I was looking up almond dessert soup recipes to try to relive an experience at Soup Stock Tokyo in 2013 and unsurprisingly it seems to be similar to making almond milk which made me wonder, what do almond milk manufacturers do with the almond pulp after straining? can it be used as almond flour?

a couple years ago I was investigating some memory issue iirc and writing up my findings in a slack thread as I went (just so it wouldn't immediately fall out of my brain). the next team meeting, one coworker called out my efforts and described it as "highly technical" I'm still riding that high 😭

(sees that a cool person is mutuals with me) wow they have terrible taste

Yeah everybody has a gift guide but OUR gift guide includes my perfect object: a pickle scented candle. Plus great soaps, spices, season tickets, and more. Also I got to do one last stint as a hand model for the image (something I did to make extra cash for a while many years ago).

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

an important read for at least 2 reasons: 1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research 2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader taranis.ie/datacenters-...

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

UPDATE: “China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.”

please help my friend kait afford immediate needs like shelter, food, phone, and transit. any amount helps, see links in her bio

sea lion 100%

you'd think this is a joke but no, it's "Cloud Dancer" hyperallergic.com/pantones-col...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

I particularly love working with neurodivergent writers: conventional wisdom often falls short for us, and figuring out with a client what helps them thrive as a writer is really fun and rewarding.

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

repotted a couple plants directly into decorative pots with drainage instead of in clear plastic nursery pots and I'm already regretting it man lemme snoop on those roots 🌱👀

stop trying to show me my year in review. what i did the past year is none of my business.

the motivation I needed

Building muscle is mostly about diet. If you want to get big you have to eat other people at the gym

I didn't get outside during the brief window when I could actually feel the sun on me, but at least I made it in time to catch a bit of the sunset

oh hey Uniqlo is moving out of the mall onto 3rd street promenade proper. it's literally the only thing I've gone to 3rd street for for like, years. and mainly for in-store returns b/c they only carry tall sizes online

it’s the year of our lord 2025 and auth is still near impossible

This quoted preprint massively, massively misstates its very noisy eeg and "neural connectivity" is not directly measured in this study. The entire thing is so poorly done. www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

maybe having the entire apparatus bend over the past thirty years to cater to each person's interests with increasing granularity was not great for people's mental health and ai is just the natural end point of that, i dunno

my aphasia was so bad I couldn't even spell it ("that's not what aphasia is—" shoo)

one of these days I'm gonna post about something besides being pathetic lol

I actually made our Thanksgiving dinner* last week so I'm feeling a teensy bit more confident in my cooking skills rn *it was a dinner on Thanksgiving but it was not what most people would consider Thanksgiving dinner lol. we didn't have Thanksgiving plans

broke: nominative determinism woke: eyebrow enforcement

Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in

Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old 192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!

lmao

man my apaphia is so bad rn I couldn't even write the post how I wanted complaining about not being able to make the joke I wanted to make

All the people posting International Day of Persons with Disabilities stuff with images without alt text. 😭 There is no reason to not use alt text, especially with images with text. Click the alt button before posting. Click the image in the bottom right corner of the image to copy text. Paste it.

okay okay I put my hand lotion back where I'll actually remember to use it

"we’ve heard from a lot of schools that more lunches are being eaten at the cafeteria. It’s not because the kids are less distracted. It’s because a lot of kids are afraid of eating lunch in the cafeteria because they don’t want to be filmed or recorded in an embarrassing moment and posted online."

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

i think my favourite piece from this year would have to be the one i wrote for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social about how musicians are navigating COVID (and long COVID) in 2025. www.newfeeling.ca/covid-is-sti...

i want you to do something. this is important for your health. okay: go to the library and find a book, movie, cd... anything that you've never seen or heard of before. something that grabs you. DON'T seek other people's opinions yet — engage with whatever you've chosen 100% of the way through first

I've had chronic digestive problems since childhood and I've been logging (lol) my bowel movements regularly (lolol) on Bearable consistently since January 2024 so it means something when I say that a toilet camera is *probably* overkill

I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever

It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

my life was suppose to suck an entirely different way than this

Hi other tech folks! Does anyone have recommendations for trans-friendly recruiters on the West Coast? I’m a lead product manager with around a decade of experience. Looking to shift back to a salaried position after consulting the last couple years. Reposts appreciated, thanks!

I read this sort of thing and it's like my memory has been wiped clean of any knowledge of movies have I ever seen a movie? sorry, couldn't tell you. do movies even exist? sounds made up tbh

Jonny Pops straight up using dowels as popsicle sticks just to make it possible to twirl the unicorn twist talk about dedication. you could join a table leg with this thing