Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

HIGHLY recommend seeing Mortal Kombat II in theaters with a large group of Millennial(ish) nerds who will clap and chortle and "ooooh!" shamelessly throughout It is a wonderfully shlocky, campy nonsense film with solidly Mid "we have an SFX budget and one (1) good wire team" fight scenes

ABC killed fivethirtyeight.com, pulling down thousands of stories and dashboards. I can bring them back, but I can offer you https://fivethirtyeightindex.com, my new index of everything captured by archive.org.

Taiwan should not panic about Trump using Xi's language, because Trump literally parrots the last impressive-seeming person who spoke to him on the topic. It means nothing in the long term other than that Trump has no principles other than self-aggrandizement and racism, which we knew.

"hi, we love you" said all the weird, unmarketable-to people

No fucking way lmao

The main reason I'm glad I cover energy as my main gig, and that politics is just a goofy hobby of mine, is that in the energy world, *technology and economics are resolving the arguments*. In politics, no argument is ever resolved. It's just endless identity-based wankery all the way down.

Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

This. 😅😅😅 #GenX

Now let's see what they chose as their baby toy

The Barber Shop Blackstone bar in Omaha, Nebraska, is now known as the Censored Shop Blackstone, after a state board told the owners to change the name because they're not licensed barbers. The establishment is suing the state in federal court.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

Thinking about how when cars first came out there were basically no rules and people constantly got run over and kids drove around into buildings and there were no traffic lights or windshield wipers and seatbelts took FOREVER and that's where we are now in the LLM cycle.

aubo fomo

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

here again we see this idea that american citizens do not have rights apart from what their states provide.

DID YOU KNOW if you are in the US, you can sign up at National Geographic and they will send you a free packet of pollinator-friendly seeds native to your area??? I did not!!! but i think it's super cool and i just signed up to get one give.nationalgeographic.org/page/188844/...

HERE WE GO! BABY COOT FEET! 🪶 🐣

(i fell asleep yesterday so heres the finished version now) pacifist with anger problems #trigun

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

Intellectually I know this is almost certainly not The Thing but the degree to which part of me is like, "we also initially thought the last Thing was probably not that" is. Mildly alarming.

I keep pressing the post button before I finish my

Justice Alito complaining about the Court granting a stay without any reasoning is, shall we say, rich? He's been in the majority in scores of such cases, many involving elections.

I am really proud of the work that @rebouche.bsky.social @greerdonley.bsky.social and I did to conceive of and advocate for shield laws. They've made a huge and tangible difference for people in this country. But now we can add another thing to be proud of -- they piss off Sam Alito. Poor Sam.

Looking for tells-at-a-glance is a symptom of the very problem AI is exacerbating, which is superficial reading. AI lists of three often have no *there* there -- there's no *reason* to use that device in that place in that way. Sometimes two of the items in the list are close synonyms, for example.

The mere presence of AI tells is never enough to conclusively determine if a piece is AI, bc AI is trained on real writing, so everything it does, it does because it's copying from people. Em-dashes, list of threes, "not x but y"; all potential AI tells, all legitimate writing construction.

THIS FUCKER DID *WHAT??* THAT IS A WAR GRAVE!

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Literally LLMs use that rhetorical structure because it's common. There are ways LLMs generate text that is recognizable, but them using common language patterns is not one.

“he’s the kind of guy who would go snorkeling at Pearl Harbor” sounds like a hyperbolic insult you would use to convey that someone was particularly dead inside and the other person would laugh because the premise is obviously so ridiculous and yet!

artistic rendition of how my cat fell asleep this morning

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Happy Mermay! Betta fish Chung Myung bec betta fishes are pretty, dramatic, aggressive for no reason, and absolutely convinced the entire tank belongs to them #화산귀환 #rotmhs #rotbb #returnoftheblossomingblade #returnofthemounthuasect

OK I dont like Trump but this is just mean

Pedro Pascal just smooched Stephen Colbert and honestly they’re both living their best lives, I love this for them. Kiss your homies on the lips!

every extra dollar you pay in groceries this summer is the fault of donald trump specifically and the republican party generally and if you don’t understand that, you’re the sucker

Tonight's #XiaoShunya is dashing on a horse

My neighbor has a habit of doing this loud, stompy morning exercise right on the other side of my bedroom wall - which, perils of shared living, tolerate minor annoyances, etc. But the timing has recently shifted to where it's now periodically waking me around 6:30am and, just, NO.

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing demographic group in the U.S., but across American history, their stories and the discrimination they faced have often been overlooked. https://to.pbs.org/4wz10Pk

New stretch goals! If we reach $105k we can make the author take a well-deserved nap!

truly breathtaking foil prints & patreon gifts by @quelmdn.bsky.social 💛 i adore these!

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

It can't... really be called that

Paying my intern with treats and head scratches

VASH #トライガン

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.