Finally on leave for the summer. I am going to unplug from here too, see how much I miss it. Have fun with whatever Trump does next!

I’d fail this essay on the grounds it doesn’t actually describe anything real

I swear there’s a website in here somewhere.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

The hair on Strange New Worlds is getting out of control, and it’s not just Pike

Did they say something about Trump being in the Epstein files?

Yes, this is a joke. The original mummy voice video is here:

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting

Is.... is my coffee about to cum?

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

I saw an old woman swallowing a fly outside Tesco earlier so I've been following her about to see what crazy shit is about to unfold next

The Viper remains one of the single coolest things sci fi has ever given us

South Park went after CBS and Paramount too.

Look I haven’t watched in years but this is funny and it’s funny it’s making people mad 😂

Why does this look like a live Looney Toons cartoon?? 👀😅🤣

checking into a motel under an assumed name and putting this on to get in the mood

6. Just because you're more specific about the flavour of a bag of crisps (e.g. Not 'salt and vinegar' but 'Himalayan rock salt and Somerset cider vinegar') doesn't automatically mean it's worth more, and we need to stop playing along with this con.

“To be fair, this superheated state lasted for a mere several trillionths of a second. Also, it blew up. But that’s still “long enough to be interesting”… To which he added: “I’m very thankful that I get to blow stuff up with giant lasers for discoveries. And that’s my job, you know.””

Perfect quote. No notes.

love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you

Respect ✊

I used to be proud of IU

It must be so weird to just fly like this

Me, a rube: governments procure a technology when a specific need is identified. UK: “lol, no”

It’s awful how she was involved in that bizarre self-decapitation accident next week.

The pull-quote is “Go fuck yourself” but the better one is “They left me alive.” It will be interesting to see if CBS pulls the plug early because Colbert is clearly ready to go down swinging.👏👏👏 thehill.com/homenews/med...

I just remembered I saw a guy taking his snake for a walk the other day

Not gonna lie, this is excellent journalism

lol

Strange New Worlds remains a weird little show. Is it a sci fi show? A soap opera? It depends on who wrote the episode! Are the characters the best of Starfleet? Are they all n way over their heads? It depends!

Inferno was a really interesting and multi layered story that, in part, gave Claremont a do-over with the Dark Phoenix idea that he got to just nail

*stares in ecological psychologist*

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

At last, some good news.

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

I can’t stop listening to this, it’s amazing www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Enshittificationception

I mean, if you’d asked me to predict this pattern I think I’d have nailed it 🤔😂

AI shaming is good, though. I thought we were all on board with that

USA TODAY: “.. The president is wildly unpopular, and he is creating a crueler version of America that a sizable majority of voters reject.” @usatoday.com @rexhuppke.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Beautifully written and important piece here:

It's #WorldBrainDay! You know YOU have a brain, but does a lobster have a brain? How about a worm? Different people give different answers! There is no generally agreed upon definition of "brain": neurodojo.blogspot.com/2018/03/what... #Neuroskyence

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

Academics when teaching is done for the year:

Boo ☹️

First blog post for our forest intelligence project! www.um.es/mintlab/inde... @diovicen.bsky.social #plantintelligence

It's a bias amplification engine thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Can we all just agree to be kind to each other and not create endless pointless problems? Is that so hard? Apparently so :(