'Faking the moon landing is a good step toward faking a Mars colony, but it’s not a good step toward actually putting astronauts on Mars.' Ted Chiang on why disembodied LLMs give new meaning to the term ‘false consciousness’.

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

And speaking as someone who has Been There: If going to the store, making sandwiches or even hot sauce or peanut butter on tortilla, or even just getting up and showering each day is Really Really Hard and Exhausting, that's not normal. Please reach out to someone and get support.

one of those threads you didn’t know you needed. fantastic stuff

Technically this painting was generated by Claude

dorian, phyrgian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, and locrian

Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, and Bottom

Entrepreneur. Can never remember where those r go…

„We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.“

seems to be a conclusive „maybe“

Are we back?

unmute, this is 100% right

Dass man als Regierung einen Tankrabatt wegen der hohen Benzin- und Diesel-Preise verkünden kann und gleichzeitig den Einsatz für den Fortbestand des Verbrennungsmotors noch mal verstärkt, ohne sich dabei total albern vorzukommen, finde ich wirklich erstaunlich.

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

Absolutely delightful thread to spend way too much of my morning with!

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

This is so, so well-articulated.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Every. Goddamn. Company.

One thing I wish I could beat into the head of every young male human being: you will be happy to the extent you have rich relationships, and you will develop rich relationships to the degree that you show vulnerability. It's mathematical. To the extent you are "safe" behind walls, you'll be lonely.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

god tier

"Tory Leader calls Labour MPs 'orcs and goons' at PMQS" is now a phrase you have to be very careful how you punctuate.

KIM KITSURAGI - “*Sunrise, parabellum*,” the lieutenant says. He's in the middle of a freshly cleaned room, with the fan above his head like a halo. His face is covered in bruises.

As @clairewillett.bsky.social writes: "I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil." Homer called it Οργή. It's what Achilles feels. (It's what Achilles DOES.) Also used by St Paul for the wrath of God.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Spannend, wie die lüsternen Aussagen eines 29-Jährigen über Minderjährige unter „Boys will be Boys“ abgeheftet werden, während 16-jährige Mädchen als junge Frauen bezeichnet werden, die schon mal erwachsene Männer „bezaubern“. Wer sich entsetzt zeigt, wird als „Sittenpolizei“ beschimpft. Läuft.

happy to report that migration to @eurosky.social is super easy and quick, y'all should do it. Thanks team!

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Okay but having his performance music overlayed with philosophy quotes read by himself isn’t gonna help beat the pretentiousness allegations is it now

The history books covering this period of American history are going to be FASCINATING.

Bus thread has united us all together once again, thank you bus thread

Nice to wake up and the brand of craziness from overnight isn’t the usual kind of

"Und wer nicht liebt und nie geliebt wurde, hat keinen Grund, die Rettung der Welt höher zu schätzen als die Rettung der eigenen Lüge."

Water is The One True Liquid, but there are three other liquid types: Tea, Soup, and Juice. Tea is water that's changed by the introduction of a thing which is then removed Soup is water that has a thing in it Juice is water that comes from a thing (Thanks to @marble.bsky.social for the diagram)

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

Eine Sache die ich an der Darts WM mag ist dass sie immer kurz kuscheln nach den Spielen

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Deutsche second amendment

Wealth should have a cap. Once you've made, I dunno, $100 million dollars, that's it. Congratulations, you won Capitalism. You benefitted from society so much, you'll never have a material worry again. We'll name a dog park after you. Everything past that goes into a "social benefit fund."