AlY...

This will be the first search for a new James Bond that won't involve the film's long-standing producers, the Broccoli family. Which is a shame, because they had an interesting way of screentesting all potential new Bonds with a really odd scene, for a really clever reason. Mini 🧵

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

“Self-Driving School” https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-self-driving-school/ > It’s a good reminder of much of the talk of automation and replacement – whether of truckers or of office workers – rests on an utter misanthropy;

Chimney Swifts flying into a chimney (Baltimore) for the night. 📷🪶

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

SO MANY GOSLINGS. 😍

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

Coincidently I’m reading an interesting book where Chartreuse is mentioned often. Here’s the 1911 recipe for imitation green Chartreuse , I’m all out of genepi or I’d try it.

My goodness this is cute. Short & Harasti (2026) named a new pipefish species after Snuffleupagus (the giant elephant muppet) Image of Solenostomus snuffleupagus sp. nov. by David Harasti. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

in 2016 I made a comic titled “Mr. Gotcha” that would become most viewed and circulated image I’d create. Now it is the subject of a book by @glennf.com examining its history in online discourse. That One Matt Bors comic is live on Kickstarter—back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Did you know that I make custom fonts that imitate hand lettering, and that you can pay me to make one for you? thingsbydan.co.uk/fonts/ like this one I made for @lucysullivan.bsky.social

my decision making class comes to a close today with the final exam; this is the bonus page at the end

The only thing you need to know about Rahm Emanuel is that he covered up the police murder of a Black teenager until a judge forced him to release the video evidence to the public.

Oh this is ABSOLUTELY true. IME Every. Single. Job. is harder and more complicated than it looks from the outside. When you find yourself saying "but this thing I assume about this job is obviously common sense" STOP and think again.

Our last @bafflingmag.bsky.social story this week is “Marianne in an Unlit Bar on the Outer Curve of Human Space” by Rodrigo Culagovski! “...she’s been Ymarrielle, Mzaranth, M-9N, but she always cycles back to Marianne eventually.” @neonhemlock.bsky.social @culagovski.net

Going around again. Still worth the watch.

Brilliant from Aisling Bea.

we should be talking about this. why aren't we talking about this

Researchers led by Henry Daniell of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report that extracts from a bioengineered chewing gum can significantly lower levels of three microbes associated with head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) • www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Dawkins notwithstanding, CS people should know better since this was documented 50 years ago.

The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away. Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.

being a former londoner, I have an understandable aversion, disgust even, toward skyscrapers, but I can see this one from my hotel room and damn if that doesn't work for me.

Untitled (brown and gray) https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4934

Australian Pink Robin.💜

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Something I learned from @lingthusiasm.bsky.social: The French circumflex accent sometimes denotes an “s” that became silent and then invisible. ancêtre "ancestor" hôpital "hospital" hôtel "hostel" forêt "forest" rôtir "to roast" côte "coast" pâté "paste" août "August" Thanks Lingthusiasm podcât!