One of my homeschooling graphics to help teach the children colors:

Driftwood dragon.

Snímek z levé přední kamery HazCam po poslední jízdě. Kredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JV

Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Ancient Egyptian statue of deified individual Pa-Maj, engraved with magical hieroglyphic texts and images of gods. Basalt, 350-300 BC. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Did monotheism originate in Ancient Egypt?

Cake season in the Calarco house continues with a perennial favorite: a homemade giant squid-attacking-a-pirate-ship cake for my 9-year-old's birthday party.

I was wondering how long it'd take for this to happen.

NASA image of the day Messier 64, the Black Eye Galaxy ☑️ www.nasa.gov/image-of-the... ☑️ www.nasa.gov/image-articl... 🔭🧪

🧵1/5 This fascinating Viking 1 image features Noctis Labyrinthus at sunrise, when the canyons of this region on #Mars appear filled with water ice fog (possibly) from frost sublimated by the early morning sun.🔭🧪⚛️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA0... Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS #histsci #planetsci

TAKING TEA WITH A COCKATRICE This monstrous C19th teapot is stunning; perfect for entertaining gothic guests! The cockatrice or basilisk is hatched from a rooster's egg by a toad with a serpent's head & tail & the feet and wings of a cockerel!

OK so is it safe to say that "something is happening" ?!

🧵1/4 What is this? An extraordinary abstract painting? Nope! This is an enhanced-color image of Mars taken by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft during its gravity-assist flyby last May 15.🔭🧪⚛️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal... #planetsci #Mars

How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones. Dishonest!

Hope everyone is buckled up for midterms this year. I expect this sort of election denialism stuff is going to make 2020 look quaint in comparison.

Rick Beato interviews Hiromi youtu.be/xcKd9OkMPcc?...

Yet again we see evidence as to why cultural and historical knowledge and criticality are essential across industries. When arts and humanities are the top casualties of a higher education sector in flames, expect more cultural carnage like this. www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-ap...

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid probe, launched just over a year ago, is expected to perform a crucial burn today (June 7, Beijing time), setting up its rendezvous with the small, rapidly spinning asteroid Kamoʻoalewa. A major milestone on the road to one of the mission’s most challenging targets.

La nouvelle loi Yadan s’appelle loi Bergé www.bfmtv.com/politique/go...

'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

Over the last couple of weeks, Rick Beato has posted interviews with both Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, and earlier this afternoon he dropped an interview with former Rush producer Terry Brown, conducted in Toronto at around the same time as the Rush interviews ... www.rushisaband.com/blog/2026/05...

Well I think I've just definitively dated the arrival of the very first enslaved people from Africa to an English colony in the Caribbean - the exact day which launched a slave plantation system that would see 3.5m people trafficked in its wake. And it seems that 400 year anniversary is upon us.

I just yelled at my mom for texting me that long covid Wired article. Somehow the retrain your brain article is EVERYWHERE and the "long covid is transmissible by blood in mice" article is not. WONDER WHY.

The driver on our Bilbao-Madrid bus has just said anyone playing their mobiles without headphones will be treated as terrorists and dealt with accordingly. ¡Viva España!

The Claude Code leak makes clear the extent to which the wrapping around the “LLM” itself does so much heavy lifting. The stochastic flock starts a murmuration in these places, which are also Anthropic’s way of constraining it. The flock escapes the aviary when systems interact. ⬇️

This image from Anthropic goes out to the two guys on here who called me dumb for talking about stochastic flocks

Visionnage indispensable. youtu.be/_s8zaFi36gY?...

Areski Belkacem, artiste au talent multiforme et complice indissociable de Brigitte Fontaine, est mort à 86 ans

One among many boss interviews by the late #MarjaneSatrapi (RIP). If you haven't already, or even if you have, read or watch #Persepolis, for its art, its content, its power. www.vogue.com/article/emma...

💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.

Heartbroken to hear that Marjane Satrapi has died. Her long term partner died last year and that clearly hit her really hard but still, 56 is no age. If you've not read 'Persepolis' now would be the time to do it.

Bangladesh’s top diplomat elected UN General Assembly leader in tight race https://aje.news/o8hrmz

One of Australia's biggest banks is worried about the rising costs of AI in return for basically no productivity improvements "You can use AI to create an enormous amount of volume, noise and waste" Pretty sure @edzitron.com predicted this...... www.afr.com/technology/b...

In the US at least, if you find one of our shark tags, you get a t-shirt from the lab! These devices broadcast some of their data, but recovering the physical tag lets you download all the data and is super useful! 🧪🌍🦑🦈

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...

How should we handle it when the AI bubble bursts? On the next MAIHT3k livestream, @matthewus.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss how we can avoid bailing out billionaires. Monday, June 1, noon PT twitch.tv/dair_institute

What a coincidence! I just interviewed this Fisher Price Farmer Says See 'n' Say, and it told me some incredibly interesting things about farm life. Let me know when you'd like to publish this!

True love. (Get the PRINT here: gricklemart.com/witch-and-wi...) #grickledoodle #witch #wizard #love #print #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

"A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible. By comparison, in 2023, the same pollster found that a slightly smaller proportion of sub-Saharan Africans—37%—wished to do the same." Gift link:

Video from southern Lebanon shows widespread destruction after Israel repeatedly bombed the city of Tyre. Multiple strikes, including one on a residential building, hit densely populated neighbourhoods largely emptied after Israeli displacement orders.

For those of you not living in California, who don't understand what we're going through.

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

This is how they’re erasing Palestine.

I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to